Eichler, A. W. 

 1872 September 17th 

 Graz, Austria 



TRANSLATION 



Graz, Botanic Garden 



Editors» Office 17th September, I872. 



of 



Martius Flora Brasilliensis 

 (Prof. Dr. Eichler) 



Efear Sir: 



Your kind letter of 22nd August arrived safely and raade me very happy. I had not 

 "given you up" as you assumed, but I did not know what to th^nk of your complete silence. 

 Well, it shall not be my fault if our communication should not be more active. 



I have written Glaziou not only once, but ^-5 times with regard to your needs. I 

 also received from him his best promises, also repeatedly; and since he usually is 

 true to his words, I cannot quite understand that he did not send you anything. Well, 

 hopefully he will still do so. — I shall remind him again within the next few days. 



From my second, forraerly very active correspondent , Dr. Peckolt in Rio de Janeiro, 

 nothing more can be expected, it is very unfortunate; he is too much occupied with his 

 big business (Court apothecary and main drug business) . — A letter which I wrote to 

 Mr. Gorrea de Mello (at Campinas in the Province of S. Paulo) with regard to cacti 

 must have been lost, at least I never received a reply; I shall write him again and 

 especially now that I know you began to work seriously on the Brasilian cactaceae I 

 shall take all possible steps to obtain new raaterial. I know that without considerable 

 more material, the work is not very fruitful. 



I was glad to hear that you were interested in my work on the Loranthaceae. My 

 raaterial for Areceuthobium was rather scarce and here it needs some corrections; also 

 I made this thing at that time to the best of my knowledge. I shall be very grateful 

 for your promised paper on this genus and no doubt shall learn much from it. I am 

 rather surprised that Viscum vaginatum HBK is supposed not to be Areceuthobium; the 

 original specimens in the Berlin herbarium made me reach no different result, consid- 

 ering my knowledge at that time. 



I shall send future shipments via the Smithsonian Institution — provided that I 

 won't have such difficulties as the last time. I was appalled to hear the bookdealer 

 who gave Dr. Flügel the shipment for you caused you such an expense; however, it has 

 happened and we can*t change it any more and that is supposed to comfort you as they 

 say in Turkey when they beheaded the wrong person. 



Many thanks for your congratulations to my appointment in Graz. I am well and 

 I like it here very much; the country is beautiful, also the people are nice and also 

 the conditions in our Institution are very pleasant. I also have married a year ago 



