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abandon it.  I sent it parcel post by Cook.  It cost an awful lot, but at the American Consulate they told me that was the cheapest way.  I guess you will have to pay duty on it, but I hope you will not have to waste time on it.  You will wish you had sent me to Ballyhack instead of to Europe!  I guess it takes one trip to Europe to learn what not to do.  There are beautiful linens in the windows here, but they do not tempt me.  The chief thing I have learned in Europe so far is that one does [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] learn from experience--that is it is not safe to apply to a second case what was learned in a first case.  My trunk--it did not come Monday morning.  I guess they told me that tale of its being at Brennar and its arrival in the morning to get rid of me.  Monday afternoon I took the case to Cook.  Tuesday [[insertion]] ^[[(last)]] [[/insertion]] night Cook telephoned me at the hotel that the trunk is at Kufstein, the German-Austrian frontier, that I was to send the key and some hundreds marks.  At Cooks this morning I asked when the trunk would reach me.  In a week or ten days!  So I am going back for it.  My second-class ticket is $18 in American money and I shall have to spend Thursday and Friday traveling (costly experience).  I leave at midnight tonight.  I finished at the herbarium today.  There was no working out of regular hours here.  I had to quit at 12 and when I returned at ^[[2]] (opening hour) the door would be locked for 10 or 15 minutes more till the attendant arrived. --I am so glad the Buchtien plants have arrived.  Herzog at Munich said he had heard that we had bought the Buchtien Herbarium. *-*-*-*-*-*--I bought a Chicago Tribune here, the first American paper I have seen.  On the front page was "Eight Negroes burned at the stake in Texas."  I wonder what Europe thinks of us.  They are reporting the Genoa conference with the same old bunk as they did [[th?]] the Paris "peace" conference.  I tried to read a French paper on the conference, but it sounded like the Tribune, only more so.  ^[[They are frothing at the mouth about Russia & cartooning Russian]]

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