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I did the same when I was in Brasil. 



I also asked around for other people in Brasil; however, have not found out anything 

 yet. Dr. Peckholt (court apothecary) would be up to your Standards, but has too much 

 to do in his business. 



From Warraing in Copenhagen, who has been for a long tirae in Minas Province and 

 collected and made observations, I shall receive soon whatevef he has about cacti in 

 the form of drawings and manuscripts (he did not enclose anything of this family) and 

 I shall send this to you together with what was collected here in the gardens according 

 to your Instructions. What is the best and cheapest way of sending material? I hoped 

 to use for the Flora Brasiliensis the Smithsonian Institution and I hope that you 

 received my last shipment through them, but I was told on the occasion of my last 

 shipment that this is not possible in the future for private persons. Perhaps you will 

 succeed in making a different arrangement. In any event, that way was the best since 

 it was the cheapest. 



Shall I send you the cactaceae out of the Flore Flumensis, also from Marcgrav 

 and Piso and copy the descriptions thereof? I know that that was your wish, but I don't 

 remember exactly, since so many things went through my head since that time, what 

 the exact details of our dlscussion were. 



Even though this letter will not reach you before the middle of January, I still 

 shall, according to our beloved custora, send you my best wishes for the New Year. 

 Hoping to hear from you good news and with the assurance of my sincere respect and 

 adrairation, 



I am your most davoted 



A. Eichler 



Dr. Engelmann, St. Louis. 



P.S. Among the Brasilian botanists Dr. Fritz Müller (also a good German) in 

 Itajahy, provincia S. Paulo, might be interested in the cactaceae. I shall write 

 him myself sometime. 



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BOTAN 



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