St. Louis »Missouri 



Sept. 1^,1865 



Dr. P.A. Weber t medicine major, etc. 

 My dear Sir 



I was very happy to reeeive your most interesting and pro- 

 mising communication of July 2*.- a few days ago. It was, as you see 

 very long on its my and I fear that my answer wont reach you much 

 before the end of October. Will it find you still at St. Louis Poto- 

 si ? You military gentlemen are often subject to such sudden chan- 

 Pies that one can not calculate with any certainty o^ the future.- 

 much less than we other poor mortals. 



So you are a friend of Mr. Chechinger who together with 

 Frof. Schimper was very kind to me during my Short sojou.fn in Stras- 

 burg. 7 or 8 years ago. and Alex Braun, my friend of nearly ^0 years 

 Standing, and constant correspondent . where did you get acquainted with 

 him ?But it did not need any kind of introduetion, where you had the 

 most influential of all, the interest of science itself, and your 

 zeal in. the study of the botany and esuecially of my favorites, the 

 Cacti, to recommend you. Equal interests and pursuitsj^ake quick friendsl 



I write to you in English because it is more familiär to me 

 than the French,but miprht pe^haps have done better to write in Ger- 

 man, which lanjraaßre fron your name and from your ref erring to Braun 

 and Buchinger must be familiär to you;but as I was not quite certain 

 of it,I prefer to address yiy in English» 



I had expected that the French expedition in Mexico would be 

 fruitful in the exploration of the resources of the country, its na- 

 tural history,etc f just as such military expeditions have opened to 

 the world of Science Egypt, Älgeria and other countries - but hither- 

 to I had not heard of any scientific results - so your letter was an 

 unexpected and almost abandoned good fortune for me t 



When the cacti of our southern frontier got into my hands.some 



Copyright reserved 



