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Biltmore, N.C. June 19, 1893. Dear Dr. Schlich, It give me very great pleasure to introduce to you Mr. John Muir, through
whose efforts about one half of the Sierra Nevada in California has been reserved, to become later on a regularly managed
government forest. You will find, as I have done, a store of scientific observation open to you through him which rests upon
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