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The Panama Canal 
Canal Zone 
Health Department 
Balboa, 0. Z. Marsh IS, 1922. 
My dear Dr Ames: 
Phew, I will now resume the normal All of the plants brought with 
me hare been staged up and started, I hope, on their v/ell being. Big job 1. 
Talcing up ypur letters of Jan 24, Peb 2,3,8, (all of which arrived 
during my absence) I will run over them again and make my comments. 
As I wrote you on Marsh 4th, all of the articles mentioned in ypur 
letter of Jan 24th, arrived safely and were welcome helps; in some cases enabling me 
to do away with substitutes which I have been using. The surgical plaster was an 
especially welcome article; as I wrote you in my first letter, the kind 1 was using 
was bulky, but it was the best I could do. I went to every Drug-store in Panama $o 
purchase some of the standard kind used, but no one kept it. 
I am delighted to know that you are keeping my specimens separate 
and that you will make a special herbarium of them* This pleases me exceedingly,and 
will serve as a stimulus to put more effort in making it perfect, if such were needed. 
I note that you have begun work on their examination and your desire 
for rapid arrivals of more materials. As it has been my desire and endeavor to 
%h send each plant with an Inflorescence attached , we will of necessity have to await 
the flowering. I have many specimens of loose flowers, dried and cured with the Methyl 
and corrosive sub mixture ( Kew formula), and I can expedite sendings by pressing 
and drying a plant, without the inflorescence, using these flowers. Do you wish them 
that way,or do you prefer to await the flowering and get fresh specimens ?. (A sample 
was the Oncid ampliatum in last sending). Then again there will be some of which 
I canno t at this time send you plant specimens, owing to limited plants in the garden* 
I will go through my sheets and send on the flowers of this latter, making a memo on 
my card index to send plant specimen when available. Shall I do this ?. 
