Alignst 30 th, 1923 , 
My dear Mr, Powell: 
Your letters of August sixteenth and eight¬ 
eenth are here, 1 read them loth with much pleasure and found 
ir. them much that needed to be answered. Just at present I am 
unable to do much for you because the package of specimens is 
still in the Customs, For the first time in thirty years or 
more I have been called on to pay duty on a parcel of herbarium 
material, In this case some fire dollars. Of course the whole 
thing is a misunderstanding and-will be cleared up promptly, 
but I am now waiting for results, 
I will get after 276 and 289 when I go to B$ 
Boston next time, Ihe Habenaria specimens will receive prompt 
attention just as soon as the package comes from the Custom 
Hob®®,I am. just as anxious as you are for results because I 
am hoping 1 that some of the unidentified species may be new and 
will give me material to strengthen the Central American part 
of Sehed* Orch, '7, a contribution that already has jM- Philippian 
novelties in the manuscript copy, Shere is no use in pretending 
that I can do the work I want to do while I am forced to remain 
in the country, I am looking forward most Impatiently to the 
arrival of the day when the family illbbe content to re-enter 
the city and take up the winter * 3 job, I tried to lug out here 
enough material to keep me busy, but if I wam-ed a book, it was 
In Boston, and if I granted to make a critical comparison with 
some closely allied species, I found that I must wait until I 
went to Boston, When I finally went to Boston, my assistants 
