CABLE) ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
February 4, 1932. 
Dear Mr. Amesi 
I am glad to know that you have had such satis¬ 
factory relations with Mr. Edwards. I had hoped that we 
might be able to purchase some collections from him, if he 
was prepared to supply them, but we are now informed that 
we are not to buy any collections for the rest of this year, 
so that is that. You may be sure that I should be glad to 
name the plants that he may collect for you. He has a com¬ 
plete new field in which to work; no one ever has collected 
plants in that part of Honduras. I presume, however, that 
the flora is similar to that of the highlands of Salvador, 
and to that of the Siguatepeque region, where I collected 
last. 
It is perhaps not good diplomacy for me to state that 
there is now no great hurry about the manuscript of the 
Peruvian orchids. The first part of the flora, up to the 
orchids—with the exceptionsof the palms, which will be pro¬ 
vided when needed—already has been submitted for printing. 
The printing force of the Museum has been cut in half, and 
little printing beyond labels, reports, etc. can be done 
this year. That, too, when we have a plethora of manuscript 
available—not my own. However, the papers all will be out 
some day. Naturally we are most interested in the Flora of 
Peru. The Director has given orders that it be hurried in 
printing as much as possible, but that means little when the 
labels must be cared for. 
This museum has been affected by current conditions, like 
most other organizations. A number of people have been dropped 
from our department, but I have been fortunate thus far. 
So far as I know, there is no need for me to worry on my own 
account, but it is impossible to tell what might happen. 
At any rate, I have work enough to keep my thoughts in 
other channels most of the time. The collections received 
lately for naming have been unusually numerous, especially 
those from Central America. And the other day there arrived un¬ 
expectedly about 1500 sheets of South American Rubiaceae from 
Paris to be named and returned. Most of them are fifty years 
old or more. 
There are a few Costa Rican orchids just received that 
I should like to send you for naming. They are rather frag¬ 
mentary, and scarcely worth the trouble. However, we are 
pitifully weak in Central American orchids, and practically 
every named specimen will mean another species for our her¬ 
barium. I have named the ones that I could. 
Sine 
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