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money and ordered separates of all future papers on Gramineae. Fedde will send them direct. He promised to send separates of the Mezschen "Archives" if he can get Mez to have them gedruckt. (The Mez Archives is a new botanical serial lithographed from typewritten mss. In it Mez and his students are publishing all sorts of things there is no place for in the current botanical journals, I judge. There is a revision of Oryzeae and one of Arundinella by students -- very Mez'schen in quality.) Fedde speaks only German and very rapidly -- I may not have understood all correctly. Prof. Dr. Hauptmann Fedde is comically like the wartime newspaper concept of the blond boche. He was in the crumpled long white linen shirt (or smock) most of them work in here and was without a collar, but he looked military even then. I had a vision of Hauptkommandant Fedde editing his Repertorium in the trenches. You remember that the war numbers - "Kriegesnummer" - used to be dated from the trenches and signed by his increasing important military titles until they reached Hauptkommandant. ---- I am going to have Fraulein Steudel photograph the types here, it will save a lot of time for me. To be ready to use the camera again myself I have bought some rubbers for the feet of your tripod. That thing will [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] stand on the tile or poloshed floors they have in Europe. I have had to rig up boxes and books on chairs or table and feared the thing would joggle. Today I bought two good-sized rubber sponges and cut them in two, (1 to lose). I shall stick the sharp feet of the tripod into these rubbers clear to the floor to avoid a rubber-tire effect. The rubber, I hope, will keep the feet from slipping. I have not tried to photograph specimens unless they were pretty good. The Beauvois plants (except the Setaria and Oplismenus types, which happen to be good) would not have shown anything. Films can not be had in Deutschland, Dr. Schneider says,