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concession to an 4»e3?i#&fc filled the glass half full o" water. I let it 
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stand there, booing to let it 30 at that, Vat Pr, 2 rskod ne if 1 did noy 
like my wine. I said I had never had any. " Then it is about time you 
had.*" he said emphatically. By way of politeness I tasted the sour stuff, 
and did not make a face, either. Treating the Wieners to bier ana taking 
wine in Geneva , what sad wreck Europe makee of one's principles. But Br, 
Briq.net was satisfied with just one sip. "e had noticed at the Vienna 
Congress that the American women with- their husbands did not smoke— did 
we not smoke either? I said the men did ver- commonly, and society 
women to some extent, hut rot the vast majority of us. He is delight- 
fully entertaining?— told of their botanical club which moots the first 
Sunday of the new year at the top of the highest peak of the dura moun- 
tains just west of Geneva fl think it is west, opposite direction to the 
lake, anyway) eat their dinner there and then sit down in the snow and 
scoot to the bottom. I recoil that that was the way you descended the 
uppermost peak of lit, tinier. 1 heard the" nightingale again in the 
Briquet garden . — Cbarlotter.bt.irg, oeutsohland, Hay 26.— 3fcen I 
reached Berlin this morning 1 ma glad to get all the letters.' 
I wish I coiil d have stayed the rest of this weok in Geneva * I used so 
much time searching for Beauvois things. The last afternoon , about 5; .50 
1 started on the pile of indets. A lot of excellent material , but I could 
only get it into genera, and not all that. I worked till 7:40 and had to 
leave all Andropogoneae in tribe only. I began at Festueeae, after thrcw- 
all into tribes. Br. B came around about 6 and himself suggested that 
h© might send this material to us to name. I said we would he very glad 
to do it for him, I wish he could, ship the whole grass collection for us 
to put in ordor, no one here can do it, after what Mo a has done to it. 
It has such precious material in it.— 1 left Geneva at 6:50 
yesterday morning *nd had a glorious morning through Switzerland. At 
Basle the 25 oil or donane wasn't as bad as usual. The train was the 
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