Ree. .Mar. 5 
Ans. 20 
Königsberg in Prussia 
Peb. 11.. 1877 
Dear Engelmann t 
Best thanks for your letters of July 5 and October 19tl876t, 
the 3 manustripts and seeds of Agave and Nymphaea flava. - 
First the question- :: Did you receive the packet of esssp^s of mine 
about 1| years back^ throiigh the Smithonian Institute 71 would be 
sad, if it got lost,. 
1) As to the Flora of California, which contains yours of the 
Cacti, . please x^ite th^ entire title. so that I may order it. V 
must have the book.. 
2) As to the wish-, to see the north-american oaks anatomi - 
cally treatet, it surprised me.because I was then abaut to TArrite 
urgent 
to you with the /request; . to send me the wood of as many northameri- 
can trees as possible, as it was absolutely necessary, that I get 
an anatomical overview of thenr.. There has been pressure here for a 
lon^ time, • til I decided to work on the plant inclusions in am- - 
ber and the diluvian timbers. . This shows now the relatiomship of 
amber-plants with the north-americans, which was knoTAm alBfeady tcr 
G^ppert.in a rauch strenger degree.than he knew, and I / very much Vo^ 
the now living american Flora. For this new proofs.other than- 
those, which G^ppert gave ::a) an outstandingly well preserved3 
flower of Stewardia, which I named Kowalewskii , is in my hands, about 
X"^ in diameter.now similar in Florida. Mexico. . b) several pieces. 
rather large.with impressions of Sabal ..Sabalitis Renowii. 
Carp. c) a Carya d) Celastrus and Rhamnus fruit s or flowers. which 
at least today are present speciall/^ Iran (?' E.D.). I enclose the 
traced drawing of an oustanding f ragment : : Fig. 8 Gr. Fig. 1,2, 3 
branches.Fig. 4-7 fruits od varioijs sorts. The drawing gives enough 
Information ,1 can spare the words. 1 may consider the plant, which 
is very small! as a Gaetacea ? and called it Patzea gaetoides and 
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