CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
December 1, 1932. 
Dear Professor Ames: 
The Museum is sending you a few British 
Honduras orchid specimens, for which we should greatly appre¬ 
ciate having your determinations. You are, of course, at per¬ 
fect liberty to retain a portion of any that are divisible. 
I am enclosing now a list of all the British Honduras or¬ 
chids that I have been able to list. Most of the specimens you 
have named, but a few names are taken from a list sent me by 
Schipp, of his specimens named at Berlin recently. 
This list is to appear in a report that Professor Record 
and I are preparing, to be published, presumably, about the 
middle of next year, at Yale. It will emphasize the trees, and 
herbaceous plants will merely be listed, since it is necessary 
to limit the number of pages—to 200 if possible. The present 
orchid list is rather ridiculous, for its brevity, but the 
herbaceous plants have been neglected heretofore, and the woody 
ones are not too well known. If you can add any names to 
the enclosed list, the favor will be greatly appreciated. Of 
course, I do not wish that you should spend any great amount of 
time in making additions, but perhaps you have records that are 
easily accessible. I remember that there was one British Hon¬ 
duras orchid of which Lankester was anxious to obtain plants, 
but I can hardly believe that it is any on this list—which 
reminds me (I am writing at home) that I have not looked in 
Schlechter's enumeration.^" 
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