SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
January 3, 1923. 
Mr. Oakes Ames, 
355 Commonwealth Avenue, 
Boston, Massachusetts. 
Bear Mr. Ames: 
We are forwarding, by mail as an exchange, 
a package containing 72 miscellaneous specimens 
of orchids. Recently we have been making a dis¬ 
tribution of an accumulation of duplicates, and 
these specimens represent the orchids of the ac¬ 
cumulation. Some of the specimens were collected 
by Buchtien, and it is likely that we may have 
sent you specimens of these previously, but if 
so, the present ones are likely to be somewhat 
ampler than those of the former sending. 
I am very much obliged for the identifications 
of the orchids collected in Mexico by Ortega, and 
of those obtained in Guatemala by the Department 
of Agriculture of that country. We are sending 
the determinations to the persons interested who, 
I am sure, will appreciate having them. Thank you 
also for the address of Mr. Lankester. I shall 
write to him especially with regard to the Wercklea, 
of which I hope he may be able to obtain material. 
I should like, also, to get in touch with him in 
case it is practicable for me to go to Costa Rica 
at the end of this year. 
The north coast of Honduras must be an inter¬ 
esting region botanically, and I believe that the 
only collection obtained there is that made by 
Perc 3 / Wilson some years ago which was not very ex¬ 
tensive. The United Bruit Company has several planta¬ 
tions upon the coast with which as headquarters it 
should be quite easy to make collections there . From 
what I was told while in Guatemala, some of the moun¬ 
tain ranges lie quite close to the Fruit Company’s 
plantations. 
Sincerely yours, 
Paul C. Standley 
Assistant Curator 
Division of Plants. 
