NORTH EASTON . MASS. 
DECEMBER 4, 1910. 
My dear Dr. Schlechter: 
The promised package of orcids has arrived 
and I take this opportunity to thank you for them most sincerely. 
Many of the species are addition^ to my collection and are on 
that account doubly welcome. I hope I can send you soon a good 
representation of West Indian material. I am sorry that you 
insist on holding me to exghange relations a.s I am wholly unable 
to secure material in sufficient quantity or of good enough 
quality to suit your conditions. Will you not entertain the thoug 
of selling me a set of your orbhids? 
I have just received Dr. kranslins monograph 
of Dendrobium. I have not yet put it to the test, but in several 
places I have detected errors which are unpardonable and in every 
way avoidable. His intimation that I am Unacquainted with the 
section Aporum is based on animosity stimulated by my bitter 
attack on him after his violation of my confidence. When a man 
of science allows personal affairs to influence his conclusions 
regarding scientific matters he is in a realm of danger. I hope 
the monograph proves to be a valuable and trustworthy aid and 
that our fears for it are not well founded. I shall make it my 
duty to tabulate the errors I discover regarding Philltroine 
Dendrobiums and I shall send you my list when it is cortroleted. 
I am very anxious to see the species of 
Dendrochilum which you have mentioned as a contribution to my 
herbarium. 
Yours sincerely. 
