sciences natur. At this point he further said about Guscuta arabica : 



(Original in French) "The comparison of raany plants led to unite the one 

 of Mr. Fresenius with C. Epithynum . In fact, the specimens collected in 

 Southern France, parasites of Artemisia maritima , showed me the transition 

 with regard to the shape of the calix and the corolla between the one 

 collected at Mount Sinai and those of C. Epithynum . In the latter, the 

 corolla is tubulär just as in those collected at Mount Sinai, and keeps its 

 shape which is the same as I observed in those Coming from the vicinity 

 from Montpelier. The shape of the appendix of the corolla and the length 

 of the style is identical in all three as well as the thickness of the branches* 

 I don't have the time to take this matter up again, you will see best what you can 

 do with this matter. 



You asked whether no botanists are Coming up here. Düring the sixteen years I 

 was teaching botany at the Medical Institute, some time a young promising botanist 

 appeared, but most of them disappeared again. One of the most able of ray former students 

 who stayed with it is Dr. G. Mettenius who already distinguished himself by his thorough 

 work about the history of the development of Rhizocarbon; last summer he spent at the 

 North Sea because of Algae, the winter he spent in Berlin, and as I heard now, he is 

 going to Vienna. Also among my present students are some which give much promise and 

 are diligent young men, but I don't believe that they have enough interest to follow 

 the profession of a botanist. 



Recently there is much work going on at the Museum. Apart from Ruppel and myself, 

 Dr. Schiff (a young physician who had already done much biological research) is now 

 working on the birds, Dr. A. Schmidt and Dr. Giebel on fossils, Dr. Kloss jun. on 



minerals, Dr gives lectures on zoology, etc. There is much more order now 



in the Situation of the Society than there was previously, but still there is the lack 

 of funds for buying new nature material which especially hurts the botanical section 

 very much. Therefore, we can't even think of buying Lindheimer's plants or the 

 Schimper collection which is so necessary and important for us. Therefore, I am still 

 working on Ruppel 1 s Abyssinian plants of which many have yet been described or sorted. 

 I should like to mention to you a diligent worker in the botanical section, Mr. 

 Bayrhoffer whose specialty are mosses, liverworts and lichens and he studies and sorts 

 this part of our collection and just presented the Society with a marvelous moss 

 herbarium with plants he collected and sorted himself. 



By the way, you wrote that I probably have received a small package of plants 



