CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM, CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
August 28, 1936 
Dear Mr. Ames: 
The Epidendrum monograph came today, and I 
greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness in sending it. 
As yet I haven’t seen much of it, hut it looks very fine, 
and I know that it represents a great amount of work. 
What a vast genus that is! And I suppose there are 
others, like Pleurothallis, that are almost as extensive, 
perhaps more so, for all I know* 
Peruvian orchids keep turning up, and we sent a few 
just the other day. We have a new collector in Peru who 
is Quite active, hut unfortunately he is in a region 
where orchids are,not numerous. 
All the Sesse and Mocino orchids are now in your 
hands. The last small lot will, unfortunately, not help 
in the genus Epidendrum. I am sending with this letter 
a sample of the general style to be used in reporting 
upon the herbarium (the sample need not be returned), 
It is desirable, I think, to avoid mentioning the,unpub¬ 
lished names that appear upon so many of the Sesse and 
Mocino labels, and I have listed them merely as "Amaran- 
thus sp. nov.” etc. I wish it were possible to devise 
some means of listing them, but in such a matter that they 
could not be reported in the Index Kewensls and elsewhere, 
to clutter literature with perhaps 2000 useless synonyms, 
but if they actually appear in print, I suppose they will 
be listed, no matter what kind of a warning might be 
given. Perhaps we might have them copyrighted, but un¬ 
fortunately the time of a copyright is limited! 
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