CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
June 17, 1936, 
Dear Mr. Schweinfurth: 
I am glad that you are willing to take 
on the Chinese orchids. The Museum is sending a letter to 
the person from whom the inquiry was received. 
The orchids of Sesse and Mocino will be sent you as 
soon as they can be mounted. We are going over the collection 
slowly, getting it ready for mounting, and it is a long task. 
However, I have one whole package of orchids, and will have 
them mounted at once, so they can be sent you. There probably 
will appear a few scattered specimens of the family that can 
be sent you later. 
The Monocots of the Flora of Peru are now in type, up 
to the orchids, and the part containing them probably will 
be issued within a few weeks. I am not making this state- 
ment with the idea of hastening the orchid manuscript, for 
there is no need for that, but merely to let you know that 
there will probably be no delay in printing the orchid part 
when it is ready. That is, if our present supply of labor 
continues, as I trust it may. 
Because of lack of funds, they have had to give up the 
printing of the Flora of Costa Rica in Costa Rica. That 
means I shall have to rewrite it in English, for publication 
here. I wish it were all in the condition of the orchid 
part, of which I shall have merely to submit your original 
manuscript. If I had known in the first place that they 
would be*unable to print the list, it would already have 
appeared here. However, I hold nothing against them in 
the matter, and Valerio is very much discouraged at what has 
happened. 
Sincerely yours, 
ADDRESS ADD CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES 
TO FIELD MUSEUM OP NATURAL HISTORY, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
