CABLE ADDRESS . MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
November 20, 1935. 
Dear Mr. Ames: 
A recent development has caused the Director 
to ask me to submit as soon as possible for printing as 
much manuscript as we can get together, especially of the 
Flora of Peru. More than 50 galleys of this are now in 
type. 
We have ample WPA assistance in printing at present, 
but it is possible, if not probable, that it may be with¬ 
drawn in March, instead of several months later, as ori¬ 
ginally planned. We are not likely soon to have such 
another opportunity for printing. 
I am going to try to get together the manuscript for 
the palms, which Dr. Dahlgren really has in good shape, 
except for combination, trusting that he will approve of 
this upon his return next month from Brazil. I am hoping 
to have soon Bromeliaceae and Bomarea, now in the hands of 
their authors for revision. These groups will provide for 
everything up to the orchids. 
Now of course I do not know the status of the orchid 
treatment, but if it can be finished, I trust it will 
be printed just about as soon as received, than is, if it 
arrives by the first of March or preferably sooner. 
Please let me know your views upon the subject. The orchids 
are to be followed by some hundred® of descriptions of 
Piperaceae, so I don’t know whether it would be lamented 
if publication stopped short of those groupsl But I 
suppose the Pipers will get into print some day anyway. 
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES 
TO FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL BISTORT, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
