Hotel Jivoli

ANCON. CANAL ZONE

May 2, 1914

My dear Prof. Bingham,

We arrived at
Colon without incident on time and I
immediately went to Mr. Wilford. He was
very agreeable and fixed things up
very nicely for me altho we were
unnable to get a pass for ourselves
across the isthmus, having to use the
transportation provided on our steam
ship tickets. We will probably go down
on the P.S.N.C. Peru altho if the
passenger agent, Mr. Berg will not frank
our baggage we will go on the Peru-
vian line, the Ucayali. Mr. Wilford is
handling it all for me and will send the
checks over here to me.

They have a new transfer system

Hotel Jivoli

ANCON CANAL ZONE

now which transfers your baggage from
the dock to the station. I did not un-
derstand that the checks given there
had to be exchanged for others at the
station and as a result our baggage
got over here one train late, but it did
not do any damage.

Yesterday afternoon we all took a
trip to old Panama and in the evening
strolled around. Coming over we stop-\ped off at Gatun one train and were
able to have a fine look at the locks
there.

This morning Westerberg and I went
to see about his vaccination and Dr.
Darling very kindly had it done for him
The doctor seemed quite interested in
the work and would be very glad to
talk with the surgeon when he comes

Hotel Jivoli

ANCON CANAL ZONE

down in regard to the treatment for
malaria and other tropical diseases.
He has just returned from Africa where
he was assisting Col. Gorgas. He does
not believe in trying to keep malaria
away by prophylactic measures and thinks
their experience here has proved it
useless. He knows Barbour and when I told
him of Barbour's article on the snake
he expressed a desire to have a reprint.
I am enclosing his name and address so
that you may send him whatever pamphlets
you see fit.

Our meals on the ship came to $43.65
and we ate as much as we wanted and what
we wanted, trying of course to keep in
reasonable bounds. I think on the whole

Hotel Jivoli

ANCON CANAL ZONE

that the majority of the passengers do
not like the service as it now is and
that the company would be making a wise
move if it should change to the old ser-
vice.

In conversation with a young Ger-
man who is working So.Am. for a number
of different firms and who was at one
time one of the head men on the American
Exporter I discovered that he thinks
any theoretical college training for ex-
port trade is about so much time wasted
and that it necessitates more than any-
thing else lots of time devoted to actual
experience. He also said that American
exporters were now packing goods as care-
fully as any one else, that the bad packin-
talk was just bull on the part of the
consuls who were too lazy to make a good
report.

May 2, 1914

My dear Mr. Dietz:

I have forwarded your letter to the Treasurer
of the University, and I have no doubt that you
will hear from him in a short time.

When the bill passed through this office for
approval the sum total was $360.50 (three hundred
and sixty dollars and fifty cents).

Thanking you for your kindness in aiding our
Expedition, believe me to remain

F. H. Dietz, Esq.,
The United Fruit Co.,
17 Battery Place,
New York City.

May 5, 1914

Dear Sir:

I am putting your application on file, but I do not
believe there will be any opportunity for us to employ
any more engineers this year or next year.

If you care to make any further statement in regard
to your experience in plane-table mapping I shall be glad
to have it. Your application should also contain a state-
ment to the terms on which you would be willing to go on
an expedition. Testimonials should also be on file.

It is well to have these things on file, as occasionally
opportunities occur unexpectedly.

James H. Pierce, Esq.,
Frackville,
Schuylkill Co.,
New York.

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH

COASTAL LABORATORY, CARMEL, CALIFORNIA

DESERT LABORATORY, TUCSON, ARIZONA

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.,

May 5, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A, Yale Station,
New Haven, Connecticut.

My dear Doctor Bingham:

I returned home Sunday morning after spending three very busy days in New York. Doctor Britton and I spent an evening over your photographs, and we enjoyed them very much indeed. I am returning the whole set to you, just as I received it, although, of course, I have not been able to check it up. Please let me know if all the photographs come back; but as they have not been out of my hands, I think you will find the full number.

I enclose a list of those of which I wish to have either one or more prints. Will you please ask to have them printed on carbon velox paper, and have the bill sent to me, addressed to the Smithsonian Institution.

I want to tell you once more that I appreciate very much the attention you showed me while at New Haven. The information furnished me will be invaluable in connection with my proposed trip to South America.

If I can be of any assistance to you, either before I leave or while in South America, do not hesitate to call upon me.

While in New York I found a published illustration* in Fries's

* Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sc. Ups. Ser. IV. pl. 1, 1905-7.

29 Marlborough Street,

Boston, May 5th.1914.

My dear Hiram:

I have just been talking with a good-looking,clean
cut six-footer, who is considering applying for the position of
Doctor of the great expedition. He comes from allston,and says
he knows well at least one man for whom I have a high regard.
He is a Harvard Medical Graduate,and seems to have taken advantage
of all the extra work in substituting that came in his way. At
present he is Interne at the Newton Hospital getting through July
1st-but he thinks that he could get away earlier if necessary.
The experience at the Newton Hospital should give a good fit-out
for your work,as they get Surgical and Medical training,including
contagious cases.

In my talk I was very much pleased with the chap.He has
a good clear eye,and a shake of the hand that I liked. He said
that he was interested in scientific work and I do not believe he
would "funk" anything that might come in his way.

It was of course a new idea to him and he is going to
roll it over in his mind and write you "inside twenty-four hours".
His name is,Edwin Alonzo Meserve.

Yours as ever

May 6, 1914

My dear Mr. Rose:

It was a great pleasure to
see you in New Haven, and I am
very glad if you feel that your
trip was worth while.

The photographs have not yet
come, but undoubtedly will arrive
in a short time.

I am sending your order at
once to the photographers, and
we will get them to you as soon
as we can. I note that you wish
the bill sent to you, addressed
to the Smithsonian Institution.

With kind regards, believe
me to remain

NEWTON HOSPITAL
NEWTON LOWER FALLS
MASSACHUSETTS

May 6th, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Yale Station,
New Haven, Mass.

Dear Sir:-

I have today been speaking with Dr. Emmons, Secretary for appointments at the Harvard Medical School and with Dr. John Dane with reference to the need of a physician and surgeon to accompany you on your expedition to Peru. I should like very much to be considered as an applicant for that position.

I am twenty-nine years old and unmarried. I graduated from the Harvard Medical School in June, 1913. My preparatory work was done at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College. I come from a family of five boys and five girls, all of whom have been through college, then have done post-graduate work here or abroad, and are now engaged in teaching as is my father. My home is in Allston, a suburb of Boston, where I have lived for twenty-five years. I am a member of the Congregationalist church.

I have never had but one serious illness, which was typhoid fever eight years ago. I am now in good health and have no physical defects or deformities.

For hospital work I have had three months on the Boston Float-
ing Hospital, three months at the Boston Lying-In Hospital, and am
now just finishing a year at the Newton Hospital. During the past
year I have had six months of surgery and am now near the end of my
six months of medical work. I have had a very good service in
surgery.

Professor Hiram Bingham --2.

5/6/14.

My knowledge of Spanish is very slight, being limited to one
year's study while in Harvard College.

I am a lover of out door life, having camped out for two sum-
mers.

For references I can give the following:

Rev. John O. Haarvig,
Allston Congregational Church,
Allston, Mass.

Ex-Dean Henry A. Christian,
252 Marlborough Street,
Boston, Mass.

Joseph Stanton, M. D.,
Visiting Surgeon to St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Boston, Mass,
And to the Newton Hospital,
Newton Lower Falls, Mass.

George L. West, M. D.,
Medical Examiner and Visiting Physician,
Newton Hospital,
Newton Lower Falls, Mass.

Please let me know anything which you think might be of in-
terest to me in this matter. I would very seriously consider ac-
cepting the position if it were offered me. I shall be very glad
to hear from you.

May 7, 1914

My dear Dr. Meserve:

Dr. Dane wrote to me about you, and whist very much pleased by his
talk with you. It seems to me that you are just the kind of man we
are looking for.

I am sending you a copy of the Medical Report of the first Peru-
vian Expedition, which will tell you something about the region into
which we are going.

One of our assistants is to leave New York on Saturday, June 20th,
and I should like very much to have the Surgeon go at the same time.
We should like to make a contract with the Surgeon to stay in Peru
until September, 1915, leaving there so as to get back to this coun-
try about the first of October.

For this period of service I regret to say we cannot give adequate
compensation, but we can pay all expenses from the time of leaving
New Haven until the return to New Haven, and give in addition an hon-
orarium of $1,000, of which $200 would be payable in advance on sign-
ing the contract, $300 would be payable as or when desired in the
field, and the balance on completing the terms of the contract.

We have not been able to get the detached service chest from the
Army this year, but have substituted for it one of the Burroughs Well-
come equipments, such as are provided for tropical expeditions. In
addition to this the Surgeon will probably have some specialties of
his own which he would like to procure at our expense, and we should
have one or two suggestions to make with regard to taking an extra
amount of bismuth on account of the liability of getting amoebic dys-
entery.

If you could come down to New Haven for a few hours during the next
week, or so at our expense, I should be very glad indeed to have you
meet some of the present and former members of the Expedition, and
after this meeting, it were mutually agreeable, we should be glad to
have you sign a contract with us.

