Zurich, Schwiz, Febr.18, 1891
Dear Professor:
I said I would let you know from time to time how Europe and I got along together and you must be wondering how long a period "from time to time" is. Stress of laziness rather than too much work must bear the blame.
I stayed at Berlin about two weeks and saw a few of the many fine Museums and Public Buildings of the German apital. Mr. Frankforter went with me to the Botanical Institute where we met Dr. Schweudeuer and were shown through the laboratory and work rooms. I also attended two of the doctors' lectures, although I could not catch very much of the language. Prof. Engler gave me a permit to visit the Botanical Museums at the Bot. Gardens, so I dissapated by spending a whole day there, and got a great many valuable ideas.
There were eight or ten Welwitschias and a number of the cones lying loose on top of a glass case, put there, I suppose for the special purpose of trying the souls of kleptomaniacal botanists. Yet the thought occurred - how long would they stay there if in the U. S., with no one near to watch them.
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