February 22* 1933, 
:...y dear ;.r, Ddwarda: 
On the fifteenth I authorised payment to you by 
air-mail at Siguatepeque, the final installment on you present con¬ 
tract, of ,450,00. I hope the check reaches you promptly and that you 
will have no difficulty in cashing it. 
Yesterday I received a box from you containing two 
seed capsules of a Gycnoches. I am afraid these are not sufficiently 
ripe to he of use to us. Their coming however brings to the lore a mat¬ 
ter that will be as distressing to you as it has been to us, I refer to 
the fact that I have been waiting for the arrival of the balance of the 
nine packages sent some time ago. Only part of the shipment came in. I 
supposed that the packages had become separated and that the delayed ones 
would come in safely. How that the b x containing the fruits has arrived 
postmarked Feb. 3, I am worried. It is nor rea enable to suppose that the 
fruits would pass the missing packages. Do you suppose the post office 
people have again indulged in vandalism or theft/ Would the postage stamps 
attract injurious attention? Of the hundreds and hundreds of packages 
that come to the Arboretum from all parts of the world we rarely have 
losses. Very rarely; almost never. 
I have budgeted three thousand, six hundred dollars 
for exploration in Spanish Honduras* but as I look back over the amount 
of material that has come in ,X do not feel that you are quite earning 
the amount set aside. Can you not step up production? On a per specimen 
basis your collections are extraordinarily costly. I have but the highest 
