CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
April 24, 1931. 
Dear Mr, Schweinfurth: 
I am very sorry that an oversight on 
my part has occurred in failing to answer your queries 
regarding Peruvian orchids. This discourtesy certainly was 
not intentional. 
We do not have here any Peruvian orchids at all, or at 
least I have tried to send you all of them. We do have in 
the herbarium—all our Peruvian plants are segregated—a very 
large number of Weberbauer collections. Last year we purchased 
the largest set of them after the one at Berlin, and we already 
had substantial numbers of them. I noticed, however, that 
there were relatively few orchids in the set we received, and 
such as there were were sent to you. We do not have any of 
Weberbauer®s lower numbers. Those, I think, are represented 
only at Berlin. 
Macbride has been trying his best to get the loan from 
Berlin of the Peruvian orchids for you, but just what success 
he has been having is not quite clear to me. Some of the men 
there seem to be so decidedly temperamental, if that really is 
the proper term for it, that it is difficult to treat with 
them. Still, they have been more than ordinarily helpful to 
Macbride in his work, for the most part, at least. However, 
they do seem to feel that it is the duty of every one to 
send their best material to Berlin, without any reciprocation 
on that museum®s part. It is unfortunate that some of their 
monographers act on the theory that any species not duly 
represented by material submitted to Berlin is not to be taken 
seriously, or at least not to be accepted officially. At least 
that is what some of the recent parts of the Pflanzenreich seem 
to indicate. 
Very^ruly yours 
V 
Paul C. Standley 
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