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will have good cause to wonder. 
If I can find a photograph I will send it to you. 
I was sorry that I could not get on to the Internat¬ 
ional Horticultural Exhibition. Important business kept me at 
home. 
On May 23 somebody called me to the telephone saying 
that Dr. Goldschmidt of Berlin had a letter of introduction 
from you and that he wanted to see my greenhouses. I was sorry 
to be obliged to say that I gave my orchid collection to the 
Hew York Botanical Garden and that my greenhouses had been dem¬ 
olished. I suggested that the collection of E. B. Dane near 
Boston would interest Dr. Goldschmidt, and I would have liked 
very much to have taken him there, in fact to do anything I could 
to make his visit interesting, but no address was given to me and 
I did not hear from Dr. Goldschmidt again. 
Thanking you again for the Celebes orchids. 
Yours sincerely, 
Oakes Ames 
