s 
ful way. If he will only keep me supplied with specimens I am sure 
that we will soon have a complete representation of the odds and 
ends that have puzzled the world for a generation and that made 
poor Rolfe positively ill. 
Sohlechter writes ghat he has made over 900 drawings of Costa 
Rican orchids , that he has detected four new genera and that 
he will soon publish a host of new species. When he publishes this 
material it will be necessary for me to assimilate it. In the mean¬ 
time it will be impossible to give Mr. Lankester such prompt de- 
to 
terminations as I have been able to give him up/this time. It is 
really exasperating to have the constant feeling of hurry put into 
your work caused by another man attempting to take possession of 
your field of present effort. It is altogether too bad that we can 
not discourage the German invasion of Central America. As it is I 
am afraid that Schleohter's Cosga Rican paper v/ill oome out before 
Sohedulae Orohidianae 4 and reduce a number of Ikuikoster's new 
things to the realm of synonymy. 
I am looking forward with intense impatience to the day when 
your trophies from Chiriqui will arrive. Purely you must have found 
some additions to the list of your Panaman orchids. In any event I 
hope this expedition will prove that your eye is open for the tiny 
things that at present are so rare in your set. 
Make every possible effort to obtain the use of artificail 
heat. Heat is the great secret. It is worth going far to get. It 
makes the preparation of orchid specimens a simple thing. It gets 
the material into the herbarium quickly/ A week at most ought to 
find the fleshiest things dry. Just think of it: I did not have to 
change a drier in Honduras afetr I got aoooss to the boiler room. 
