183^, August 19th 

 Frankfurt a.M., Germany 



Frankfurt a. M. f August 19, l8^k 



TRANSLATION 



Dear Friend, 



By accident I learned from your brother too late that he is going to mail a letter 

 to you this evening which makes it irnpossible for me to write to you in detail (which 

 by the way shall still happen) so I want at least to enclose a short note and to let you 

 know what comes to mind during the short minutes I have to write this letter- Some of 

 your things contained in your seed shipment of last year have grown ... I was very happy 

 to have received your seed shipment which is for our garden and no doubt will contain 

 many things; the seeds will be sown and tended carefully just as the ones Ruppel sent 

 from Abyssinia of which the first part is already flowering and is now in fruit, namely 

 a new Ornithogalum. Ruppel, this indefatigable and hard working friend arrived here 

 ;afely in the midst of his friends several weeks ago; his last, very important collection 



treasure of the most splendid 



of natural material preceded him and furnisl 

 things, which as soon as they have set up will t 



natural science. It contains, for instance, a number of new specie* 

 wonderful monkeys; illustrations of them were finished a few days ago, entirely black with 

 a long white hair covering on both sides of the back. Also the botanical department 

 received most important things, unfortunately not as much seed as I had hoped for, but 

 the dried plant s, among them very many new things. I have more work than ever for the 

 next years. I have published a paper about the previous shipments from Arabia-Egypt in 

 the new publication of our Society: Zeitschrift, Museum Senckenbergianum; treatises in 

 the field of natural sciences, etc. of which just now the printing of the third issue 

 began which will finish the first volume. I urge very much to heighten the interest in 

 this Zeitschrift by a contribution of yours. 



In several weeks the annual meeting of the natural scientists will begin, this time 

 held at Stuttgart. Many people from here will attend since it is not far away. I intend 

 also to go. Recently I made the acquaintance here at the Museum of some of the traveling 

 botanists, among them Mr. Benthem from London who is revising the Labiateae, Link from 

 Berlin who is going to Siberia with L. v. Bush. The latter (Link) sat in my room from 

 3 to 7 o'clock studying with great interest the Abyssian plants. But I must finish now, 

 there is not enough space and time. 



