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has just come back.  It was nonsense for Dr. Diels to tell you he had no control over Mez.  He need not send him these collections.  Dr. Pilger lifted his shoulders and spread his hands in a gesture of despair when he said the Paniceae was just as Mez had returned them.  Mez has an understudy, I see.  Leersia is being done by some one with a Polish name from "Kgsbrg" (Königsberg), so I take it he is another Mez disciple like Leeke.  Here Mez is training agrostologists in his dreadful ways and we don't have a chance to train anyone in the type method and teach 'em to verify, verify, verify.  The Ekman grasses are here from Stockholm.  They are beautiful specimens and those puzzling Ichnanthis species are very different from anything we have in the U.S. herb.  I asked Dr. Diels and Dr. Pilger if I would be likely to find Mez types at Königsberg.  I have been thinking ever since I came across his tracks in Wien that Mez script in various herbaria is all there is by way of Mez types.  Dr. Diels thinks Mez has no herb., that he has finished Paniceae and returned the specimens.  Pilger (later) when asked said the same.  It would not be worth while to go to Konigsberg for Calamagrostis and Eragrostis, for he has not yet published them.  Pilger thinks I will find most of his types here.  I hope so.  It will save a lot of time and money to cut out Königsberg.----Another joke, on me this time:  I told you the 9 francs for my room in Hotel de la Paix, Geneva, included meals, and I enjoyed my [[overtypes the]] delicious cafe au lait and rolls [[underlined]] and butter [[/underlined]] in my room mornings (no meals served in dining room till 8) and my dinners, thinking how good and how cheap.  But I was mistaken; dinners were 9 francs each and only 5:18 to the dollar!!!!!!  The meals would have choked me if I had know what they cost me.  So my subsistence of $4 did not quite cover expenses.  I could have taken meals at a cafe--however it all goes into experience.  I'll be [[underlined]] sure [[/underlined]] I under-