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In addition some other species from other north American botanists like Asa Gray 

 etc.; that there are may holes in the collection is apparent from the fact that we 

 have no (unreadable); no Xanthium and only one North American Agrimonium 

 which came from Berlin. Ofnew discoveries only Fendler's plants are here 

 because of Ledebowich's herbarium. 



OfRussian plants that be used for trading we have plants from the Russia 

 Persian border that Szwarils 2 collected. Plants from Ajan(Siberia) , plants from 

 Amur, eventually plants from Altai and Bakurien (Turizaminow) 3 . 



We have numerous duplicates but not genuine with certainty because 

 Fischer did not type them and from that follows that most are unexamined and 

 the duplicates cannot be certified. That the herbarium collections also are 

 disarrayed follows and as I am the only one hired to straighten this out it goes 

 slowly. Should you want to exchange or ifyou have a not inexperienced friend 

 who would like to, I ask you to let Director Singal know your offers and wishes as 

 he is the only one who can decide. For myselfl can now only 4 



2 Spelling uncertain 



3 Place names have undergone 2-3 changes since the days ofthis letter. 



4 The text breaks off here. Either a line or two are missing or any number ofpages! The following 

 page is marked 4 but by our librrian- not the author. 



