forei.^ periodicals cad books. I have wr3t*#n to Br, Hills- 
pangh about the laxisdlian liaise book and Airoidae, I hope that 
t!i@ :„'i®ld can "©xebang©" some American *©n©y for these books. 
..Dr. 2 said *$**f<jfc«j' not a kam-ay@rkaiif©:n s -they probably bay© 
their own md tape to ooaforso to. — --Another :?©&d® R©*©r 
is out with aoro les speoias. H© is invading yomr Sohmtsgebi©* 
now, naming Ariatida®. Dr. Z baa our opinion of M@s. Ha said 
it first- 1 agreed, I hav© add© a tb© Aworican species to ay 
S©a list.- I am nearly through Andropogena®, I am impres- 
sed with tb© discipline a type concept force a on a systematisi, 
- hat en advantage I bad not thought ©f. Backel evidently 
got bewildered with bis Sorghum and some ©f tb© other tbing® 
be dtaaped into one species and then divided and subdivided. ! 
"bat is evidently tb© type specimen will have a different 
combination of names in Kaekel's writing. I hav© noted down 
all these tilings. I wonder if Clements and Hall's scheme for 
reducing many naaes to subspeeiflc and vari©tal rank would not 
lead to similar confusion. Saab nam® bangs on e whole series 
of related names,. 1 bought a bunch ©f yellow pansies witb 
pussy-willow background for Frau Scbnelder.'s little feast . 
Hi ax«©ll©nz tfHU Dr. H©inricb feelherr von Hand©l-Maa^©tti 
was bar© to dinner, tb© first time I hav© ©at«n witb tb© fam- 
ily. (X*© pansies cost 500 kronen, about 8 cents. Torn oouldnSt 
look at a pansy for that in Washington. ) Dr* H-M was in China 
5 years, r ©turning in 1919. 3© was in Ttajnan and other south- 
\?©st provinces. 3© speaks Tory good English, but the family 
understand only German, so the conversation was in Gorman mostly. 
H « is v*T interesting. Ho has been in Mesopotamia and in Asia 
Minor. 1 saw bis Asia collections in the berbariu, here. I 
asked if b© collected grasses in Cb ina, H© did but most of 
