CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
June 22, 1936. 
Bear Mr. Ames: 
Today f I have prepared for shipment to you the main 
portion of the Sesse and Mocino orchids. I know there are at 
least a few other numbers, scattered here and there through the 
collection, but this sending comprises the specimens that were 
segregated in the herbarium as we received it. It will perhaps 
be some time before the other numbers are available for sending. 
It will be best to retain these until the others are sent. 
I hope that you will prepare the account of the family to be in-* 
eluded in the volume that we hope to publish upon the herbarium, 
and I have not prepared any part of the manuscript that might 
serve as a model for style of treatment, nor have I considered 
just what the style should be. 
Today also I received notice of the sending from Costa Rica 
of the first instalment of the long-awaited Brenes collection. 
This first sending consists of about 500 numbers of orchids, of 
recent years. I don't know whether the specimens will be ample 
enough for division or not, but I hope so. At any rate, may we 
send it to you for determination? Valerio is anxious to have 
their herbarium in good shape, and properly named, and I suppose 
the sending of the rest depends in part upon the naming of 
the first sendings, consequently I hope to make a good impression 
upon him. I presume the orchid material will be in good shape 
and also interesting. 
Sincerely yours, 
ADDRESS AIX CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES 
TO FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