Your name is a familiar one to me, and you have made such a good
impression on Dr. Dane, and your qualifications as stated in your
letter seem so excellent, that I hope nothing will arise to prevent
your becoming the Surgeon of the new Expedition.

Director.

P. S. I am sending you one or two other papers which will tell you
something about our work.

HAMPDEN HALL
CAMBRIDGE

May, 7, 1914.

My dear Dr. Bingham:

Dean Hurlbut has suggested to me that I go to Santiago this summer to attend Congress of American Students, and act as representative of Harvard there. I told him that he had best communicate with you on this subject because I was under contract with you for seven months beginning next June.

If, however, you do not object to my going to Santiago I should be glad to do it, but if such a trip would interfere with the work of the expedition and with my chances of being a useful member of it I do not wish to accept the offer. So into your hands I resign all discretion in the matter. It will be my pleasure to abide by whatever decision you may make.

Dr. Hiram Bingham

Drawer A. Yale Station

New Haven, Connecticut.

May 7, 1914

My dear Hardy:

I was very glad to get your letter mailed from Kingston, and
to know just how things were going.

Evidently you will have to be very careful about your tendency
to acquire dysentery. I shall take pains to see that the doctor
takes down with him a good big lot of bismuth. In the mean time
please take particular care not to eat uncooked food, and drink
unboiled water except when you are absolutely sure that its source
is all right.

I am not surprised that Westerberg showed signs of restlessness,
and I rely on you to keep the peace.

I am very much pleased with what you say about your reticence. I
like the spirit with which you take my suggestions. It is, as you
know, extremely unpleasant to speak to another man about his personal
faults or what look like faults to the observer. When he takes it so
manfully as you do, it makes it possible to continue to help him, and
I am delighted to see that you are determined to have me notice im-
provement the next time I see you. Don't get discouraged. Keep on
trying!

Faithfully yours,

Osgood Hardy, Esq.,
C/O Messrs. Lomellini & Cia.,
Cuzco, Peru.

May 8, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A, Yale Station,

New Haven, Connecticut.

My dear Doctor Bingham:

The record that I took out of your office
is that I was bringing back 64 photographs; but, on counting
them before returning them, I find that there are 71. I should
have returned them to you sooner, but Secretary Walcott wanted
to look them over and I have held them several days for him.

HENRY A. CHRISTIAN, M. D.
PETER BENT BRIGHAM HOSPITAL
FRANCIS ST. AND HUNTINGTON AVE.

CONSULTATIONS BY APPOINTMENT
TEL. BROOKLINE 132

BOSTON, MASS. May 9, 1914

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Draw A., Yale Station,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Bingham:-

Dr. Meserve, whom you write about in your letter of May 7th in reference to his serving as surgeon on your new expedition, I knew as a student in the Medical School. He did good work there, and is a man physically in good condition from his general appearance, and quiet and self-contained, well-liked by his associates, so that I should think that he would make a very serviceable member of your expedition. As to the character of his work in the hospital, others who have seen his work can speak better than I can.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

WASHINGTON, D. C.

OFFICE OF
ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
IN CHARGE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM

May 11, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A., Yale Station,

New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Sir:

Referring to your recent correspondence
with Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., Curator of Mammals,
in the matter of obtaining specimens of mammals for
the National Museum through the assistance of the
"Peruvian Expedition of 1914-15", I beg to announce
the shipment, by express prepaid, of a box contain-
ing two dozen Schuyler rat-killer traps and two dozen
Out-o-sight special mouse traps to be used for the
purpose mentioned. The box is addressed to the "Peru-
vian Expedition, Room 5, Wright Hall, Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.", as requested by you.

There have also been ordered shipped direct
from the manufacturers to the same address and for
the same purpose, four dozen No. 1 and one dozen No.
3 steel traps.

Sm.

May 11, 1914.

My dear Dr. Christian:

Allow me to thank you for your courtesy in writing me in regard to Dr. Meserve.

I am glad to know that you think so highly of him, and I hope very much that it will be possible for him to go on the Expedition.

Henry A. Christian, M. D.,
Peter BenhtBrigham Hospital,
Francis Street and Huntington Ave.,
Boston, Mass.

May 11, 1914.

My dear Dr. Meserve:

Thank you for your letter. I should be very glad
to have you come to New Haven on Wednesday, and will
try to meet you at the station at 1.27.

I will ask one or two of our members to lunch with
us at the Graduates Club immediately after you arrive.

I shall be on the platform near the door to the en-
trance to the Women's Waitingroom, which is nearer to the
incoming Boston trains than the Men's Waitingroom. If you
miss me, (though as I am six feet four I do not think you
ought to have any difficulty in finding me), just ask for
my car of any one of the taxicab drivers and we will meet
in the car.

I have received some very nice letters about you from
the people to whom you referred me, and I hope nothing will
interfere with your being the Surgeon of the Expedition.

Dr. E. A. Meserve,
Newton Hospital,
Newton Lower Falls,
Mass.

GEORGE L. WEST, M. D.

Hours:
Until 9 A. M.
2 to 3 and 6 to 7 P. M.

860 Beacon Street,
NEWTON CENTRE, MASS.

May 12, 1914

Mr. Hiram Bingham

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Mr. Bingham,-

I have read your letter in regard to Dr. M. Meserve with care. Dr. Meserve has also showed to me the excerpt from the National Geographical Magazine. I feel that you would be making no mistake to select Dr. Meserve.

He appears to have the judgement, the ability, the tact, and the knowledge necessary for such an undertaking. His good health, agreeable disposition, and willingness to work hard ought to make him especially valuable to you.

May 13, 1914.

My dear Mr. Wilford:

Mr. Hardy and Mr. Fruis both wrote me how kind
you were to them in helping them to get across the
Isthmus without their baggage, and I want to tell
you how much we appreciate your assistance.

Sometimes I wish that it was not necessary to
put scientific exploration on a philanthropic basis,
and that we might go about without asking any favors.
Perhaps you wish the same! There is this to be said,
however, that our present basis enables us to find out
very easily who are our friends and who are willing to
put themselves out for the sake of advancing the cause
of science. As you have been discovered in this role,
permit me to subscribe myself

Gratefully and faithfully yours,

Director.

P. S. Have you received the copies of our publications
which have been sent you?

H. R. Wilford, Esq.,
Agent, United Fruit Company,
Colon, Panama.

May 13, 1914

My dear Dr. Darling:

Mr. Hardy has just written me, telling me
of your kindness to the Expedition, and particularly
to Mr. Westerberg, and I want to tell you how much
we appreciate it.

He says that you would be interested in receiv-
ing a copy of Mr. Barbour's paper on snakes, so I am
sending it, together with one of our last reports, and
a copy of the Medical Report of the 1911 Expedition.

I was very much surprised to hear from Mr. Hardy
that you do not believe in prophylactic measures for
keeping off malaria. As we work a great deal in a
malarial country, this is a matter of great importance
to me, and I should appreciate any printed matter that
you cared to send me on the subject. I don't want to
bother you to write it all out for my benefit, and I
presume you have some article or articles that would
answer the purpose.

With kind regards.

Dr. S. T. Darling,
Ancon,
C. Z.

May 15, 1914.

My dear Cushing:

Your Dr. Morton came to see us yesterday, but did
not seem quite sure in his own mind whether he wanted
to go to Peru or not.

For this reason, and also on account of the fact
that he wanted to make a specialty of surgery, and
I was very much afraid that he would find a year and
a quarter in Peru largely lost, so far as work on his
special subject was concerned, I advised him to with-
draw his application.

We all liked him, and he made a very favorable im-
pression, and, if we had not had a chance to get Dr.
Meserve, who is just getting through at the Newton
General Hospital, and who seemed to be a thoroughly
good man and very anxious to go, I should have been
inclined to look at Dr. Morton's case a little less
unselfishly.

With kind regards and many thanks

May 15, 1914.

My dear Dr. Meserve:

Professor Bingham would like to have you read over that portion of the "Circulars" which refers to the food to be taken to Peru. If there is any particular item of diet which you do not care to have included in the boxes of food meant for your consumption, will you please let us know, and what articles you would like to have substituted therefor, provided it is possible for us to secure them. As the order for your food must go in shortly, will you please let us know as soon as possible.

The Burroughs Wellcome outfit wantforward by express to-day, addressed to you at the Newton Hospital.

Will you please make note of the fact that in Ancon, Canal Zone, there is a Dr. S. T. Darling, who had had experience in Africa, and other tropical regions, and who was very kind to the members of the Expedition who started on April 25th. I believe Professor Bingham would like you to have a talk with him on your way through.

Sincerely yours,

(Copy)

YALE MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

New Haven, Conn.

May 15, 1914.

Dear Hi:

The two essential drugs for the treatment of amoebic dysentery are Bisulphate of Quinine and Bismuth Subnitrate. The former is used in a 1 to 5,000 to a 1 to 1,000 solution thrown high into the bowel by means of a rectal tube, and the latter is used in 1/2 to 1 teaspoonful doses as often as every 2 hours. As much as 12 to 15 teaspoonfuls are taken in a day.

Of course morphine in doses of from 1/8 to 1/4 grain as often as every 4 hours may be required when pain and tenesmus are marked.

