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OAKES AMES, director. 
BOTANIC CARDEN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A. 
June 26th, 1922. 
My dear Mr. Powell; 
3net at hand. 
Your letter of tha fifteenth June is 
Regarding my plans for the summer; The 
steamer I was to sail on, the Samaria, had engine trouble 
and put back to England. This accident necessitates a change 
in my actions and I am now booked for a steamer that leaves 
Hew York on July eleventh. I have engaged return passage for 
September sixth. This Indicates a reurn to native shores by 
the middle of September. 
Epl d en drum dendrobiflorum does not seem 
to be the sane as Jj. stenopetalum . You will be interested 
to know that I have found specimens in the national Herbar¬ 
ium bearing the name E, stenopetalum that Schleeftter had 
determined. I realised that he had slipped. 
The specimens of Pleurothallis from 
Chiriqul ought to be new. I hope you will prepare specimens 
for me. 
X regupt more than you do the aooldest 
that turned the stream of your specimens and the results of 
your labors toward a foreign land. 
I wonder what this poor old world would 
have been like if there had been no "nuts*. Somebody has 
