Br. Briquet esteems Vez at his true worth. He is very sore "because 
S«l kept the Ban i cum s SO -years and then sent them Lack showing 
damage from moisture, ft wondered why hedid not demand their return. 
I saw herharlum mold pretty thiefc on some. I name across "call sot 
t* n sheets and asked Soft B ahout them. He says Beauvois'a own herb- 
arium is here. Glory he I The grasses are not arranged except gen- 
etically, so 1 could take out the Beauv things, (ilea has the Banl- 
ceae genera , even those he recognizee, all jumbled, Faspalun in Ban- 
icum, some of them , some Syntherismas in Banicum, some in Li git aria , 
and the Hire.) The grasses Mes had have not "been rearranged since . 
their return, they ere just asi|!!e3 returned them. I want to get all 
Beauvois together to check up if possible. So often I've found a 
plant that I took to he type, hut which lacked something , and wrote 
all about it and what it lacked only to come on one later wjlth the ■ 
required data, fixing its place as type. Beauvois specimens are a 
match for his hook, they are little fragments, taken from other 
herharia, I guess, and with little or n^aate.-I got the two Fedde 
Report we lacked from the lihrary here and shall card the American 
species. Last night I read a paper hy Br. Briquet on the species 
question in French— that is why I did not finish this letter. There 
is so much to tell that I haven't time to write. I shall make memo- 
randa so that I can tell you. iftm memo.:— The Bossier herharium 
has gone to the University, instead of to the Belessort. .'Prof. 
Haekel told me that Ohodat and Briquet are not on good terms, he 
l~ oiled that Ohodat is not on good terms with anyone. Dr. ft asked 
me where a certain work on Rafinesque by an American was published— 
he could not recall the name. JPitzpa trick? Yes. 1 told him we had 
| copy and 1 would look/up. He had seen a copy once at the Univers- 
ity lihrary hut the lihrary Rfti not accessible to him, that Br. Oho- 
dat was very peculiar. I should think soi lot even Br. Sreene in 
nie urivate animosities went so far as to forhid anyone to see his 