The usual diet of milk, gruels and broths, of course, is harder to carry out. If the chances of encountering the disease are great, it the might be well to anticipate it by taking of malted milk tablets or some such proprietary food as Nestles or Imperial Granum.

I would suggest adding to your armamentarium a 1 quart combination hot water bottle and fountain syringe, some hard capsules containing sufficient Quinine Bisulphate to make up the proper strength solutions when added to the contents of the syringe bag, a couple of good sized catheters, some tubes of vaselene, (if your men are asthetic), a tin teaspoon and a pound or two of Bismuth Subnitrate. With this preparation you can slay millions of the entamoebae.

The boiling of drinking water is, of course, of great prophylactic importance.

CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

HARRY B. FERRIS, M.D., PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION
MARVIN M. SCARBROUGH, SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION

WILLIAM H. CARMALT, M.D., CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE
261 ST. RONAN STREET, NEW HAVEN, CONN.
HAROLD S. ARNOLD, M.D., SECRETARY OF THE COMMITTEE
122 COLLEGE STREET, NEW HAVEN, CONN.

T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN, M.D., NEW YORK
WILLIAM H. CARMALT, M.D., NEW HAVEN
GOULD A. SHELTON, M.D., SHELTON
MAX MAILHOUSE, M.D., NEW HAVEN
OLIVER T. OSBORNE, M.D., NEW HAVEN

COMMITTEE

EDWIN R. BALDWIN, M.D., SARANAC LAKE
CHARLES G. CHILDS, M.D., NEW YORK
WESLEY G. VINCENT, M.D., NEW YORK
HERMAN C. PITTS, M.D., PROVIDENCE
HAROLD S. ARNOLD, M.D., NEW HAVEN

May 15 '1914

Dear Hi' :-

The two essential drugs for the treatment of amoebic dysentery, are Bisulphate of Quinine and Bismuth Subnitrate.

Of course morphine in doses of from 1/8 to 1/4 grain doses as often as every 4 hours may be required when pain and tenesmus are marked.

The usual diet of milk, gruels and broths of course, is harder to carry out. If the chances of encountering the disease are great, it might be well to anticipate it by the taking of malted milk tablets or some proprietary food as Nestles or Imperial Granum.

I would suggest adding to your armamentarium a 1 quart combination hot water bottle and fountain syringe, some hard capsules containing sufficient Quinine Bisulphate to make up the proper strength solutions when added to the contents of the syringe bag, a couple of good sized catheters, some tubes of vaselene (if your men are a sthetic), a tin teaspoon and a pound or two of Bismuth Subnitrate. With this preparation you can slay

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

WASHINGTON, D. C.

May 16, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A, Yale Station,

New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Sir:

Replying to the inquiry in your letter
of May 14, concerning responsibility for the traps
which have been furnished by the Museum for the use
of the Peruvian Expedition in collecting mammals
for the National Museum, I beg to say that the Mu-
seum assumes the risk of their being lost. I would
ask, however, that you will kindly have all such
losses reported to us, in order that we may keep
our records straight.

W.

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San Antonio, Texas-

W. Hirain Bingham May 18-1914
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir, in reply to your favor of May 13th, I enclose reference from Mr. R.H. Gresham, on whose party I worked as topographer in western Texas on the K.C. No. O. Ry. survey. I also enclose two letters from Mr. F. Mathewson, and Mr. F. K. Mathewson, both will know engineers of Mexico City and Granada. Mr. F.K. Mathewson is chief up for the Granada Power Elec. Co. - # These are personal letters to me, and I send them in view of preferences, as both of them are steel in Mexico and it is uncertain when I can get letters from them. Most of my engineering work

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was done on the several parties of
these two men.

I also refer you to any of the offices
of the Frost National Bank for an opinion
on my character or other personal
matters.

In regard to financial conditions
I have no trouble in furnishing transportation and
field expenses and salary sufficient
to maintain field equipment (such as
shoes, clothing etc.) I regret I cannot
offer my services to the expedition entirely
free. The salary is not the object, but the
wish to do exploratory work, and I feel
sure that I can be useful to the
expedition if I have the opportunity.

3 Picche ave

(P.O. Box 918 - San Antonio, Texas.)

HAMPDEN HALL
CAMBRIDGE

May 19, 1914.

My dear Dr. Bingham:

I am much obliged to you for sending me the little book on reconnaissance; I have already read a part of it and I will try to master it on the way to Machu Picchu.

A week from next Wednesday, (June 3), I am coming to New Haven for a night or two if I can see you then. There is quite a long respite between two of my exams so that I can easily do it.

Is the doctor or surgeon going down with me or am I to go alone? If the latter is to be the case I wish to have a particularly good supply of Spanish reading matter with me for the sake of practice.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A. Yale Station,
New Haven, Connecticut.

(Cópia)

Señores Administradores de Aduanas y Jefes de Resguardo del.
Perú.

Superintendencia
General de Aduanas.

Las Aduanas y Resguardos de la República proporcionaran todas
las facilidades posibles al Sr.Ellword C.Erdis, Jefe de la Expedición Cien-
tífica de la Universidad de Yale (EE.UU.)y personas que forman la Comisión;
quedando excentos del reconocimiento de sus equipajes y bultos que conten-
gan aparatos científicos según declaración que ante las Aduanas ó Resguar-
dos haga dicho señor Erdis.

Callao, Mayo 11 de 1914.

Firmado-E. Oyanguren.
Superintendente

Un sello de la Suptdcia.

THE PERUVIAN CORPORATION Ltd.

CABLE ADDRESS,
"IMPULSIVE"-LIMA.

Lima Peru.

May 11th, 1914.

Dear Dr. Bingham,

Your man Mr. Erdis turned up, and told me some
of his necessities which he would like me to attend to,
and I have made arrangements through the Ministerio de
Fomento by which he has been given permission to get some
communications he may require with the wireless station
here, and also a letter from the Minister to all the
authorities in the interior to assist him in every way
they can. I have moreover obtained an authority from
the Minister of Gobierno for the Commission to carry arms
(stating the number of rifles and guns which they are
carrying), and I have given him letters to the South, and
written to the South, advising that they are to have all
the facilities given to your goodself and party when you
were here. I understand that the American Minister is
looking after the importation of their effects, which is
apparently the only remaining thing at present required.

Mrs Morkill went North on the 16th April, arriving in New York on the 30th. She was then going straight up to the Adirondacks, where unfortunately Geoffrey has still to remain, I believe until the end of the year; she wants to stay with him for a short time, and then go and see

May 21, 1914.

My dear Dr. Meserve:

I am delighted to hear that you will probably be able to leave New York on June 20th. I am sure it will be very much pleasanter for you to travel in the company of Mr. Means all the way to Cuzco, instead of having to go all the way alone. It is a long journey.

I have just had a cable from Cuzco that all is going well with the
Expedition.

I am writing Mr. Means suggesting that he communicate with you.

I have just sent you the following telegram: "Goods mentioned in paragraph one my letter May fourteenth were all packed in one box. Were any of these lost? Please report at once if box was received in bad order. Goods mentioned in paragraph three have not yet been sent." as I am quite disturbed to think that, judging by your letter, some very valuable outfit got lost out of the box before it reached you, or while it was being unpacked at the Newton Hospital. In the box as packed here beside the Burroughs Wellcome outfit was a cash book, receipt book, alarm watch, travelling ink-bottle, small surgeon's kit, bone saw and bone pincers. Is it possible that when the box was unpacked this material was thrown away with the packing material? The rest articles were very thickly wrapped so that they might not be damaged by the heavy Burroughs Wellcome box. If the case was received in bad condition, we can make a claim against the Express Company. The other goods mentioned in my letter will go forward as soon as they can be marked.

I am enclosing a list of the contents of the Burroughs Wellcome
outfit. If everything has been received as per list, kindly receipt
and return to this office.

Your requisition has been approved and sent to the Bureau of Purchas-
es and Stores with orders to deliver the goods to you at the Newton Hos-
pital. Your bill for expenses has been approved and sent to the Treas-
urer for payment.

It will be possible for you to order your clothing through Mr. John-
son, provided you send us the measurements. If you will write directly
to Mr. F. B. Johnson, Bureau of Purchases and Stores, Yale University,
telling exactly what you want, he will be glad to take care of the mat-
ter without your coming to New Haven. The tank developer will be sent
you in a day or two.

Faithfully yours,

Dr. E. A. Meserve.

Note:

Mr. I. Matheson: Was, in April, 1914, on the National Railways of Mexico. His address is I. Matheson, American Club, Mexico City. Merely a friendly letter.

T. K. Mathewson, Tuxpan, Mex. Another friendly letter written
May 26th, 1913. Interesting to note that he has no use for
Huerta. Chiefly devoted to account of his experiences in the
Revolutions. Discouraging Norton from trying to look for work
in Mexico.

May 21, 1914.

My dear Means:

I shall be glad to see you on June 3rd, either between 11 and 1, or
in the evening. I have promised to take my boys to the country in the
afternoon, and I have to conduct an examination between 9 and 11 o'clock,
otherwise I am entirely at your disposal. On Thursday the 4th I have to
go out of town, as I have promised to attend the closing exercises of the
Salem schools.

I hope you will come and take supper with us en famille on Wednesday,
June 3rd, and then we can spend the evening looking things over.

