Parlatore, Phillipe 



Rec. Oct. 19, 1866 



Florence, September 27, 1866 



Dear Sir, 



I benefit from the kindness of Prof. Asa Gray for showing you this letter and to inform you 

 that I have just finished sending the Smithsonian Society a crate in which I have placed some 

 plants, some books that I ask you to accept and the Pine cônes that you had the extrême 

 kindness of lending me for my work on the Conifers. I regret that the letter that I wrote you 

 during the time that you mentioned that you had received those cônes as well as some samples 

 of conifers and some publications, were lost because of the war that is ravaging your beautiful 

 country. I seem to be ungreatful but again I send you my most sincère thanks. 



They are already printing in Paris the Prodromus of the Manuscript of Conifers. I have 

 printed here the first volume of my Italian flora where I expect to publish in the future other 

 volumes in which I have already described 2600 dicotyledonic species. You will find among the 

 small things that I sent a monograph of the gender Gossipium. 



Please, dear Sir, accept my considerate expressions of having the honor of being your 

 devoted 



Ph. Parlatore 



If you could send me your photograph, you would give me great pleasure. Please send it to 

 me with good news. 



Translation. Manfred Thurmann 



