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Rec. Frankfurt Poppeldorfer Castle, Bomn Feb. 2 January’21,1857

Most Honored Sir Doctor !

Many thanks for the kind communicatiom about Elodea’ canaden- siscand Nelumbium luteum. The reports, which you give me now about E lodea; ‚agree to a major part with those you made earlier in Bonn,, only, that you mention a few more pointss. That the pollen is

is most surprising, pollen does not appear ir re- lated plants according to my knowledge:: Hydrilla: verticillata (the one in East Indies)} Lagorsiphonmmusicides (Cape of Good Hope)). Elodea guianensis- (in South inarioa)i Blöter densa (Egaria densa-

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rel with extremely fine pointlets or spinelets all over. I can on- ly think, that Elodea canadensis seems to show pollen grains on very young flowers,who'se pollen development has not been fully’progressed..

If you think it worth your efforts, you will find at Braun my manuscript'of the plants,which describes the plants, which I was able to examine..

There are enough questions concerning Elodea,and I shall make use of your kind offer tooturn for this to your cousin, and would have much earlier, years ago,. turned to you, if I had not feared! to be a bother to you,,

You will see Braun soom How much I resret not to be also in Berlin to talk and to listen to yow.

Again my best thanks, Your most devoted R.Caspary Still more ! I recommend to you much the lithographer Renbke ir Berlin, Leipziger Platz Nov. X. Everybody knows him there; he is very skilled’and eager to serve. Greet him best from me. He will be much inclined’ to report to you much useful’ about Berlin.. He is much better thanrKenny and Cohen. Braun, however, had once a not too pleasant experience with him.

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Rec. May 29 Bonn May 27, 1857

Dear Doctor |!

From whom shall I purchase a microscope ?° From him, who makes cha best. What is the best microscope ?°That, which in comparisor with the others works better than the others,. Nobody will contest the an - swer; if one asksı: Who'se instrument produces more than the others, ?7 Only he can give the answer,who has seen the microscopes of the most prominent opticians. Prinesheim prefers Schick to all others. Thus I can put emphasis on what Pringheim himself says,that he has no prac- tical experience with a Nachet - i.e. he does not know the microscope of Nachet„- Nachet and Schick do not stand comparison with each other,. ever Benicke is much further than Schick, Pringsheim and never properly did a test. No Schick‘, as far as I have seen,and here in Ben, shows the stripes omNavioula angulata; A Benicke shows

a little them, but not very well; always/ hisher than in Schick and Nachet like

the english instruments of Ross, Smith and Beck, Powell!'& Lenbach,, very well3. with Nachet even already at about 380 times magenificatiorm and rather poor light; even without cross-liehting;s a Benicke must have cross-lishting..The large field, the wide focal distance, the abundand“ lisht are very asreable with the Schicks what zood is it to be arrea- ble, if I cannot see with it, what other instruments show 7% By the way,. Nachet is not one-sided: :he makes two kinds of objectives;such with a small field,small focal distance and less light,. but with this great shaprness of the image (the Ober haufer type) and he makes (after erg- lish and Schick type) objectives with a very large field,much light, which however according to my opinion,give never as sharp an image

as those of the first kind... One needs for different purposes both ob - jJectives-with advantage, and a good optician should soon fabricate themy as did Nachet..I shall get soon an sa. fron him „which has

both; one sees with both the stripes on the Navioula..I believe, that

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Dr. Wagner in Berlin knows Wickershayn best,because he saw a lot,

is however perhaps too onesided: influenced for Oberhauser, who,by the way considers Nachet equivalent to it. Wherever you order anı«In- strument,condiser first the following three pointss:1) the table must be turnable. 2) The mirror must be so installed,that it has all.-sided movement,and that cross-liehting can be achieved. A Wickershay, which does not have these two - specially no.2 - can not be used. Schick manufactures both recently, as I hear,but I have not yet seen an in- strument of this kind from him.. The instrument of Pringesheim, on which he got used to once, does not have either. It's image is al- ways faint and non-distinet in circumference as that of my predeces- sor. FoY years, since ash ade an effort, to see and prove as many microscopes as possible. I consider the english ones as the best, but they are sky-higsh (the German word is "unpayable" in verbatim transl.. E.D.) and have many useless gadgets (The German word is Aparat = machi- nery,E.D.). The French follow then,and are really not inferior to the English; Theif’ price is obtainable;s the Germans are little indeper - dend and mostly imitations of the French, America's instruments are for most workers,who must bringe the lense into water, not useable,. because reagents can not be used with then..

