CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM. CHICAGO 
Chicago Natural History Museum 
[formerly field museum of natural history] 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND FIELD DRIVE 
Chicago s, Illinois 
May 16, 1945 
Dear Mr. Schweinfurth; 
Recently we received from the agricultural 
school in Honduras, of Which Wilson Popenoe is director, some 3300 
specimens of plants, collected in the mountains of central Honduras. 
The collections were made by Juvenal Valerio. Naturally in the 
lot there are a number of orchids. I have named those that were 
common or easy (for me), but there is quite a residue. I haven't 
counted the specimens remaining, but I suppose there may be 40. 
The specimens are good, better prepared than most of the Costa 
Rican ones, but small. 
Would you be willing to name these specimens if we send them 
on. I understand that after the names are supplied a set of these 
plants is to go to Harvard, so I trust you will oget the orchid 
specimens ultimately. I hate to ask you to do this work, for from 
my own experience I know what it is to be deluged with such work. 
I might say apropos of the Honduran collection that the other plants 
have not given me much difficulty in determination, being mostly 
pretty common. However, since we have so little from Honduras, 
anything from that country is worth having. They are extending 
their collecting field, and ultimately we may get something better, 
if it exists in that country. Strangely enough, Epidendrum radi- 
cans is absent from the Valerio collection, although I know it 
grows in Honduras. I remember collecting it there once in a pig 
pen! 
There is here also a much larger collection of Costa Rican or¬ 
chids, probably 250 or more of them, received from the C. R. Museum. 
I believe you agreed some time ago to name these. I held them ex¬ 
pecting to send with them some others that they were goi^g to 
send later. Since the latter have not yet arrived, perhaps I had 
better send the lot to you at the same time as the Honduran ones, 
if you are willing to undertake the whole lot. 
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