3,55 Conmonviealth Avenue, Bos tom, Hass. 
ITovember 1j , 15*23* 
Hy dear Hr, Laukester: Your welcome letter of the 30th, 
October Is just here for an after-breakfast perusal. She 
specimen of Elleaathus end coed in that letter is fam¬ 
iliar, even in its sterile condition. It is 13. caeopitosa 
heichb.f,, a species which I met for the first time in 
Reiohenbooh’s nerbariua, vhrer it lies in the usual ster¬ 
ile condition. The same species, originally collected by 
Bri&res in Costa Rica, is in ray herbarium, but iaek* per¬ 
fect flowers. This species was nearer published, and yet, 
is quite distinct from everything I have examined. 
In your l:;st letter you mentioned Pleurothallis 
lateritI •• Reiohtu f. in an exasperafcIxtgLy oafhbil manner, 
jjo you rellitr that this species is as rare as hen’s teeth 
in herbaria? I am expecting good apeoliaenof this in 
your next package# 
How, with regard to Brenes. I think it will be well 
to appolat ItnndleT a delegate at large, to discuss with 
hia collection® and collecting. In the meantime I am sure 
that you wil X *.!£> (a influential intervention to extinguish 
any lingering tendency he my have to send orchids to Ber¬ 
lin* 
I will look up insecticides and report in another 
letire• 
The delightful package of specimens arrived before 
I had eyed be finished your letter. To express my feelings 
regarding what you have sent, would lead you to believe 
t -at I am over-rlc- in expletives. Ion thousand thanks 
for your assiduity in my behalf. The Epidenarm with a 
white lip is gpMej^non perganinfeum T:c ichb. f. It has lip 
of this type S~S 
Bvery package from Costa Pica is a ennse for cele¬ 
bration here. In August 1922, when I visited Sohlechter 
ia Berlin, lie took me into a small room in his apartment 
on Sen© Culms trass© to show me Mb accumulation of Costa 
Rican orchids. lie was overbearingly conceited because he 
felt that nowhere in the world ms there comparable bulk. 
I had to take zay medicine p,b he dispensed it, but, as we 
say when Yale defeats Harvard at football ? I was not down¬ 
hearted. I simply made up my mind that th tide always 
turns and that hope is a truly uplifting attribute ©f the 
human species. I hoped the tide might turn soon and that 
before many years passed, I world be able to raatch Schle- 
