Hesrelijmier 

 Ree«. Feb. 9 

 Ans. Apr. 19 



Tübingens Jbml8 f , 18?2 



Most admired. Friend, 



Your letter came to me in November of last year and is still! 

 in the hands of Höchste tter, to whom I transferred it on aecount of 

 its Contents, but I know t&@» sufficiently by heartt f to be able to 



Ii thank you much for the various enclosures, and, aecording? 

 to your wishes,I have given one half of the spindles to Prof. Braun.. 

 I would not know what to add to you remarks about thenr. Your easterrr 

 Afrceuttrobiurrr seems to be a raost interesting plant,. 



Düring ray last meeting with Hochstetter he told me, thaz jhoped, , 

 he could serve you with diverse items,and that he would send some 

 himself soom If this has happened in the meantime, I do not know.. 

 The collection of conifers in the local botanical garden is not re- 

 ally bad, but there are almost only newtiSr planted; theref or youn^ 

 and still sterile speeimens.. 



T arn really now involved in morpfe©lfOgical--histiological stur - 

 dies of our Lycopodia , a very difficult genus in this connectiorc, , 

 because the growth processes are much more difficult to examine orr 

 aecount of the condition of the tissue than with other vasculair 

 cryptogames. The matter will , I expect, take still several months,, 

 without being able beforehand to envi si orr, what positive results may 

 result. The still unknown processes of reproduetiorr of these plants 

 will be almost impossible to penetrate, , and I have not made so far 

 any attempts in that direction. An inch lomr, or even shorter , steir 

 section with leaves (dried) could be of much 1 value to me sometime. 

 But, I do not know, if you have it. What concerns Azolla (Salvinia- 

 ceae, E.D. ) , I believe that living, fertile speeimens would make a 

 big (verbatim M fat H ) bite for a europaean morphologi st ; he would 

 need incoraparable material for an examination, f or which I T too would 



answer.. 



