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go early ami stay late. Ho told no that 1 Bight take pieces. He cane 
arouna while I ?/as in Dirieria . 1 showed Ma a piece I had just taken. 
He told me to take aft entire plant when it could he spared without 
spoiling the specimen. You can imagine ho ,7 I enjoyed ays«alf. That nss 
list works beautifully. ' Miss Mies' work is a wonderful tiiae-saver. 
I. underscore in red 'the words ©«-%he~£ae that agree a.-.-X'.ctly with the 
data on the label, add any other data, and then have room for notes. 
The bss list is numbered and I give the specimen or packet the number 
in the list and can write labels when I get hack. — ■ — I lost my way 
coming home last night and asked several people the my. 'Then I could 
not understand the answer I said "dankeschdn* 1 and went on and tackled 
sob© one else. I worked till nearly 6, so it was dark he fore I reached 
hose. Tonight I got astray again—you have to go around several pub- 
lic buildings that block .tfce way (like our treasury) • I asked a 
young Fraulein "Wo 1st Josefstatlerstrasae?" and she euid "Do you 
speak English?" It was pretty Ttatohy, but it aoiusded so good. She 
was going that way and we walked together. She had studied English 
hut had had no chance to use it. ?rau Schneider's brother speaks a 
very little English and dear little Versa can say :! Bow do you do?" 
and ''Good night, sleep well." 1 got to the end of Rettheellift 
today. I use a copy of lacked f s Andrepogeneae , besides the ess list. 
There are a lot of Ined. names, and some varieties are not referred 
now as they ware originally published fas they at® on the ass list.) 
I have not finished 3 cases yet and they© are 39, he si do y a table 
piled high with Hacked grasses net distributed, and sorted into gen- 
era only. In the duplicates "Dr. 3. wrote about th or© are few Hacked 
grasses he says. Wi can have a set of the duplicates, hut I aia A thr©ugh 
the herbarium itself first. Many of Hacked' a types are in the Vienna 
herb, not Hackel herb. This my he the ca e oftener with A E dropogoneae 
than the rest. H a ekel probably worked at this herh. when he lived 
at St. ?olt«n and was preparing his Monograph, for all Hackel did 
