I have not heara from 3ohlaether for many days now. 
I find him a very intermittent correspondent. Bat in a 
letter dated Oetooer 8th, the last one I received, he 
wrote. "I am very ousy since you left and have made good 
progress with my work. Soon I hope to send you the first e< 
copy of the Or chi dace ae Powel lianas Panamenses’.* Ho has, 
it would seem, finished the manuscript and is going ahead 
with the printing. If ho has not written to you about his 
work, perhaps this little note will be of some interest 
to you ana make it seem that the publication of your orch¬ 
ids is not dependent on the immediate payment, of the thirt 
dollars you promised to contribute. 
I have simply stolen time to send this off. as a resu 
I have made a sad mess of things, but 1 am sure you will 
be able to get the gist of wliat I desire ao much to say. 
If work ever slackens, and I sea it growing more and more 
pressing every day, I will sit down and send you the con¬ 
clusions that I have recently arrived at with regard to so 
some of your orchids. As a matter of fact I amsaimply 
burning with curiosity to aee what Schalecther will do 
with some of the determinations he has made for you when 
he faces cold print. Yoursfaithfully, 
C£ c Ju. a v 1 ~ . 
