5 Dr. E. Purk yn je M ay 27. l87*f 



are necessary for a §ublicatiorr ( ' a long: intertwined sentence, which 

 is not yett completed) ) , the minister told me to come to Vienna r ,to 

 bring my preparations*, lecture about thenr? he would make efforts,, 

 when he sees, thattll created something^ new and had worked well!, . what 

 would perhaps bring honor to Austria and the discipline of forestryy 

 botanyy to bring to these projects the highe st" recognitiorr and Pub- 

 licity«, (this sentence is 19 typeed lines long t!! E.D..) He direcrted 

 a ministerial Council}, Dr. Lorenz, , to keep the matter und er survey- 

 ance.and to correspond with rae..r sent now to Dr. Lorenz from Weiss— 

 wasser a collection- of about 80 looalities of europaean pines- (ex - 

 clusive of Cembra and Pence) and asked hinrto ßret them done in Vienna 

 without rayseif , further, if they could not be fixed for printing^ 

 easier through photographyv rather than by drawing-, also, if one could 

 not use sun-microscopes'- f or demonstrations to a larger publice, be - 

 cause letting a lot of people look into a miscroscope is hardly feasibl 

 In the meantime I started with the encapsulating> of preparations of 

 american and asiatic pinesv» spruce», firs, Lärchen, etc. . which I have 

 here by several thousand s-, but only open on glass sheets.moistened by 

 glycerine,lying in löw drawers.. 



In June I shall probably travel to Vienna^ and if I am lucky,, 

 I will send you everything of the preparations of your pines,,unless 

 the minister has other plans r and sends me in August to the botanical 1 

 congress in Paris, so that I may open my junk there. In that case, I 

 would use the time until August to encapsule still more preparations,. 

 respectlvely to prepare new ones, as I have many firs, Taxus needles 

 of which I have not yet raade cuts, obviously europaean, Chinese,, 

 Japanese, himalaian, and only few american, as I have not yet asked 

 your contributiorr f or these , as I do not dare so now, as I left you 

 already hanging with the pines*. Besides, I will be entirely occupied 

 with the ad justing of the complete preparations until August.. 



