^ — Dr. E . Purkinye March 18,1876 



to come to America, t her e will always a gain for science,if one oomes 

 closer to a species c .. I do not even know for sure, if a schocbl of Po- 

 re stry will be establishedr and in which State or in several States at 

 the same time. Because with one Forestry School in America, the stu - 

 dents would have a long trip to the schooll and the teachers would have 

 a hard time to form ideas about the conditions< in all those States,, 

 specially, as vacation trips would not be of much use, One cannot go 

 from Missouri to the Sierra Nevada as from Weisswasser to Tyroli.. But 

 by and byvone could get something together in the country?where one 

 bowls without kingV as your compatriot says,to see oneself and to teach 

 otheis to see. . However, I have probably little Chance to come to Arne - 

 rica und er even halfway acceptable conditions, as I am married and 

 have 2 children. If I were Single, I would 1 nt ask much-, and would have 

 gone across the water, as, in the worst case, not much can happen to 

 one but that one pe^ishes. Thus it is dif f icult.as I convinced myself, 

 when the question was^ to come to East India-. The gentlemen needed' food 

 for tigers and fever>,an<£ though they would have paid much,, it is, if 

 possible, even raore expensive in East India than in America, and it 

 would not have been enough for the familyv,and furthermore they did notr 

 favor a pension for the widowyand, thus, the case aborted... Indeed, you 

 will have in America enoughr competent people (though not such an over- 

 abundance of learned hunger suf ferers^ as in Europe)iwho have the advan- 

 tage, that they know the land already^ and you will have even specia - 

 lists for plant physiology, microscopy, , soil chemistryv and metereologyv 

 But should t^ere be any prospectito get a position with only a halfway/ 

 decent income, so that one can live and educate the children-, with the 

 opportun! ty to traveli , and not being so over^wroughtf, that there is no 

 time for private Studie s-, I ask to think of me.. 



