
          As I am an old practitioner, working seince [since] 24 years
 as Apothecary and furnished with the best testimonials
 belonging my qualifications and good conduct, so I think
 me able to work successful as an assistent [assistant] in a chemical 
 or Droguerie business and to make useful me according
 to my collected experiences during so long a time,
 whose I also had published from time to time in
 the pharmac. [pharmaceutical] Journals of my country. With 
 peculiar predilection I have always studied botanie [botany]
 and at last published a Flora of Jena [Taschenbuch der Flora von Jena (1850)], wich [which] is
 well recommended by our cel. [celebrated] Prof. [Professor] Schleiden
 who made the preface. By a longer botanical 
 correspondences and in communicating my discoveries 
 to our Reichenbachio illustri pater & fil. Dresdae
 I was so happy, to get their benevolence and friendship 
 and these excellent men gave me a warmest 
 recomendation [recommendation] to Your excellent friend Prof. [Professor] Mr. 
 A. [Asa] Gray at Cambridge.


 But I always was on [one] of those unfortunate 
 human creatures, to whom the fate with inexorable 
 hardness sends blows to blows. After
 a sickness during 3 years, I lost all that's mine 
 by fire flames, saving nothing then [than] the poor life.
 My extensive herbarium, (collected carefully seince [since]
 20 years) my books, instruments and natural collections
 etc., all was lost in a few minutes; my darlings, my
 plants especially, pain me for ever, to have lost these.


 This was not yet enough. Preparing nitric silver

        