Engler, A. 

 1880, March 1 

 Kiel, Gerraany 



TRANSLATION 



Kiel, March Ist, 1880. 



Dear Doctor, 



I should appreciate very much if I could have for my Journal, of which the 

 first issue shall be published in April with contributions of 0. Heer and DeCandolle, 

 also a contribution from you, Asa Gray or Lesquerreux. It should be possible that 

 you publish the same article in my Journal as well as in St. Louis. It is my intention 

 to concentrate in one Journal raore material of importance to plant geography. So 

 many Journals are now open almost exclusively for physiology and the history of 

 development; Linnaea which filled its task for the systematics will soon cease 

 to exist. 



In any event, please always send me your separates so that they may be included 

 in the literature report which appears twice a year. 



Of your previous papers, I own the one about the oaks, Juncus and Abies; however, 

 not the ones about Yucca, the Agaves and Cactaceae. In my works on plant geography, 

 good monographs are very important; based on them, one can find more certain results 

 than by using the floras. 



Couldn't you perhaps move somebody in North America to publish the American 

 conifers completely (branches and cones)? The labels must contain the special 

 locality of the geographical distribution in detail. 



For the collector concerned, it should be worthwhile; Mr. Keck in Aistershaim in 

 Upper Austria, would be the best man to commission with the distribution of such 

 a collection. 



Assuring you of my sincerest respect, 



Your devoted 



A. Engler 



