CABLE ADDHE88 - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
June 30, 1936, 
Dear Mr, Schweinfurth: 
I have gone over the sample you have 
sent of your treatment of the orchids for the Flora of Peru, 
and have found it altogether satisfactory. There is only one 
change that I would suggest, and that is in the form of the 
citations. In all our botanical publications (except perhaps 
in the case of a separate volume like the palm index} we 
have used the form: Griseb, Bonplandia 2: 116, 1854, Since 
all the rest of the Flora of Peru will be thus, it would be 
preferable to have the orchids follow the same usage, unless 
you have some strong objection in the matter. I shall keep 
the present manuscript here, unless you wish it returned. 
I .realize, from the treatments of these two genera, that the 
work will be heavy in treating the Peruvian orchids. 
So far as I know, we have here no more Peruvian specimens. 
However, those sent you recently were overlooked or arrived 
unexpectedly, so we can^ not tell what may happen. We received 
from Madrid a very large collection of Ruiz and Pavon plants, 
but unfortunately, as waps to be expected, there were few or¬ 
chids among them. 
We have just received the Costa Rican orchids collected 
by Brenes, almost 500 specimens, and very good specimens. I 
hope you will name them—-I wrote about them to Mr. Ames the 
other day. A good many of the specimens can be divided, I 
think, and probably it will be best to send you the whole 
lot unmounted, and let you remove parts of them. I think it 
might be best that you have the types there. Probably they 
will necessitate some additions to the Flora of Costa Rica. 
I have manuscript for half the flora just about ready for 
printing here, but do not intend to submit it until I know 
it can be set up at once. Probably they will be ready to 
print it inside a couple of months. 
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES 
TO FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