You will be glad to know that a cable has just been received from
Cuzco stating that everybody has reached there in good order and that
all is going well. You will also be glad to know that the surgeon who
has been appointed is a Harvard man of the class of 1907, who graduated
from the Medical School in 1913, and has a high regard for your brother.
His name is Dr. Edwin A. Meserve, and he is at present at the Newton Gen-
eral Hospital, at Newton Lower Falls. It is not absolutely certain that
he can get away from the hospital before the first of July, but he will
endeavor to leave with you on the 20th of June. In either case it will
be a good plan to have plenty of Spanish reading matter, particularly
historical material, for both of you.

I shall be glad to loan you some Peruvian books. It is a great relief
to have everything well started in Peru, and to have secured a good sur-
geon.

If you can get any practice in handling engineering instruments, or
can attach yourself to a field party doing surveying some of these spring
afternoons it would be a good plan. I hope you have practised cooking
in the open. It is quite a different question from cooking in the kitch-
en.

It would be a good plan for you to familiarize yourself with : "Juicio
de Limites entre el Peru y Bolivia. Prueba Peruana presentada al Gobierno
de la Republica Argentina por Victor M. Murtua. Tomo Septimo. Vilca-
bamba. Barcelona: 1906". If you cannot get a copy before you sail, I shall
probably be able to loan you one to take with you on the way down.

Faithfully yours,

Mr. Philip A. Means,
Hampden Hall,
Harvard University.

C E 292-a

ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION
CANAL ZONE

Board of Health Laboratory

Refer to File No.-----------------

Ancon, May 21, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Drawer A, Yale Station,
New Haven, Conn.

My dear Prof. Bingham:

Thank you very much for your kind note
of May 13th. I was particular to tell Mr. Hardy that opinions
were divided as to the efficacy of quinine prophylaxis. If
men are to be exposed to malaria for a very short time there
can be no doubt as to the value of quinine prophylaxis if the
quinine is given in sufficiently large doses, but if men are
to be exposed for a longer period, such as a year or two, I
very much question its value as the sole anti-malarial measure.

Dr. Malcolm Watson, a very successful sanitarian in
the Malay States, has published his views in Ross, "The Prevention
of Malaria", E. P. Dutton & Co., 1910, and in a separate brochure
from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. From page 559
in Ross's book, I quot e:

"(7) That quinine given regularly greatly reduces the sick-
ness and death-rate of those exposed to malaria.

(8) That doese of less than six grains daily are of little
value if the malaria be intense - say where the spleen rate be
75 or more.

(9) That when given in 10-grain doses on six days out of

seven, or in 20-grain doses when a coolie has fever or
is in such bad health that he does not feel inclined to
work, between 20 and 30 % of those taking the drug will
be found with parasites in their peripheral blood.

(10) That the use of quinine can therefore never
result in the abolition of malaria or even make any material
reduction in the liability to infection in a malarious
locality."

Regarding quinine prophylaxis, he makes the follow-
ing further remarks:

"On one estate, 56 coolies were found
to have parasites, though they were given six to eight
treatments of quinine with double doses when they were
ill * * * * * clearly domonstrates that
while keeping the malaria in check so that the coolies
can carry on their work, three years administration of
the drug had entirely failed to eradicate the disease".

One experiment in the use of quinine prophylaxis
was carried out here on the Isthmus, and I am sending you
a copy of the Proceedings of the Canal Zone Medical Associa-
tion containing a report of this experiment.

In German South-West Africa, they practice as the
cheapest method well-supervised therapy + quine prophylaxis,
see Ross, page 473.

Quinine prophylaxis has a tendency to make men neglect

the more important anti-mosquito work: drainage, screening, sleeping beneath mosquito bars, destruction of breeding places, location of camp too close to native settlements, etc., etc.

Very much depends on the region you are going into; in fact, each region must be treated on its own merits.

If you are going to have a station which will last a year or two, it would seem to be wise to direct efforts against the mosquito and the native population.

Very truly yours,

HAMPDEN HALL
CAMBRIDGE

May 22, 1914.

My dear Dr. Bingham:

It will be a great pleasure to have supper with you on June 3d, and it will be splendid to have such an opportunity to talk things over.

The appointment of Dr. Meserve as surgeon to the expedition is most interesting; I have written to him asking him to let me come out to Newton to see him. I think I have heard Howard (my brother) speak most warmly of him. It is rather a pleasant surprise to have a doctor who is a friend of my brother's appointed, and I am glad he is a Harvard man, too. The cable from Cuzco is most comforting; I had figured out that they ought to be arriving next Monday or Tuesday, so my calculations are very wrong.

I will take pains to try and cook outdoors as much as I can. A friend of mine here will, I think, show me how to use surveying instruments. I cannot get hold of the boundary-controversy pamphlet you wish me to read, so it will be necessary for me to borrow your copy.

Unless I hear from you to the contrary I shall come to your house at seven on Wednesday, June 3. (I shall come down on the Knickerbocker as I have an exam that morning). It is most kind of you to see me, and I am looking forward to it.

Dr. Hiram Bingham

Drawer A. Yale Station

New Haven, Connecticut.

Night Letter, Western Union.

May 25, 1914.

To: Dean, College Applied Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

C. F. Maynard says he graduated at Syracuse with the degree
Civil Engineer in 1912 has applied for a position as assistant topo-
grapher on the Peruvian Expedition of Yale University and the National
Geographic Society. Kindly telegraph our expense your opinion of him
and the nature of his college record.

(Charge Exped. 1914-15) (Signed)

HIRAM BINGHAM.

May 25, 1914.

My dear Dr. Meserve:

I am very glad that you found the material
and that it was not lost out of the box in transit.

Information in regard to sending your trunk
will be sent you in a few days. I think that it
will be safe for me now to engage accommodations on
the steamer sailing June 20th.

Will you kindly let me know your preferences
in regard to the food boxes~~(sResponse is possible only if you choose~~
these must be ordered at once. (See letter to you
of May 15th).

Sincerely yours,

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NEW YORK, May 26, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Bingham:

As you will see from this letter I am at present
passing through New York, and am on my way to England for a
short vacation. I am sorry that I have not had the pleasure
of seeing you while here.

With very kindest regards,

May 27, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

My dear Doctor Bingham:

I have just received the prints of Peruvian Cacti along with a bill and a note from your Secretary. I am enclosing herewith my personal check for $3.15 which will cover the bill. The photographs are very satisfactory, and I want to thank you very much for your permission for me to have a set of these. Some of them I shall take with me into the field in the hope that I may be able to identify all the species which you have collected.

I am looking forward with a great deal of interest to my proposed trip. Mrs. Rose and I shall leave here on June the 9th, going directly to Lima. My address will be;- Care of the American Consul, Callao, Peru, for the first part of my trip. As I have said to you already, if I can be of any assistance to you at any time, do not hesitate to call upon me.

I am sending you herewith a photograph of the peculiar Opuntia which was collected about Cuzco. I have already sent a copy of it to Mr. Erdis.

HAMPDEN HALL
CAMBRIDGE

May 27, 1914

My dear Dr. Bingham:

Today I have been out to Newton to see Dr. Meserve. He is
very attractive, and it is a pleasure to know that I am going to have
his company on the long journey so soon to be begun.

The chart I have been making for you is all completed
save for Blas Valera. A more obscure person I have never sought for!
No encyclopedia or reference-book has a word about him, and I have
looked in works of that nature in English, French, Spanish, German,
and Latin but with no success. Perhaps in your library you have some
rare old edition of his chronicle which will tell me what I wish to
know.

If it does not cause inconvenience to you I would like
to spend the night before sailing with a friend in Orange N.J. I will,
of course, go to New York the day before in time to get my stuff on
board in ample time. As the boat does not sail until noon Dr. Meserve
and I would have plenty of time to meet in New York that morning and
go to the ship together; I, having been there can act as guide.

Looking forward to seeing you, I am,

Please
P.S. Do not bother to answer this by letter; unless you do not wish
me to go to Orange. Please remember that I am very willing to do
whatever is most convenient for you.

May 28, 1914.

Dear Mr. Powell:

Many thanks for your kind letter of May 26th. I am sorry
that I am so tied up with affairs here that I cannot get
down to New York to see you. Cannot you an Mrs. Powell come
and spend a day in New Haven while you are waiting for your
boat to England? I should be very glad to show you the mu-
seum and some of our Peruvian things.

I had a letter from Erdis a day or two ago, and he told me
that Ballen had been very kind, and that he had succeeded in
getting all kinds of facilities. We are very greatly obliged to
you for your kind cooperation in this time of stress.

With kind regards, and hoping to see you in New Haven, if
only for lunch, believe me to remain

Sincerely yours,

A. Powell, Esq.,
Care of Messrs. W. R. Grace & Co.,
Hanover Square,
New York City.

Form 6
5000-4-14

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY
STEAMSHIP SERVICE

PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
17 BATTERY PLACE

W. M. LOWRIE
PASSENGER TRAFFIC MANAGER

F. H. DIETZ
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT

NEW YORK, May 29th, 1914.

IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO OUR

Mr. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A,

S. S. "PASTORES" - June 20th.

Dear Sir:-

In reply to your letter of the 25th, we take pleasure in
advising that we have reserved Cabin 36 on the above steamer for
Doctor Edwin A. Meserve and Mr. Phillip A. Means.

