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assembly of philosophersfLn the wider sense of the word, which is 

 supposed to be here in the fall' (after the Naturestudy assembly, 

 which will be in Dresden) • 



My sister Marie has had a stroke in the beginning of September^ t5 

 and has been paralized on the entire right side, ,but has already re- 

 covered so far, that she makes- already the decisions about the house- 

 hold, ,but is still! weak, and becomes confused, wherr dif f erent+ demandsr 

 come simultaneously. . 



Do not forget,to let me have those stränge seedlings, which' ,T be- 

 leave, belong to Lolia nigra (Lelia,L Ifolia, Lalia ??? E. D. ), which, 

 at first sight could be taken asr ,as you then said. 



I do not know, if E drew your attention in my last letter from Ne- 

 opolis to a published essayvabout plant... M. and what is connec- 

 ted with it. 



It was printed last year by Carl but published only 



now in the festival issue of the German Hochstift for the 50 Year 

 jubilee celebratiorr of the Natur e study Society of Emden: : Wasser & 

 Sonnenschein (Water and sunshine ), which is very rieh irr beautifull 

 observations in physical zoological and botanical 1 areas. Should you 

 not have this, try to borrow it.. 



This suramer I T was most agreably surprised by a thick package of 

 scandinavian , with which the Swedish botanists, 



Wahl stadt and Fordstadt wanted to encourage me to make some studies.. 



The following ? lines have a hole cut out in center 

 page, and are therefor not tranlatable. E.D.. 



Today I have with my (blank space) f who greets you frie^lly,, 

 seen the summer trip of Franz Holzlhuber to New York, and from there 

 through the Niagara ( sie ! E.D..) to Lake Michigan and Mississippi* with 

 great interest.. 



Pinally, T want to express my joy 'in your manysided :; scienti- 



