Hilgard, Theodore Charles 

 1846 f July kth 

 Belleville, Illinois 



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Bellville f k July l8k6. 



Dear Doctor, 



I just received your letter and since I have some tirae now I shall answer 

 immediately.-I shall dry the oak specimens; I shall also try to dry the Frasera 

 root specimens; in any event, I shall dry the fruit specimens of Frasera. Now 

 regarding the fruit s; you wrote me I should collect a large branch of the flower 

 panicle. When they were fl owering I thought "what does a large branch mean". I 

 first took a whole Cluster of k large branches, but I found I could not get them 

 into the right format. HuJ I lud Lü itf'lMke the tops only, I would have needed 120 

 Frasera plants in bloom of which I could not have had found half. Furthermore, there 

 were too few Fraseraplants in bloom. By the way, I left a supporting leaf on every 

 tranch and if one is missing, it must have come off during the transport.- I first 

 intended to pack the plants just as you wröte, but then I thought it might rain. 

 Had I taken larger branches of Frasera, I woul5/nave been able to treat the Frasera 

 lriHx 8 so careful. If I find enough Frasera fruit specimens, I shall give the branches 

 their right shape and height. Please write me exactly how the specimens must be . . . 

 Please write me explicitly and also when I can start to dry the oak specimens. I 

 believe, the Frasera specimens are now advanced enough so that one can pick them. 

 Sincerely yours, 

 Th. C. Hilgard 



NB: I should appreciate it very much if you could send me some insect pfns, I have 

 a large number of insects and small bugs and don't like to break them with an 

 ordinary pin. 





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