SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
November 17, 1921. 
Mr. Oakes Arnes, 
355 Commonwealth Avenue, 
Boston, Massachusetts. 
Dear Mr. Ames: 
Thank you very much for the check which you forwarded 
so promptly. Your contribution will certainly assist very 
materially in making the proposed collecting expedition a 
successful one. 
The other day I received from Mr. Powell a copy of his 
last letter to you. It is most satisfactory to find that 
he has changed Ms attitude with regard to sending speci¬ 
mens to this country. It is to he hoped that you may ob¬ 
tain something worth while from him. I do not remember 
just what I wrote to him with regard to my visiting Panama. 
P short time ago Mr. Ccville was considering going to 
Panama in December and washed me to go with him on my way 
to Salvador. It has been found not to be practicable for 
him to make his visit this year and, consequently, it will 
not be possible for me to visit Panama. We are hoping, how¬ 
ever to take up the matter of the preparation of a flora of 
the Canal Zone, and in that connection it will very likely 
be possible for me to collect there next ' r ear. 
The plans for my visit to Salvador are now completed; 
and everything has been arranged most satisfactorily. If no 
accident happens the trip should be a very successful one. 
Recently Mr. Maxon has received a letter from one of the 
vice presidents of the United Bruit Company which will help 
materially in the prosecution of the work. We are to have 
a reduction in transportation rates, and I have also been 
given permission to spend as much, time as I wish at the plan¬ 
tations of the fruit company in eastern Guatemala. As a 
consequence, I am now expecting upon my return from Salvador 
to spend several weeks in eastern Guatemala, probably about 
Q,uirigua, a region in which little botanical work has been 
done. It ought to be possible to obtain something inter¬ 
esting in the way of orchids there. The work in Guatemala, 
of course, will not interfere with that planned for Salva¬ 
dor, but will be addition to it and will supplement it. 
