Berlin-, Sept. 2,l86l 



Most honored Friend I 



Again a long tine has passed since I wrote you, and, again sad' 

 events have passed in the neantime, ifhich touch us nost painfui ly.Our 

 friend beloved and honored by both of us, after having t o 



suffer ever nore in the last years fron his chronic disease. As sad 

 as this loss is f or botany in ji^ecal- , so touching becones the death 

 of orince Salm for the study of the cacti'in particular.- 



Colonel Jacobi, who has beer transferred to Berlin now as 

 inspector of training, and who still saw the prince in the past year,, 

 believes it to be probable, that he made provisions, to transfer his 

 fine collection undivided to the Botanlcal Garden in Bonn. However,, 

 nothing further is known about this. Jacoby, unf ortunately, had to 

 give up many fine plants on account of his moving to Berlin, but 

 his collection is stillvery inportant, and he is labouring studious- 

 ly, to ffcll the vacancies agairr.. About Baumann's collection I have 

 not had news for a long time, which is sad. Letters sent to hinr are 

 answeered in monosyllables, and it is very difficult, to get plants 

 fron hinr, though it is known; that he has raany rare, mostly irrowrr 

 frora seed, specimens=, , but he seens unable to separate hinseif even 

 fron his surplus. In contrast, Pazzani is gladly comraunicative, but 

 though his collection is rieh in speeimens. he does not own rauch of 

 what we do not have already here in Berlin. Most refrrettable how- 

 ever is, that original shipments fron America get now rarely to 

 .Gemany; even my sources, fron which I reeeived previously at times 

 such, seem to have dried up. Only in Hamburg arrive sonetines original 

 shipnents, thus, specially, to Mr.Droege, . who is a hobbyist of large 

 plants, but not really a connalseur. He reeeives fron the area of 

 St. Luis Potosi species, which have been Ions? knowrr, wlth whom on- 

 ly very rarely sonething new Is found. 



