ed. I would also like to have some oars of native corn. And any other mi©rial 
of an oeonoiaic nature. 
Your kind invitation to visit Gosta Rica as your guest has 
much in it that appeals to me. Who knows what the future has in store for you? 
If tho weather we have been having for thre days, continues I may volplane 
down to you. Sleety rain lias fall 021 off and on, changing now and again to wet 
snao?/. Under foot the pavements are treacherous and deep in slush. A few days 
days ago tho thermometer went down to ^3 degrees F. and then, in a very short 
space of time ran up to 40 degrees, tihat a mrvcllous creature man is (to say 
nothing of the horse and the dog) to be able to adjust himself to such outrageous 
freaks of Sew England nature'. 
Powell keeps up his enthusiasm and now and again adds a new? 
orchid to Ms beloved flora. I have in hand two mighty true photographs of 
the old boy that will find a place on one of the sheets of the herbarium, bEcause 
I like to have such tMngs to remind, mo of the collectors who have helped me. 
In Hay I shall send to you a copy of the little book I have 
just finished for the American Orchid Society. This is entitled "An En^umeratio/n 
of the Orchids of the United States and Canada." The contents my not interest 
you a bit, but as a specimen of book-making you will be plaesed to add the vol¬ 
ume to your library. 
I am afraid I have failed to give you much that is solid in 
this this letter, but you my be sure that my best wishes go to you in your 
delightful Costa Fdca. 
Yours faithfully, 
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