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I made drawings of all new species with the exception of the Grimaldi California 

 and Fintu.. Bolanderi et Leseurii austin (californica Hampe ms) since it was too 

 much trouble for me to make coloured drawings which don't have any special interest 

 for me. Anyway, the leafy liverworts and the Marchantia where I have to cover large 

 areas symmetrically with color or to tint with miniature paintings, I consider a 

 thorn in my thigh, even though they have a pretty effect as a drawing and I avoid 

 these as rauch as I can. I have to draw 10 species this year for the flora Danica, 

 of which I have finished 9; amont them is also Aneura palmata but it took me a long 

 time to get a good picture. My won collection of hand drawings of liverworts 

 consists of 11 handy volumes with some thousand leaves in quarto where the drawings 

 were not only drawn exactly under the prism with 17/1 or 35A faithfulness, but 

 just as faithful and dependable as the original. The ones I kept mostly in my 

 collection are such which I can always use to compare them with Originals in cases 

 of doubt. Through this collection, to which I always add new ones, it is easier 

 for me to finish a determination of Hepaticae as would otherwise be the case. 



Please forgive me if I took up so much of your time with this long letter 

 and give my best regards to your friends. Should you come to Hamburg some time, 

 I should be very happy if you would visit me. 



Altona, Hochschulstr. No. 3 



Your Dr. Gottsche. 



