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September 8» 1912. 
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My dear Dr. Schlecher: 
Your letter of 27th August is at hand. It is good to 
hear from you again and to know that you are very busy \vith use¬ 
ful and creditable work. Before everything else I must thank 
you fora most welcome set of Celebes orchids. On the arrival of 
this set I intended, on receiving an explanatory letter to write 
to you, but as the letter did not come, I postponed thanks, until 
now they must seem inordinately late. I have been setting aside 
for you a set of Philippine orchids. The specimens which’are now 
named I shall send along very soon. Mr. Weber did not do very 
well for me, but from other collectors I have good materich which 
you may find useful. Father Yanoverbergh is, I believe, collects 
ing in a new locality, so that to his set it is probable that many 
good things will be added. 
I have just returned from a vacation and just as soon 
as I can get settled down, I intend to take up my work energet¬ 
ically. 
There has been some irregularity in the distribution 
of your publications on New Guinea, consequently I lack several 
parts. At the end of this letter I will give you a list of the 
parts now needed to complete my set. I am very favorably impres¬ 
sed with your treatment of this New Guinea region, although I 
must confess that I am sometimes amazed at the boldness of your 
modifications. The man who has studied a group in the field has 
a great advantage over one who is forced to depend on herbarium 
specimens. 
You refer again to the Chinese orchids which Wilson 
collected for me, I have as yet done nothing with them, and I 
fear some months must pass before I can get at them. If you are 
working on Chinese orchids I shall be pleased to let you have a 
set of duplicates now of the Wilson collection, unnamed, and if 
you wish it, we might publish jointly anything that is new. Let 
me hear from you regarding this matter. Of course I do not know 
that there are any new species in Wilson's collection. 
Regarding Primulaceae: I tried all my friends', but none 
of them had a scrap which would supply deficiencies in ydur list. 
I will try again, and perhaps meet with better results. I believe 
I wrote to you that Wilson secured nothing in China for the Ar¬ 
nold Arboretum which seemed likely to interest you . 
I will look up my papers in the Philippine Journal of 
Science and send on everything which you lack. 
I am sorry that Prof. Cogniaux has decided to give up 
his work on orchids. I have always had the highest admiration 
for his views. That you are to continue where he left off is 
good news. You will now undoubtedly have things pretty much un¬ 
der you control on the continent. Please keep Me well supplied 
with your reorints 
Why do you not contribute to Engler's Pfla.nzenreich? 
I dislike very much to find fault with Kranzlin, but I can not 
understand why he is chosen to do critical monographic work. 
The monograph on pendrobium is most disappointing-' If Kranzlin^ 
is to set the standard for orchidology in your country posterisg^ 
