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terms will satisfy me. -----I have found here many of Hackel's missing types--an everlasting lot of those sorghum varieties, subvarieties, etc. It is a relief to my mind. Andropogon Cabinisi is here.------June 8.--I was startled by seeing a staring calendar with that date this morning. I am working as fast as possible, but I can't go Sunday as I planned to. There is so much here--I am getting heaps of tiny packets and notes. Having photoes made by Fr Steudel will save lots of time. The book,(Schultes, Mantissa, the pages we need) is being photoed on glass. I asked Fr Stuedel to preserve them so that other libraries can have prints made if they wish. I could not carry the plates back with me.------Saturday evening Dr. Schneider took me for a walk. It was almost a Berlitz Spatziergang durch Berlin such as Herrn So and so took in the Berlitz book. The Tiergarten is a great big park. A little river runs through it and there is a lovely pond surrounded by Rosscastanean (the literal horsechestnut) which Dr. S says is a hybrid between a red species and the European AEsculus. The flowers are the lovliest pink. The fallen ones on the surface of the pond together with the reflection of the trees in the water made a charming picture. I saw these pink horsechestnuts in Geneva, too and they are abundant here in Berlin as street trees. I have not been much impressed with the statuary in Berlin but in the Tiergarten there is a wonderful bronze figure, the Amazon, a nude figure of a woman astride a horse. It does not in the least suggest warfare (there is no weapon--nothing but woman and horse) just a beautiful strong splendidly poised woman. It stands in a sort of opening in the forest; wherever it is viewed it has a wall of trees for background. That is much the finest piece of statuary I've seen anywhere here. The Sieges Allee--do you remember it? Isn't it an avenue of horrors--with all those strutting big guns up there with marble pigtails and lace ruffles and some of them [[handwritten]] as [[/handwritten]]