Powells' Horticultural Garden 
O RC H I DS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C.Z., PANAMA_ OCtObel* _ 30. 19 21 _192 
My dear Prof" Jbness 
1 have your esteemed letters of Oct 21st, and I have read them over 
several times to thoroughly get your view point, and I must admit that I am more than 
pleased with them. They have brushed away the cobwebs of mi sunder standing and removed 
the feeling of hurt pride to such an extent, that 1 now feel rather sorry that I did 
not make further and renev/ed efforts to get in touch with you some 3 years agone. Bad 
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I done so, what an amount of worry over the unknown, and how muoh heart burn might have 
been removed. I now feel sure that your explanation as to why you did not write me 
then, is the correct one. My friend, who is not now on the Isthmus and cannot be con¬ 
sulted, I know went to some garden which was recognized by your name being attached 
to it, as I had told him when leaving,that any one in Boston could tell him the loca¬ 
tion of the imes gardehs. I will also clear Harvard Botanical Gardens as being one of 
the other two referred to in my letter. One of them has within the current year 
made the "amende honorable". 
My letter was not written in the nature of a complaint, but as an 
explanation o f why I had sent my specimens to Europe. It goes without saying that I 
had much rather my types were in the U.S. than in Kew or Berlin; and I assure you that 
you are mistaken in saying- " I am sorry that events have so shaped themselves that 
you find more pleasure in d6ing that, than in sending them here". Event s did so shape 
themselves, but not the pleasure etc. 
One more word on the subject of determinations to justify my remark 
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and we will drop it- being sorry that I made it. y ou will remember that Reichenbach 
gave out the names of many Panama species with Imperfect or ne descriptions, besides 
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locking up his herbarium v/ith many types unannounced, but named. jjj. j^lfe, w ith all 
of the facilities of Kew, was unwilling to make these determinations until he had 
examined the Reiohenbaek herbarium in order to avoid .ynonjnns and oonfusion. 
