Schltr. 
L3/30. 
I am sorry that you find it necessary through 
pressure of work to delay the distribution of your duplicates. 
I need every scran you can snare and you can not imagine how 
eare r I am to receive the additions to my herbarium which you 
have promised. The other day T put in my fumigating hox at least 
two hundred specimens which are destined for your herbarium . I 
shall forward these shortly after the holidays together with my 
Chinese orchids which you have asked to see, and duplicates of 
which you are to retain. I have described many new Philippine 
species since early autumn and in a,lmoot every case I was able 
to set aside a duplicate for you. Pray hasten your distributicw 
for my sake. I know how taxing on tim & and patience it is to 
write labels and keep details straight, but we ought not to for¬ 
get how important it is that co-workers should have a continual 
influx of material, representing our views as to new species and 
our interpretations as to old ones'. In America we are doing all 
in our power to assemble working collections of the great plant 
groups, but we are pathetically behind Europe in our herbaria of 
the Orchidaceae. 
I have your Hew Guinea work complete as far as it 
has appeared. That is I have parts 1--10. Cr to be more exact 
I have 800 pages of volume one. Do you not intend to publish a 
lucid key tc unlock this monumental work? Unless you give us a 
key I am afraid we shall be more often perplexed than aided by 
your very full and detailed descriptions. It vo uld be, indeed, 
a most helpful law if at some future botanical congress a rule 
could be made invalidating any descriotion of a new species not 
accompanied by an analytical drawing. I see the end of my paner 
appearing and as I have alrea.dy said too much I will close. 
