available for distribution. I presume a good many people will wish 
it who do not care particularly for other parts of the Flora. 
There is no need for haste in regard to the orchid part, but if it 
is completed and is sent on here, I shall try to get it printed 
as soon as this first volume is out of the way. 
The Lewis family left Guatemala early last summer and Mrs. 
Lewis and the children are now in a country town in Indiana. I was 
sorry they left, and they were sorry to leave, although their chil¬ 
dren are now at the age where they would have had to be sent to the 
States for schooling. Mrs. Lewis is one of the most delightful 
women whom I have ever known. I doubt there is anything she could 
not do, and whatever she would undertake, she would pretty certainly 
do well. 
With best 
A nephew of mine who is with the Engineers on Adak Island in 
the Aleutians sent me in a letter recently email specimens of twelve 
plants he had collected there. He knows nothing about plants and I 
presume took those that looked the best to him. Of the twelve, 
three are orchids. A rather high family percentage for any floral 
