CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
August 13, 1931. 
Dear Professor Ames: 
While the subject is still fresh in my 
mind, I had better write you regarding the Flora of Peru. 
We have received recently from Macbride manuscript for the 
first part of this volume, or series of volumes, and it is 
expected that it will be submitted soon to the printer. 
Part of the introduction still is lacking, and the treatment 
of two groups, but it is expected that these will be at hand 
shortly. 
The first instalment will run to the orchids—that is, 
end before the family. Macbride has most of the families worked 
out, and there is every reason for believing that the printing 
can continue with little interruption. Dr. Trelease now is 
preparing the Piperaceae (heaven help us), which, if I remem¬ 
ber' correctly, follow the orchids. Those two families alone 
will make a good-sized part, I suspect. 
I am sending this information so that you may know that 
the part treating the orchids can be printed promptly, when¬ 
ever” it is submitted. The first part of the flora should be 
off the -cress early in 1932, barring accidents. 
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES 
TO FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
