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Dr. Briquet esteems Mez at his true worth.  He is very sore because Mez kept the Panicums 20 years and then sent them back showing damage from moisture.  (I wondered why hedid not demand their return.  I saw herbarium mold pretty thick on some.  I came across "Palisot hb" sheets and asked Dr. B about them.  He says Beauvois's own herbarium is here.  Glory be!  The grasses are not arranged except generically, so I could take out the Beauv things. (Mez has the Paniceae genera, even those he recognizes, all jumbled, Paspalum in Panicum, some of them, some Syntherismas in Panicum, some in Digitaria, and the like. ^[[)]] The grasses Mez had have not been rearranged since their return, they are just asaMez returned them.  I want to get all Beauvois together to check up if possible.  So often I've found a plant that I took to be type, but which lacked something, and wrote all about it and what it lacked only to come on one later with the required data, fixing its place as type.  Beauvois specimens are a match for his book, they are little fragments, taken from other herbaria, I guess, and with little or no, data.--I got the two Fedde Repert we lacked from the library here and shall card the American species.  Last night I read a paper by Dr. Briquet on the species question in French--that is why I did not finish this letter.  There is so much to tell that I haven't time to write.  I shall make memoranda so that I can tell you.---(From memo.:--The Bo^[[i]] ssier herbarium has gone to the University, instead of to the Delessert.  Prof. Hackel told me that Chodat and Briquet are not on good terms, he implied that Chodat is not on good terms with anyone.  Dr. B asked me where a certain work on Rafinesque by an American was published--he could not recall the name.  Fitzpatrick?  Yes.  I told him we had a copy and I would look ^[[insertion]] it [[/insertion]] /up.  He had seen a copy once at the University library but the library was not accessible to him, that Dr. Chodat was very peculiar.  I should think so!  Not even Dr. Greene in his private animosities went so far as to forbid anyone to see his