Horth Easton* Mass. August 4th, 1924. 
My dear Lankester: 
Tour welcome letter of the 13th July lias 
just come in. I realized when I saw the Costa Mean stamp, 
that I have been a nosi delinquent correspondent of late, but 
the summer time is in my bones, and 2 do very little beside 
farming. Botanical work has been sadly neglected since early 
June. By friends have been neglected for a longer time* 2 
suppose it is a wholly human attribute to put aside the more 
serious side of life, when the Bind and body have been pushed 
too hard. 
When the camera arrives I shall give it clcse 
attention. You will be interested to learn that I made another 
effort about a month ago to secure the necessary slides, but 
failure resulted. The manufacturers do not make slides of the 
type you use, and T have boon unable to find an equivalent in 
any of the shops. The photographs are really good. They make me 
wish that you would attempt to mke some lantern-slides of the 
epiphytic orchids at home, hast spring when I gave a lecture 
of tropical orchids, I was unable to find any good material for 
lantern-slide illustrations. Undoubtedly you can help me in 
this fascinating workand at the same time turn out some plates 
for half-tone illustrations in any work we may do jointly on 
