SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
November 3, 1923 
Mr. Oakes Ames, 
355 Commonwealth. Avenue 
Boston, Massachusetts 
Dear Mr. Ames 
We are forwarding by mail a package containing 
13 specimens of orchids collected in Costa Rica by Prof. H. 
E. Stork the past summer. We should appreciate having 
your identifications when it may be convenient to supply 
them. Some of the specimens are probably not in good enough 
condition for determination, but one or two look rather in- 
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teresting. The specimens, of course, are not to be returned 
to us. 
Professor Stork has sent us a collection of several 
hundred ^specimens, from western Panama and central Costa 
Rica, and there are a good many interesting things included, 
notably several new species of trees. 
