CABLE ADDRESS - MUSEUM. CHICAGO 
Field Museum of Natural History 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE MICHIGAN 
Chicago 
April 11, 1938 
Dear Professor Amess 
We have about 40 mounted specimens of 
orchids collected this year in the Chiriqui region of 
Panama by a woman, a new collector there, one, apparently, 
who deserves some encouragement. 
At any rate, her specimens of orchids are much 
better than the average in that family, and if they are 
like the material in other families, they should include 
something of interest. Would you be willing to name them 
if we send them on? It is quite likely that the collector, 
whose name I don't recall at the moment, but shall be glad 
to supply, would be willing to give some special attention 
to orchids. Those mentioned constitute about 40 per 
cent of her whole collection, so evidently she already has 
some interest in the plants. 
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