As you requested, we are enclosing herewith tags and
labels for use in connection with their baggage and advise that
the steamers from Pier 16, East River, Foot of Fulton Street, New
York City at 12 O'Clock Noon Sharp.

We are glad to learn that the rest of your party arrived
safely at Cuzco.

We will send you the tickets for the above gentlemen a short
time before sailing and accept our thanks for this valued business.

cb

1697-31st Street,
Washington D.C.
May 29, 1914.

Professor H. Bingham,

Peruvian Expidition, Yale University

Dear Sir:

I am inclosing, as per your request, an expense account
of my trip to New Haven and trust that it will meet with your
approval.

In your circular of instructions I noticed a list of
cable addresses which would reach me on the trip down and
also after reaching the job. If it is convenient I would like
to have a copy together with the mail address before I leave
Washington.

I will confer with Mr. Mendenhall of the Geological
Survey either tomorrow or Monday.

If there is any data or anything that you want from
here I will be glad to get it for you.

HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY,
AREQUIPA STATION,
AREQUIPA, PERU, S. A.

May 29, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Director, Yale Peruvian Expedition,
New Haven, Conn., U.S.A.

My dear Professor: -

your letter anent wireless time signals and the cooperation
of this station with your party for the receipt of the signals
and the determination of the errors of the same has been received
and it will give me much pleasure to assist you all possible. We
already have the instrument in working order, Mr. Bumstead having
spent a couple of days here, before going on to Cuzco. I already
had a small aparatus at the Observatory but not in working order
since, due to the lack of attention on the part of the then
American inister in Lima, my request for permission to use the
same had never been presented. Accordingly when your party arrived
in Arequipa without the written authority to direct the wireless
instruments, I required Mr. Erdis to get the consent from the
prefect, which through the kind offices of Mr. Brown of theail-
way was easily accomplished.

To date though, no signals have been received from the
station in San Cristobal, although other messages are readily
heard here, and without doubt from the same station. I am curious
to know if Mr. Bumstead has heard any, as yet. I think that the
time signals have not been sent out, probably for lack of a proper
time piece to go by. In connection with proper time for the
Geographical Society, which has recently been brought up, I have
suggested to them that they arrange with Sr. Tamayo the question
of a good time piece. Once a week was settled upon for the sending
of these signals, but all of us now think that daily signals would
not be too frequent for the best work.

Talking with Mr. Erdis about meteorology, he appears just
a little hazy as to just what your plans are concerning the
setting up of anymore stations. I have shown him just what instrum
ents are available for your work, but that I can not give him any
help in the setting up of the stations until the beginning of the
cloudy season, probably in November next. Do I understand that you
prefer to have Mr. Erdis take complete charge of all the stations
now? As before, I am only to willing to help you all I can, if it
will not be interfering with the work of Mr. Erdis.

Mr. Westerberg was quite ill for some time after the other
members of the party had gone on to Cuzco, but when I last saw him
about a week ago he appeared much better and was planning to go
the next day to Cuzco. I called on him daily while he was at the
hotel, and had it not been so far from the town and from the doctor's,
I would have had him out to the Observatory.

I enclose herewith a small bill for expenses incurred in
connection with your work, which I trust you will find in order.

Awaiting your early reply as to the work on meteorology
believe me,

June 1, 1914.

Dear Sirs:

We are in receipt of your letter of May 29th,
signed "W. M. Lowrie, C", in which you state that
you are sending us tags and labels for use in con-
nection with the baggage of Messrs. Meserve and Means,
who are sailing on your steamer "Pastores", on June
20th. These enclosures have not yet been received.

Will you please be so kind as to see that these
are sent as soon as possible?

We have this morning written to Mr. Dietz, making
reservations for Mr. E. L. Anderson, Assistant Topogra-
pher of the Expedition, who is to sail on Saturday,
June 6th. When sending the tags and labels mentioned
above, will you also be kind enough to send us tags and
labels for Mr. Anderson?

The United Fruit Company,
17 Battery Place,
New York City.

(Mr. Lowrie)

June 1, 1914.

My dear Mr. Anderson:

Your letter with enclosed expense account has been re-
ceived and approved. Check will go forward to you from the
Treasurer's Office in a day or two.

I trust that by this time you have received the list of
cable addresses, together with the other circulars of instruc-
tions which were forwarded to you soon after you left here.

I am enclosing a copy of the "Instructions to Topographers"
which please insert in your book.

I am obliged to be out of town on Friday after about 9.00 A. M. Perhaps you can arrange to be here Thursday evening, although I do not think of anything else that I want to talk with you about. Your instructions will be all ready for you, and I hope you will have a very pleasant journey.

You will get your steamship tickets here, or on the steamer,
if they do not arrive before you leave.

Please get from Mr. Mendenhall or someone at the Geological
Survey vertical angle tables.

The last report from Cuzco is that Mr. Westerberg has re-
covered, but I am afraid he may get cold feet again, and I am
glad you are going down. If he continues well we shall get a
fine lot of work done.

We have ordered a new Gurley transit and a few extra instru-
ments, so that there will be plenty for three parties in the
field.

The only thing that is troubling me now is in regard to an
assistant for you. I believe, however, that with your knowledge
of Spanish you will have no difficulty in picking up an intelli-
gent Peruvian or Colonial who will be better for you than any
young college graduate you might take along. If worst comes to
worst you can join forces with Westerberg and the Surgeon, but I
hope it will be possible for us to have three good topographical
parties. We have great confidence in your ability to put things
through without much assistance from this end.

Sincerely yours,

Director.

1697- 31st Street,
Washington D.C.,

June 2, 1914.

Professor H. Bingham,

Dear Sir:

Your favor of the 1st. instant was received today and I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the circular and the additional instructions.

I am having some clothes made which will not be ready until Thursday but I will try to hurry them up and get away earlier. In case I am unable to get to New Haven on Thursday I will come on the train that gets in at six in the morning and can see you before you leave at nine.

I will get the vertical angle tables from the Geological Survey at once.

As I have found it impossible to get the kind of boots that I need here I would like to arrange with Mr. Hardy to get them at Abercromie and Fitch's in New York.

Trusting that I will see you before I sail I remain

June 3, 1914

Dear Mr. Morkill:

Many thanks for the great amount of time and attention which you have given to facilitating the Expedition in these times of stress and strain.

Knowing how much trouble you have of your own, I
appreciate all the more the kindness you have shown to
Mr. Erdis.

Yesterday there came the copy of the order from
Oyanguren which you were so kind as to procure.

I am quite sure that Erdis would never have gotten
away so promptly if it had not been for all you were
able and willing to do for him. He wrote me that he
appreciated tremendously your efficiency, and spoke in
very sad terms of the inefficiency of the American Le-
gation.

It was with great regret that I learned from Mrs.
Morkill the other day that she would not be able to vis-
it New Haven.

W. L. Morkill, Esq.,
C/O The Peruvian Corporation,
Lima, Peru.

June 3, 1914.

My dear Dr. Darling:

Many thanks for your letter which greatly relieves me. I had felt for a long time that where men were to be exposed for a long period of time, such as a year or two, there was very little value in the quinine prophylaxis.

Our men will not be in malarial valleys for more than two or three months at a time, and I judged from your letter that it would be wise for them to take 6 or 8 grains a day while exposed to malaria. To be sure, we shall be in Peru for a couple of years, but a large part of the time in a non-malarial country.

Dr. Meserve leaves New York on the "Pastores" on June 20th, and I hope you will have an opportunity of talking with him.

Mr. Edwin L. Anderson, an Assistant Topographer of the Expedition, is sailing on the "Tenedores" on Saturday, and will need another typhoid injection, as he gets his second on June 5th, the day before he sails. I hope you will be able to accommodate him.

With kind regards, and many thanks for your letter, believe me to remain

Dr. Samuel T. Darling,
Board of Health Laboratory,
Isthmian Canal Commission,
Canal Zone.

June 3, 1914.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

This is to certify that Mr. Edwin Lee Anderson has been appointed
Assistant Topographer of the Peruvian Expedition of 1914-15 under the
auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society.

He expects to leave New York on the S. S. "Tenedores" on June
6th and arrives at Mollendo on or about June 23rd.

All courtesies which may be extended to him in his capacity as
a member of the Expedition will be greatly appreciated by the University
and the National Geographic Society.

Director.

(Mr. Anderson: Special Instructions: 2)

probably be necessary for you to telegraph Mr. W. H. Brown, the Assista
Acting Manager of the Ferrocarriles del Sur del Peru, at Arequipa, aski
for a pass for yourself as a member of the Expedition, and so many pack
ages and pieces of baggage as you have with you. We have ordinarily se-
cured these facilities from Mr. L. S. Blaisdell, the Acting Manager of
the road, but I understand that he is at present visiting the United
States.

P. S. When in Panama it is expected that you will call upon Dr. Samuel
T. Darling, at the Board of Health Laboratory, Ancon, who will give you
your appointment, and if you will present your letter of introduction, he will
probably be ready to accommodate you.

HAMPDEN HALL
CAMBRIDGE

June 4, 1914.

