Eichler, A. W. 

 1880, March 30t h 

 Berlin, Germany 



TRANSLATION 



Royal Botanic Garden 



Berlin, V/. 

 Potsdamerstr. 75 a 

 JOth March I88O 



Dear Doctor, 



The shipment you announced in your kind letter of l6th November of last year 

 was sent to me through our Foreign Office and I thank you very rauch for this beautiful 

 contribution to our collect ion, To this, I add my private thanks for the beautiful 

 work you sent to me personally about the plants of Nevada, Utah, etc.; this same work 

 was sent to me by one of our Offices in Washington (I don*t reraember which one) and I 

 shall give your copy to the"Royal Botanical Museum" — that is now our official name« 



Now you have to let me know what I can do to reciprocate for your kindness. 

 We have lots of duplicates, especially cryptogams and now, under the new conditions, 



it will be possible to distribute thera regulär ly. The move to the new building was 



just finished, but it will still take some time to have everything in order, the 

 mess in the old stables was just too terrible. Hopefully, we left the worms behind. 



You have probably received the second part of my Diagram a long time ago and 

 I ask your opinion. I enclose herewith a few small things for the new part; I was 

 not able to do anything but a few small things because of the condition of my eyes 

 and the work my position brings with it. In spite of everything, I was recently 

 elected a new member of the Academey of Sciences; Pringsheim was the one who 

 proposed my name« 



I intend to devote the next years to a "Comparative morphology of the phanerogaras" 

 for which I find many preparatory works in Braun» s estate which the Academy bought 

 for our botanical museum. It is really amazing what the man observed and studied 

 and in which form he did it; compared to him one feels like a rank amateur. — 

 Apart from this work, the work in the botanical museum has to be continued and in 

 this connection I take the liberty of remindyou of the conifer cones which you 

 once mentioned, and also hope that you will continue your kindness to the whole 

 Institution. 



I was very sorry to see from your last letters that you suffered such a sad 

 fate during the last years and ask you to accept my sincere sympathy, especially 

 for the death of your wife. Fare well and be assiired of my adrairation, 



Your devoted 



A. W. Eichjer 



