September 1?, 1936, 
Br. 1. Ftttior, 
P, o. Box 265, 
Caracas, Ycnesuela. 
'■at IIP, Hitler* 
lour letters of September first and third « m@ yesterday, snd although I hav® 
had as opportunity yet of going ’into all tho matters you bring up. 1 will 
give you what information 1 can, 
Enclosed you will find a transcript of tha data in say record hook of your col¬ 
lection, ishlcli pertain to the somber* you list. You will eee that several of the 
specimens have already been identified. Where there is absolutely no entry la the 
it is possible thetgh not certain that we never received the specimen. 
last collection, 
ed by Mr. Swollen 
I 
after 
Also I an enclosing & list of the grasses 
at this was ever sent you. they were 
their receipt. 
I have now finished naming several thousand South American collections 
in daring the past year and haw® just sent off long lists of iclentifica- 
want now to give ay attention to furious monographs upon which 1 asa 
working and to certain portions of the flora of Colombia,. Among the latter are 
Qyp@tB.mm and Isguminosae, and 1 should prefer to postpone taking up your questions 
relating to these families until then. I have, always fait that flhsetooalys was 
badly in need of revision, end I m looking forward to comparing our specimens 
with your key. 
Regarding the three collections mentioned in your letter of the 3rd! Jafaa 3681 
is entered in the record book as "Astragalus?" "Cracoa ? fi Jafan 619 is almost 
certainly Pheseolug eiythroloan. as you say. GehrMef, 117 Is,sot recorded in ay 
book. 1 do not find these two unnamed specimens in «§r unidentified folder of F&ba~ 
c®&®, and 1 have doubtless put them into the Herbarium, I usually do not do this 
Case of current collections, but as I am continually working on Lsgnminosae 
have don© so in this case. I will look them up very soon. 
r. Maxon had an operation about the first of August sad was stray for three 
weeks. H® is back now and getting along finely. 1 m interested in what you say 
©bout Dr. Feres Afbeleea, We have a great deal of correspondence and he sends me 
very fine material for identification, during the past year there were about 800 
specimens. He also has unearthed a set of f tiara* s rad is lending it to me family 
by fatally. Or. Bugaad I am also in touch with,but Mr. Standley "discovered** hla, 
and 1 have felt a little bit reluctant to wasa hi® away, even though 1 have observdd 
that Standley does not hesitate t® ferab off ray people. 
fhaak you aver so roach for the "frabajos. 8 I still wish theudh,that we could 
get the actual first publication of each of your species, the Gray Card Qalalofpe 
is in aaioh confusion in citing them, and both the editors or that and the editors 
lew Ipdax have told me how glad they would b® if you and I could straighten the 
oat. I hope you will sometime be able to flHt up a oosiplete set of the 
containing your papers. 
I know you will forgive a© for not answering every question you ask, I am 
