Ree. Feb. 8 



Bitche, November 18,, 1849 



M^ost Honored Mr. Engelmamr, , 



The bearer of this letter*. Mr. Diehl, public notary in Pirna - 

 sens (Palatinat)i who resides here since the insui^ction in the Pala- 

 tinatf; travels to the United States, asking me for a letter of recom- 

 mendatiorr. Though I do not know, if you will remember ine, for it was 

 a long time back that I had the pleasure of Petting aquainted witfr 

 %pp&r - r believe, it was in 1827, when you came to Zwei brücken withr my 

 friends Alexander Braun and Karl ! Schimper, I nevertheless, use this 

 occasion, to renew our aquaintanc e. ■ What causes Mr. Diehl to go to 

 America, he will teil jtou himself; he is an honorable man, who f se 

 word you can believe. I send you through this oportunity several|pa- 

 per-covered books of my Archives de la Flore de France et dl Alle - 

 magne and some small botanical essays..I am sorry, not having a copy/ 

 of my "Flora der Pfalz 11 (Flora of the Palatinate, E. D. ) here.. otherrdse 

 I would send this too. I have one left in Zweibrucken t ,but Mr Diehl! 

 departs already tomorrow, and , thus the-re is not enou^rh time, to have 

 it get he^e. I, once, sent you through the Services of my brother^ in 

 Deidesheim 'for your Academy a copyjbf the Ist Centuriunr * (apparently, 

 the Ist 100 copies, E.D. ) of my Flora Gallica et Germaniae, exsiccata, , 

 herbier des planten rares en critique etc..,and would have sent you 

 the following Centuria (12 have been published), if I had reeeived) 

 a confirmation of receipt ? I do not know, if you reeeived it;but 

 learned only, that my brother- in Deidesheim- reeeived- thereafter the 

 diploma as member of your academy^ whereas I reeeived nothing.. 



If you send sometime again Compositae to my brother in Deides- 

 heim-! would be pleased, if you would enclose some american Oroban - 

 chae, e.g. Obolaria, . Schultzia Rafinesqul. I still wofck on a mono - 

 s-raph of that family. 



Accept the assurance of my most oustanding esteera. of which I 



