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I also glanced through your botanical treatises. I am always happy to receive such 

 things. My own botanical equipment consists of Schleiden 1 s Botanik, Sachs, Gray's 

 Manual and Flora together with Chapman's, 1 volume Lobelia-Plantago. Also Lindley's 

 Dictionary, Mexican Boundary Survey, Pacific ... *and some smaller papers. The 

 local State Library in which I served as librarian frora 1864-69 has De CandoJ-le's 

 Prodromus and Walper's Annais and those are the only botanical works which are 

 available to ine. I have bought the botanical works for the State Library. 



These tools don't get me very far. In East Tennessee I only had "Koch's 

 Synopsis", Mr. Lincoln» s Botany and Schleiden. I observed the Anacharis (?), but 

 am in doubt whether the detachment of the leaves is due to morphological or 

 mechanical reasons. Recently I received from Mr. Letterrnan in Allentown about 40 

 species of good specimens of Missouri plants — in exchange. I am in correspondence with 

 Patterson in Oquenoka, Miller in Wading River, Addison Brown, Pringle, Gray, 

 Sengert, Merz in Steubenville, Canby, Chickering and Lest er Ward in Washington, 

 A. M. Curtiss in Jacksonville whose fascicle I and II is already in my possession, 

 and othersi Curtiss has very beautiful specimens from me. I also contacted Hyams 

 in Sfcatesville, N. G., but never received anything in return. Now, you probably 

 will have enough of my wish-wash and hope you forgive the outside appearance of this 

 letter as well as its Contents. 



Yours obediently, 

 A. Gattinger 



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