CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
December 3, 1930 
Dear Professor Ames: 
Acknowledgement of your last letter has been 
delayed because of the fact that X was obliged, Quite unexpected¬ 
ly. to spend some time in the hospital for an appendicitis 
operation. My stay there was quite painless and lasted only 
eight days, but I did not return to the Museum until a few days 
ago. I now feel considerably better than I did before the 
operation, and the doctor says there is nothing else wrong 
with me, so I should have cause for rejoicing rather than otner- 
wise. . .. .. 
Of course, I do not know the conditions surrounding.the 
research position you suggest for Professor Record, but if it 
has to do w: ! th research work in tropical woods, I feel, sure that 
he would at least be interested. He has, I presume, the greatest 
familiarity with tropical woods that any one ever has had. The 
subject is one of the greatest economic importance, and he should 
be enabled to make the greatest possible use of the experience 
that he has accumulated. Of course, he has almost a free hand 
where he is, and rather ample facilities for work, but doubt¬ 
less they could be bettered. 
We are sending you a few more Peruvian orchids tnat some¬ 
how have been overlooked previously. I thought that we already 
had sent you everything that we had. Personally, I hope that 
no more Peruvian plants come in in the near future, for we have 
been almost swamped with them for the past two years. 1$ we 
ever get all of them mounted, we can take care of some of the 
collections from other parts of South America, very extensive 
ones, that have accumulated in the meantime. In orchids I pre¬ 
sume it would be' possible to use further collections, but in some 
other groups there is a rather embarassing quantity of dupli¬ 
cating Material. 
Sincerely yours 
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Paul 0. Standiey. 
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