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work ) I answered "'loin, sagto aichts , derin es lirt Cesser nichts zu gag** 
tea." Thank you for ser&ing eows about the Primer, if .'rimer 
won't answer , I should like l-irst Book, which MMM9 the same thing. 
I like Primer, hut ho one else does, so I suppose there is soraethiag 
the natter with it, I am writ Ins Cook's London office to cancel 
my June E8 sailing and give me July 13. 1 could work here to advan- 
tage several days more, hut I have got to cut out a lot of 3outh Amer 
icai things, not Paniceae, I would like to see. I intended to pack 
tonight, hut Freulein Schneider came in for nearly aan hour— 1311 go 
to bed and pack by daylight fni & an, or so.*--— —--Leiden, Holland 
June 16. — nr. Henrard met me at the train. 1 am staying at Leiden 
with Miss Gool, herbarium assistant, not very far from the herb. Br 
H sticks tighter than a bur. H e is so eager to talk grasses and get 
any ideas I may have. 2| reminds me of the way I rushed you wtth my 
grasses the first winter I was in r '"ashi gton. S« is young f later — 
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lie me fcl©*§3 IM1 he Is 42 s not so youa as 1 thou/ht ) f li^estr-elo^ 
gate ia build* fffl talks like HgM»lig # Ltoglish, 3 e rma:i f French, all 
II the same sentence at times* If he does not Tmow the word he wants 
he makes Oite— he spoke of specimens for TT comparati03£ ;t (comparison)* It 
keeps me o:a the alert to understand, He showed me* ? hildij§gs ,? he is mlc- 
img of his new species f drawings, from das Bild ) . 1 udders taiad meet 
of hie xrords. I think he is 50 ins to do really fiae work on grasses. 
He has a passion for accuracy and $1 spite of the scant material here 
he has wry clear ideas* 3 e showed me the list of grasses he sent ytp* 
fg are goiBg to get the Fer^og grasses. Her mg toli me the reiaalx&i&g 
set was to go to Briquet, "but %&rard says that wh«a first turned oyer 
to him f ' the f ' rst set of duplicate grasses was designated for Hitch- 
cock* Hemrard has written Herssog that they -must go to you. I told him 
we would pay postage— that cost, at the present value of the markj my 
have had something to do with Herzog's change. 1 think we can get dup- 
