COPT 
Dr. V. L. Abbott, 
Northeast, Maryland. March 7, 1927. 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
\Vashington, 3.C. 
Dear Doctor letmore:- 
I am glad to hear that you are at last starting 
for Haiti. I wrote to John King a few days ago and told him to be 
sure and meet you at any place you might wish on the Dominican side. 
I have never had any answer to my first letter to him - possibly that 
letter miscarried as it contained $5. I also told John to meet you 
himself , and not to send his brothers who are perfectly worthless. 
In the Dominican Republic be sure and visit 
Const anza and go up the high wide valley opening to the eastward, down 
which the Rio Grande flov/s. It is surrounded by high mountains, (saw 
traces of glaciation on hills to right (South)) and is the place I 
recommended to the Dominican Government as a cinchona plantation. 
Then try to go to Mb. Rucilla to the west of Constanza where Beck 
got the crossbill. (The road to both places starts from Varabacoa, 15 
miles south of La Yega, on the Dominican (Scotch) railway line for 
Santiago to Sanchez. 
Constanza must have been an Indian center, 
and lots of small Indian relics, stones,pottery can be got from the 
inhabitants - cheap? if you are not in a hurry. If you spend all your 
time in the mountains of the Cent. Cordillera you will not regret it. 
