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Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
To give you some idea of these jungles- fifty feet away one cannot see 
ones companion, the imder-growth is so thick. Thus it frequently so 
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happens that I reach my home or camp with only/plant of a, species. I 
havepersonally collected a large majority of my plants. I always 
carry with me a nearly grown hoy to climh trees for me. as this hevond 
my ability 
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carefully 
the greatest pleasure in reading over/all of the special and reprint 
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articles you so kindly sent me. I xxsc± some one of them now at every 
convenient opportunity, and I feel sure that my comprehension is being 
both stimulated and enlarged. Again,very many thanks for your courteous 
consideration in sending them. 
I have no recent letter from hr Schlechter, but I am expecting 
one in the next mail, and I feel sure that if I do hear he will send me 
another list of determinations, a copy of which will be sent on to you. 
ho you know hr Duncan S.Johnson of John Hopkins University, he 
wrote me on October 27th asking me for details of cost of a trip to the 
Chiriqui region and also when I was going up there. To this I wrote 
giving all information and advised him of my projected trip in early 
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January. From his letter I would not be at all surprised if he should 
come down and go at the same time I do. I will be much pleased if he 
should come. 
Very sincerely yours 