Joh. Muller may be known as No. 1 as anatomist and physicist, but not as expert of Wikerhagren;less so Ehrenberg..

With best greetings to your wife and Georg your most devoted

R. Casparyv

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Poppelsdorfer Castle Rec, Paris Aug. 3 Bonm on the Rhein July 30, 1857 My dear Doctor !

Best thanks for your esteemed letter tiNow is the end of the collepia, I teach 16 hours per week, and thus was in a bind concerning preparations, that I can answer your letter of July 24, /which’I did not get until July 28,probably throush your esteemed a You say, that you will remain in Paris still 8 - 10 days; hopefully longer to judge from the precedent' in Berlim,for otherwise this letter will not find you there any more..

I have not yet received the microscopes from Nachet; instead,, the purchasers push me both, and I long to get them.. If you come here, you could occupy yourself with several microscopes, this wonld be wonderful, and it would be a great pleasure for me, to be able to assist you... A man as industrious as you;who'se know - ledge is always so all encompassing,. could take time out' for the significant progress in the manipulation of the microscope and the Judgement of microscopic paraphernalia. Do not give up this plan |! In Helmholtz you have here in Physiology one of the och oustan - ding persons. He is the inventor of the eye-mirror and occupies himself primarly with the physical side of physiologyv, and , of course, he does not need the microscope much. I know nothing of a pathologist, who handles a microscope well) here, I do not believe,

that there is one... I do not know really, what pathology means..

The microscopical cover-glasses you find in London at::C.M., Topping 4 New Winchester street, Pentonville Hill, London. I al- ways get them from them... The only fault of the man is, that he ne- ver sends a bill) and I have trouble payine for them... He makes quite good preparations,. But, may-be. somebody else in London makes better ones. Mr. Kippish. librarian of the Linneen Society

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‚to take along cases 2 and 3, for mE 2, made of pine wood, and not made better anywhere,. Topping has them also.. In Berlin I finally found a cabindnaker, who makes them well’ and cheaper. Topping gets 10 sh,those from Berlin are 5 sh=1 Tn I saw your sisters here,and enjoyed them very muchk.Dis- gustine, that I am still a bachelor,and can do nothing for them. By the way,. I have been proposed by the faculty as extra-ordi- narius. I will make a try, to look up your sisters in the En- denick (79?-ExBs),to at least have the honor of a visit.. I ask you, to bring me from Dr. Hooker a small case with e Berkeley has several of mine and i shall write him to send them to Hooker..I ask though, to stand the little case al- ways on the high edge ! |. Best greetings to your wife and Georg Don't give up the Mistershagen I With best greeting and heartiest Your R. Caspary I' almost forgot a very important request I! You certainly will! see Decaisen before you leave;: please ask him without too much pres- sure about the publication of my dissertation about fossil'Nymphae- aceae, and ask him tos: 1)\to mail by post the orierinals of the drawings,when possible and as soon as possible,. 2) that he send me several! copies of my essay, and that through publisher's or you.. I have until now seen nothing of my printed’ essays. Trevira tells me, that

it has been published..

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Rec. .Aug.17 (?) Kew Poppelsdorfer Castle Aug. 13,1857 Run, .-" 27 Duren My dear Friend

As you are in England'iand as I have just writteran English letter to Sir Hooker, my mind has turned so English,that I write ir this language to you.. Kr @€.D)

I am most obliged to you for the 9 corms of my ee ER which you had the kindness to send to me, .But why did you not fetch also one for your order ?

