225 Bay State Road, Boston, Massachusetts. Jamuary24,19B5 
My dear Lankesterj 
To describe my position to-day by a 
good old Sew England term, I am snow-bound, Yesterday 
winds of gale force drove a heavy fall of snow into 
huge drifts so that this morning are look out on a white 
city. In places the ground shows, that would be where 
the wind had a full sweep,but twenty feet away the drifts 
will measure four or five feet in depth, quite impaasable 
by automobiles* 
I am wondering what you thought of the 
fourth number of the third volume of Botanical Museum 
Leaflets.Are you able to recognize the Lankester num¬ 
bers from the plates? It is extrememly difficult to 
interpret Stolls flowers from any kind of material and 
during th© process of reconstruction long drawn out 
arguments tale place between the artist andtthe taxono¬ 
mist* ie actually mad® two plates of JS* Storkil before 
we were satisfied, and 1 assure you the lips differ 
from flower to flower and during the process of accident¬ 
al drying on the microscope stage* I hope we are doing 
a little to amuse you and that you have occasion to 
feel that we are not altogether foolish* 
Another long paper of Central American 
