Rec’d Nov.22 1877 
Ans.Dec 3 
Most honored friend, 
| thank you very much for the Azolla delivery which came promptly. Unfortunately 
do | not have any good results to report. | would not have believed that there 
were Azollas in the box if you had not told me.; | could still only find traces and 
not a single whole leaf, let alone two together. The earlier deliveries were much 
better and apparently arrived alive. The little thing seems to belong to those 
which do not fit your flag. Perhaps will we be more succesful with the promised 
second delivery now that | have given up all hope. 
Dr.Braun’s death has created a troublesome hiatus because we have not 
been writing to each other .This came as a stroke of lightning from clear sky and 
SO 
Ww 
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