My dear Dr. Bingham;

I have just sent you under a separate cover the chart of conquerors and chroniclers that I promised to make for you. The compilation is all my own work but this copy I had made for me because at this time of the year I am too busy to do it myself.

I also took the book on Vilcabamba which I found in your office and which your secretary told me was the copy you meant me to have.

I will, of course, take good care of it.

My short visit was very pleasant.

Hoping that the chart will prove useful to you, I am,

Dr. Hiram Bingham

Drawer A. Yale Station

New Haven, Connecticut.

PEABODY MUSEUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SECTION
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

June 5, 1914.

My dear Dr Bingham:-

I am enclosing the outlines of a curious old dish made of a reddish mottled steatite-like stone. Have you ever seen any similar ones from the Cuzco region? There are certain characteristics which lead me to think that it may be from Peru.

June 9, 1914.

My dear Mrs. Bumstead:

It was with very great regret that I had to let the advance party of the Expedition go without a surgeon, as it was impossible to secure one who was sufficiently satisfactory and had had sufficient experience to make it possible for us to place confidence in him. At the same time I realized that the party would not be at a great distance from Cuzco, where they have a very good Italian physician and surgeon who had had over twenty-five years experience in the country and is a man who commands the respect even of the trained nurses belonging to the English mission in Cuzco.

Even did we have a surgeon of our own in the country, it might not be possible and would be highly improbably that he would be exactly on the spot where an accident occurs; as our Expedition is divided into several parties. Last year our most serious accident happened to Mr. Heald, who took extraordinary risks in attempting the ascent of Huayna Picchu. Our surgeon was at that time twenty-five miles from the scene of the accident and might as well have been in New York.

I made every effort to get a good surgeon, and have at last secured the services of Dr. Meserve, a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, who has had fully two years of hospital experience and is now in the Newton General Hospital. His term there does not expire before the first of July, but the Trustees of the Hospital have consented to give him ten days leave of absence and he will start for Peru on the 20th of June, so that he will be in the field during a large part of the time of your son's service there.

As your son is not the kind that runs unnecessary risks, I do not believe that there is any cause for you to worry. The older men rarely have anything happen to them. It is the young men who are careless and get infected with diseases and occasionally have accidents.

Had there been no physician in Cuzco, I would not have been willing to have sent the party out into the field without having a surgeon attached to the Expedition. Under the circumstances you may rest assured that there is no cause for worry or anxiety.

June 9, 1914.

My dear Willoughby:

I am very glad to have your letter and the outlines of the curious dish which you were so good as to send me.

I think you are correct in feeling that the stone probably came from the Cuzco region.

The character of the handles, the general size of the dish, the thickness of the bottom and sides all point in that direction.

The only novelty is its queer shape. I have a vague recollection of having seen a dish of this type somewhere. It is possible that I saw it in Cambridge. My recollection is that it was in or the collections in Cuzco, but I cannot be certain.

From what you tell me I should think that there was no doubt that it came from Peru.

June 9, 1914.

My dear Bowman:

In regard to Mr. Baker, about whom you write:

I am afraid there will be no chance for him to go with us in the summer of 1915, but one never knows what may turn up, and I shall be glad to have him come in and talk with me.

Faithfully yours,

Professer Isaiah Bowman,
Peabody Museum,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Professor Bingham 2

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL,
YALE UNIVERSITY.

Geological Dept.
Kirtland Hall.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

the emphasis is laid upon the ethnological side in
that the Peruvians used materials of a certain
character for certain purposes, and that this material
has the character mentioned in the petrographic des-
cription, that, of course would be a different
matter.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

June 10, 1914.

My dear Mr Bingham:-

Thank you for your note of yesterday. You did
not see the stone dish referred to as it was in storage. If you
should come across a specimen of like shape at any time I should
like to know of it.

June 11, 1914.

My dear Dr. Meserve:

I am sending you the enclosed clipping to caution
you against letting unauthorized matter get into the
newspapers, for you will note that your contract, para-
graph 5, stipulates that no account of the Expedition,
public, or otherwise, is to be given out in interviews,
or allowed to be published without the consent of the
Director.

If you had nothing to do with this interview, will
you please forward it, together with this letter, to Mr.
Means?

Lima, 11 de Junio de 1914

Señor Ingeniero

D.C.Erdis

Cuzco

Distinguido Señor:

Mucho sentí el que apesar de haber permanecido á bordo
hasta los últimos momentos, el día de su partida, no me fuera posible con
seguir ponerme á las órdenes de sus compañeros de comisión.

Hago votos porque hayan realizado un buen viaje y porque
la suerte les sea propicia en sus penosos trabajos.

El 31 de Mayo se trasmitieron por la estación del San
Cristóbal las primeras señales relativas á la hora, en conformidad con
el programa que U.dejó. Dichas señales se repitieron el miércoles 3 de
Junio y ayer, miércoles 10 de Junio.

Como no me fuera posible conseguir un cronómetro, apesar
de las gestiones hechas, se ha seguido el siguiente procedimiento:

Cada miércoles á las 6.20 pm. se establece la coincidencia
entre el minuto y el segundo del reláj de la oficina.

A las 6.30, uno de los buques de la escuadra determina el
estado del reláj del San Cristóbal, mediante una serie de señales.

A las 6.45, como comprobación vuelve á determinarse el es
tado de dicho reláj.

A las 6.50, la estación trasmite una serie de Z hasta las
6.57.

A las 7 pm, según el reláj de la oficina, comienza á desa-
rrollarse el programa acordado.

2

El estado del relój el 31 de Mayo fue 26.5 SEGUNDOS atrasado respecto á la hora del meridiano 75 al 0.de Greenwich.

El 3 de Junio, fué: 19 SEGUNDOS adelantado.

" 10 " " 47.5 " "

Como se vé, el procedimiento no puede ser rigurosamente exacto, pero puede obtenerse la aproximación necesaria, si el Observatorio de Arequipa ha tomado á la vez las señales trasmitidas á Uds.

Trato de conseguir un péndulo bastante bueno que exista en plaza y que permite apreciar un tercio de segundo. Con él podemos hacer algo más.

La estación del San Cristóbal trabaja actualmente solo con dos longitudes de onda: De 6 am á 7 pm emplea su onda de 4000 metros y en la noche, desde las 7 pm, onda de 1500 m. Esta última ha crecido un tanto en la actualidad á causa de las lluvias.

A UU. se les trasmite invariablemente con onda de 1500 metros, la onda más aparente desde las 6 pm, según hemos podido comprobarlo en repetidas ocasiones.

Mucho le estimaré me comunicó que que puntos debo escribirle en el futuro comunicándole el estado del relój.

Deseando su buena conservación, me suscribo

De U. atto y SS.

K. K. NATURHISTORISCHES HOFMUSEUM, I. BURGRING 7.

DER DIREKTOR
DER
ANTHROPOLOGISCH-ETHNOGRAPHISCHEN
ABTEILUNG

WIEN 14. Juni 1914.

Hochgeehrter Herr Professor,

Ich habe Ihr freundliches Schreiben vom 8. Dezember 1913 bisher noch nicht beantwortet, weil ich erst vollkommene Gewißheit über meine geplante Reise nach den Vereinigten Staaten haben wollte. Die Entscheidung darüber hat sich ungewöhnlich lange herausgezogen und ist erst vor kurzem erfolgt. Ich bin von unserer Regierung als offizieller Delegierter zu dem XIX. Internationalen Amerikanistenkongreß in Washington designiert worden und trete meine Reise nach den Vereinigten Staaten bereits anfangs August von Hamburg aus an, vorerst nach Boston, da ich noch vor dem Kongresse die wichtigeren Museen der Oststaaten eingehender studieren

With the request for a prompt answer in regard to your being
in New Haven, I remain, with the expression of my highest regard,

If you should not be in New Haven during the time mentioned,
perhaps I can make my visit there at the end of the month November
or at the beginning of December, before I return from New York
to Europe.

Form 1227—500—5-7-14—657

LEWIS E. PIERSON,
President.

HARRY BALFE,
Vice-Prest. & Gen'l. Mgr.

THOMAS M. MCCARTHY,
Treasurer.

WALTER B. TIMMS,
Asst. Treasurer.

ERICSSON F. BUSHNELL,
Secretary.

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IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS,
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CODES:
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A B C 4TH EDITION,
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DIRECTORS

HARRY BALFE
ERICSSON F. BUSHNELL
JOHN C. MAHLAN
THOMAS M. MCCARTHY
JAMES E. NICHOLS
LOUIS C. OWENS
LEWIS E. PIERSON
E. G. STODDARD
WALTER B. TIMMS

New York, June 15, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Bingham:

The 30 Cases of Supplies referred to in previous correspondence
are nearing completion, and will be made ready tomorrow. We have communica-
ted with the receiving clerk of the S. S. Pastores and have arranged that the
cases shall be delivered at the steamship pier on Wednesday afternoon, the
17th.

Please find herewith master key for the pad locks which are in-
cluded in these cases.

Invoices and certificates will follow in due course.

Wishing all to your satisfaction, and with the writer's kind re-
gards, we remain

Enc.

Form 6
5000-6-14

NEW YORK, June 16th, 1914.

IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO OUR

Mr. Hiram Bingham, Director,

Yale-Peruvian Expedition,

New Haven, Conn.

