act, with 210 intermissions. -Today Dr. Johann Vetter can® in to 
see me with a' let of Festucas. He has described several new ones, 
all so close to % rubra and F. ovina that we would never think of 
aaMns separate sjecies of them. They are so hard up for new species 
in this worked-over land that they name uvery little difference. How 
oyer, I did net tell him that his species looked all alike to so. 
fiinoa he has published and is going to publish store I hare askedfor 
duplicates in exchange for American Fatness. He is going to give ne 
separates of his papers, and I shall have to find a copy ef "Piper's 
Festnca somewhere for him. His specimens are excellent, 1 have 
I have finished Holloa, Tomorrow I ara going to the American consul, 
German consul, Cook, etc., and get that off ny mind. I certaiSly ap- 
preciate being allowed to work as I wish. I average fully 9 hours a 
day, and worked two Sundays, If I had to keep their hours 1 would 
have to stay all sumtser. 1 got a beautiful duplicate ef Antliochloa 
lepida from South America, not the type , but a second coll eot ion. It 
was known from type only, wasn't it. This little thine was an indet. 
-Sunday, April 23,-1 have written '.Prof . Haokol.that I will go to 
Attersee Thursday and leave Sunday. That will make Just 5 weeks here. 
I don't think I ever got so much done in 5 weeks in "my life. This I 
Sunday I quit about 1, because I had promised to 'go out to the Swei- 
gelds in Klosterneubers this afternoon, frau Schneider tried to phone 
'them but' could not get connection. As it was ay last Stmday I went 
anyway. Little Rudolf and his father was® visiting his parents in 
Grats, where there is milk to be had for children. Frau. 3 and her 
sister welcomed rae most warmly, 'and there 'was more of th© Handktisso 
business. It is mighty hard to stand. -I hear that Br. Rose who 
has collected in Mexico is curator at Munich. : "e had letters from 
hla before the war. I shall offer trop American grasses in exchange 
for fragments. I am' in Afiropyron, the last tier of cases and undis- 
tributed still to do. I have used a lot of time naming misplaced sttif: 
