Ree., June 20 (in Etirope l) Odesheim June 16, l8*K) 



Möst honored Sir Colleague ! 



Yesterday I reeeived your esteemed letter, dated from Speier,, 

 as well as the diploma, the Statutes and a letter from the secreta- 

 ry of the Society, also a package with seeds properly, and rejojrced 

 much about it..For the present I ask you to thank the Academy in my? 

 name,and to give assurance, that J I shall always be prepared to be of 

 use f or it+, as much as I raay be able.. 



It was not right, that you did not Visit Pie. You not only 



would have aecorded me through a visit + a *rreat scientific enjoymentr,, 



but could have through 5 special news about my transatlanticr friends^ 



done me a ßrreat favor..My large collection of ClcV;or iae, and my signi- 



ficant garden of Cichoriae^ would habe pleased you well;. 



Fy June 23 I shall come to Mainz and Frankfurt to partieipate 

 reeeive 



in the Gutenberg festivall and shall jat that oportunity fcackK the seeds 

 which you have promised me,. Could you not arrange to come to this 

 famous secular festival ??T can be met there between June 23 - 2? at 

 my uncles, Brothers Schultz, laterBlaich in Mainz. In memory of Gu - 

 tenberg, this ; emaneipator* of hiimanityv I shall publi Lse a new Spe- 

 eles, found by Büppel in Ethiopia, as Gutenbergia.lt belongs to the 

 Vernoniaceae. I have presentlyv over 100 Syvantheae f of whiclf 57 «rane« 

 collected b^ ':, Sebinger in Ethiopia around Adoa (should this be 

 Adis Adaba ? E.D.) are already destindd for the travel club.. Rispel 1 s 

 Clchoriaceae are in the hands of Fresenius and myself , having had it 

 reprinted last December in the Senkenberg of Geneva (? r E.D.Kand my; 

 dissertation is at your Service, in case you do not have the Senken- 

 berg edition. 



Has Torey f s and Gray's Flora already been entirely edited 7? 

 What does it cost. - Of Torey and Schweinitz I saw many north-ameri- 

 cans in Martius Gerber. . The Flora by Hooker complete at Ledebour in 



