Jultt 18, 1930* 
Ily dear Ur. Standi cys 
Vsiill regard to the Peruvian orchids* I am 
planning to push through the determinations at the end of tjie suwtr 
vacation* I dont imagine that this will he a very difficult job and 
once it is begun the chief difficulty will he to prepare the sarni¬ 
es cript* I would work on the collection this summer, hut I have just 
begun to have a little pleasure working for myself and I have ay nose 
deep in my enumeration of the Honduran orchids that you and I have 
collected, I want to make this a creditable hit of work and I have 
in mind to publish it as vol, S of G3CHIMC&A2* I am hoping to in¬ 
clude the colored field drawings that Urs* ibaes made when she was 
in Honduras with me in 1923, This ought to he a very well worth while 
contribution and I think it might he a courteous thing to do to 
dedicate the volume to Gutter* Have you any Honduranspecimes of 
Stenorrkynchus in your herbarium} or any other Honduran things* And 
do you happen to know anything about the collectors who have done 
work in Honduras within recent times? I would he glad to pay for the 
time of someone who could run through your collections at the Field 
Hussum and pall out all Honduran labels. 
One thing 1 realise very keenly* I am giving 
too much time to administrative work with the result that ray research 
among the orchid® is falling behind* It seems to me that as useless 
as this orchid work may seem to he, at least it is the best 'hing I 
can do and about the only thing I like to do as a steady diev* 
