2 Prince Salm Dec. 7, 1846 



Your nister brother will probably mail you the Enumeratio diag- 

 nostica of Schiffer, an opus of Ms. (monsieur, E.D. ) Lemaire.. and 

 the handbook by Poster, as well as the last Ii st of my collect! orr. 

 In the . ... Garden ne^TSvevev (which you. t>erhaps posess) are also 

 many dissertations, and also the books o^ all the cactus conner - 

 cial (iealers. I am working thougb on a new editioir of ny listing; 

 be cause first, ny collection has increased, and second, because I 

 want to create useful 1 inf ornat ion. Namely, I correct old diasmoses 

 of ours, which confuse many of the Enumeratio, whereby the read er 



of in books, which he often does not posess, becomes con- 



fused. 



I ! theref ore accept gratef ully your wellborn' s off er, to send 

 ne sone cacti, and I will! confer with your nister brother about the 

 way in which such a shipnent could get here the best; By all means 

 by way of New York, rather than New Orleans* The plant s would have 

 to be very dry when packed; rolled up in stron.fr Da per, a^d the 

 inter-spaces must be stuf f ed with dry noss or f ine senygreen sha- 

 vings most carefully< one must further drill sone holes in. the box, 

 that no Stagnation activity will occur. 



Your descriptions, which professor Gray nade, are unknown 



to ne the plant s, which you sent to Berlin. 



Receive, your wellborn, the assurances of ny complete 

 high estination 



• • • at Sarmia 

 To the Wellborn Sir Georg jsngelmann n.D.. Ii. St. Louis 



( translated fron Geman Script by Edgar Denison, May 1988 ) 



Note: Two of the original pages are torn at the margins, and I 

 ha.d to do sone minor guessing in order to fret sentences 

 together. S.D.. 



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