CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
June 4, 1936 
Dear Mr® Schweinfurthi 
We have just received a letter from a 
rather important friend of the Museum, written from Chengtu, 
China, in which he states that the eighteen year old son of one 
of the doctors in the hospital there, a young man of serious 
disposition, is much interested in the local orchids. 
He “desires to get in touch with some scientific institution 
that will help him in the matter of classification in return for 
his presenting specimens. He has, I understand, collected more 
than 60 varieties in the immediate surrounding mountains which 
he has preserved and of which he has duplicates that he could 
send in whatever form of preservation might be desired. He also 
cultivates some live specimens end is making a complete photo¬ 
graphic record of all that he has, as also water-color paintings 
of some of them®** 
The young man 8 s name is Liljestrand. Would you and Mr® 
Ames be interested in the matter? If not, can you suggest some 
one in Europe or elsewhere who would undefctake the naming of 
his material? From further remarks in the letter, he seems 
to deserve encouragement® If you would like to get in 
touch with the young man, we shall ask him to write directly 
to you. I do not have his address, and the Director would like 
to send some word in the matter directly from here. 
Sincerely yc”-'*® 
\J 
Paul 0. i 
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