April 11, 1933. 
My dear Mr. Udwards: 
In ay last letter to you I proposed to send to you 
at once a check for four hundred dollars. Since that letter was written 
j. have received yours of April first. I noted your reference to quarter¬ 
ly payments of nitne hundred dollars, should our relations continue, and 
your reference to the fa t that I had not given attention to this matter. 
I have not taken the trouble to se- rch your letters for the plan you say 
you outlined, but I have no memory of it. The point is, that I should have 
had to inform you that our fiscal year begins on July 1, and that, aside 
from any specified amount, it would under existing conditions be impossi¬ 
ble to send a check for nine hundred dollars on April 1. Yesterday, after 
a careful examination of my funds, I found that I could send at this time 
a checit ior five hundred dollars, and this amount has been authorized and 
will go to you by air mail within a few days, addressed to you at your 
C mayagua address. On July first, I shall arrange to send a second payment 
ihiB may amount to one thousand dollars. All depending on your final re¬ 
action to the plan to collect on a per specimen basis rather than on a 
stated amount for your entire product as collector for the Arnold Arbor¬ 
etum. Of course, when you collect on a per specimen basis, payment is only 
made after material is received and counted. The advances I have made woul 
have to be worked out on the basis of the rates mentioned in my last lette 
that is; fifteen cents per woody specimen and twenty cents per orchid 
specimen; a specimen being understood to be enough material to make an 
nerbarium sheet, and not a single plant. Your little Qncidium, #101, for 
example, would hardly make a specimen if only a single plant were sub¬ 
mitted, unless , naturally, you only found one plant. If after, careful 
consideration oi the situation, you decide to go on with us giving us 
your entire^ product, aside from any material the Museum of Comparative 
^oology might decide to take after examining a sample collection, I sugeet 
tnat v/e operate on the same basis as that outlined in my letter of January 
30, 193c, any payment over and above the original amount to be divided be¬ 
tween yourself and your assistan t. I do not know how much money the Museum 
can line ai this time, becausetthere has been a salvage cut in income, but 
.u*r. ..aroour might s e his way clear to purchase specimens with his own 
money n your sample collection proved attractive and measured upto the 
standards set by a large museum. If you will send me a few insects: bird 
skins, and a lev. reptiles in liquid (harbour is as much interested in 
reptiles as x am in orchids) I will submit them and obtain for them what 
tney are estimated to be worth. If you can attract the museum. I am very 
sure tnat you would find the Arboretum and The Museum about all you could 
take care of in the type of collecting that is appealing to a scientific 
staif, 
1 surely hope that the funds being sent to you will 
carry you through to July and that from that time on you will be out of th< 
reaim of financial worry. I doubt very much if you have any conce tion of 
the conditions that are now prevalent in our universities or in establish- 
Jistorv U in ^ U8eum at Chicago and the American Museum of Mat- 
to make you an offJr tJ + s . thls tha t makes me wonder who is in the field 
to make you an offer that is more attractive than that made to you last 
January by the Arfeold Arboretum. Certainly few people are paying in advance 