S. S. "PASTORES" - June 20th
Tickets New York to Callao.

Dear Sir:-

In compliance with your wire of even date, we take plea-
sure in attaching herewith transportation for Doctor Edwin A. Meserve
and Mr. Phillip A. Means, Tickets Form 171, Nos. 5477 and 5478, P. R.
R. Orders 2401 and 2402 and Form 4 Orders 3284 and 3285.

We attach herewith bill for $247.00 to cover cost of this
Transportation and ask you to kindly have the attached government
blank filled out and returned to us at your earliest convenience.

We enclosed tags and labels for their baggage and kindly
accept our thanks for this valued business.

cb

June 16, 1914.

Dear Dr. Meserve:

The United Fruit Company has agreed to take all our outfit as baggage, without charging us excess. If there is any difficulty in regard to this, take the matter up at once with Mr. Dietz, General Passenger Agent.

You will find at the pier 30 cases of food from Austin, Nichols, & Co. You and Means will attend to having this received by the baggage master.

You are to sail on the steamer Pastores on Saturday noon, June 20th, from Pier 16, East River, foot of Fulton Street, New York, and are due to arrive in Kingston on Wednesday, and in Colon on Friday, June 26th.

On arrival at Colon you will at once communicate with Mr. Wilford, the agent of the United Fruit Company, who has been very nice to us in the past, and will undoubtedly be glad to do anything he can for you in regard to securing free transportation for the baggage on the Panama Railroad.

On arriving at Panama you will stop at the Tivoli Hotel. While here be sure to call upon Dr. Darling, as I have already requested you to do. It is expected that you will then proceed to exchange your orders for tickets on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer sailing from Panama on June 29th. According to the timetables this is the P. S. N. C. "Guatemala", which is due to arrive in Callao July 6th, and due to make quick connections with the P. S. N. C. "Orooma", leaving Callao the same day, and arriving in Mollendo on the morning of July 8th.

On arriving in Mollendo do not be in too great a hurry to get your boatman, but make as good a bargain as possible with a reliable boatman to take all your outfit through the Customs House, and do not pay anything until it is delivered to the railroad station. As the packages are neither large nor heavy, it ought to be possible to get this done at about half the regular rate.

You will, on landing, make a formal call on the Jefe of the Aduana. Manuel F. Arispe, who is a particular friend of mine, and to whom you should present your letter of introduction. You should also show him a copy of the letter furnished Mr. Erdis by Señor Oyanguren, Supt.

Dr. Meserve: Letter of Instructions: 2.

de Aduanas, and I believe you will have no difficulty in getting your baggage through the Customs free of duty.

In order to get transportation from Mollendo to Arequipa it will probably be necessary for you to telegraph Mr. W. B. Brown, the Assistant Acting Manager of the Ferrocarriles del Sur del Peru, at Arequipa, asking for a pass for yourselves as members of the Expedition, and so many packages and pieces of baggage as you have with you. We have ordinarily secured these facilities from Mr. L.S. Blaisdell, the Acting Manager of the road, but I understand that he is at present visiting the United States. From Arequipa you go on to Cuzco, where you meet Erd

Mr. Means will bring your tickets, which he will receive here in New Haven, and which must be signed by you in three places. He will also bring you funds to be used for expenses and on the trip down. These funds are: Two hundred dollars in banker's orders for use on the journey to Peru; fifty dollars in American currency, and ten pounds in English gold, to be used for expenses. Mr. Means will be instructed in the use of the cash and receipt books, and will explain them to you.

I am also sending by Mr. Means a package of films from the Eastman Kodak people. Please deliver these to Mr. Erdé in Cuzco.

Mr. Means letter of instructions is to a great extent a duplication of this letter.

Any further instructions which I may have for you I will send in an additional note by Mr. Means to New York.

June 16, 1914.

Dear Mr. Means:

You will find at the pier 30 cases of food from Austin, Nichols & Co. You will attend to having this received by the baggage master.

You are to sail on the steamer Pastores on Saturday noon, June 20th, from Pier 16, East River, foot of Fulton Street, New York, and are due to arrive in Kingston on Wednesday, and in Colon on Friday morning, Friday morning June 26th.

On arriving at Panama you will stop at the Tivoli Hotel. While here Dr. Meserve should call on Dr. Darling, as he has been previously instructed. It is expected that you will then proceed to exchange your orders for tickets on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer sailing from Panama on June 29th. According to the timetables this is the P. S. N. C. "Guatemala", which is due to arrive in Callao July 8th, and due to make quick connections with the P. S. N. C. "Or-coma", leaving Callao the same day, and arriving in Mollendo on the morning of July 8th.

On arriving in Mollendo do not be in too great a hurry to get your boatman, but make as good a bargain as possible with a reliable boatman to take all your outfit through the Customs House and to the railroad station. In the past in bargains of this kind it has sometimes been maintained by the boatmen than their low price meant simply to take the baggage ashore. Have it distinctly understood in the presence of one or two witnesses that the bargain is to take the entire outfit to the railroad station after it is released from the Customs House, and do not pay anything until it is delivered to the railroad station. As the packages are neither large nor heavy, it ought to be possible to get this done at about half the regular rate.

You will, on landing, make a formal call on the Jefe of the Aduana, Manuel F. Arispe, who is a particular friend of mine, and to whom you

On arrival at Arequipa you will endeavor to get into communication with Mr. Brown as soon as possible. The best place for you to stop at Arequipa is at Morosini's Annex. As soon as you learn from the railroad when you can reach Cuzco, get Mr. Brown to advise Mr. Erdis in Cuzco of the probably time of your arrival.

At Juliaca go to the Hotel Ratti. If you are obliged to stay in Sicuani, go to the Hotel Lafayette.

On arrival in Cuzco put yourself under the orders of Mr. Erdis, who will probably be at the station to meet you.

You will be supplied at the Treasurer's Office with three hundred dollars in American bankers' checks, one hundred dollars in American currency, twenty pounds in English gold. Half of the currency and half of the English gold you will give to Dr. Meserve, taking his receipt therefor. This currency and gold are to be held by you as a kind of insurance against difficulties in getting your banker's checks cashed on the way down and back. As to the banker's checks: you should deposit them in a safe place in Cuzco, preferably in Aana sealed envelope in Lomellini's safe, and keep what you need for the return journey, bearing in mind the fact that you may have somebody else in your party on the way back.

I am committing to your especial care a .22 automatic repeating rifle which has been Sherardized and which I am desirous should be taken into the most moist regions that the Expedition visits, carried with due care in its leather case whenever convenient, and brought back by you on your return to New Haven.

The Expedition has received a permit from the Government to bring arms and ammunition into Peru, on the condition that none are sold.

Should you have any difficulty in regard to getting your arms into the port of Mollendo, telegraph at once to Erdis in Cuzco. If you arrange it right with the Jefe of the Aduana, you ought not to be obliged to open your baggage at all.

I am enclosing with this the invoices of the food boxes and the certificates of the Department of Agriculture in regard to the inspection of the tinned meats, which you may be obliged to use if called for.

Form 1227—500—5-7-14—657

CONTRACTS AND EXPORT SALES,
U. S. SULLIVAN.

LEWIS E. PIERSON,
President.

Austin, Nichols & Co., Inc.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

CODES:

DIRECTORS

New York, June 17, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Bingham:

The 30 Cases Provisions are being sent, today, to the S. S. Pastores,
as previously advised.

Please find herewith two copies of invoices, also meat inspection
certificate (#380468, original and duplicate), all of which will, I believe,
put you in possession of all necessary papers, in this matter. Two additional
copies of the invoices are being send to Mr. Johnson.

I trust everything will be found all right in every way, and with
my kind personal regards, I am

Encs.

June 17, 1914.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

This is to certify that Mr. Philip A. Means
has been appointed Assistant in Archaeology of
the Peruvian Expedition of 1914-15 under the aus-
pices of Yale University and the National Geographic
Society.

He expects to leave New York on the S. S. Pas-
tores on June 20th, and arrives at Mollendo on or
about July 8th.

Director.

W.R.GRACE & Co.

NEW YORK

LA PAZ

CABLE ADDRESS "GRACE"
HANOVER SQUARE
P.O.BOX 286

NEW YORK June 29th 1914.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

NEW HAVEN, Conn.

Dear Prof. Bingham -

PERUVIAN ANTIQUITIES.

We are just in receipt of a cable from our Lima
House, advising us that they have shipped 7 trunks per SS "Chimu"
leaving 4 large earthern jars shortshipped, which, we presume, will
probably go forward by next steamer.

We are covering all by ORDINARY MARINE INSURANCE, to which
effect we should like to know the approximate value of the two lots
separately. Kindly advise us promptly and at the same time please
let us know whether or not you wish the shipments to be covered also
against BREAKAGE and THEFT, which, together, would cost you 10 or 15% extra
of the actual value of the goods.

Our Mr. Schaefer sailed last Saturday, his next destination
being London.

CK.

June 18, 1914.

My dear Mr. Kingsford:

I am leaving for Honolulu on the 2nd of July, and
expect to be in Honolulu from the 17th of July until
the 26th of August.

I think your Company's cables reach Honolulu, and
I hope you will be able to let me know while I am in
Honolulu whether all is going well with the Expedition.

