
          was valuable botanists. It is 
Mr. Bogenhard,
a pharmacien [pharmacist], one of the best collectors of plants 
Germany has ever produced, for which his eagle eyes 
he made the most unexpected discoveries in countries 
where many botanists have well collected nearly 
since in century of years. So near Bone [Bonn] and 
mostly near Jena, when you know since the 
time of Linnaeus.

Formerly I thought me one of the most unfortunable [unfortunate]
botanistes [botanists], as I lost a year of my life by the 
consequences of a terrible cerebral inflamation [inflammation]
(1847). But truly, I see my misfortunes appear
very little when compared with the sufferances
of my unlucky friend. Three years he was 
in the medical establishment of Jena in the 
vain hope to be delivered from a vesical stone.
At the end he made the last effort, surrendering 
himself to our excellent chirurg. [chirurgien] Prof. Langenbeck
at Göttingen. There he was saved after 
three months, 1849.

Having just finished his very excellent 
Flora of Jena (so much recommended by Prof.
Schleiden, who made the preface), he lost his 
extensive herbarium, his books, all the product
of a diligent life of 20 years, by fireflames!

This was not enough. Preparing nitric 
silver, he had the unfortunate idea of 
washing the crystalls [crystals] with alcohol.*

(*for clarifying these. I thought to take alcohol, because these crystalls [crystals]
are so much soluble in distillated water, instantaneously not 
remembering [partially erased: ad] the adherent free acid nitric. B. [Bogenhard])
forming with the elements of alcohol acid fulminatique. Evaporating these 
        