St. Petersburg, June 25, 1858 



Dr. G. Engelmann, Frankfurt 



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With the steamship leaving today, you will receive from the management of the 

 Imperial Botanical Garden another 28 specimens of Cuscuta and 7 specimens of Euphorbia , 

 which together with the plant s which you received earlier, y#u will again please return 

 to the Garden, before your departure. Since you are thinking of establishing your 

 home in the United States in the near future, the management would like to make a 

 request of you, respected doctor, the fulfillment of which, with the scientific 

 association which you will enter with the botanists residing there, should not be 

 difficult. It is naraely the Library of the Garden, $he copiousness of which is 

 probably known to you, is poor in writings of American botanists, namely, their smaller 

 works which have appeared in the Silliman's Journal, etc., are missing, because they 

 have not gotten into the trade. If it should be possible for you to obtain separate 

 prints, from which the local Journals could acquire some for the Library, either 

 from the authors, or from the book dealers, the management would be greatly 

 indebted to you. From the enclosed index you can see what our library possesses 

 in works by Asa Gray and Torrey. It is namely the smaller articles, dispersed in 

 Journals which we are missing. 



Director, Baron von Küster 

 Librarian and Secretary von Berg 



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