6 ' E. Puikinye August 20,,l8?5 



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generally to people, whojknow, that I am the son of the Breslau Phy- 

 siologue, then I sign Puykinye.. Indeed, my children will' write only 

 Pumkyne , and for publications I shall also use this spelling. My 

 work about the forms of Picea in Boheraia will be published after the 

 vacations by the zoological-botanical Society in Vienna.and I willl 

 mail to you immediately a special printing.. Microscopic, constant 

 differences I found only in the bark and I saw with horror . how many 

 species there raight be for the pinesr, which appear to me identical as 

 to the anatomy of the needles-, and of which I could not examine the 

 other materlall . Na ture works different frora th e Human.and one must 

 be glad, if one can limp behind with one's knowledge, where Nature 

 over hundred thausands of years has dif f erentiated all' unto the last 

 cell; We believe species to be new, which are found in a newly dicco- 

 vered countryy or which a botanist separates according to newly 

 applied characteristics of dif f erentiatiorr from forms long belleved 

 to be identical, and all this is so extremely old and only we are new„ 

 as everybody has to start from Scratch, find his way through Nature,, 

 and to learn to see. 



The good Leonardi ls dead. He had something rare in our tirne,, a 

 deep feeling for friendship. and a profound urge to become himself en- 

 lightened about everything concerning Nature, and to see only one Na- 

 ture before hinr, not discipllnes and cliques*. I owe him muclt, because 

 between 1850 to 1860 I was in close contact with hi m and, though- h e 

 could not convert me to the philosophy of Krause, as all philosophy is 

 entirely stränge to ne,.I have learned much frora hinrj specially-as he 

 made me aquainted with Volger, from which tirae on I became a new hu- 

 man being-. IT learned. that one must see everything and think by one- 

 seif and that the Nature Explorers will not' further the pure lear- 

 ning>..A lot must have been remained in th e man from Frankfurt of the 

 spirit of Goethe, even only a 



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