We only got your monographs a day or two ago. They had been detained in London. They are splendid and I am very much obliged to you for the copy you have been so good as to send to me. Sir Wyville || will write to you if he has not already done so. I got the Preliminary Report all right and it is now being translated. I do not know where Sir Wyville is to send it for publication, but I’ll let you know so soon as I hear from him. I sent you yesterday, one of Davidson’s Reports, and also a newspaper, || I got from the Cape the other day several specimens of Baellostoma cirrhatum. When I saw Gegenbaur at Munich I think he said he wished much some of these. If you are writing to him you might say to him that I’ll be happy to send him two specimens if he still wishes them. – Do you wish one yourself?
= We have counted five of your plates, and we find the number of copies to be 749. 747. 750. 749. 750. You see that || one of them (Pt. 72.) is three short. This will never do, we ought to have three or four over the number. Tell Giltsch to remember this in the future, and if he can send three or four extra copies of the plates already sent, so much the better.
With best remembrances to Mrs Haeckel and the family
