#T. 35.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 341 
May 30. 
Have done something at the “ Flora ;” shall do much 
work this season after July 4th, when college duties 
are over. Drawings for “ Genera” are getting on well. 
One word now on another point. We must have a 
collector for plants living and dry to go to Santa Fé, 
with the Government Bapedition. iF. I were not so 
tied up, I would go myself. Have you not some good 
fellow you can send? We could probably get him 
attached somehow so as to have the protection of the 
army, and if need be I could raise here two hundred 
dollars as an outfit. He could make it worth the 
while. He could collect sixty sets of five hundred 
plants (besides seeds and Cacti) very soon, which, 
named by us, would go off at once at ten dollars per 
hundred. Somebody must go into this unexplored 
field! Let me know if you think anything can be 
done, and I will set to work. The great thing is a 
proper man. 
July 15. 
I duly received your favor of June 25th; am de- 
lighted that you found a man to send to Santa Fé, 
approve your mode of carrying out the plan, and will 
not be slow to aid in it. I wrote at once to Sullivant, 
telling him to forward fifty dollars for Fendler, !— to 
take his pay in Mosses and Hepaticz, and to give in- 
structions about collecting these, his great favorites. 
soit this reaches you, a am sure you will hear from 
He is a capital ones and Fendler must be 
Sache to collect Mosses for 
1 Angustus Fendler, 1813-1883. Came from Prussia to America 
in 1840. Collected in New Mexico, and on the Andes about Tovar in 
Venezuela, and in Trinidad. “ A close, accurate observer, a capital col- 
lector and specimen-maker ; his distribu ted specimens are classical. Of 
a scientific turn of mind in other lines than botany ”’ [A. G. 
