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St. Louis,, Julfr 23, 1868 



Dear Engelmannt 



Tövlt letter of June 25 fron Berlin just reeeived, and, as you are 

 very impatient, that my replies will reach you in the best case in 6 

 weeks^ I write to you today yet,from which you may see the slowness 

 of our correspondence«. 



You won f t have anything from Flegel in Leipzig as yet,because 

 such sbipments are always slow. . Thus, I mail at the same time with 

 this letter a copyvof our » l Transactions H to your brother in Frank- 

 furt. . 



The packing and shipping of the skullis has been done by Mr. San- 

 der-,, Thus, I do not know, if the expected bufallo skull s were enclo- 

 sedi and know- only, that the Academy reeeived few.. The tubes of your 

 microscope as well as the oculars I could have sent you already a 

 week aero through mr. Kimm,if I had reeeived your letter then<>. Mr.. 

 Kimm did depart last Wednesday with bis wife on the 8th of July/ f rom 

 here and hoped to be in N.Y. .on Friday,and already Saturday to saili. 

 I gave him a packet of your letters to take along. He wanted to te- 

 legraph you from Bremen to Berlin- (per Adr. Prof. BraunKin order 

 to communicate the eventual itinerary. He plans to go to Marienbad 1 



I do not dare to send you the through the mail* we must 



therefore wait for an opportunity.and report all what I had mentio- 

 ned already in my last letter,. Our Summer up to now is distinguished 

 through ruinous dryness< with high degrees of heat, several times irr 

 the last days 100' or near it. Yesterday specially a depressing heat 

 of 100. 5'» Heatstroke exctfnples are now frequent,and little childrerr 

 die most of brainsiekness (menengitis, etc.). The mortality has inr - 

 creased signif icantly this month' and the praxi s is nore active. On 

 my country- place, in contrast, life is endurable with a little air. 

 And the nights are always agreable,xtfhereas they are intolerable inr 

 the city. Unf ortunately, I can not get down often enough. My wife 





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