Weisswasser August 27,,l875 

 Nöte: -This is a continuation of the letter of August 2o, 18?5 



Most Honored Gentleman 



I send you an entire collectiorr of letters, which developed? 

 by and byy t first, before I recelved your shipment, fchen, when I wan- 

 ted to ans wer your esteeraed letterr t and now, because I) und erstand, that 

 I must expedite the letter*, as otherwise I: would have to be silent 

 for one or two weeks> Tomorrow I look forward to a Visit, which- our 

 Institution arranges, and will be busy for several days. . Then, lite- 

 rary labors are waiting for me, which I will take the liberty to com- 

 municate wvbh you^ then a short trip to Muiken, in nearby Prussise,, 

 where I have much to collectfand gladly inform myself t what acfcxiscacxfc 

 is in culture in Europe at least on the continent..I have been coli- 

 ecting for a lon.<r time, to have in the herbarium and frora seed' every- 

 thing that grows in europaean gardens of trees and shrubs, whatever 

 exists; the items may have whatever names they carry. In the meantime 

 I started to gather from the europaean countries seeds and herbariunr 

 specimens- new fronr-wild localities, f rom America, Sibiria, China, Ja- 

 pan, hopefully I will be successful. . However, I can not think of ex- 

 tending my method. of examinatiorr to all genera, as long as I im not 

 finished with Pinus . But, I have worked so much of Que£us and Salix , . 

 that I am on a scentVJust as the imvestigator of languages must de = 

 termine from words, where a lang^ge belongs^regardless if it has 

 literature or not, and if if he can speak it, , so the Nature stu- 

 d entfernst deterine each natural object fronr - f ractionall pieces-, and 



can not excuse himself with incomplete specimens. My path is a wide 

 one, but had hundred others in a hundred years worked in that manner-, 

 all of us together would have advanced, whereas now the difference 

 between amateurism and science is hard to see, and, on the other 

 side, the hair-spli Jrting labors of specialists spread more dark - 



ness than light. I hope to prove to 



some time my gratitude for 



