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Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
June 22, 1937 
Dear Mr. Ames: 
I wish to thank you for the prompt return 
of the corrected proof of the orchids of Costa Rica. I 
hope we may be able to send the rest of the family soon, 
since I have had no proof for several days, during which the 
typesetters must have accomplished something. The whole 
part, amounting to perhaps 600 pages, should be issued 
rather promptly, since there is nothing to hold it up. 
I expect there will be an appendix at the end of the volume, 
in which can be noted any additions that accumulate between 
now and the time that the volume is finished. The first 
part will end probably with the Myrtaceae. While some 
of the succeeding families are written up, it is likely to 
be some time before I can find an opportunity to treat the 
rest. 
The statement regarding authorship as it appeared in 
the first proof was the result of an oversight of mine. 
Mr. Schwelnfurth had written me some time ago that he had 
had nothing to do with the preparation of the list. 
We now have a new assistant in the herbarium, Dr. Steyer- 
mark, who has great energy and ambition. It will now be 
possible for me to get away for some time if I wish to do 
so, something that has been impossible since Macbride has 
been in Europe—where he is likely to remain some time 
longer, if political conditions there do not interfere. 
He is now at Paris, and will find there enough to occupy him 
for some time to come. 
It is quite possible that I may be able to go next win¬ 
ter to Central America, health permitting. While I should 
like nothiig so much as another visit to Costa Rica, it Is 
likely that I shall go rather to Guatemala, with idea of 
preparing a list of plants of that country. If I do go, I 
hope I can obtain a good quantity of orchids. I should like 
best of all to go to Ecuador, but I do not know that it 
will be possible to obtain sufficient funds for the purpose, 
and I am not certain that I wish to undertake anything quite 
so strenuous. 
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS AND PACKAGES 
TO FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
