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£55 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass., February S, 19£S, 
My dear Dr. Powell: 
The third package of Panaraan orchids arrived 
in the best possible condition and hsrt^.been added to the 
of the collection . I have also rece iv ed a specimen of Angraecum 
from you with a post-card picture of the African jungle. Before 
I rsaiizeu that you might wish to have the post-card returned I 
mounted it with the specimen and your latter on an herbarium 
sheet, after carefully removing the African stamp for my little 
daughter’s collection 0 $ postage stamps. You will 30 a by this 
that all is fish that comes to this net. 
The orchids are a delight to me and I find 
that I am beginning to take a special interest in the herbarium 
of your Panama collection. This interest stimulated by glowing 
prospects gives me deop pleasure. I am a collector in spirit, 
and to see concentrated effort take shape affords me more joy 
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than almost anything else in life* I suppose that i« why I have 
devoted thirty years to the building up of an orchid herbarium! 
With your he,Ip I hops to assemble a critically studied assemblage 
of Panama orchids that will be something for anybody to bear in 
mind who has intentions of doing work on Central American orchids. 
The additions to the list arrived this morn¬ 
ing. I mad© the entries on the K«w set. As I did so I made a note 
that i fa would bo very much worth while to have a complete sot of 
your Gongora species and varieties on hand, I have one or two 
specimens from Mrs. Rousseau's collection that please me very 1 ’, 
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much. This is a difficult genus and one in which field work and 
garden work will help to aetus right. Your opinlMon based on| 
close contacts with living plants ought to help us to know just 
how dependable some of the regognized species are. 
