Minas de Oro, 
Republic of Honduras,C.A. 
June 17 , 1932. 
My dear Mr.Ames; 
Tomorrow I am sending you,via Tegucigalpa, four 
packages of planti specimens;three of woody plants and one of 
Orchids. I hope and feel sure that you will find a big improvement 
in Doth the quality M& of the specimens and manner of packing 
them * These are the specimens which I tola you in my last 
letter I had collected/but not sent/Just before receiving your 
Radiogram. The specimens I have collected since no J Q ^ a ^ 
shipment. I also have some more of these collected the last of May 
which I am not able to send at this time but will forward next week. 
I am sending, in this shipment, only the twigs and leaves,with a few 
specimens of the bark of Shrubs,holding the wood ana heavy bark spec¬ 
imens for shipment next week. (I shall also Include in the next shipment 
the Orchid flowers I have in Alcohol. I did not know until to-day 
that is was going to be possible for me to make a shipment tomorrow 
and as I wanted to get the specimens off at the earliest possible dat 
I am sending what I have ready tonight. 
You will find amoung the Orchid specimens,which are 
in Package No.One, many new species. Many of them are the samllest 
Orchids I have every seen. I have marked some of the specimens in 
red type so that extra caution will be used in unpacking them. You 
mav wonder why I have not sent more of some of the specimens. I have 
s^t ySu all the specimens of that variety I could find. To get some 
of them especially No.155 I cut town two very large Oak teees £0 in 
order to get the Orchids. I hunted for one week in the same mountain 
for more but was unable to find them. There is one very small specie 
No.156,Terrestrial, which if you find to be new to science, it soaid 
please me very much to have you name it for my assistant who found 
the specimen and found it growing on the farm of his father. My 
assistant^sname is Salvador vmM Donaire. His father was very 
nice to me all the time I was collecting at Rancho Grande,San Luis. 
The young man is very loyal and takes a great Interest in his work. 
I am taking better specimens now than I have before 
and I believe you will see a great improvement in the specimens 1 
am now collecting in Las Limas. 
With best regards, 
Sincerely yo 
ITJL 
P.S.-I have subjected all thble specimens to the fumes of burning 
Sulphur hoping by doing that to rid them of insects. However 
I did not find any insects imoung the specimens when I packed 
them for shipment. 
