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tlie neepapor stock folders between two or taore sheets of 
the felt driers. I hope this is very clear. When the 
specimens are brought in it is possible to go over them 
and rearrange leaves or flower parts oefore the drying 
process has gone too far. Subsequent drying should be haste: 
ened by the usual methods. You need net expect field 
specimens to match up to your home dried specimens, but 
for scientific work they are all right. Cultivate in your 
men the habit of careful note-taking. -ver if they have to 
lersn a series of signs which mean color, habitat etc. 
I enclose a few American Express Company chocks for 
one hundred and ten dollars that have been lying by 
since my return from Europe. These will tide you over 
until my next check come due in January. You understand, 
of course, that my payments are in advance and that the 
money now iri hand is for the first month which ends near 
the end of December, if you began work about the 20th of 
November. I lika to feel that you have more than enough* 
hence the express checks. My next advance will go for¬ 
ward by the first of January 1923. Is this clear? 
I understand of course that you have realised the 
need for advancing my work on the Central American Orchid 
