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"iss I'ell C. Korrer, Librarian 

 7'issouri BotaniCcsl O-arcen 

 St. Louis, "'issouri 



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iss homer: 



In comparing a copy of Canflolle, 



culentarum 



historia, with an old one sujjposed to be incomplete, I find so many varia- 

 tions that it seems desirable to know whether they exist in other copies, 

 or if the latter have still other peculiarities which may help to explain 

 ours. Do you have a copy of this vrork at the 'Missouri CJarden, and would it 

 be too much trouble to compare it with the enclosed carbon showing leading 

 characteristics of our two copies, and let me knov/ if you find further var 

 iations in your copy. 



It v/ill be seen that neither of ours resembles the description of 

 Pritzel (2d ed., -0.14C3}; ^-^ 

 sists of f'^TC.i-xx. 1^ 



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Tn^«-»*e it is ext?licitlY stated thet vol, I con 



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r''^scriptive text, besides title-page, 



preface anrl in.I^.c. ^ Moreover, the n^'/ne of uuxxery, given as publisher by both 



Pritzel and ^rnnet, does 



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ppear in either of these copies, I do not find 



the publisher's name in library catalogues, b-.ve t^ t of the Eibliotheque 



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Nationale, v;hich has the s-'^me imprint as ours: 



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J. Dugour et Burand# 



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nery, however, "^s not merely the printer, but according to-C^ndolle himself 



"I-'emoires et souvenirs 

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P, de Gandolle" (Paris & Geneve, 1862) p*120. 



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particularly anxious to find (1) whether there are title-pages 



,,ith Garnery's imprint, or still other imprints beside those of our copies; 



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 (3) whether there ever v;as any text for the last 6 plates 



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listed by Pritzel, viz: Stapelia grand if lora, ^'esembryanthemum lacerum, 

 crassifolium, "^^lanchoe crenata, Talinxim patens, Reaumuria vermiculata; also 

 (4) about.^the size of different copies. There are allusions to an edition in 

 auarto, but I wonder if this was not merely a matter of ri-irgins, which are 

 verv wide in the folio editions. 



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