Eichler, A. W. 

 1869, December 50th 

 Munich, Germany 



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Munich, JOth December I869 



Editor 's Office 

 of 



Martis Flora Brasiiiensis 



(Dr. Eichler) 

 Munich, Karlstr. 52 



Dear Sir, 



You will probably have f ormed a bad opinion of me as far as my^ reliability as a 

 correspondent is concerned, since I let three months go by without answering your kind 

 letter of 5th October. However, please excuse this because of all the work I have 

 to do in connection with the Flora Brasiliensis and also because there was no special 

 reason to write. Although, today there is nothiag special I don't want to end the 

 year without doing my duty to you. 



First, I hope you have returned to St. Louis well and in good health and I wish 

 to express my happiness of being able to make your personal acquaintance this summer 

 and to enter into closer connection with you. Then, please also accept my thanks 

 for your detailed Instructions for the collecting and observations of the cacti for 

 my Brasilian correspondents. I have already inf ormed them in great detail (I have 

 also sent a copy to the gentlemen in Berlin); however, I have not yet received a reply, 

 but I know that they will do everything to comply with your wishes. As an incentive 

 I mentioned (and I hope you have nothing against it) that in the event of their extensive 

 Support, the names of the botanists will be mentioned adequately on the title of the 

 issue in question. Since one of these correspeondents is Dr. A, Glaziou, director of 

 the Passeio Publice in Rio de Janeiro (under which address any letters which I told 

 him you might wish to write will reach him) , a very diligent and pleasant man, 

 unsurpassable as a collector and with sorae botanical knowledge; the other one is 

 Joaquim Gorrea de Melle (in Campinas, provincia de S. Paulo, Braxil) with whom I have 

 not yet corresponded, who, however, was recommended to me from Paris (by Bureau and 

 Baillon) as one of the most faithful and experienced observers and whom 1 in turn 

 was recommended with the Flora Brasiliensis by Paris. The connection with the latter 

 might be very valuable since the province of S. Paulo is richer in cacti than Rio; 

 furthermore, Mello retired from his business entirely (he was an apothecary) and can 

 devote all his time to botany; he already has sent to the Paris' gentlemen many 

 observations and plants. He is also supposed to be a very capable draughtsman. Ali 

 this will make it worthwhile to contact him. Please, ask for the shipments without 

 postage and pay it yourself in the meantime until we can straighten out our accounts; 



