CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
October 1, 1930. 
Dear Professor Ames: 
The Museum is sending you on loan about 150 
mounted specimens of Peruvian orchids. This includes all the 
Peruvian material remaining here. I trust you will find the 
Weberbauer collection recently purchased of some interest. You 
are, of course, at liberty to take fragments of any of the 
divisible specimens. Of many of those now forwarded you already 
have duplicates. 
We have received recently a shipment of plants from Mr. 
Schunke, but so far there have not arrived some 300 orchid 
specimens that he offered, and that we ordered. I don’t know 
whether we are going to get them or not. I hope they may come 
later, and they will be sent you as soon as they are mounted. 
According to the most recent letters received from Macbride, 
he expects to send on the first part of the Flora of Peru in 
November, but I expect it will be later, for he should wait for 
a ls,rge sending of specimens now going to him. The first part will 
go at least up. to the palms, and if that group is written up in 
time, as I hope, the part will continue on to the orchids. 
There is every reason for believing it will be printed promptly, 
for the Museum printing office works very efficiently of late— 
I have four longish papers, one a whole volume, now in process 
of printing. 
It will be possible, then, to print the orchid part, and 
following families, just as soon as the manuscript is ready. 
There will not be such a great hurry for it, for once the first 
part of the flora is out, there will not be so much need for 
haste, for the ground will be cinched. 
I do not have here any samples to show the style of the 
flora, although as soon as I write up the grasses, which I 
trust, may be within the next two or three weeks—it is a mere 
matter of compilation, chiefly—I can send you some. On the 
whole, the style of Britton's Flora of Porto Rico is to be fol¬ 
lowed. All synonyms relating to Peru are to be cited, and others 
if desirable. I think we shal}. run them in a solid paragraph, 
hut if each is on a, separate line, it will be easy to run them 
together. The form of citation is to be as in that work, with 
volume numbers in arable numerals. 
There are to be descriptions of family, genus, and species 
as in the Flora of Porto Rico, and keys to genera and species. 
After each species the specimens eaxmined are to be cited, 
arranged by departments, with full data,, except that it is not 
worth while to give date in case of numbered specimens. 
Any miscellaneous notes and comments naturally wills add 
greatly to the interest of the book. 
Macbride writes that Mansfeld tells him there are many spe¬ 
cies of orchids at Berlin not there when Schlechter published his 
enumeration. Macbride thinks that Mansfeld would be willing, 
perhaps, to have him list them—heaven knows they are formal 
enough at Berlin, and have more red tape than in Tifashington 
bureaus—if that will help in your work. He suggests, however, 
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