‘ orth Baston, haBsacbusetts• August 18th, 1 t SI. 
ly dear: I r, Stand ley* 
Your letter of the 13 th, regarding 
the Peruvian orchids, has just reached me here. The crit¬ 
ical work on the species has taken much longer than I had 
expected it would. I have just finished photographing the 
large collection of Tessmann numbers loaned to me by Ber¬ 
lin and I have still to give this collection careful study 
before returning it. It 1 b going to be abifficult task to 
assemble the material I have in hand and to amplify it by 
adding in species which have been reports from i eru but 
specimens of which I have not seen from there, I have be- 
com so used to having in hand complete representations of 
genera, that I rather dread facing the dangers of compil- 
p.tson, I think it will be well to begin the preparation of 
the manuscript in the autumn and to push it along as rapid¬ 
ly as possible to complet#fe.& In the meantime it would be 
ell for you to send to me a few sample pages of the form 
of tre tment you wish jso have adopted in the direction of 
uni form!ty, 
low about the Central American lora; 
I have been assembling muter! 1 for t is ever since the be¬ 
ginning and I now have a magnificent collection of speci¬ 
mens, A beginning of the manuscript can be made at any time. 
incerely yours, 
