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has Just cone back. It «a« aoaiito'ii for Dr. Di«la to tall you lie 
had no control over ilea, t* nft&t not send him those collections. 
T jr . Pilger lifted his shoulder a and spread his hards in a gesture 
of despair Whm he arid the Panioeae aa Men had returned 
then, ness has an understudy , I see. . Lecrsia is "being done by some 
on© with a Polish name from "Kgsbrg" (k&nigaberg) , so 1 t ike it he 
is another Jf#2 disciple' like leeke. Fere Mas is training agros- 
tologists |a hie dreadful wa#s and we don't have 8 chance to train 
• anyone in the type method and tea oh 'ea to verify, verify, verify. 
Tho fttaan grasses are here from Stockholm. Shay aro heautiful 
specimens and those puzr-.ling Ichnanthts species are very different 
.from anything m have in the U.S. herb. 1 asked M . Mela and Dr. 
rilPrcr if I wouia be likely to find Men types at Xftnigsborg. I 
have been thinking ever sine© I came across his tracks in Tien 
that lies script in various herbaria is all there is by way of Maz 
types. Dr. Dials thinks Hez has no herb., that he has finished 
Paniceao and returned the specimens. Pilger f later) when asked 
said the sama. It would not be worth while to go to Konigsberg for 
Oalamagrostia and iSragrostia, for ho has not yet publish ad them. 
Pilger thinks 1 will find most of his types here, 1 hope so. It 
will save a lot of time and money to cut out Konigsberg. An- 
joke, on me this time: I told you the 9 francs for ny room 
in lotel do la laix, Geneva, included meals, and I annoyed Afro de- 
licious cafe au iait and rolls and butter in my room mornings fno 
meals served in din lm$ room till 8) and my dinners, thinking how 
good ana how cheap. But I was mistaken; dinners were 9 francs 
each, and only 5:13 to the dollar* J.*::! She meals would have 
choked me if X had known what they cost me. So my subsistence of 
§4 did not <-uite cover expenses. I could have taken meals at a 
cafe— however it all goes into experience. I'll be sure 1 under- 
