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it is born® in mind that this stuff was left in loose 
array, one thinks of what its original condition must 
have been, with disgust, and views the present arrangement 
of its contents with distrust. If we dompare Reichenbaeh 
with Lindley, the former suffers prodigiouslyl When a set 
of international botanical rules was adopted in Vienna ill 
19G§, an attepmt should have been made to introduce a 
resolution as follows: that the worjs of any systematist 
who closes his herbarium to inspection shall be nullified, 
and this rule if adopted should have seen made retroactive. 
We are empowered now by botanical laws, internationally 
agreed on, to nullify species if they are not properly 
presented to science, even though the types may be easily 
seen. let, the Reiohenbaohian Herbarium has been an almost 
insuperable obstacle to the progress of orchidoiogy for 
over twenty years, because it® founder violated the very 
spirit of science. 
You have offered to help me, Please take this letter 
to be an unqualified acceptance of that offer. How can 
you help me? By sending herbarium material of every Costa 
Mean orchid you are able to secure. Shis, to a man whose 
hours are full of more important and more pressing duties 
