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cial attention of Professor Deichmuller to the most promising 

 of the reproductive organs, and at my indication he marked 

 several of these with red chalk. Should any one ever under- 

 take the study of its internal structure these should be specially 

 investigated. Of course I cannot promise that they would be 

 found to contain seeds, but if there are any that contain them 

 the ones so marked are likely to do so. 



It is unfortunate that Count Solms was unable to make this 

 investigation when he was studying the British and Italian 

 trunks. In a letter that I received from him dated October 28, 

 1894, he said : 



Cycadeoiclea Reichenbachicma (Gopp.) Cap. and Solms. 

 Dresden Mineralogical and Geological Museum. 



"It is to be regretted that at the time I requested it and 

 offered to pay the expenses of transportation and section cutting, 

 permission to investigate the great Haumeria Reichenhachiana 

 of the Dresden Museum was not granted me. Now that I am 

 through with this work I would not expend the necessary three 

 or four hundred marks. From the examination of a couple of 

 small splinters broken from it I know, however, that the trunk 

 presents well-preserved areas, and it contains a mass of inflo- 

 rescences which are certainly wholly included. Geinitz has 

 sent me the photograph." 