I wrote to Sir William to ask him for reference,that I might

figure in my work«on Nymphaceae, an excellent“native rhizoma of Nym-

phaea gigantea; ‚which is in the Kew Museumo- I asked him to send nme either the rhizoma itself’or a drawing of it, made by Mr. Fitch and IEhope, you will be so kind’as to bring either the rhizoma or the drawing’over for me.- In case Sir William gets me a drawing,.be so kind’as to pay for me to Mr.Fitch. I want to have the drawing in its actual size, or really two::

1. Over-view taken from the side,

2. One view of the process of insertion of the leafstalk,.or of the process of the cushion of the leaf seen from above.

I would like much better to get rhizoma than a drawing,but I am affrald Sir Williamwould not!wish to send me the rhizoma,which I would return as soon as possible..-

Iicalled upon your sisterssand had the pleasure of finding them

home, j Today I began to sketch'a rhizoma of Nymphaea alba_ in full size

for a work on Nymphaeaceae. There does not existiany faithful' re- presentationrof it3 :it has always beemchanged: (should be"mistaken"

E.D.) |with the rhizome of Nuphar,which is nevertheless very Siffe-

rent, Believe me, my dear friend,your very truly and affectionately

Robert Caspary

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Rec.Frankfurt Nov.13 Poppelsdorf Nov. 9,1857 Ans, Dec. ?

My. dear Friend !

Best thanks for your letter and the news about Nuphar

and Nelumbo luteum ; but it is wrong, that you do not write even a single word about your health and your family, or about your plans, though I would like naturally to know something, or,rather a lot about you... It is very kind of you, and I acknowledge myvthanks,. that you have written to America in order to obtain informatiom about the twooNymphaeas,. Of course, the description of the Nelumboo is somewhat incomplete, as you say. One can not see, how the shor- ter,thick internodes differ from the other, 6" long ones,which, ac- cording to the sketfch are themselves 6 * long.. I’assume,. that the shorter internodes-do not referr" at all to the thick" , flour- rich,which could very well be woody,meaning,that they have veryy woody cross cuts and flour-rich parenchyma, but rather the 2 short

internodes"between each od two long ones. Nelumbium shows thems:

(see drawine on page 2 of letter )

C' long internodium at most finger-thick in greenhouse, , but to 13

feet long

K’and K* Two short internodia

I’ first leaf, turned downward

II! second leaf, under $ divergence,turned upward.

III! Third leaf, foliage leaf,positioned inan unheard of way without exemple,as far as I know,meaning Braun,with 1/1 divergence with leaf 2,though both stand in the middle of the stem

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Torcel, who examined poorly,declared in sevfal theaties in carefull ways,that I, II and the stipule were 3 stipules of the follage-leaf,, and overlooked the flower. The branch has the 1 and 2 leaf also Im the same directiom,but this happens often. .What I say here has all! the approval of Braun,with whom I! examined the plant still in the Fall in Berlins The correct arrangement of the leaf position has not yet been published‘; but anyhow, I have axnaßßeremarked about it in the agenda of the Rhenish-westphaliarr Nature schience Society. Be- sides,it is surprising, that with the difficult position of the lea- ves, that leaf I'is being drilled throuscshhby the axis,which conti-

nues growing and comes to restön top, e.&e-

((see drawing on page 3 of letter ) Near A'hole of drilling through. I - has now "R" the backland also

"O# the inside. Nelumbo luteumm is in this not at all different

fromrNel.speciosum if the plant, which Wensteed (? E.D.) sent me,, was that..

The Japanese and East Indiam species have the thick),flour- rich" rhizomes of the Nelumbo species,. which look exactly like the illustrations by Dr. Kilgardt (could be Wilgardt ? E.D.),often even thickers;s v. Siebold never showed illustrations,. In the greenhouse they neither get as thick nor as floury (mealy,E.D.). If Nelumbo

luteum is a species, is very doubtful to me. I know of no difference

but that of ‚which is linear for it,whereas the Ne - lumbo species are 4, thus a very small difference... - I

wished, I were a professor and had to boss a large botanical garden,, then I would examine the matter by cultivating both plants in quan- tity..May-be, you can send to me later sometime seeds of Nel.Luteum.

