Caracas , April i) , VJ^l 



I.Ir. PrederiGk V. Coville, 

 Bureau of Plant IncUistry, 

 U. 3. Deimrtraent, of Agricul^ux-e, 



,/ashingtdn, ^.0 



Dear Idr. Coville: 



A few years ago, I sent you a aanusoriwt 

 on "One hundred trees of Psnaaa", in the belief that 

 it v/as ready for the ^jrinter. l^he i^aper was refused, 

 mainly on account of its incomijlete condition and also 

 because Prof. I^ecord inade sorae more or less v/ell founded 

 objections to the ^^art of the v/ork corresoonding to 

 Mr. Llell. ./ith regard to the last opinion, it should 

 be noted that the manuscript v/as sent just at the time 

 when Prof, liecord's book xvas under press, and Prof. 

 Record would not had been human if he had seen ^7ith in- 

 difference the publication of a paper on the trees of 

 Panama, to be gratuitously distributed, made simulta- 

 neously with the marketing of his excellent book. 

 I do not know how far his objections v/ere well founded, 

 but anyway it does not seem that he was the man tc be 

 called to express an opinion en the work of a man with 

 whom he had just severed an old friendship and collabo- • 

 ration and to whom he did not, perhaps, do full justice 

 when he partly suj^pressed his name as co-author of the 

 book in reference. 



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In v/hat concerns the defective part of the 

 vork, I thought it v/as v/orth correcting, because it 

 cannot be denied that, /ith regard to the f threat products 

 of Pana.na and their popularization, it is of some value. 

 U:if ortunately, in the several movings and transfers made 

 by me since the paper was returned, one or two of tlie 

 cross-section pictures have oeen lost and j^jcrhaps it 

 v/ill not be easy tc obtain then again from the Porest 

 Service, ^resh copies of the other pictures v/ill cer- 

 tainly be put at your disposal '.rj lir. C. 3. Doyle's 

 Office in the Department . 



