
          I should be delighted to hear that our
 present envoi has proven acceptable to you.
 In this case, which as you see I was so
 free to anticipate, you of course taking
 as much interest in our Siberian flora
 as we do in your American plants.


 I will take care that henceforth you get
 your regular part in the above, as well
 as in other collections which might be
 distributed in the course of time. Should you
 happen to have particular desiderata, I 
 would feel most happy to meet your wishes
 as far as possible.


 As to our own wishes, it is hardly necessary
 to specify them, we desire of course
 most which we have least, namely: plants
 of your recent railroad-exploring expeditions
 in the far west, of the Rocky mountains,
 Oregon, California & New Mexico, in the 
 second place Texas plants, rarer kinds of 
 the old states, sets of Cyperaceae by recent
        