Gottsche, Carl 

 1868, June 26t h 

 Altona, Germany 



TRANSLATION 



ALtona, 26th June 1868 



Dear Dr. Engelmann, 



I was glad to receive your letter with the Information concerning Dp. Bolander 

 and because of your recommendation I wrote him the enclosed letter which I am sure 

 will meet with your approval. Apart from the desired specimens of Mex. liverworts, I 

 also enclosed a Florula Hepat. Novo-Granatensis for Dr. Bolander which might be an 

 incentive for him to make a similar enumeration. I should be glad to undertake such 

 a work if it can be done on a commission basis, even though my time pretty much 

 filled up. Last year, when I was in Paris I let myself be talked into working on a 

 new comprehensive Flora of France which Dr. Fournier is planning to publish through 

 Balliere. Of course, I only have to do with the liverworts and have to enter in my 

 manuscript the localities from several shipments received from France, but, thank 

 God, it is now finished. But the Strassburg herbarium is waiting for my help since 

 November and that part is not even sorted in Single sheets, but is still all together 

 and awaits sorting. In August, Schimper showed me two piles two-hands high of things 

 from Guatemala which Dr. L f Herminier collected there; since I also have already 

 received samples of these, I thought it would be easy to determine the herbarium and 

 I would be finished with it by the end of Spring; later one I was sent a small 

 portion of raw material from Madeira packed in cigar box. Can you imagine my shock 

 when I found later in front of the house door someone unloading a crate weighing 

 half a centner containing liverworts which had still been found in the Strassburg 

 herbariuml However, when I think of the immense material which Schimper collected 

 during the years in order to complete his flora palaeontologica which he contracted 

 to do for a Parisian publisher, then it seems that the work left for me is insig- 

 nificant. The geology collection in Strassburg is good and beautiful; Paris does 

 not have much of it. 



There fore, I have plenty of work, however, if there would not amass a lot 

 of new things, I should be able to work my way through without having my other 

 work suffer, and I should be possible, if you would inform Dr. Bolander to that 

 effect, that I could help him determine his collection. From the enclosed compari- 

 son you will see that I am finished with Bolander 1 s things and if you find an empty 

 spot in it was the faulty material since I could not find any 



any developed fruit parts which are absolutely necessary for determination. I 



