St. Louis, Dec. 3,1867 
Dear Braun 
Many thanks for the kind reception of our Georg. Hessens to 
feel entirely at home with you,and, hopefully, this will’ continue.. 
You and your home were the main reasons for our preference of Berlin 
before any other university. Vienna has the lead ahead of all other 
schools throuesh Hyrti but I feared the tempting,always charming 
Life of Vienna and he woul‘ nalkinad anybody as you and yours in Ber- 
1insBerlin is supvosed to be even worse in some aspects than Vienna; 
but I hope, that interest in his studies and activities won't leave 
MEET EL TECH a Il too have 
time and inclination to turn his mind to others 
been in Berlin (39 and 28 years ago) and have no memory at all! to 
have much temptation/Mv wife thanks yours,that she too cared about 
his living quarters,and helped inspecting them. Write to me exhaus- 
tinely sometime about Georg,his activities, his goals, as they appear 
to you. | 
I have been very little active with botany,hardly at all in 
the last months,less than usual,as I was much occupied as doctor . 
ard because the short days leave less time. 
I worked a little on Lemnae and corresponded about them with 
Heselmeier;a letter received just today says, that the wine-spirits 
specimens, which George took along, had not arrived vet on November 
12. Ask, please, George about it;he should follow up; may-be he left 
them in Frankfurt and they have been Jerzotten there.Our two Wolffias 
he declares to be Columbian-Brazilian,probably correctly so. What 
Kant has published about Columbia, he told me,thus, Georg should 
not make any further efforts. He now admits, that Lemna paucirostat: 
is a species.I think I told you already,that the swamp,where I col- 
lected it in August in full bloom,I found entirely dry in September,, 
without a trace of Lemna.I assıme the seeds sprout next year, as I 
did findin May tiny seedlings of the same species and had sent them 
to G; they arose my attention throush tiny black dotahansine on the 
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