October 7, 1932 
My dear Nr. Edwards: 
I am desperately sorry that you should have such 
trouble with t '.e financial x’art of our relationship. '.'.hen I send in 
an order for payment to the Bursar, I suppose ny demand is -one of 
many and has to wait its turn. This is doubly true when drafts on New 
York hive to be obtained. In the future it may be wise to pay you in 
advance and thus remove the danger of delays that may be seriously 
inconvenient. Of course you understand that there is no difficulty in 
maidng payments and that is not the reason for delays that have occurred 
in the past. It e y be well to send along your next check at once. 
The packages of specimens and the bottled material 
have com© through in good condition. I have only had time to give the 
specimens a casual glance, hence I am unable to send you the specific 
name in every case. Some of the numbers look most interesting and I do 
not recognise them off-hand. At least they are additions to the Hon¬ 
duran 
study may prove them to be new to science. Your record 
of numbers is a bit at sea again. For example you say that you are send¬ 
ing nos. 84-106 inclusive. 104, lo3 and 105 have already been sent. For 
that reason I have marked these numbers ”a w in my record. Then you say 
you are sending 231-244 inclusive, with 243 and 250 in alcohol, 231 to 
242 are accounted for by dreid specimens, but there is no 244. In other 
words I have nothing between 243 and 250.duplication of numbers is rather 
confusing and tne repetion of a number with a letter appended does not 
