OAKES AMES, director. 
BOTANIC CARDEN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A. 
My dear Mr, Pow*ll: 
May 50th, 1922. 
Your letters of May 18th sad 21s:fe, 
arrived this morning. I was delighted to receive them. 
The stamps you so kindly enclosed were very welcome to 
the little girl aeroso the breakfast table. She sends to 
you her oest thanks. 
How, to take up your questions and 
requests in the order of their appearance: 
Powell 22 in Herb. Hort, Reg. Kew. is 
an unnamed Mhxillaria. I would gladly send a flower to you, 
but the rul©3 of the game assess!tate that I first obtain 
the consent of the Director of Kew. 
Kew specimens. 
Powell 78 does not see® to be among the 
I am sorry that hr, Sohleehter is not 
more prompt in sending you the determinations of your mat¬ 
erial* I feared when you informed me of his promise to aot 
on a two week’s schedule that he would only sustain it for 
a brief period of time, 1 would feel much easier in my 
mind, where your interests are oonoerned, if Sohleehter would 
publish your novelties promptly. It is so simple to name 
things that on® may never publish, just to make a show of 
getting work donel I find in my studies of Sohleehter's 
work for the National Herbarium that he has messed things 
