
          I have cultivated perpetually with peculiar predilection during my whole life.
 My chemical observations and experiences I did publish in our Pharmaceutic
 Journals and my botanical detections and observations, I have communicated next
 to to our illustr. [illustrious] Reichenbach and Koch and then especially to our Regensburger
 Flora, the best of our German botanical news-papers, from whom, how You have
 seen, I have had the pleasure, to receive a Diplom. I deplore, that I
 have lost by fire flames all, not only my extensive herbarium, a fruit of
 collecting during 24 years, but also all my books, for to convincing You of all
 that I have said here. My benign friends Reichenbach (pater et fil. [filius]) knows all
 that, and their consolation at that unhappy time has saved me from despair.
 At that time I have saved only the poor life and my trunk, containing
 happily for me my testimonias, all, indeed, a insignificant good, remaining me.


 Some of my botanical detections are also contained in Kochs Synopsis
 Florae Germanicae et Helvetiae [Helveticae], edit. [edition] II. My Flora jenensis I have
 elaborated during my long illness (3 years) in Jena; she has been published
 shortly before the above named catastrophe. She is the fruit of long [crossed out: and]
 own observations and I am happy to have received from our illustr. [illustrious] Schleiden [Matthias Jakob Schleiden]
 such a recommending preface. The acknowledgement of that eminent and
 inexorable Critic was enough for me, to see some results of my efforts, and to
 find a publisher, a better recommendation of my smal [small] work, as that of
 Schleiden, I could never gain.


 My very dear Sir, You have asked me further, if I could make botanical
 diagnoses in "lingua latina". Oh well, I can that very well and have always
 in publishing my detections and descriptions done so in Germany. In "lingua
 latina" I have gained more facility, than in Your beautiful and necessary language,
 how I now must confess ashamed. But, dear Sir, perhaps You will have kind
 indulgence with me in this relation; it is strange, but till now, alas! a pium
 desiderium yet, that in our "sic dictum" high schools, in our kingdom Sachsen-Weimar

        