Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
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118 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA_192 
I will now take up general topics and gossip: 
During the early part of August I received from Dr Schlechter a 
Microscope with camera lucida attachment, tut I have not yet teen 
atle to make it work. It is made by utto Himmler, Berlin. This 
Schlechter 
is the result of an order I placed with him some 1© months ago. 
At that time I was offered by Zeiss a"microscope with an attach¬ 
ment for making drawings' 1 for * 40. and I sent the money by return 
mail to Dr Schlechter to make the purchase and to send it to me. 
Un receipt he went to Zeiss to buy the scope and they told him that 
since the offer the price had gone up to $ 6*9. He wrote me that 
he "cussed them out" for such practices and left, bpoh advisees 
of the facts from him I told him to drop the matter and to hold 
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the money to my credit until further advised. It seems that he 
saw this scope made by Himmler, liked it, and as he was o-j.eied it 
at $ 4u. packed,he took it and had the Berlin Bot Museum to send 
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it to me. It is a beauty, with four eye pieces- 4.B.)©• & 
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magnification. It is differently constructed from the Leita, you 
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so kindly sent me, having a glass .and substage mirror nearly twice 
as large. The eye piece of the camera does not socket over the 
eyepiece of the scope as does the Leitz, nor is it attached in the 
same way on the side, but comes directly down on the uop of Die 
eyepiece of the scope, without any socket arrangement, i t ink 
there is a light leak between the two,as being!the reason I cannot 
get to work? As a disect fag scope it is great, ana coula nob oe 
better. i have been able from the beginning to use tne Lei us 
but have not made any creditable pictures yet, from want of mater¬ 
ials and the work and sickness as stated in the beginning of this 
