Extract from letter written by Mr. H* Pittier to Dr. William 
Maxon, %)ril 14, 1937. 
I should also thank you for the speed with which you have 
named my last lot of ferns, among which many were new for our 
herharium. In a parcel that is to he sent about the same time 
as this letter, you will find about 20 more, with one or two 
pictures, I hope there are not too many repetitions and that 
there are some interesting things among them# Do not believe 
that the extra number of ferns among the plants sent lately is 
because I have been more diligent in collecting them, *^heir 
abundance goes with the fact that my last botanical explorations 
have been directed to the cloud-forests of our newly decreed 
National Park, in the Coast Range, States of Aragua and Garabobo# 
This is a beautiful piece of land with splendid virgin forests 
in which all the neotropical formations are represented in 
altitudes from sea level to about 2400 m. We are now organizing 
the Administration and have already secured one house right on 
the beach at Ocumare de las Costa and hope to come into possession 
of one more at Rancho Grande, at 1200 m. These houses will be 
furnished so as to enable us to invite naturalists to come and 
work here temporarily. I hope somebody from the National Museum 
will be able to profit by the opportunity. 
