swwat blood before I coiild think ©f ''i^-wrac." "Content" would liar® 
been %b« word I guess . I could understand feis French, he spok© slowly. 
2h® first thing ho did ms to send. a man for th® indets, a groat lot of 
thorn. ?aspalnm -ad Aristida did not appear for some time afterward. 
1 suppose you roeall that you aro not allowed to got thing® for your- 
s ©If. Ho said a ft or reading your lettor that I must get permission of 
the director to take spikelets. 1 thought I woifcld acquire merit hy 
naming up all these indets and put in a day on them, with angler h 
Prantl for genera I did not r ©cognise, lost of the American I namei 
specifically. (With the worry about ray trunk at the back of my head 
it was a relief to pet at theold job of naming grassos— mor® about ay 
trunk ansn . } Among th® indets was a little pile of Raddi* s Brasilian 
grass's* , indet l I named them up by Eaddi. Of Raddia brasiliensis (no 
doubt about it, it agroos exactly) there were two full sheets. I 
showed them to Prof. Bampinini and asked if 1 might take a piece that 
could easily be spared. I would kayo to get permission of th© director. 
Ttm could I see the director? He is not at the herbarium. I did 
not catch where ho is if ho told m®. Prof.P was polite, diplomatically 
polite. It was mighty hard after the blessed kindliness of th© Ger- 
mans. And I had spent a precious day naming up their things— and these 
valuable Raddi grasses were so little to them that they had lain all 
those years and years unnamod, and now. I, had mad® them useful by naming 
by Raddi* s work, Bampinini refused m® a little piece. You can realise 
how difficult it has been to \?©rk raider the circumstances. The Raddi 
wore th® only fairly good specimens and they had no data other than 
"Bras, leg Raddi," and were all indet until I named them. I hope I 
shall find them named at Pisa, and I hope, tee, I Shall find a less 
freezing reception there . I'd rather stand the freezing temperature 
of poor Wien so long as the botanists were cordial. 1 am giving 
you mor© trouble, this is the last. After the time I had about that 
linen I would" not take it back into Germany for anything — iSd rather 
