on her ownrwith me after a cetain grass, a kind og Ko- 
cheria began to form a turf. I rember that I heard something 
similar from Dr. Klotesch in Berlin about EEE 
En u ER to me by Dr. F. Mueller in Melbourne did not 
germinate,which may kaws be due to (toher circumstances,. 
I have'nt heard for a long time from our Natural Science 
Society and it seems that there ane not togmany siens of life, 
There are akıxkkımds several things amiss, primarly the ne- 
cessary funds. From this follows that neither a be 
wisely planned and carried out, nor that the needed literary 
support can be aqguired..Much gets lost in the collections „. 
and scientific descriptions and works lack all overview, be- 
cause the few members who work can only refer to study-type 
monographs,travel reports and natural hitory picture books 
And thus is happens that the Society in the 7th year of its 
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existence has really not achieved anything despite the Sn ing | k 
’ y 4 A A der &k 
wo eK | A) DalV rn 
industry of one or two of its members. By the way, I must con- 
fess that kk I am only incompletely aware of the goals of the 
Society during the last years and as an outsider I can only 
Judge the results.. 
With exception of Kelloggs I know of nobedy who could be 
remotely called a botanist. The few garden lovers are dominated 
by a senseless dreaming about varieties with exception of Colo- 
nel Walker's Pacific Gardens, However, he too possesse only 
few native species. If you give me some time I could probably 
obtain seeds of species with striking beauty, e.g. of Lukmuzx 
axzkzx Calochortus or ara Cacti do not erow in our area. 
With the enormous costs of transportation in Califorria it is 
difficult to get them from Los Angeles, San Bernadino or St. 
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Diego.I myself have for a lonez time aimed at thespecies from 
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