To Eugene Hilgard   3 July 1886

3/7/86.

Though I may not write, dear Prof. Hilgard, you may be sure, that your kind sendings of your important Bulletins¹ are highly appreciated, as they are replete with matters of importance and interest always.

I belong to a generation before you, and at my time of life have to limit my correspondence more than in former years, so as to save some little strength yet, while by divine grace I still am among the living, to carry on some progressive researches of my own.

From the "select plants" (G. Davis Detroit edition)² you will know, how important Panicum spectabile is for pastures of warm climes. The seeds herewith sent, should be forced under glass into germination.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd von Mueller.