My dear Mr.Ames: 
12th.: 
El Jaral, 
Lake Yojoa, 
Dept.of Cortes, 
Rep.of Honduras,C.A. 
October 26,1932. 
In reply to parts of your letters of Oct.7th and 
in Honduras and suggested that you 
had sent in with specimens. I suppose 
I shall have to use empty whiskey 
shall be able to get the larger specime— 
I had hoped that I had made it clear to you that 
conditions in the interior of Honduras are very different from 
those on the coast. Also that for four of the six months or 
since June First we have been having very heavy rains that all 
but stoped our work. In fact the rainy season started May First 
but the storms were not so heavy until June First and 
since then there has been no let up. I do not know what months of 
the year you were at Tela-But I do know that Standly was here during 
the dry season and that his Orchid specimens collected at Slguatepe¬ 
que were not very numerous. In Minas de Oro and in Slguatepeque 
there is just one White Man-One in each palce- In all other parts 
I have had no help from any white man and I tell you when you 
have to depend on these lying,thiefing natives you are up against 
a proposition much different than where you have all the assistance 
you want from your own and interested people as $##### they are 
at Tela. You do not know this but it is a fact .never the less. 
On more than one occasion I have had to go into the woods and burn 
charcoal to use iMhe heater for drying specimens. This because 
the natives with whom I had made arrangements for the work had 
failed to do as they had promised. 
Your criticisms as to the preparing of specimens 
are always welcome and I shall try to benifit by them. 
I shall net be able to dlsci*ss with you at this 
time the matter of numbers as I do not carry into the field data 
covering shipments already made. When I return to Slguatepeque 
next week I shall write you regarding this matter. 
I understand from yours of Oct.12th. that you think 
that the work was delayed because of the lack of funds. This 
was not the case. I sent the radiogram because more than a month 
had passed since time for the check to have arrived,had it been 
sent on Sept. Flrst-and I supposed that it had been sent then- I 
wanted to know the date on which it was sent so that I would know 
just what to do next;wait a while longer;try to trace the letter 
or instruct you jbo send duplicate as the original had surakbeen 
lost. I told you ih my letter of Sept. 19th. that I had funds 
available in Honduras to carry me over October First. After my 
experance with the July check I had done the verybthing you suggest- 
Kept enough funds ## on hand to carry me over and was "prepared to 
go on for twice mail time". The whole trouble was( and I am sure 
that I have mentioned this in other letters-that instead of the sfe 
check being mailed on Sept.First it was not sent until Sept.2oth, 
However there will be no occasion for worry in the future. I have, 
contrary to the advice of friends in Tegucigalpa, deposited all my 
September check and part of the hinds I had on deposit in the States, 
in a local bank in Tegucigalpa. In the future you may send my 
salery check whenever it suits the conveniance of the Bursar. 
About the bottles: I wrote you some months ago that 
it would be impossible for me to get any more of the same kind of 
bottle ;the pig’s feet kimd; 
return some of these that I 
that after my next shipment 
bottles. I don’t see how I 
ns into them. 
