Hegelmaier 



Ree. Nov. 6,186? 



ans. Dec.20 



Tübingen Oct.10,186? 



Most honored Sir Doctor t 



After having raailed a letter to you today a week ago, I re - 

 ceive today a letter raailing from you with Wolffla from Illinois and 

 W. WriMtschii from Cuba. - 



You certainly have the ris:ht to be impatient, and I tried to 

 excuse myself in my last letter as well as I could. I am over the 

 summer much overloaded. with teaching activities, and, thus, my free 

 time is important to me, to porvide live materiall and to study the 

 most important developmental processes in the open through travelling,, 

 so that I could not undertake to make systematic examinations, as 

 these objects by their nature must be undertaken with considerable 

 leisure, if one expects to reeeive worthwhile results,. 



W. Welwitschll I reeeived once before from you from Cuba, H 

 believe then, when you sent me the items of the Hon. Austin. The de- 

 terminatiorr came from me, and was based on the speeimens sent to me 

 then. As you do not seem to trust the designatioir fully f I take the 

 liberty to enclose a few fronds of the african original plant s, with 

 the wish, that your doubt will thus be eliminated. T remark only (in 

 case the speeimens should not appear entirely identical by accident 

 with yours) , that II examined, measured and drew a number of fronds 

 of the africans from Banj^ land of various dimensions; all are remar- 

 kably elongated, though lrrvarying dimensions, as you find it for the 

 american plantlets and describe.. 



Cönsidering Wolffla arrhiza maculosa I have already communi- 

 cated my view, and re Joyce, that you came to the same opinion in the 

 meantime - that they are brasiliensls », 



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