St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 22,l8?6 



My dear colleague 



I was very happy, to find your letter of Sept. 20 on return 

 frora an absence of several months. You had|either the cacti or me|for~ 

 gottenj, or included me in the hat red of Germans, which is supposed to 

 be ström snecially with those ^orr in the Alsace. But, all that is 

 past, and in your letter you show your seif entirely as the old one. 

 The news of Pfersdorffs death was for me surprising and equally pain- 

 ful i I had become quite fond of this simple and. studious nan,when I 

 got aquainted with hin 8 years hack. 



I pro through your letter in sequence« Yes, let ne have of cac- 

 tus seeds and ^ruit whatever you can; they will be of much value for 

 my stndies. Did you receive the few seeds, which I sent to you 1-2 

 years azo through Pfersdorff ? What you teil me about germination of 

 old cactus seed at your colleague at Belleville, was of much interest 

 to me a^d I will try to gather seeds for him; No, Harn. phellosn. is 

 no place in cultivation. 



Your desire to obtain the entlre cactus literature is quite 

 praiseworthy and a raighty step in the preparation of a study in denth.. 

 As far as I could, I did the same» though literary help is not easi- 

 ly obtainable in. this out o^ the wav place • In Europe however I did 

 copy a lot. What I could not do f and what I would have liked to do,you 

 mav be able to acoom-nlish t n.amely to have all illustrations, which you 

 cannot obtain yourself , conied. 



Barmann Flumier I own myself - what you teil rae about it,is very 

 interesting,and the more so, as I have a frlend,who is a geologist in 

 San Domingo, and. who is inte^ested in cacti, so that he has already 

 made a small collection for me, when he passed through the peninsula 

 of southern California, and carried. it along on his mula in a small 

 cigar box. Of course, it is only a little,but shows, that there ex - 

 ist still many unknown forms.. 



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