Viewing page 54 of 130

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

52
sinicum, type collection, and a second specimen of Anthochloa lepida (I'd seen type coll); also the Jameson collection of Aphanelytrum procumbens, which we first saw in Petersburg herb.  I am glad I had time to do a little something for the herbarium.  ------To resume with the Hackels--Like the Schneiders they seem to have no heat, except what they cook by and a small supply of birch wood with which they einhitzen in the evening--on my account, only, I am afraid.  Liebe Frau Hackel put a hot water bottle in my bed, so with a thick feather bed over me I finally got warm.  She and her Mann are going to have knitted wool underwear for next winter!  It makes me ache to think of the misery of their linen unter kleider in their unheated house.  The house was built in their days of prosperity, and it is much too big for them alone.  Prof. Hackel makes hay from the garden and orchard and sells it, and they have rented the upper floor to a Wiener family who are to come the first of June.  Like Frau Schneider's the things that last are excellent, furniture, table-linen, beds and bedlinen; the things that break or wear out are in very bad shape.  Apparently (like Schneiders again) food takes all they can get.  I surmise the daughter is the mainstay, and they fairly dote on her.  The son seems to have lost his health in the war.  He was an officer on the Italian front.  He is teaching in Vienna and his wife and two babies are with her parents in Steirmark, where she can feed them--the babies, not the parents.  The Hackels want to sell this house and go to Linz with Berta.  There is [[underline]] 70% [[/underline]] tax on sale price of property, and no one to pay much for it.  We knew that Prof. Hackel had sold his library to Leiden.  He showed me some enlargements of photographs he had made.  He said he had sold all his photographic outfit.  I've no doubt they would sell their beautiful wardrobes and other furniture if it were possible.  There is no one but foreigners who have money to buy, and the heavy tax leaves almost nothing.  Dr.