355 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. JAICABY 1st, 1922. 
My dear Dr. Powell: 
I send you the best of good wishes for a pros¬ 
perous and profitable New Year . 
She specimens arrived in excellent condition 
and were most acceptable. I hope there will be many years ahead 
of us in which it will be my pleasure to thank you for your pres¬ 
ent kindness and for your continued good will, 
I would suggest that you do not take the 
trouble to mount the specimens you send to me as the weight of 
the paper adds to the coat of postage and as we have profession¬ 
al mounters in Cambridge who do all our routine herbarium work. 
I would also suggest that you alio?/ me to have a special label 
printed for your collection. 
I enclose a drawing of a Gongora flower with 
the parts marked that are usually obscure to one who is not fully 
acquainted with the terms used in descriptions. I realize that 
this drawing will perhaps fall far short of answering your needs. 
Therefore, if you will make a drawing of a flower and send it to 
me with the parts marked that you wish to knoar about I will mark 
it and return it to you. This it seems to me is the best way. You 
may rest assured that I am ready to do everything within my pow- 
to assist you and that it is no trouble at all to help you. 
Have you a copy of Darwin's book on the fert¬ 
ilization of Orchids by Insects? If you have it not and you wish 
me to pick up a copy for you 1 will be pleased to do so. 
I will send you some mailing tubes together 
?/ith a list of species of which flowers would be acceptable . I 
will also send you directions as to the solution of formalin to-us 
