Peg© Thr" ©. 
I found that I: could not insure packages forwarded to Germany so 
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that T sent the exchange material of Philippine orchids to you piece¬ 
meal.' The last package g'oee off to-day. 
?i e . receive good news from the Pul ford Biological Ex pi oration Ex¬ 
pedition., The party is just about to enter into unexplored Poldvian 
country. This Expedition should aecomj11sh distinguished results as 
there are two capable botanical collectors among the member's,, and one 
energetic entomologist, a friend of mine, who feels responsible for the 
success of my representative { as he helped me to select him) and has 
promised to keep him busy a-61 of the time by finding orchids for him 
and compelling him to j reserve them. /II orchid material secured by' the 
expedition is to come to ire including that specially collected by my 
represent stive. 
This letter has run ’"ell beyond reasonable limits,, but T must go 
on with it as there are several very important points connected with the 
FCTT/ that need your prompt attention. 
1?,,. gier, we publish a sihgle genus or several genera of a f'ub-tribe, 
must re repeat the characterization of the rub-tribe? This leads to the 
suggestion that t,he cubtribo.s should be grouped after the SYSTEM, or 
each one published only once when the first genua of a sub-tribe af pears. 
Your Crobyr, for example, works out veil because it i'R complete in itself, 
but,, how about Tsotrla? That is, if published by itself?' I should think 
that the best plan would be to give the characterization of the subtribe w 
when the. initial genus^is issued, then the work vill bind up i'n proper- 
form and unnecessary printing will be avoided.' Why not draw up a skeleton 
or outline of the VsnMleae and let ne see what, your views of thin matter 
are ? 
jgM t' s I understand your wishes; each genus is to appear with its own 
pagination from 1—0C0 and to be hr a separate cover, the title of the 
whol e work to be printed or. each genus cover? To clarify this point, will 
you please draw up a cover page for Orofcy'a and your idea of « cover for a 
single genus of a large su.b-t rib It seems to me that each cover should 
be numbered i'r. sequence, no matter '.-bet genus or genera it contains.; Other 
wise there would be no means of knowing that one had all the published jpar 
parts until the word FIf'7^ had beer, printed on the last pert, 
14. Please have tracings mad© of the species of the Ophrydene end Meott 
ie-ae contained in the long' list I sent to you. 
Yours sincerely. 
