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to the value attached by a distinguished German 

 botanist to his Buds and Stipules book. 



MtJNCHEN, 9 June 1899. 



Dear Sir — Having been away the whole winter on a 

 trip to Australia and New Zealand I did not find time 

 until lately to read your charming book On Buds and 

 Stipules. So I hope you will kindly excuse that my 

 thanks come so late. Your book will give me many 

 useful hints for the continuation of my Organographie 

 in which buds and stipules will be treated somewhat in 

 similar manner. I differ from your views in some points. 

 So the statement about Acacia verticillata does not 

 quite agree with my observations, there are leaves with 

 stipules and without buds, also it is quite true, that all 

 bud-bearing leaves have stipules. As to the tendrils 

 of Cucurbitaceae I think their morphological nature is 

 settled. 



It would be a great help to botany if you would 

 undertake to write a complete " carpologia." Since 

 Gaertner's work nothing of equal value has appeared. 

 Gaertner's work being more than hundred years old is 

 antiquated. We are acquainted now with much more 

 fruits than he was, we have also other starting points 

 than he had. But nobody was bold enough to undertake 

 a new " carpologia " although such a work would be of 

 the highest interest for descriptive and for physiological 

 botany. — Yours very faithfully, K. Goebel. 



At this time there w^as an idea of estabUshing 

 a new Medical College which eventually material- 

 ised under the name of the Polyclinic. Sir John 

 was asked, and consented, to take the chair at 

 the inaugural dinner. " We want your advocacy 

 and approval," the invitation ran, " as those of a 

 leader in all educational movements and especi- 

 ally in those concerning Medical Science. Briefly, 

 our aim is to form a school for the further training 

 of Medical men already possessing diplomas." 



He had more than once been invited to join 

 " the Club," but had not hitherto thought right 



