St. Petersburg, Feb. 10, 1880 



Dear FriendJ 



Today I gave to the book-seller Watson here a box with 525 species of dried 

 plants for you. Mr. C. Maximowicz will give a special report about this within 

 the next few days. 



This box is being sent the very slow way, through Smithsonian Institution 

 to you, I would like to have sent it to you from here prepaid from Hamburg, but 

 I fear that the forwarding agent would issue a large invoice, and therefore it 

 is going post-paid, via the known shipping route. 



Too bad that one cannot ship prepaid mail from here, that would be the 

 fastest and most practical. In autumn you will receive the continuation of the 

 Turkustän. if you can then give me a convenient method of shipping to you, then 

 I will gladly send it post-paid to any German port. 



I hope that you are hale and hearty, now, also my good old friend Brandt 

 has died, it is constantly- becoming more lonely. My continuation of Descriptiones 

 I will send shortly. 



Your* 



E. Regel 



P.S. The question has been asked of me, so please let me know at your convenience, 

 if you advise the emigration of a German family, or of a young German rnaa t®, St. 

 Louis, under preserat conditions, or if you find it disagreeable. 



The father of the family has served in an accounting department and would go 

 alone at the beginning, previously he had been in a mine as an engineer, the 

 young man is an engineer. 



