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every obstacle in the way of its completion. But we hope to find a majority of the members of the Legislature are differently disposed. A few weeks will determine.***

Write again soon,

Your dutiful son,

Increase.

Seneca Lapham.

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Milwaukee December 30th, 1839.

Dear Sir,--

I send you the enclosed letter to Mr. Nuttall because not being acquainted with him I wish you to add for me your request that he will comply with my request to send me the account of his former travels in Wisconsin, and also because I do not know where or by what title to address him. I send also two copies of the Catalogue, one of which you will please forward to him. By doing so you will confer an additional favor on me.

Are there any plants enumerated in the Catalogue of which you want specimens? If so, please inform me, I have a few specimens that I suppose may interest you, and may have many more, but do not know how to make a selection.

I have not had much time to devote to botany this year, but hope to spend more time in the country during the next.

Respectfully yours,

I.A. Lapham.

Dr. C.W. Short.