CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
July 21, 1936. 
Dear Mr. Schweinfurth: 
I thank you for the orchid manuscript 
for the Flora of Peru. I shall make the corrections that 
you suggest in the previous manuscript. I think it will 
be just as well if you will hold the rest of the manuscript 
until all, or at least a major part of it, is completed. 
We can, of course, publish it as soon as it is ready (as 
long as out present WPA assistance lasts, v/hich will surely 
be until a year from now) . It will end the first volume of 
the Flora. 
We are sending in a day or two a box containing the 
Costa Rican orchids, also the Costa Rican manuscript. 
I haven’t looked at the Brenes specimens, but was informed 
that the whole sending, as forwarded to you, consisted of 
orchids. If you do find any.other plants, please return 
them separately. 
I had been expecting to submit the first part of 
the Flora of Costa Rica soon for printing, but shall hold 
it until the orchids are ready. I have to wait, als 9 , for 
some economic notes that I am expecting from San Jose. 
Valerio is to be joint author of the flora, in case he 
supplies the notes, as he has agreed to do. I do not 
mean by this, naturally, that you should exercise any undue 
haste in studying the collection, only that the manuscript 
probably will be used as soon as you return it. Having 
myself been exceedingly rushed with urgent work lately, 
I am becoming: quite stubborn about it, and certainly do 
not have any desire to impose upon anyone else. Two to 
three months from now, will do very well for the orchid 
part. 
Let your conscience guide you in taking material from 
the collection. We shall be glad to have as many as possi¬ 
ble of the specimens, or rather parts of them, but I feel 
that you should keep any types, and any other specimens 
that seem essential. How many of the specimens can be di¬ 
vided, I don'$ know, but probably a good many of them. 
The Quiros orchids are part of a large collection, 
the rest of which I have already named. Several new col¬ 
lectors are at work now in Oosta Rica, and I am hoping to 
have a large amount of material from there. 
The manuscript will not need to be retyped, unless 
very extensive changes are made in it, and we can have the 
typing done here, if not convenient to have it done at 
the Botanical Museum. Descriptions of new species can be 
included, if you wish. 
Sincerely yours, 
vi U, C 
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