Berlin, March 17, 1880 



Dear Doctorl 



You gave me great pleasure with your valued letter, which brings me much news 

 about you and shows me your warm interest in us botanists. 



What concerns botany in my view, much has happened in Berlin recently. We 

 now have at our University again two füll professors of botany - Eichler for 

 taxonomy and morphology - Schwenderer for histology and physiology. What will 

 please you very much is that now in our botanical garden a beautiful new museum 

 has been completed, which is being occupied just now before Easter. It is very 

 beautiful and helps to fill a long feit need. Only now our collections will 

 become really available and for the advancement of science. - Also a physiological 

 laboratory for snakes, which here is under the administration of Prof. Schwenderer 

 has been newly established, in which many younger people work. 



In regard to your acquaintances Prof. Ascherson this Winter for the third time 

 was in Egypt and will now publish a prodromus of the flora of Egypt. Presently he 

 has much to do here with the moving to the new herbarium. - From Prof. Eichler 

 you have, if I am not mistaken, received Information directly. His eye trouble 

 seem to have been fully corrected. Other than with the furnishing of the museum 

 he is at present very much occupied with the Flora Brasiliensis, to which new 

 funds have been alloted. 



That Prof. Karl Koch has died, you no doubt have known for some time. 

 Prof. Key has received a position here at the newly established agricultural 

 Academy, and there also conducts a plant-physiological laboratory. 



As for myself, during the Summer at the University here I read about Algae 

 and vascular cryptograms, in Winter about fungi and hold a botanical colloquium. 



My investigations are especially in morphology recently. Out of the 



garden I have many von , which I subject to a thorough 



