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Tliree l;u ndi-ed and fifty-five 
Commonwealth Avenue 
October 18th, 1928* 
My dear Mr* Lankeater ; 
Tour latter dated October 10th 
reached me yesterday evening. 8y this time you will hare 
received two letters from me which were written before 
Mr* Powell so kindly undertook to establish between us 
a meeting by post* 
I a® delighted to loam from you 
that my rambling notes to Mr. Powell contained informat¬ 
ion that you deemed worth reading* I do not quite under¬ 
stand your aluusion to oold feet as applied to kelohen- 
oaoh, although I take it that you mean he was mentally 
troubled by fears of what his contemporaries might think 
of the slovenly scrap heap that he left behind* .ieichen- 
aack, as 1 see the situation now, rose to eminence as an 
orehidologist simply because of unexampled opportunity, 
‘.'hen I review the sensations stimulated by his famous 
herbarium preserved at Vienna, I find them far from flat¬ 
tering. fbe lack of data, the indeoiperable handwriting, 
the scrappy specimens (types often consisting of a single 
flower), and the odd bits of paper that bear meagre and 
often inadequate information, give rise to disgust* When 
