CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
November 8, 1935. 
Dear Mr. Ames: 
Yesterday the Museum printing office began 
composition on the first part of Macbride?’s Flora of 
Peru, and at the rate at which they have been working 
recently, they should complete it—the typesetting—in 
two or three weeks. This first part runs to the begin¬ 
ning of the palms. Dr. Dahlgren is now in Brazil, but 
as soon as he returns, some time in December, I think 
he will be able to complete the manuscript of that family 
in short order. 
If he does so, there is no reason, I think, why 
printing of the flora should not continue, and another 
part be issued. The purpose of this letter is to inquire 
regarding the prospects for the orchids. I have no idea 
of their state, although my recollection is that consider¬ 
able if not all work upon them has been done. Can you 
give me some idea of how soon it would be possible to 
supply the manuscript for themt 
About the next family after them-—there can be only 
a few minor groups between—is the Piperaceae, and I 
groan whenever I think of the manuscript, prepared by 
Dr. Trelease. There must be at least 250 new species, 
besides a good many old ones, and I presume I shall have 
to be the one to translate the English descriptions into 
Latin. It is planned not to publish descriptions of new 
species in the flora, but in theis case I see no reason 
for publishing Latin diagnoses in advance, then English 
descriptions immediately afterward. Anyone who takes 
any interest in the Piperaceae will always at least know 
Latin, I suspect, and it would perhaps be preferable if 
all information about them might be published in Japanese, 
Maya, Sanskrit, or some equally obscure languageJ 
If the next instalment of the flora can continue at 
least through the Piperaceae, it will make a very sub¬ 
stantial publication, considerably larger than the first 
one. 
SfjKTerely yours, 
There still is delay in publication of the Flora of 
Costa Rica, and I dQh't know what the outcome will be./ 
If worst comes to worst, I shall translate it into / 
English, and have it published here. J 
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