for natural history specimens and any arrangement you made would be on 
a cash on delivery basis. 
The people at the Cray Herbarium have been delighted with the 
specimens sent to them. Almost anything in the herbaceous line will be 
most acceptable. 
Treesand shrubs in flower are what we want most, but ferns 
and aquatics will find a welcome also. And herbaceous things. 
In your reply to this letter and the one written a day or so 
ago, I hope you will reply at length so that there will be no chance for 
a misunderstanding on m$c part of just what you think is best to do, 
I am looking forward with deep interest to the packages that 
are on the way and to the packages that ought to come as a result of your 
recent work around Lake Yojoa, 
Thieme collected in the vicinity of San Pedro Sula, He did not 
find very much in the orchid line, but that may have been because he was 
more interested in lants that are more easy to dry. It would be better 
to keep away from the Guatemalan elemnet at this time and go to regions 
that promise a nex^ type of flora. Of course, I am not in a position to 
dictate. You will have to follow your own course and be guided by the 
conditions that are most favorable to orchids. The point I am making is 
that a northerly trip would take you toward Guatemala, and for the present 
at least, we do not want to keep meeting Guatemalan orchids in the Hon¬ 
duran flora, ’e want to get away from that element and see if we cannot 
detect a region where endemism for Honduras will be high and naturally 
of greater scientific interest, 
1ith all good wishes. 
Sincerely yours. 
Hr, J. B. Bdwards, 
Comayagua, 
Department of Comayaguaxn 
Republic of Honduras, Central America, 
p.S. In reading this over, I fear that there may be a basis for misunder 
standing with regard to the amount and disposition of funds. The amount 
budgeted is thirty-six hundred dollars. 43*050,00 of this amount is to 
be budgetted by you on the basis of my letter of January 30, 193b, The 
balance is more or less at your discretion with the suggestion that you 
use part of it to cover the expenses of an assistant or to meet the cost 
of transportation etc. 
