Botanical Museum 
December 20, 1941 
Doctor Richard E. Shultes 
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales 
Bogota, Colombia 
Dear Dick: 
Very glad to have yotsar receipted letter which I am afraid I have 
been rather slow in answering. 
I am glad that the short note on Colombian orchids which I sent 
to Dr. Dugand have finally arrived. HEe wrote me that it came in 
the day after you had written the note. I suppose that you are 
still, at the present moment, off in the field some where, and 
I hope you are having a grand time, as no doubt you are. 
I was in New York a few days ago and told Dr. Krukoff that you 
were down in Putomayo and he seemed very much interested. 
I wonder if Dr. Dugand is coming to New York or Boston this month 
or has the was made his cancel his plans. 
I certainly hope that he will be able to come up. 
Hoora^! for the curare .nd barbasco poisons. I suspect there will 
be papers no end in the leaflets about i>t. 
Talking to Camp the other day; he told me that it was now impossible 
to secure passage to South America in advance of the actual sailing 
of the boat. I presume that this is due to the fact that the 
navigation companies to not know from one day to another , wh&lther 
they or the government are operating. 
You remember the# some time ago, that Killip wanted to 
get all specimens back to South America that he could because they 
anticipated that shipping would be very difficult, perhaps un¬ 
obtainable. I wonder if it would not be wise to get new material 
out little at a time while it is still possible. 
Air raid warnings and hysteria in Boston the other day, so they tell 
me. I was in New York at the samettime and they had a warning at 
that time. People did not pat a darn bit of attention to it, about 
an houw later oneoof tfte New York' papers came out with the big head¬ 
ing, "ALARM PHONEY". It is much as you still seem to be writing 
papers about writing a little note for my orchid scandal sheet. 
A few pictures of orchids and trees etc, will be interesting. 
Are you still taking Kodachromes2 Mangelsdorf told me that he wrote 
you had lost some of the ones you had taken in Mexico when they 
were submitted to ex-ray inspection at the border. 
I am glad that young Smith seems to be getting along quite well and 
se ms to be useful. 
Professor Ames is in Florida. Be had a carbonknuckle in his neck 
some time ago and them about two or three weeks later he had three 
of his leg. When he got out of the hospital the last time, hw 
