Bolander, Henry N. 

 186^, August 2^th 

 San Francisco, Calif. 



TRANSLATION 



San Francisco, August 2k, l864 



Dr. George Engelmann St. Louis 



Dear Sir: 



Already in May I gave Prof* Brewer various packages to be sent to 

 you, however, since I have not heard from you yet, I do not know whether 

 they reached their place of destination. Last week I sent you by mail two 

 packages, one containing California raosses and the other containing Pinus 

 monophylla from the Nevada territory, collected by Mr. Lelsom. Even though 

 they were not well preserved and imperfect, I still sent them. This spring 

 I also collected ' Pinus ponderosa & Lambertiana & Sabiniana . Everything 

 I gave Prof. Brewer. As far as I know, the things were sent to Prof. Gray 

 first. Up to now there was great confusion with regard to various species. 

 Pinus Sabiniana and P. Goulteri are really different; and in a local seed 

 collection I was shown seeds and cones which, however, are different. The 

 latter I have not found yet. Pinus tuberculata and Pinus cinsignio , both 

 put together in the report of the P.B.B. are also reraarkably different in 

 their cones. The first I found here in the vicinity and in City and 



also near Santa Cruz. I collected them in these three areas as complete as 

 possible at the time. 



You are kind to always draw my attention to what I overlooked. 



Prof. Brewer wrote rae on July 5th from Visalia that he found a new 

 species in the mountains there. This grows on considerable heights together 

 with P. florilis ; it is, however, not larger than P. flexilis . 



The gentlemen will return end of this month and in Oc tober Prof. Brewer 

 will go East in order to assume his position as professor. 



In the course of the coming winter, I shall send you a small collection 

 of plant s. 



With best greetings, 



Sincerely, 



Henry N. Bolander 