What Nelumbo rodophyllum is, I know even less,.A botanrist without

a garden and attentive gardeners’is in bad shape,

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Brecks '! is very accomodating and has done much for me,but he is officially unable, because I have nothing /to say,, to apply himself’ so much & my cause,that he would organize lectures spread over the years,'to explore questions,which I have posed,. Finning here is'nt good for anything; I have almost nothing from him in the local garden... One should not believe, that a gardener would be so incapable,to main- tain his best mother (? E.D.) cultures, which I wished to pursue.. After 2 - 3 months all is at an end every time. How long it takes e.&. fo Nymphaea alba to flower from the time of germination, is unknown. Last year I -gate Finning aumerous seedlings in a basin for cultivations well, in the Spring of this year he threw them all out. That is the way it went with 100 cases and more; I thus apportion only, what I must have urgentlyz;. every attempt to use Fünning for my efforts ends in vexation,.Thus I must’ look, to change the matter to the best of my ability, as twoouseless humam beings,Trevianus and Finning waste the best of resources: (the gar- den has $ 2,500), so that I and nobody else gets anything out of it,. except‘ several male and female cousins of Brugwutter. of which the garden is amply provided.,.

Mrs. Emmy Eichhorn is again not doing Arelll as a few weeks ago, when the applied remedies did good works she is with the familys„and goes once in a while out again,. Braun however,is not at all’ really welll;, since he had the he w'as Now he suffers from a rheumatisme,which dram from the arm to the breast in the direction of the heart with pains in the breast and palpitations, .When he feels very week, he takes Colchicum He is also very discontent with the collegium,,which during Winter is al- ways poor for botanists..He has in’the officinal flowers (| plants,,

which are used for therapeutital purposes,E.D.) only 7 hearers

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(the German word for "enrolled’ students" E.D.); in the public (Pub lic lectures, E.D.) (General Natural History) there are 60..Trevia- nus has 2”students as his audiences:and I have 1 as Private docent and 1 in public lectures,, Those are nice feelines ! In Summer I had over 100,but nobody comes any more whenxik for exams., - I have wor- ked the last 4 weeks on the cellular structure and in the stem of_Nymphaea alba,and had finally yesterday and today results.- Naezeli is totally wrong. .The matter is too long to be expressed in the remaining lines. Best rreetings to your wife and Georg. With best greetings Your

R, Caspari

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Poppelsdorfer Schloss Rec. Frankfürt Dec. 11 (Poppelsdorf castle ) Ans. ” 13 Bonrr December 8,1857

Dear Sir Doctor |!

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At: Braun almost all are sick; He and his wife are half well. Ernst and Caecilia have poorly developed scarlet fever„and in combinatiom

bad rheumatic fever over the entire bodys Hermann has real! scarlet

fever;and Mathilde has also become indisposed, My fiancde is still

_well\.

Best thanks for your esteemed letter, which I received Just a (evening 7 0.c.). You are a kind, sympathetic person; that I enjoy and accknowledge with much thanks,the more so, as such people are

so rare. I thank you much for the illustrations of the Nymphaeae with your greetings; I never met with this composition’ before,. when you say, that you saw in the British Museumranvegyptian papyrus.. How did it look, probably also as shaped as with the

and without flower.?? First I amswer your questions.. If I have any- thing to be arranged in Vienna ? Greet: Feazl and Unger and Notsky;: Z::do not know more people there, and tell the people,they should send a copy of all theyvwrite to the library in Bonm, because this library has need for that. If you were here, I'd give

you a book for Feazl::a part of Weddell’s Urticaceae,which he has

sent to me for Feazl, but I shall send it now „ If you should be able, to get for me out of the opus of Effighausen and Solvonyvthe pages with the nature-self-prints of Nymphaea alba and Nuphar .. I’would be much obligedi I have not seen them up to now. . The entire opus costs 400 fl (florin, E.D.) and is not available here,. How long get the long and short internodes: of the of&ıkse Twerthaus Nelumbo 7: The longest ones-are 13 - 2 feet,but not thicker than a forefinger;: the short internodes aboutt 1/3 - 3 ",and even that mostly not..

