Ree. Sept. 17, 1875 Weisswasser in Bohemia 



August 22, 1875 



Most Honored Sir ! 



First my thanks for the new shipment , which is in Weisswasser 

 since to 20th, but which I reeeived only today* I had just written 

 to you, to excuse myself about not having sent in the results of my 

 examinations f ,and enclose the letter, which I" broke of ff, to whichbli,, 

 however, imraediately add something- in relation to your esteemed let- 

 ter,. I am going to examine sorae of the new shipment right awayy in 

 order to get cleared up about Taeda, , rigida ,, ponderosa , , and started 

 to make drawings of the earlier made preparations- of glabra- ,, mitis» , 

 Banksiana, contorta. to send you copies of these#.The species- are 

 well dif erentiated everr if they seem to be similar. As I do not yet 

 know the cones of glabra and mi tig, I must examine them most oriti- 

 cally^if they may not be 2- needle forms of a three-needle Speeles. 

 But I see,that, if I do not examnine everything that you sent, the 

 exam i.nation of specific original speeimens does not serve the purpose,, 

 because it is always possible, that 4 real species are hidden thereinr,, 

 I think I did not write about ponderosa , but it is really verp Im - 



portant to me,as is every species and formu. Only radiata is missing,, 



species 



unless this is a synonynrof another/sent by you I did believe,, that 

 I would finish with the Pinus this week<;but it was nor possible.. 

 For once, we had to hold examinations (bf students, E.D. )\ then,we 

 expect on August 28 the pupils of the Thanander Forest Academy, and 

 I had to get several items in the collections and in the herbariunr 

 in order. I could f nt evern send you my essay about fo^ests and rairr,, 

 as far as it has been printe<£ # , and will be able to do so only next 

 week;.as I must finish an article about Dryness and Floods,when the 

 Thanander people have left,, which I had be^un in the same Journal' 

 •♦Politik 11 of Prague. Of this article I hop to be able,to send you 

 all t .after it has been published; the earlier ones are out of print,. 



