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wonderful herbarium here is unable to get mounting paper.  ^[[H & C after my return sent money for mounting paper.]] Of course they have the centuries of American grasses we have distributed, but before I am through I shall have several times as many specimens as we have sent them. Isn't this a beautifully planned herbarium? So [[underlined]] clean [[/underlined]] and light and roomy. It took my preconceived idea of [[strikethrough]] our [[/strikethrough]] the superiority of our herbarium (the grass part) down a peg.  ----I am writing while eating breakfast of coffee, kornbrod (which is rye bread) cheese (instead of butter) and an egg. Frau. S. once had an American doctor and wife here. She judged my appetite by theirs and gave me enough for three at first. I do not eat with the family. I surmise they do not have egg themselves. I said I only wanted what they had themselves but she has given me meat each night and egg or sausage each morning. It is a comfort that I can leave most of the meat. I eat all the bread I get (though it is awful stuff) and am in no danger of starving.  I had a little fire in my room last night. I am fighting off a sore throat, and American money can afford a [[strikethrough]] fe [[/strikethrough]] fire. Hot water for washing and fire are kept account of so I can pay for them. I'd have a fire all evening except for the meanness of having comfort while they are shivering and coughing. The krone is 7406 to $1. The grafter of a hotel keeper gave me 6000 for $1. (He told me, in pretty good English,that if it wasn't for America they wouldn't be where they are now. He had been in America for some years and had returned, ^[[(]] well off, I judge ^[[?)]] shortly before the war. If he had only stayed in America till now he would be a rich man, he said. He did not seem bitter about it--spoke as if the joke was on him.)------March 26.--I find your new species of Manisuris from British Guiana in Hackel herb under the name Rottboellia Jenmani, the same collection as yours, I think.  Here is a Warming specimen from Brazil, found in the indets today, that I think is the same species. I wonder if this will reach you in time to go into the proofs, if my