Mrs. Emenz Eichhormis rather well,and has been recently im

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nstahäely; Marie Braun's youngest daughter got quite suddenly the measles,which will probably wett go through the entire family.» Iiam very sorry, that your wife is sicks :hopefullyv she will! get better soom to be sick, there is later much time in America; noW,, a beautiful trip is ahead of her... I"d love to go with you,to see in their proper place the living and geneticallyy related’ Nymphaeae,, and would touch Scott with the emperor's beard,to see there the

N, lotus,which Deb, . elevated entirely wrong to the species N..

thermalis.- From this Mihowskey also separated it. It must be eX-

traordinary, of that I am convinced.. I'recently had here one of Näachet'!s large instruments; one of my'students,for whom I had or- dered it, showed it to me.. It is a joyvto work with,and one has to return to one's own imperfect instrument with repugnance..

You ask, how I am ?”Really not at all... I am forced!: ta learn patience at this time in the hard school! without loss of time and resourcess. It is not a smalllitem, to have to be a spec“ tator while an old, run-dowı, dull!almost childish mar reads the principal collegia, and who mixes up the botanical interest as far

thorouehly as theyvget in touch with him| in all direections and destroys KNaMX with ease,.. what could be kept in good . shape.. And,when one must

observe,how a vain, almost useless garden inspector,who manazes

so poorlyyusing them for his owminterests,. to such an extent„that tha garden is totally useless.. What I need, Il order always from Berlim Neering is always most eager to be of help: ,but always explains "What he has he gives,when he has it in en

| ally flower arrangements for engagements,baptismes and dinners,. and balls;: if you or your friemds in Frankfurt have the need,then

turn to him .Dinning serves with pleasure.- Since the meeting I

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Lotus, In the works are 1 - 16 vessel-bundles; do not germinate (as Naegeli demands,and the middle vessel-bundle of the leaf never goes to the lower bundle,thoush Naegeli demands this with cautiom I do nothing else, but work on the Nymphaeae, I! lec- ture only once per week‘

One more request in the name of Gay and for him,.I would like

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Your R. Caparyr

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ae : Rec. Sept. 20 (why the 7 months delay ?) Konigsberg in Preussen Ans. Nov. 12 Feb. 10, 1865 Dear Friend !

Receive my best thanks for your letter of Dec. 12,.1864, which I received recently through’ A.Br. (Prof. A. Braun, E.D ). The news,,

that-you were finally successful to have Nelumbiumpainted by Ritter,,

and even in a landscape with Nelumbium,.is most, most welcome.. It

seems to me to be too much for my part,to accept‘ such an outstanding and costly present as a gift. You know, I had asked you strongly,to have these items painted’at my expense. But now, that you want to send to me such a gratifying gift, I can only accept this under one condi- tiom :That you permit me to approach you with various requests,, and that I am not prohibited from such requests herewith,. and that‘, if these will cause expenses, you will make them at my expense. I anti- cipate with joy your shipment just like a child; because without doubt you put me into positiens therewith' , to publish for the first time

a really good drawing of Nelumbiumluteum as it is colored in its

homeland.. I also ask you very,Very much, to send me your drawings and alcohol preparations of the plant. I can use everything,, and you know yourself, the more one Sees and examines;the more correct and under- standable are the statements.. Very desirable would be numerous,ripe seeds, inorder to grow the plant here rs and to observe it ]ivinge with relatives in its developmental starges.. I would consider it best, if you would send the itens throush the Smithonian Soc. There is no hurry. prictum ? er

Parry 's Nüphar pietum is really a good species and quite strange. - You give me the informatiom from his * Notis". Have these been printed ?”Probably not ? If they should be printed sometime,, I ask to have the printing sent to me.. I also ask you very much, to arrange, that I may see the plant (Nuphar prictum) if you can pos-

sibly do so.. This plant is the same, of which you wrote me several

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times,that Parry had found it in the Rocky Mountains, though he had not desoribeakt, and, ok which you sent me at one time a piece of sepalum,, which I doubted as coming from a Nuphar,. as it did not show any stem- hair at all!ion the inside?27’I am anxious to see, if it really has no stem hair..In a well known place I wrote:: "* With Nuphar adv&na the co- lor variety with carmin-red’ petals and tips of the lomanties is more commom, than the entirely yellow colored onesS.. " You ask, where this news comes from'?°You saw thealways only yellow and all florist$ the same way (/ Elliott,Gray,, Beck, Torrey)s.I do not have at hand Elliott and Beck. Torrey (Fl. of New York 1843 I 4O)'does not give any informa- tion about the color of petals and .........,„,neither does Torrey and Grays (Fi. North Americ. I 57),.In my excerpts from Asa Gray's Manual

