this is certainly quite enough for the present time. 
It is almost certain that later I shall remember various 
matters that I have forgotten to mention. I know there are 
a few, about which 1 shall write you later. I should like 
to devote a whole letter to Mr. Powell. He is almost 
pathetically devoted to his orchid work, in fact, I do not 
believe it is ever out of his mind. I have never seen 
anyone so enthusiastic. There never arrives a mail from 
the States that he does not speak in advance of the fact 
that he expects to receive a letter from you, and usually 
predicts what he thinks it will contain. There is nothing 
that pleases him so much as the record of an orchid new 
for Panama. It is too bad that he is not thirty years 
younger, so that he could go out into the jungles and 
do some real collecting. He is not able to do that now, 
although he still believes that he is* I wonder what 
will become of his collection of living plants when he has 
finished with it. It would be too bad to see it lost, 
and still I wonder if there is a place where it could 
be used as a unit. 
