about whom I believe * have already written you. His 
collection was made in the Province of Guanacaste, a region 
where practically no collecting has been done.. It was 
planned that I should go there, accompanied by Yalerio. 
He was designated by the minister of Education to accom¬ 
pany me all the time I was in Costa Rica, and was excused 
from his work in the schools—he is a teacher--for that 
purpose. I do not know what to make of him. Sometimes 1 
think I understand the Central Americans very well, and 
at others I think that I know nothing about them. He 
did accompany me upon three short excursions. He also 
agreed to go to various other places, but when the appointed 
time came, he did not appear. I understand he is rather 
temperamental, although I should not suspect as much 
on seeing him. At any rate, I d id not get to Guanacaste, 
but I was just as well satisfied to spend my time else¬ 
where. Valerio is now in Guanacaste, and he wrote me that 
he was busy collecting plants* We shall see what will come 
of it. He deserves every encouragement anyway, for he is 
deeply interested in botanical work. He asked the super¬ 
intendent of schools a couple of years ago to send him to 
a small school in the mountains of Guanacaste, when he could 
have had a much better position elsewhere, solely because 
he wished to be in an interesting region for natural his¬ 
tory study. 
The box will contain eighty-two, if I remember cor¬ 
rectly, specimens of orchids collected by Oton Jimenez, 
chiefly during a trip that he made last year with Lankester. 
There ought to be some good things in the lot, since it is 
from a little visited region. Please acknowledge these 
specimens in a letter to Oton. His address is simply San 
Jose, Costa Mca. He has other specimens of orchids, be¬ 
sides, but did not have time to prepare them. It is a pity 
that he does not have time to devote to botanical work, 
for he has more interest in such matters, probably, than 
anyone who has lived in Costa A “ica, unless it be Tonduz. 
As it is, he has to work all day long, often also on Sun¬ 
days, in the retail and wholesale drug establishment 
belonging to his family. 
I believe that in a previous letter i wrote something 
about some of the other botanists in Costa Rica. I should 
like to be able to take up all of them in some detail, but 
there is not time at present. Uothing more is to be ex- 
pected of Werckle. I saw him several times. He has reached 
the stage, all are agreed, where he is absolutely sin ver- 
glienza , than which no one can fall lower in a Latin country. 
#h§y r say" th&t Tdnduz, in spite of his more or less similar 
failings, never fell to that state. Only a short time 
ago Werckle one night, while he was mildly intoxicated, 
fell asleep upon a bench on top of a bridge near the rail¬ 
road station, and fell down about twenty feet and broke 
one of his legs. He is now able to hobble about and beg 
for money for further drinks. The first time that he came 
to see me, he concluded his visit by saying "Give me a 
Colon," which I did, and he departed. He can talk lucidly 