I have unfortunately nothing about color indication.. However Aitom (Bot. Mag. XVII! 684 ))illustrates the flower with stem who'se joints (‘? E.D.) and rims of anthers are red, (Reichert Fl.exot. I t.12 notes this)also) - but in the descriptior he mentions nothing of \red.. The

ar only other existing colored illustration of Kr advenan (Wittv.

hort. berol. t XXXVIITI)\has the stem yellow (Petals not to be seen)\ Aiton (hort.Ravens. 1789 II 226) calls the petals rubro-flaviscantia and the filaments flava, but medio rubra ?’Umberg (could be Amberg,E.D.) (Cat. R. Am.sept. 1813 S 2) calls = = advena "striped-flowered"

and Nuphar luteum‘(the species name shown in the original is"leum",E.D.)

"ı yellow-flowered".. The "striped-flowered" refers assumedly to the red stripes, which show the rims of the anthers.. Further, .Ihave not seem

a flower of a living Nuphar advena.- I' examined the numerous and from different years from the hort.lipsiensis (Leipzig Botarical Garden,E.D..) ‚where they prosper beautifullyvin the opem, .which did not! show on the inner axis of the petals (most of them)‘a 1 large or 2 nice red spots,„

ae majority I saw had red rims. On the numerous dried material!I could O1 course not discover any color,

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Authors, who probably describe dried material, do not mention the color of the various parts,,or, their descriptions are generally too short.When certain writersse.g. Darlingtom (Fl.Austria),Aiton name the petals "yellow*,I interpreted this,that they give the co- lor incomplete,because I saw them in fresh state only yellow. No — thine is more common than incomplete desigsnation of colors,.Thus

the petals of Nymphaea stellata (‘ ) are always descri-

bed as blue. They are never blue, exactly speaking, because their base

is always whitish or yellowish. It is thus easily explained,, that

I’ expressed myself about the color of the petals and stamens of‘

Nuphar advena as I did, It is the more Interestingbo hear from you - and you are ihefirsthreaitie man,who has examined the problem completely,as I believe -that you have seen red-spotted petals (also stamens ?)} I want to ask you very much,to take this point in as ma- ny localities as possible into view'and examine, and to give Me in-

formation about it.. But still one more large request |!

You probably have also Nymphaea odorata aithn numbers... I did

examine Nymphaea odorata alive and posess material in alcohol,and

received now seeds from Ida Agassiz5siwhich germinate beautifully,,but I can not determine varieties from"the plants.What others assigen as variety characters :: Smallness (var.minor) is not justified to form a varietys. Small plants become always quite large ones in rich soil! according to my experience,though not the largest.. As criterion for varieties are to be considered 1) morphological conditions,. such as the form of fruit especially; of the leaf, etc..2) physio- logical! characteristics’ as: : size of degree of opening,,color and such,. I permit myself to ask you stronglyy to look in your aresaz,if

real you can not find /differences in the form of fruit,the form of the

teafffor the determination of varieties of Nymphaea odorata

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By analogryvwith Nymphaea alba - I assume you own my disserta-

tiom (Appendix hort.bot.. berol 1854) ("berol" = of Berlin,E.D.) - BE U . otherwise very probable. I urgently ask,to do the

same for Nuphar advena, and I hope to mail to you before Spring a

list of points,which must be considered for this plant.. You would advance the cause very much throueh such studies,

I'want to include in my wotk a historical portiom,which gives the biographyvof the collectors, who often dared their lives and were in danger. For this reason I urgently ask you to provide me with a sketch of your own and of Parry.:.I need time and locality of birth,main history of life,and, if possible, the presentation of the educational process in short strokes, as given In a sensibly arran- ged curriculumvitae