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looking in nearly every genus I [[underlined]] guess [[/underlined]] I guess he may have had. His s specimens are equal to his book. I surmise that these are not the basis for his published work, but are the material he was getting together for the larger work giving species, which he mentions intending to prepare in the introduction to the Essai. Fortunately he did not perpetrate this. His specimens are little scraps, sometimes two or three mixed together. There is seldom any data other than "ex dono Jussieu." etc. I have found a few of real importance, but most answer no purpose, so I am hurrying through. Dr. B showed me Beauvois handwriting the first day so I can spot his things. He lent me a book with a biographical sketch of Beauvois which I read. His collections in U.S. were lost at sea, but he seems to have saved somehow, some of his African material, for I found the type species of his Setaria and Oplismenus africanus, Oware, coll. Beauv! It is [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] O. Burmannii as Stapf said it was. It is hirtellus or very close to it. I did not find Ichnanthus panicoides noe Axonopus aureus. But poor as the Beauvois herb. is it will add to the work Miss Niles is going to publish on his Essai.--What with the rough handling at frontiers--there are always two to a day's journay--the poor old trunk split along the bottom back edge and bulged out at one end. I was afraid to trust it with the precious camera, so I bought a trunk in Pisa, cost $16. I've thought since I might possibly have had the old one mended--I feel lonesome for it, and things packed to better advantage than in this. Besides it was so easy to spot it with AGROSTOLOGY across the top. This is like half the trunks at every frontier. They pulled the handle off my leather satchel. I had a new one put on here.---I have seen Mt. Blanc (it did not show up till Saturday as I came back from the herb) and after supper I saw it from my window pink in the alpenglow. I have [[underlined]] heard the nightingale! [[/underlined]] Altogether this place is simply heavenly. I had the whole day on the lake Sunday, taking the 6:45 boat and getting back about 7 p.m. Lac Leman, they call it here. It was