CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
July 14, 1936. 
Dear Mr. Schweinfurth: 
A wekk or more ago I wrote to Mr. 
Ames regarding the possibility of naming a collection of 
some 500 Costa Rican orchids, collected in recent years by 
Brenes, and presented recently to Field Museum, with the 
request that names be supplied for them. I have not received 
any reply, and fear that he may be away on vacation—I hope 
3ae may be, if the weather about Boston is anything like what 
we have been experiencing here. 
I am writing again to you, in the hope that you will 
undertake the naming of the collection. It is a part of a 
very large sending of plants, which is to form the ba§is 
for a new herbarium in the National Museum in San Jose. I 
think the greater part of the old herbarium is still in fair 
condition there, although the last time I saw it, it had been 
somewhat injured by insects. All the orchids, if I remember 
correctly, were sent on loan to Cogniaux, and were destroyed 
by fire. It may be that my memory is not correct in this. 
Probably it will be better to send the specimens on to 
you unmounted, for a good many of them, at least, can be 
divided, I think, and you can use your judgement about di¬ 
viding them. The specimens seem to be in very good shape— 
I have looked at only a few of them. 
I have a huge lot of other plants from Costa Rica 
here for naming, and I am anxious to make as much headway as 
possible with the whole collection. If you can undertake 
the orchids, we shall send them on at once. 
Sincerely yours, 
I 
J 
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