Ree, München Nov. 3 

 ans. Nov. 10 



Leipzig Oct. 31^5?" 



Möst honored Priend 



I was glad to learn fron your letter of the 2?th f that you are 

 still in Germane and want to express my heartiest thsnks first f or 

 your efforts to obtain fron Lara, von Tendier U.A.. (sie E.D..) . . 



In refigrd to the herbarium of Bernhard!, I do not hesitate, 

 to def initely answer- in the affirmative your question. if it was 

 w in good order'*. One can in thls oollection find very quickly every 

 plant with the help of the catalogue, whic*|enumerates the Speeles,, 

 whichjfor a oollection contalning 30,000 species, may ce~tainly be 

 considered as a proof of the general conditlorr«The raass of speci - 

 mens, their condition, you will find the san.e throurhout the entire 

 collection as the observations with the cuscutae, which you had the 

 occaslon to make. 



At the death of Frof. Bernhardl the value of the oollection 

 under consideration was esatblished ( verbatim transl, "taxed" , E.B. ) 

 by Prof. Kunze (? E.D.) at 1,000 Thaler (the German word which became 

 "Dollar** in the U.S.A#. E.D.) a> n d this price was maintained up to 

 now with the remarlithat other o^^ers should be considered« But, as 

 it is your explicit wish to leärnn the lowest price, I have been 



authorized by the univeristy Bernardi to write to you,. 



that he is Willing todeliver the oollection for 600 Thaler in the 

 conviction, that your off er, in case you want to exanine tha collec- 

 tion nore caref ully, can not be far from this asklng price; With 

 this Mr. Bernhardi stipulates, that the cost of packing - the ool- 

 lection- was packed in 31 large boxes when transported fron Erfurt 

 to Leipzig -should be char^ed to the purchaseiv 



It will be a pleasure for me,to explain for some of 



the Phanerogames the labels,in order to explain the determinatiorr 

 of formsit 



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