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money ana ordered se^ rates of all future payers on fJramineae. 
Fedde will send them direct . He premised to send, so para to a of the 
•Sezsohen " Archives" if ho can got lies to havo them gedruckt. (The 
Mes Archives is a m^w botanical serial lithographed from type- 
written ass. It 1 , it H#« and his students are publishing all sorts 
of things there is no olace for in the OttWfttt botanical journals, 
I judge. There is a revision of Oryscao and one of Arundinella 
by students— very Mes*sohen in quality. ) ^edie speaks only Ger- 
man and very rapidly— -I may not haves understood all correctly. 
Prof. Dr'i Eauptmann tfedde is comically like the wartime newspaper 
concept of the hlond boche. He was in the crumpled long white 
linen shirt for smock) most of thorn wo®k in here and was without a 
collar, hut he looked military oven then. I had a vision of 
HauotkO!«iandant j?e&do editing his Eepertoilom in the trenches. 
Yon. remember that the war uumhers-i'Krissosnuiamer'i-usod to he dated 
from the trenches and signed by his increasingly important mili- 
tary titles until they reached Hauptkommandant 1 am going to 
have Pranleir.! fit end el photograph the types here, it will save a 
lot of time for ne. 2o he ready to use the camera again myself 
1 have bought some rubbers for the feet »f your tripod, what thin© 
will not stand on the tile or polo3hod floors they have in JSurope. 
I have had to rig up boxes and books on chairs or table and fear- 
ed the thing would joggle. Today 1 bought two good-sised rubber 
sponges and cut them in two, {1 to lose). 1 shall stick the sharp 
feet of tbe tripod into these rubbers clear to the floor to avoid 
a rubber-tire effect. The rubber, I hope, will keep the feet from 
slipping. I have not tried to photograph specimens unless they 
were pretty good. The Beauvois plants (except the 3etaria and 
Cnlismenns types, which happen to' be good) would not have shown 
anything. Films can not be had in Pent schland # hr. Schneider says, 
