2 Dr. E. . Pul^n^ Feb. 19, , 18?? 



and 1876 - the daily temperatures and the daily rairr f or all stations 

 of the territory. . Each year is differentj, sometime it is rain, soraetirae 

 only thaw-weather f influencing the high levels of months and years. 

 The apparent decrease of water levels in our centuryvare caused by 

 a deepening of the river bed, which was undertaken for the steamer- 

 ships. That in the last Century the waterlevels amounted to a 20 year 

 medium between 8 f and ? f , whereas in the present between ? f and 6 f is 

 based on this: in the last Century the medium- was established each 

 year by the highefet and lowestlevel. If one does likewise in our cen- 

 turyvthey are equally high. .There were by the way in 1516 and 15l7,aSF 

 show by numbers -chiseled in to rock, , as low levels as in 1842 and 187^,, 

 because the bed had not been e^oded as deeplyvwith much lower amounts 

 of water-masses.. Besides I have worked rauch about the question of soll' 

 exhaustion and ^contra ape-men and Darwinism . I would like very much' to 

 send you my publications, but have the few copies, which can be had at 

 all, , deposited in Vienna and Berlin with people who are trying to 

 push me (the word "poussieren" is not used in German any raore,,and is 

 based on the French "pousser , to push or force,E,D. ). As soon as those 

 gentlemen will have come to the conviction, that there is nothing to 

 be done for me, they will return them, what should happen soon.. I do 

 not deceive myself , that my way of always swiraming against' the current,, 

 will not gain me any friends<, at least not for around 10 to 20 years, , 

 when it will be too late«,.. In America there are now thoughts of schools 

 of Forestry- we received for this purpose a letter from New York, as- 

 king from us as from all other Institut! ons about details of a curri- 

 culum. But our d$rector has not sent anythin/? as yet.. From a bohemian 

 manufacturer, who was in Philadelphia, we recieved cones of P. lamberti - 

 ana f ,of double length ofthe cultivated ones, which I had already,, 

 i.e. of 18 " length, and one as large as Coulteri . and a large cone 



