CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
July 14, 1933 
Dear Mr. Ames: 
It will be quite feasible to_find 
to accompany Mrs. Ames' son to the fait, I 
some young man 
am sure. Arnold 
Doubleday, whose home is in Honduras, has lived with me tor the 
past five years, attending Chicago schools most of that time. 
He has vacation all this summer, and would be glad, I am sure, 
to serve in this matter. He is twenty-one, a gentleman, knows 
the city well, and would, I think, be found wholly satisfactory 
and an agreeable companion. If he for some reason shoulo not oe 
available, some one else can be found ?/ithout dixj-iculuy. 
He lives with me at 7016 Clyde Avenue, and may be reached 
by telephone Midway 8198. During office hours I always can be 
called by telephone at Wabash 9410, the Museum exchange^ 
X find. 1^113-13 X was in Honduras afeoui four Hiontns——slightly 
less_and collected 4300 numbers, with approximately 13000 speci¬ 
mens. In Costa Rica I have done much better, for the Costa. 
Rican flora is piuch richer. From one trip to Costa Rica and 
Panama I brought back fifteen thousand numbers. Such.a number 
as that can be obtained only after considerable experience, 
and by using the most expeditious methods of collecting ana pre- 
serving the material. I often am very impatient with tne scant 
quantity of material obtained by some collectors, for it usually 
seems that they might well have obtained several times as many 
specimens as they actually bring home. The number of specimens 
that I usually have obtained, I can say impersonally has been 
largely the result of rapid activity that comes to me naturally, 
and for which I deserve no special credit. 
However, Mr. Williams, who collected for_us m Amazonian 
Peru had had no previous experience whatever in collecting:, 
and he certainly made a wonderful collection, wioh tne expen¬ 
diture of an almost ridiculously small.amount of money._ He 
likes the work, and would enjoy returning to South America, 
particularly Ecuador, to collect wood anc. heroarium specimens. 
When conditions improve, as now seems possible, I hope he may 
undertake a trip there. 
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