Ree. May 12 

 Ans, May 16 



Canonbury Square, London KR.. 

 April 24, 1861 



Esteemed Sir Colleague 



Unf ortunately fate degreed, that we did not get aquainted 

 personally, but I may look you up hopef ullyv perhaps in the nextt 

 year..What drives me to wrlte to you, is the request.to find for 

 me a speeimen, regardless how incomplete, of your not describecß 

 Chilopsis glutinosa ,Engl,, in Wislizen 10. ednot.I am at present 

 revising its genus^and would not have bothered you f if Asa Gray had 

 not written, that he did not have a speeimen of your plant, thus f , 

 could not furnish anything. . 



i; for my part, I have let the cacti fall', if not in the 

 future everything will become so unitelligible as the hieroglyphs 

 were before the finding of the Rosati stone«. 



IT you get something worthwhlle to know,please send me In- 

 formation- for the ( name of a publication, E. D. ) Kreplands ????, a 

 few lines will always be most welcome.. 



All Europe wonders about the spirit in the United States-.. 

 Spain takes Santo Domingo and the speculators in' the Westindies 

 want to try to grab Braunsville, if it should get to land figh- 

 ting with you, so that nothing is missing. But t when the Civil War 

 is over, the partieipants will learn to their damage,that they will 

 be in as bad a spot with their cotton- as Russia was after the Krim 

 War with their hemp and tallow. The hemp had come from East India,, 

 and was found better and stronger than the Russian,, the tallow 

 was replaeed by plant juices of african Nagor and asiatics from 

 Elaeis and Cocos. But, one hopes here, that it will not come to 

 the wor t and that is also my wish. 



With colleag^ual (no such wordj E.D. ) greetings, 



Most devoted Your Berthold Seemann- 



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