Buchenau, Franz 
1868, August 20th 
Bremen, Germany 
TRANSLATION 
Bremen, 20th August 1868. 
Dr. George Engelmann 
Dr. Doctor, 
I should have answered your kind letter of June 12th a long time ago had 
I known your address; however, Mr. Rust was absent for a long time at a spa and 
Dr. Ascherson is a lazy writer so I couldnit get it. Now you will have some 
lines and greetings from me. It will not be much more since I am now overburdened 
with work. My entire position has changed since the end of July because the 
director of our school, Prof. Dr. Gräfe, died suddenly and I was put in charge 
of the institution indefinitely. Apart from 24 lessons weekly, I also have to 
take care of the administration of the institution, to make the preparations for 
the winter semester, report cards, transfer of students and in this month also 
the military examinations. So you can imagine that I am getting quite dizzy 
sometimes and that I could not work on botany at all. 
3lst August, evening. 
Now you see how things are with me, for eleven days the letter was sitting 
on my desk and I was waiting in vain for a quiet hour to finish it. All day long 
(if I am not at the school) people are coming and going as if my place were a 
pigeon loft and in the evening I often am entirely exhausted, which usually did 
not happen before. However, beginning in October I shall have to give fewer 
lessons and then I can return to my favorite studies. 
I have your work here for a long time, already translated. There are very 
many remarks to make since you incorporated so many things about which we have 
corresponded before. Still, there are many details I have to write to you about. 
Some things need to be changed right away. It probably will be better to wait 
until you finish your European trip before we publish it, because you certainly 
will find many interesting things in the great herbaria and may be able to find 
out more about Juncus LaPylsi. 
I am expecting the Juncaceae from Liebnau (or at least samples of them). 
I am very curious to see the J. trinervis of which I suspect that it is identical 
with your phaeocephalus, 
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