Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames 
Botanical Museum, Harvard University 
Oxford Street. Cambridge 38, Massachusetts 
January 14, 1957 
Mr. Leslie A. Garay 
University of Toronto 
Department of Botany 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Dear Leslies 
Titanic you for your letter and for the announced shipment 
of specimens to he returned after identification. I appre¬ 
ciate your identifying these and also your note on Octomeria 
triden t sta , which I had not included in the El ora of Trinidad. 
I shall also he happy to have the specimen of Epistephium 
ellipticum . 
The negatives of the Dunsterville drawings were sent to 
the Hew York address which jrou gave us in November, to await 
Mr. Dunsterville's arrival there. We have here your notes 
which Mrs. de Huarte is copying off in her spare moments. 
Do not worry about them because they are safe and this work 
will go slowly because she sandwiches it in with her other 
work which is of a more urgent nature. 
We have not yet been successful in getting Smith to 
draw the Erythrodes. In fact, he has not even been near the 
Herbarium. Last week I called him on the telephone and made 
a date for tomorrow because this thing must be done, as well 
as a lot of other work which we have pending. 
There are separated a few duplicates of North American 
orchids which you can look at when you come down this way. 
There may be more. We are going through Professor Ames' 
herbarium which was stored at North Easton, at his home, 
and we find that there are a number of orchid duplicates 
there. I am separating them in packages with the anno- 
tion "Attention: Garay". 
I have not heard any rumours about how the Guggenheim 
is shaping up for you, but there is no reason why I would 
hear of that, inasmuch as I have already sent in my own 
strong recommendation. I do not want to raise your hopes 
unduly but I will say that It will be a disappointment to 
me if this grant is not made. 
Very sincerely yours 
Ric 3 
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