February 21, 1942 
Dr. Richard Evans Schultes 
Institute de Ciencias R&turales 
Bogota, Colombia 
My dear Ricardo: 
I was very glad to have your letter, though quite 
short, also many thanks for the fine stamps of Ecuador. 
I must confess that I have not seen the Boletin de 
Institute Botlnico de la liniversidad Central de Ecuador. 
I shall have te look it up now as they hove started 
planning. 
I suppose that you know that your friend Smith has 
arrived back in the United States. I talked to him for 
a few minutes but he was so reticent that I was able to 
get relatively little out of him. 
When is it that y u are going to come back out of 
Colombia and fio you thin& that you will be able to dome 
out without too much difficulty? How about the specimens? 
Are you going tc be able to get them out all right? I hope 
that” you will be able to get a boat when you want to leave 
and that you do not have to fly up and leave the specimens 
there. 
I preseume that Dr. Dugand has found it impossible 
to come up here, at least so far as I knew, he has not been 
around as yet. 
With my regards I am 
Sincerely, 
LOW/ cl 
