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X am in sad need of Bpid endrum turrial vae. You 
hare not sent this although it is on your list. Please 
send material at your earliest convenience. 
I note that you have numbered the Selenipedium 
258. I suggest that you begin with the number 3000. 
It will be well to keep your garden plants separate ae 
to numbers from your wood's specimens. My last letter 
will make this clear. 
Seblechter writes, November 25th, ” r ihe Panama Or¬ 
chids from Mr• Powell are all described, and a large manu#fci 
script is going to the printer's.". Phis news will please 
you. 
I wish we could keep Schlechter out of the American 
field. Otherwise there is bound to be a great deal of 
confusion owing tc the simultanoeous publication of 
species. I hope you will come to agree with me that it 
is for the best interests of American science to dissuade 
correspondents from sendingmaterial to Berlin. 
I still have a gread deal of information for you, 
but it will be well to delay it until I am more at ease 
than I am now. 
v/e are still talking Panama in late January. 
Yours faithfully. 
