4. 
There are six large packages of Philippine orchids on the 
table unopenedl Prom the Field Museum,Chicago I have a package 
of Venezuelan orchids to name up. Do you realize that there is 
a well marked limit to what one man can do? 
I have recently looked through your "field " specimens. These 
arrived during my vacation in Honduras. They look exceptionally 
well, although I was not conscious of new species as I turned them 
over. In fact many of them seemed to have been named by you. 
I have a suspicion that my Dpidendrum benignto publishedq 
in oched. Orch. 2(192^J)<36 is the same thing as Dpi den drum subpatens 
Schltr. published in Orch. Powell. l.$y description appeared on 
January 6th, Schlechter’s on December SOth. Just a week apart. 
This is a long lottery but I think you will have found some 
profit in it if you have taken the time to read it through. 
Mrs. Ames and my daughter Pauline .join me in sending 
to you and yours the very best of good wishes. 
