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This collection consists of photostats of letters to an amateur botanist, Samuel Bartly. The letters indicate that he was helpful in setting up the first guides on insect and botanical boundaries in Illinois. Correspondents include Thomas J. Burrill, Stephen A. Forbes, Robert Kennicott, I. A. Lapham, Cyrus Thomas, and George Vasey.
Samuel Bartley (1828-1909), a graduate of Delaware College (Ohio Wesleyan University) in Delaware, Ohio, taught school at Murphysboro, Ill., from 1858 to 1859, before becoming principal of a school in Ohio. In 1870 he moved to Edgewood, Ill., to continue working as a school principal. Bartley later ran an experimental station on his farm for the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois.
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