With regard to the Berlin "botanists and my 
friend Hansfeld who is trying to take over the orchids* It seems to 
me that we must do our o mi work and do this at any cost. Of course* 
one mm cannot handle all the" material that is coming in* hut I be¬ 
lieve it can be supervised and carried to the point of critical de~ 
termination by assistants* As much as I liked Schleehter as a man* it 
ia a relief to have have m 2 end of the sort of thing he was doing 
just before liio death* Bather than have the Germans take the field 
again* I think wo should go to extremes in taking measures to assemble 
and identify the plants of the Americas* 
I have just sent to press the accumulations of 
new species from Central America# Thiswill constitute the tenth num¬ 
ber of Scbedulae Orehidionae# It will* unfortunately be a fat number. 
1 have also just completed in cooperation with Eduardo ycisumblng a 
long paper on Philippine orchids for the Philippine Journal of 
Science# I may be able to finish ay monograph of the Central American 
spool 00 of Stella by the end of the autumn# Then there are several 
minor papers that must see the light soon* or die* 
Any help you can give me regarding Honduras will 
be moot welcome just now when the fever is running high and an 
enthusiasm that seemed to be dead is gaining in intensity day by day. 
Fdthfulljr yours# 
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