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library. And this is the University library that Chodat excludes Bri- 
quet from. I took down some other things Br. B wanted me to look up 
for him. He can't get an answer out of Eeller for one thing. i'he 
Hsssler plants are here in Belensort, not yet belonging to the herb- 
arium, but deposited here for safe keeping. Chodat and Sassier had a 
serious quarrel. That and the loss by the fire at th© University of 
the earlier part of Kassler's herbarium has unhinged lassler's.mind, 
somewhat. He decided to return to Paraguay in the hope of recover- 
ing. Thon he had an accident while traveling from which he has not 
altogether recovered. Br. B seems pretty anxious about him. She 
Stuckert plants are here also, that is stored here. They are not 
mounted, but are on their collection sheets, with numbers but no 
labels. Dtuclvert has the field books, so there is no my of labeling 
the plants, '.ituchert is an old roan and Dr. Briquet is rather anxious 
lest he die and leave the plants in this fix.' 1 told you of reading 
Briquet on the species question—ho lent me the paper apropos of a dis- 
cussion which began by his coaa«ts on the JJorth American Jlora. He 
said that froa the flora one -.jould think that all the species were 
clear cut in America, that. there were no troublesome intermediates. 
I told him that you had made the same criticism. The plan of the 
work is sa rigid that no place is provided for notes or discussion, 
that this was .particularly unfortunate in the synonymy. Since you 
had taken over the grasses you had added consents where necessary. 
Dr. B talked about the Vienna and Brussels congresses. He is under 
the impression that American botanists, except those at Gray, 
dominated by Br, Bri ton. I said I thought that the younger ones 
and a good many of the older are no longer of the Britton party, as 
perhaps soma ol the more prominent ones were at the tin© of the con- 
gresses. He seeks of that Latin ruling in the Vienna code. I said 
I thought a good many Americans would ooncede that. He said rr. Gov- 
