Eichler, A. W. 

 1882, July 20th 

 Berlin, Gerraany 



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. ^ . . ^ . Berlin W., 



Royal Botanic Garden Wilmersdorfer Weg 4^6 



20th July 1882 



Dear Doctor, 



Thanking you for your very valuable letter of the 22nd of March of this year. 

 I am asking you to turn some of your interest to the paper I sent you three days 

 ago; I hope you will then agree with me that the fruit scales of Abies cannot 

 develop on the bracts of the bud. As far as I am concerned, the matter is so 

 certain as nothing eise I ever encountered in morphology and regard it as 

 absolut ely impossible to combine the deviations in the development I have seen 

 with such an opinion. Should you also be convinced, please do me the favor of 

 talking about it somewhere. 



I thank you also for the trouble you took to review my works; it is by far 

 the best paper which has been published about these. I also thank you for the 

 interesting seed you sent me some time ago and which hopefully will germinate 

 and grow here. 



Prof« Dr. Chapman which you told me in your last letter would come here, will 

 be very welcome« Miss Kate Wood carae to see us with your letter of introduction 

 only Short ly before her departure to Dresden etc., I was no longer at home and 

 could not be of any use to her; an invitation tendered to her by ray family she 

 refused to accept. 



Mrs. Mettenius probably has sent you in the meantime the biography of her 

 father written by her and I don*t doubt that you were most interested in the book 

 in which you play such a prominent role. It is a wonderful and rare person she 

 described, his aims and work, his sufferings and happiness, a real anima Candida, 

 and it is written in such a form that whoever did not love Braun before has 

 learned to do so just by reading his books« It brought me great and lasting 

 happiness and inspired my thoughts and renewed my good intentions. 



With best wishes, 



Yours sincerely, 



A. W. Eichler 



