December 30, 1913 
My dear Dr. Sohlechter: 
Your good letter with the sketch and 
pseudobulb of Pendrob1urn Dr teri brought me much pleasure. Please 
accent my sincere thanks for vour thoughtfulness, ./hot you say 
about Kranzlin is very hard to believe. That a man who has been 
schooled in the ethics of natural science should be so careless, 
especially a man of your country, surprises me. The story is 
told of one of our orofessors who, when confronted with perplex - 
ing intergrading forms which unset his theories and taxonomic 
keys, threw them out at the window saying H That is how we dispo 
se of those.'* But to throw away snecimens which should be pre¬ 
served as t^/pea for the instruction of the struggling students 
of the future is to commit a scientific crime. We all make mis¬ 
takes either through oversight or errors of judgement, but to 
deprive the world of the evidence against us is to admit that we 
care mora for ourselves than for science. Pray help me if you 
can to secure fragments from the plamts in cultivation which you 
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know renresent the types of Kranzlins new species. I would do as 
much for you if the opportunity were here. 
I have had in mind aletter to you re¬ 
garding several homonyms which you have created in your New 
Guinea flora. In several genera you have among your new snecies 
used the same name twice. Perhaps you have become aware of this 
after seeing the printed pages, but if you have not noticed the 
duplications to which I refer I can have my assistant seek for 
them and prepare a list for you. 
