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tude toward the church--here is an instance.  In making change for stamps or something she had got for me I saw some 1 and 2 krone notes.  You can't get anything for less than 100 kronen; I asked what they did with 1 krone notes.  "Für die Kirche," she said,without a smile until I laughed.  -----April 25.--We went to the whole series of operas on the theme of the Nibelung ring, the magic ring that conferred all might (der Macht) on its possessor together with the curse that he can never love and must die. I told you of the prelude "Rhinegold."  Then follows Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung, in the last of which Brunnhilde removes the curse by restoring the ring to the Rhine and by her death.  It was not like ordinary opera, it is drama and music combined--the most wonderful thing I ever heard.-------I hope to see Herzog in Munich and learn how we can get his Bolivian grasses.  It seems like leaving home to pack up to leave here--and I shall probably never see Frau Schneider again.  She wants me to remember that everything is well with Wien, that they are going to come out all right.  I never saw such gallant courage.  It seems to be common, too.  Everyone is so neat and clean that they do not give the impression of poverty.  The dreadfully worn shoes are highly polished--evidently shoe blacking is a necessity.  I have learned to keep my shoes blacked--they put me to shame.  I had Frau Schneider make me some clothing of linen and two garments for Mrs. Winston and her sister.  Frau S would not take any pay for the things, she wanted to do this for the Damen who had sent so much for the children of Vienna.  I had a hard time getting her to take a little farewell gift.  I did up some more American dollars in little envelopes for the herbarium people, including poor Dr. Keissler.  I did not give any to Dr. Zahlbruckner, he does not seem so hard up as the others--and I [[underline]] have [[/underline]] all the grasses now!------The packages of plants, including Handel-Mazzetti's, books, and fragments in envelopes will go to you through the Smithsonian Exchange. I put my blanket