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My dear Dr. Sohleehter; 
Tour paper on Costa Riosax or¬ 
chids a.-•rived yesterday* I have only had time to glance 
through the pages ana to sake a general survey of the 
extent of your labors, Shis Is going’ to he a very help¬ 
ful publication, if Icoan every assimilate its b'-opfis— 
als&and interpret them with your kindly assistance. I 
have two unfavorable criticisms to offer: 1 /l think it 
w&a a mistake to treat the different collections under 
separate n@ad.ings;. 2. Tin lack of an index Is v* .o ally 
& sa& one. 
. _ .. X am sorry that your renarks 
uuu.sr jjso^aasixa^ on page 120, indicate that 
rou regard s, JrejtMjni if yom-3$. }Hff; •arall a 
ores.eh_ot__trust. Before going to Burope- in t*x- mrnmr 
Oi t?22, 1 devoted the greeted paart of the wir.ter of 
15 - 1 to -a critical anc ’bibliographical study of Epieleix- 
ar'uav, and it was at thin time, not after my return from 
Torope, that I had arrived at the conclusions published 
miT ' :io:r ^ ©;; lohecul .e Orchidiunac. Eridsndyan 
wlg^pM ii fV^T i Ba aIK ' i** .nafiibhiiihi. '.'ere studied by myself 
and ituob&rd In _ connect ion with proposed joint work 
on Mexican Epldendrums, t 6 lie in ray herbarium as we 
treated them in 1?21, liy notes on the sheet of B. iono- 
hl«iLkls3Ssart* no follows: w Dohlechter seems to have dexfbal 
crlbea his £. Ho£fiaaiaaii fromttho same material, His deswl 
well the drawing of X* laaonhlohliMi 
i-ii xioi o. neichb*f *—*—^na®s & Hubbard» w I had no intent— 
ion^of violating a confidence and you will see, if you 
study mi notes, in Soiled, Orch. that they were simply 
written to clarify Upidendrua. 1 have no desire to fore¬ 
stall you oi* to use your confidences for publication. If 
tna,t spirit had governed my work I could have rushed in¬ 
to print with Powell *s new species,!oii<<: before you pub- 
lianed your Juxper, because I had a nearly complete set 
from the Hew ; 'erbarium in my pespessien at a time when 
Powell had given me every reason to be hostile. If I had 
no known you and if* I had not enjoyed your cooper a t i on, 
I would surely have anticipated your publication, be¬ 
cause I was under no obligation to Powell and had every ^ea 
reason to push forward with my work as I was preparing 
a flora for the U,S.Rational Mmwm. fMnk *JL L r t r* 
