5 Dr. E. PuSinye August 20, 1875 



the question of forests is serious, because, as rauch as I know, , lack 



of lumber has already accured inr some states, and can be expected irr 



x( Wwots 



others,if the State does not reserve cepain t^r^i tori es, . In feeverar 

 natural 1 



southern states c the\process may have been completed 1 , in that forest 



soilte,which are not productive as field soils, have become woods 



get 



aprain and will remain. woods, but in the West one may have totexper- 

 ience first..The theory of soil exhaustionl conceive^as a child of 

 such poorly selected field areas on forest soili, and imported into 

 Europe from America« Because, in Europe, where all over a thousand 

 year experience of the value of a soil ; existed,, one knew nothing 

 previously about soil exhaustiaa, until the kews about exhausted' to- 

 bacco fields arrived from Virg inia* I 1 believe, Virginia is large,and 

 there is still ^grow^ and the tobacco is as good as f 



just as one does not find that the tobacco becomes weaker., 

 where it generally grows well \ in Hungary, Macedonia, Tyria«. I just 

 get the news, that a shipment from you is here, and I cut of f r , in order 

 to properly answer your letter. But I use the remaining space only tb 

 make a few remarks after havin# read your letter, My name is in a State 

 of confusion as to orthographyyand this is my father f s fault. He 

 wrote his name as child, as did the family generally in the last cen- 

 turyvPurkyne, as he was born in Bohemia, Later he went to a German 

 Gymnasiunr ( pr eparat ory school for university,E,D. ) in Nikolsburg irr 

 Moravia at the Austrian boundary,and was encouraged by the fathers to 

 call himself Purkinye. This spelling he retained, and, only when he 

 wrote in boheraiarr did he sign- Purkyne. As nom de guerre in science 

 remainedr Putfkinye, which in French is pronounced Pu^rkenseh, My father- 

 lived for 27 years in Prussia, where I was born. In 1850 he returned 

 again to Bohemia, and from that moment on he spelled himseld Purkyne,, 

 and I, of course, too,and in Austria is the name with that spelling- 

 well known.. When T write to aquaintances in Prussia or France, or 



