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OAKES AMES,DIRECTOR. BOTANIC CARDEN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A. 
norm makes m© hope that you will take advantage of you* 5 
opportunities. 
Personal opinion is a strange phenomenon! X have ^ust 
been working through a set of Liebmann’s orohids from Mex¬ 
ico whioh Heiohenbaoh identified* Some of the speeles seem 
never to have been published, while some of the determin¬ 
ations are strangely wrong, For example, there is a species 
comparable to your #95 ( Encyolia testaoea fBatem.) Schltr.,} 
whioh has been passed as Epldendrum venosum Llndl,The great 
German orohidologist was surely dozing off into dreams of 
what bizarre names to use next when he made that determin¬ 
ation! The species is the E. tripterum form of E. tessellat ¬ 
ion (S. Peami l Sohltr.?). You may not be Interested in such 
observations, but, after all, they give you an idea of the 
trials of orohidologioal work. They prove that even the im¬ 
mortal Reichenbaoh, with all his facilities, was unable at 
times to give his correspondents reliable information,How 
quickly familiarity with teir work demolishes soma of the 
idols of our novitiate! 
You will be pleased to learn that I have made photo¬ 
graphs of some critical specimens from the Hew Set and that 
I have illustrated them with very careful camera-luoida 
drawings * Before I return the Kew Set X hope to make 
records of the entire series of your numbers. 
Yours of June 9th is ;just here, I will send you my 
Leitz outfit. If you find that you are able to make head- 
