Ree Nov. 28 ^^S^ 

 Frankfurt 



Jacobi 



Munster, Nov. 24,3.85? 



Ho^ored Sir Doktor ! 



For a long time I have taken aiitr with a letter, but could not 



get to it'l^neto overwhelming offi ttial workj» and fulfilll my inclina - 

 tions for ny private corresiDonrie^oe^ 



Mow, finally, I can breathe again for a few weeks, and , thus do 

 not waitflto hesitate to write to you.. That I could not come to Boel ! - 

 p-er in Berlin aecordinp: to arrangement, I was very sorry.. Instead I 

 had to £ro to Potsdam and, thus, could not appear. Unf ortunately, yoir 

 did not keep our meeting on. the Dyck either, and in that manner,, we 

 have still not achieved to discuss the cactus theme thorou^hly and irr 1 

 renose«. This iS many ways the more unf ortunate,, as we will hardly? in^ 

 this life have the opportunity to see eaoh otheril^ovA^ > 



Are you still in Europe, or have you already orossed the atlan- 

 tic ocean ? I do not k^iow, , but a.ssnme the first probabili ty, and send q 

 my letter to your Mr. B^otber in P^ankf u.rt • 



Enolosed I send you a quantity of seeds, of which however you will 

 fi^€^many, which von have already reeeived from. me, which I se^d any- 

 way aprain, so that you may take them with you to America and sow thenr 

 there« You reeeive a lot of species much distributed here, which are 

 probably also availa.ble in St. Louis. Hut I operated with this ship - 

 ment also from another viewpoint. I packed, as far as this was pos- 

 sible to me, entire fruit sv from which you gain irapressions of the 

 shape a^d color~. 



Labouret poi^ted out to me during last summer, that there are 

 fruits of Hammilariae, which are not' bevond question smooth, and 

 sent me as proof a berry of a plant bein.fr close to M. ept .mednsae, 



which carries many small hair- tufts on its outside. Und er the micros- 

 cope these hair-tufts appeared like a. certain species of sea-grass 

 or the so-called.^y*f£^i^ 







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