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kiss ray hand — it is the custom of the country, disconcerting 
to • stranger. The pool little tilings stand Up and saiko lit- 
tie well learned speeches. An occasional one lias to turn her 
©yes to the ceiling to remember the words in which she has so 
evidently been drilled. Ther© is one family of three children, 
father killed, mother died later, adopted by uncle. The eld- 
est is a very bright hoy hut nearly blind. He was treated 
free, but there was no way to get hi» glasses—the Winston- 
Gary money provided them. The uncle and aunt ©am© to say 
their thanks, and to go through the embarrassing ternd-Has- 
Ing huiimesa. The men all do it, the women say "Ich kuss© 
die Hind©," but thanlc heaven they do not do it. Dr. 
Zahlbruelroer showed n© two sumptuous work© published by the 
."us etas in the '70's ©r '80's. I enclose titles. The liaxi- 
itilian Raise naoli Brazil ia a tig quarto, and the Ar$l&#8 is 
folio. Both have gorgeous hand-colored plates. Dr. 2 says t 
they ere sebr iel ten. They have ten copies left. Dr. 2 
wishes he could exchange these for things the Museum needs. 
He particularly wants the Gray Herbarium Species Index up to 
date. The last received was fascicle 61, before the war. 
The library has nothing of the American scientific papers 
since 19.14. I told Mm I would try to «afce up as couplet© a 
set as I could from duplicates when I returned. They have 
American Journal of Botany. X am proud of our Bot. soo. , 
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for the poor Austrian* had no Money to pay for it. They It^fc 
Botanical Gazette, Torrey Bulletin, Torreya and all the 
others. It was only the Sept, Agriculture things I said I 
... . . 
would try to get for there. The exchange is so cruelly 
against them that it is out of the question for theff to buy 
