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have developed what wasn't there, nor have made a consciencious botanist out of a youth given to "bluffing", a vice pretty common among "the younger generation" [[underlined]] taught [[/underlined]] by their elders!
Miss Niles says you have seen your proofs and looked over our markings. If you are sleepless while in the hospital perhaps your proofs will put you to sleep - they have that effect at the office.
Miss N. writes of Mrs. Gill's death. I am not surprised. Dr. Jaeger told me she might go any time, and yet it took pneumonia to bring the end. For her [[underlined]] own [[/underlined]] sake I am not sorry, but I am for the manual. I can make spikelets and diagnostic sketches, but I am no artist and could never make plants [[underlined]] live [[/underlined]] as she did.