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from 8:30 till 6, or later if Ir Ross was working later. 1 Is ft r$f 
Attar Bee collections here for for the diener to dry, with some 
money to pay him. These together with some Brazil coll actions I 
named {ret*jmed by Mes unbeetiramt ) and was allowed to take dupli- 
cates from, will go to you through Smithsonian 3Sa®$*2lgti I took 
photographs Wider diffioalties. It wag so dark yesterday 1 qui t . 
Today it kept changing from dark to light so rapidly I don't "knew 
whether oaf not i guessed right. While it mis raining yesterday 
morning I wont to D«ltz, the hool-: leale*. Ehoy tela me in Vien- 
na that Umaieh was the place to set the "books we need. Baits 
did not have a single en© of the hocks on my list. But I bought 
a hook ©f "botanical travels in Madaflj&»e&r for the Hacked s. In 
a his bookstore (not scientific} I got two more for then., one 
oy 1 < ^^ocu/t, liiiiiTisii. oQxxffC or f vut? • owiiox f ww*^®* i-qv }j 
ular for the Haokel * a taste,' i- fear, on the West Indies. I had 
no time to search the shelves, and I know nothing of Qerman lit- 
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"hook'' means a novel, if you don it want a novel , you 11 
Hsbinadath Tagore . 1 didn't wftat- either, hut liaise bftaher . 2hen 
he offered me Baedeeker! let . knowing the s?e*a for fiction I load 
a hard time tell tog him I did not wanu thatr-er rJtlv-ngen , **» n as 
near as 1' could guuis. After finding: the two hooka aentien*4 for 
myself fthey ou$ht to introduce the ?i crXv system -in hook- 
stores, one nearly always has to wait on hir.self anyway ) 1 asked 
if they had American periodicals. ; "Aob , jay' he said, and handed 
mo"* To gue • "A oh, neia!" sagte ieh, that represented Aaericr.n 
Journalism in MUaish. 1 saw %t% Hersog several times . . Ho sd 
©aid that he had "been unable to send you the Bolivian grasses ho- 
oauso of the war. Hhe sets are with Henrard , as I understand , or 
were; what had bean intended for U. S. is to go to deneva (which 
