Ree. March 12,187? 

 Ans. April 8,1878 



Weisswasser in Bohemia 



Februar^ 19,, 1877 



Most Honored Sir ! 



About a month ago I mailed to you by bookpost a dissertatiorr 

 about 2 kinds of pines in central Europe. This was the only botanicali 

 Job, which I could coraplete in the past year. As to your pines, I' ex- 

 pect to send to you preparations- of all species and localities, whiefr 

 I have completed^because I can not get to do the drawings, and I must 

 postpone the preparations also until the feaster vacation. Reichenbach 

 in Hamburg sent rae needles of a pine from the strobus-group, which is? 

 new to nie. -As he would not give to me the point of locatiorr (he wan- 

 ted to feel my toothl^ (a German expression for H he wanted to test me lf 

 E.D. ) I do not know if it is a new Japanese or Chinese; by the way, I 

 have also not yet seen Koraiensi s. . The english Pinus has only one 

 VoS\>p <^äaxA/^ , which besides it occurs only with oocarpa and one of 

 the nut-pines (I believe albicaulis ) . „ which. by the way, are not to be 



from Willkomm,, and shall send you preparations; Up to now I have not 

 compared it carefullyy but believe, that it is lambertiana . Your 

 work about Oaks interested rae rauch, I miss in it arabigua . discolor , Oli - 

 va ef orrai s. and tinetoria you did mentiorr but by authority of DC, doubting^ 

 it..I think, that you will know better than DG if this species- is good.. 

 Is there no difference in the wood, bark, growtfr, buds ? r . If I could getf 

 grafting sprouts, fresh acorns of araerican species, this would be raost 

 welcome; also herbariuirr sreeimens , even smair portionsr would be most 

 desired. . Of course I cannot beg until I have sent you the preparations,, 

 and that will be in the best case not before April!. The forest problenr 

 into which I have entered, carries rae into ever deeper vortices. I have 

 f inishedr 1 working the rain fluetuations in North Araerica between 1800 

 and 1867 ; I work now on the river stages of the Elbe, which I am prepa- 

 ring ßrraphically, naraely the dafrly stages of everv year from 1817 to 



mistaken with a strobus-pine. . IT have now also reeeived 



