CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
February 12, 1935, 
Dear Mr® Ames 
I wish to thank you for your letter with 
regard to Dr. Baehni. Yes, I believe it would be well 
to *ait until he visits Boston, as I expect he will do 
some time in the spring. There is no doubt, 1 think, 
that you will at least like him, and will have confidence 
in his ability to do good work. 
The manuscript for the Costa Rican orchids is beau¬ 
tifully prepared, and it will form probably the most 
important part of the whole volume. The future of this 
work is bright at present. There is a new director 
of the National Museum, Juvenal Valerio, who spent so 
much time with me collecting. He writes that he is anxious 
to see the volume printed. I think it will be well if 
he appears as a joint author of the volume® That probably/ 
would mean a good deal to him, and perhaps help his po¬ 
sition there. By the time he has seen the flora through 
the press, he will well have deserved that small amount 
of recognition. 
There is every reason to believe that the flora will 
be printed promptly. I am now promised a set of the 
collections made dyring the past years by Alberto Brenee, 
and it seems well worth while to hold publication until 
those can be used, for no doubt they will add a good 
many species to the list as it now stands. 
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