My dear Sir

D^r. J. E. Planchon Montpellier.

Prof. W. Hofmeister. Heidelberg.

Prof. M. J. Schleiden Dorpat.¹

As I have y^r. papers² (most admirable & wonderful papers) in my numbers of the Linnean Proc. I do not require them for my own use, but if occasion turn up I shall not scruple to ask you for a spare copy. D^r. Crüger did not I feel pretty sure leave a widow.³ He was an intimate friend of M^r. G. P. Wall—a near relative of my wife’s—who carried out the Geolog^l. Survey of Trinidad a few years ago.⁴ He (Wall) admired Crüger greatly & is warm always in his praise. I fancy he left a brother in Germany (?).⁵ I have so much systematic work (which—with the dissections it requires) interests me much, espec^y. in connection with the proposed Flora of Tropical Africa,⁶—that I have little time for any other branch of Botany.

Very sincerely yours | Dan^l. Oliver