s? 
— — — X arare sponsible for what will be all increased gas "bill her®. Th© 
room 1 work in bow adjoins Dr.Z's room and Is used by Br, Rechinger, 
Frauloin Ecks® (herb, clerk) and tho nan who does recording and the like. 
TMs great room, about the sis® of our throe put together., is ©inge- 
h®izt "by a "kleines Ofen," a gas burner about as big as w® would no® to 
"boil a kettle. Yet this ifettl© thins doos make an appreciable differ- 
once in th© temperature. They all quit at Z o'clock, and. I am alone till 
5:30 or 5:45. Th® gas is. left "burning for me. I turn it off an hour 
or so hefor® 1 quit. I would much rather werk out in th® hero, hut the 
pleurisy has not altogether l@ft no, so I took advice and came into 
th® "heated" room, where with woolen Jacket and sweater on top of that I 
work in comparative warmth. Will you pleas® send Dr. Z $20 out of ay 
money to reimburse th® herbarium for th® gas hurned on ay account, th® 
labels I hare used, etc. Please make it sound official. 1 told 
you I asked Dr. Hand el ^Maz set t i if. he had any grasses from China to 
exchange or sell. He cane in today and said he had taken out the 
grasses and would like to soil them. The only way they can hope to 
publish the rosults of his 5 years' work is through money raised in this 
way., "hero are only ahout 100 he said, he certainly neglected grasses. 
I® was in Yunnan and other parts @f China not visited hy you, I shall 
pay him, get a receipted hill, and the herb can buy then or net as it 
pleases. We shall have th© grasses anyway. Dr. Swingle is so inter- 
ested in China, maybe he will raise the -amount. I shall' ship then with 
the collections from here. 1 as. paying 15 cents a sheet. Please don't 
tell m© I aa" exceeding my authority" —I never had any authority to buy 
plants, but if I can find any poor soul who has Lebipaxm, Stub el , He, 
Glasiou, feberbauer, or ether things w® .need— grasses, I nean — who 
wants American. dollars for them ,1*11 buy then too. When on© saves for 
years to go to Europe isn't on® supposed to spend money! I an going 
to try to find out from Haokel how wo may bo cone his successors in reee 
