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Michigan Agricultural College.
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT.
Agricultural College P.O.,
Ingham Co., Mich.
19 June 1889
Alfred R. Wallace, L.L.D.,
My Dear Sir,
Through McMillan & Co., Publishers, there came to me recently your valuable work on Darwinism,2 for which please accept my grateful acknowledgements.
Thirty years ago, when I was a student in this College, one of the Professors loaned me a copy of the first American edition of the "Origin of Species",3 and I carried it to a remote village where it was my fortune to teach a district school for the winter. There I read it with care and was deeply interested. In it I first met your name as a co-worker and discoverer in the most fascinating field of research. It is a pleasure to me now to put your volume beside Darwin’s4 among the most valued in any collection.
Faithfully yours, | O. Clute.5 [signature]
Printed letterhead reads,:
"COLLEGE FACULTY:
Oscar Clute, M.S. … President
T. C. Abbott, LL.D… Prof. of Mental Science.
R. C. Kedzie, M.A., M.D., … [Prof. of] Chemistry.
A. J. Cook, M.S., … [Prof. of] Entomology.
W. J. Beal, M.A., M.S., Ph.D., . [Prof. of] Botany.
R. C. Carpenter, M.S., C.E., M.M.E., . [Prof. of] Mathematics.
Sam’l Johnson, M.S., … [Prof. of] Agriculture.
E. J. MacEwan, M.A., … [Prof. of] English.
E. A. A. Grange, V.S., … [Prof. of] Veterinary Science.
L. R. Taft, M.S., … [Prof. of] Horticulture.
W.R. Durand, Ph.D., " Mechanics.
W. L. Simpson, Lt. U.S.A.,. [Prof. of] Military Science.
H. G. Reynolds, M.S., Secretary ".
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