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rariaa , gave rae two grass reprints — we may have tmwftj em* * * 
refuse anything. Shey are all so kindly, even "big %untmarm ]?edde. 
ir. Pilger has been rejoicing over a gft»l versehieaeaes Art yon Oleera 
as lie calls it. Shis morning he broiight me a nice little specimen 
of "t. He does not know whether to accept Raddia or not. I did not 
try to convince him, only pointed out onr combination of characters. 
This little thing is a Rsd&ia* In a recent. paper Pilger transfers 
a Paspalum to Axonopus I He refers to a Beschrsibung hy your ass is* 
tant. I smile to myself as I recall how ?edde's awful slam on my 
Genera ^aniceae papers made me see stars, "mafangreichen aomencla- 
torischen Teranderungeir do yousremember? And here in afefSe's own 
Repertorium wiSfe lots of new species hy Ilea of these ;;enera 1 res- 
urrected, Mesosetum, Sacciolepis and the rest. Dr. Pilger says 
the me herharium is at Hamburg . Ule is dead, Berlin has a complete 
set. He says they probahly have duplicates. Hope we can get an ex- 
change. I enclose addresses of directoe and assistant. After 
saying that they would like to have prints of the Raddm specimens, 
Br. Pilger this morning said It would cost too much , that he would 
select those most wanted. I told him we were having the prints made 
for Berlin Herh. He was much pleased with the Freundlichkeit . A few 
days after I came he was lo king tf some grasses and came across on e 
of the American Grasses distribution. He spoke appreciatively of the 
fine set of schSnes Exemplar en we are sending out. H e is assistant 
director, Br. Perkins said. I had dinner with Br. P Sunday and stayed 
till about 5. I fear she is having a rather distressing time of it— 
mentally as well as physically. She came back to Berlin and every- 
thing is so changed. ?hey are lovely to her at the herbarium-she 
said that repeated ly— but Berlin used to be so prosperous and the 
people so good-natured and kindly. low she sees want everywhere, 
people bitter because Americans can afford champas 
hungry. She is sick of hearing "It is cheap for Americans." She 
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