Mr . Oakes Ames-2 . 
I should like to do anything possible to accommodate Mr. 
Cutter for the favors which we have already received from 
him, and also because I hope to some day secure from the 
United Fruit Company facilities for collecting about their 
properties on the eastern coast of Honduras and panama. 
Most of my time recently I have spent in writing labels 
for the collection obtained this year. It is slow work, 
but is now over two-thirds finished. Just as soon as I get 
to the end of the orchids, I shall send them on to you. 
I wish to thank you also for sending the publications 
to Doctor Calderon. I know he will be greatly pleased to 
receive them, for he is always deeply appreciative of every 
favor shown him. He has now sent us 1,200 numbers of plants 
that he has collected. I am sorry that he is not able to de¬ 
vote more time to botanical work, in which he is greatly 
interested, but the larger part of his time must be given to 
routine duties in the chemical laboratory, of which he has 
charge. The funds available there for botanical exploration 
are not very ample, but he has been making good use of them. 
I wash that he might he able to make a trip to the Volcano 
of Santa Ana, the highest peak of Salvador, during the wet 
season, for then I think it might be possible to find, more 
orchids and ferns. The dry season, although the most com¬ 
fortable and convenient for collecting, is not the season at 
which Central American plants flower most profusely. 
Sincerely yours, 
Assistant Curator, 
Division of Plants. 