I have just asked Mr. Reynolds to notify you that
two more of our men, the Surgeon of the Expedition, and
the Assistant in Archaeology, are sailing this Saturday,
and will reach Callao on the 6th.

I hope you can meet them, as they are very pleasant
fellows. Both Dr. Meserve and Mr. Means are Harvard men
and well equipped to aid the scientific work of the Expe-
dition.

With kindest regards, and many thanks for your coöp-
eration, believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

Director.

Herbert Kingsford, Esq.,
Barranco,
Lima, Peru.

June 18, 1914.

My dear Dr. Meserve:

I have just received your telegram and regret to find that it
will be impossible for you to call here Friday.

I will turn your outfit over to Mr. Means and give him fifty dol-
lars in American currency and ten pounds in English gold for you to
carry as insurance money in case you get separated from him. It was
my intention also to give you some bankers' checks, but as they have
to be signed here at the bank of issue I have turned these all over
to Mr. Means, who will be in charge of your party until you reach
Cuzco. I have given him a letter of instructions with full orders as
to what to do, and would request you to assist him in every possible
way in carrying out these orders. Owing to his greater familiarity
with the Spanish language it seemed best to put him in charge of the
party, instead of the Surgeon. Of course, after you reach Cuzco,
Mr. Means will place himself entirely under the orders of Mr. Erdis,
and I trust that you will do the same.

In case of illness, accident, and similar emergencies, of course,
Mr. Erdis will place himself entirely at your disposal.

Please remember that you are responsible for the good health of
the party and for suggesting instructions to Mr. Erdis which can be
issued by him to the other members of the Expedition. to enable them
to preserve their health and to avoid disease and accident.

We have to sail on the steamer Pastores on Saturday noon, June 20th, from Pier 16, East River, foot of Fulton Street, New York, and are due to arrive in Kingston on Wednesday, and in Colon on Friday, June 26th.

On arriving at Panama you will stop at the Tivoli Hotel. While
here be sure to call upon Dr. Darling, as I have already requested you
to do. You should sail from Panama on June 29th. According to the
timetables this is the P. S. N. C. "Guatemala", which is due to arrive
in Callao July 6th, and due to make quick connections with the P. S.
N. C. "Orcoma", leaving Callao the same day, and arriving in Mollendo
on the morning of July 8th.

Mr. Means will bring your tickets, which he will receive here in
New Haven, and which must be signed by you in three places. Mr. Means
will be instructed in the use of the cash and receipt books, and will
explain them to you. I am also sending by him a package of films.
Please deliver these to Mr. Erdis in Cuzco.

We have every confidence in your ability to ably fill the dif-
ficult post of Surgeon of the Expedition, and we only trust that you
will have the good fortune to preserve your own health at the same
time that you are looking out for the health of the members of the E
pedition.

I am sorry that there has been so much delay in receiving the
cameras that I have not cared to run the risk of sending these things
to you in Newton.

Faithfully yours,

Director.

P. S. Thank you for your letter of June 14th, which explains the article in the paper. I can understand how it occurred. One cannot be too careful in making statements in regard to the Expedition and its plans, as this experience clearly shows.

We have taken the address of your mother, and the cable news
will be forwarded to her as you request.

I am sending by Means 80 tablets of morphia-sulphate and
20 tablets of morphine and atropine.

Dr. E. A. Meserve,
87 Linden St.,
Allston, Mass.

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Washington, D. C.

June 19, 1914.

Dear Sir:

In talking with Dr. White of the U. S. Geological Survey some days ago, he told me that an expedition from Yale University, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society, would shortly leave for Peru to make a study of some primitive settlements there.

Our association, which furnishes news features to about sixty-five city daily papers in the United States, is seriously considering sending a man down the whole west coast of South America. In case it is decided to do so, would it be possible for him to join your expedition after it reaches Peru, or would advise you, as where he could find your party in case you had proceeded into the interior? I have communicated with the National Geographic Society here, and they advise me that the matter rests with you.

Any information you can give me in reference to the matter will be much appreciated.

Prof. Biram Bingham,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

CENTRO GEOGRAFICO
DEL CUZCO......

Presidencia

Cuzco, a 22 de junio de 1914.

Señor Sub-Director de la

Expedición Científica de la

Universidad de Yale & de la

Sociedad Geográfica de Washington.

S. S. D.

El Centro de mi presidencia ha acordado ayudarle a Ud. y a todos los miembros de la Expedición Científica que Ud. dirige, durante su estadia en este departamento del Cuzco, y tendrá mucho gusto saber el programa y recibir sus indicaciones para tal fin. Este acuerdo se hace en vista de la suma importancia que tiene para el departamento entero en los resultados de las labores que no dudamos serán profícuas en el terreno científico.

Dios guarde a UD.

Presidente.

THE PERUVIAN EXPEDITION OF 1914-15

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

YALE UNIVERSITY AND THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

HIRAM BINGHAM, DIRECTOR

PERMANENT ADDRESS

DRAWER A, YALE STATION
NEW HAVEN, CONN., U.S.A.

FIELD ADDRESS

CARE CES. LOMELLINI & CIA.
CUZCO, PERU

June 23, 1914.

Dear Mr. Bingham:

I telephoned the attached letter to Mrs. Bestor, telling her I was mailing the letter to you in Salem, that you could not receive it till tomorrow noon, and that unless they heard from you by telephone or telegraph by six o'clock tomorrow evening they would know that you agreed with Mr. McLeod and Mr. Bestor need not go to Boston. If you still want Mr. Bestor to go, his telephone number is: 1036-3, and his street address is: 354 Humphrey St. Mrs. Bestor says school closes today and he would not start West till Thursday, the 25th, anyway, so that waiting for your decision would not delay them at all.

Letters and checks have been received from Messrs. Walter Mitchell and Osborne Day, and have been acknowledged and deposited. Also Dr. Paykel and Townshend and Winchell and Bennett.

I find I have given you all Mr. Galt's letters bearing the name of his Trust Co. which is to be your Hawaiian address. I think it is "The Hawaiian Trust Co.", but please let me know if this is right.

A book entitled: "Music as a Human Need" has been received from that lady in Brooklyn who intends to write a book which will promote good feeling between North and South America, - Mrs. Alma Webster Powell. Also the annual report of the John Carter Brown Library. These have been acknowledged.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Woodbridge Farms,
R. F. D. #3,
Colchester, Conn.

June 24, 1914.

Dear Sir:

Professor Bingham, who is at present out of town, has asked me to acknowledge your letter of June 19th, and to say that it would not be possible for your man to join our Expedition in the field.

In the first place there is nothing of news interest being done there this year. No archaeological reconnaissance or study is being conducted, - nothing but map work. The Expedition is to be in two divisions. The topographers go down this year and map the country. The scientific party goes down next year to make the archaeological investigations after the maps have been been completed for their use.

The topographical parties will be two or three in number, each consisting of two or three members, or even of a single man. The climatic conditions are very bad, and food and fodder very difficult to obtain. The Government of Peru is at present very suspicious of foreigners, and political conditions are so bad that it is extremely difficult to obtain concessions of any kind.

Even were there any archaeological explorations on foot at present, our men are not allowed under the terms of their contracts to give out any information regarding the work of the Expedition. Owing to the conditions under which they are obliged to proceed with reference to the suspicious attitude of the natives, this is a rule which we are obliged to enforce very strictly, so that you can see that it would scarcely pay a news getting organization to send a man out with any one of our parties.

Should your man be in Cuzco at any time any members of the Expedition who happened to be about at the time would of course be glad to be of any assistance to him compatible with the terms of their contracts, and the exigencies of their own work.

The address of the Expedition in Cuzco is: "Care of Ces. Lollittini & Cia., Cuzco, Peru".

June 24, 1914.

Dear Mr. Kingsford:

I have just heard from Mr. Reynolds that you are
in New York for a few days, and he has conveyed to
me your greetings.

I am only sorry that I am not in New York so that
I might call upon you and express our appreciation of
your kindness and cooperation.

The day before Mr. Reynolds wrote to me that you
were in this country I had written you a letter, ad-
dressed to Barranco. I am enclosing a copy of this
letter.

With kindest regards, and best wishes for a pleasant
visit in the "States", I remain

Faithfully yours,

Herbert Kingsford, Esq.,
66 Broadway,
New York City.

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

HIRAM BINGHAM, DIRECTOR

June 26, 1914.

Dear Mr. Bingham:

Professor Bowman called up yesterday in regard to Miss Wrigley, wanting to know what had been arranged about her getting her money this summer.

What she gets from us this summer will, it seems, be all she will have to depend upon for her living expenses.

Mr. Bowman says she will need $100( of the money she is to get from the money you decided could be paid to her) this summer, and I understood him to say she would need it soon.

I am enclosing your letter regarding her in order to refresh your memory as to what terms were made.

She will work for Mr. Bowman till the second week in July. Then here till the first of August. Mr. Gregory wants her to work for him for two weeks in August, and Mr. Bowman says that if it is agreeable to you, she could take two of the September weeks assigned to him, (Bowman), and do the work she would have done here in August, so that it would be completed before your return, Mr. Bowman to have two weeks of her time in October. I said that so far as I knew this would be satisfactory to you.

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

HIRAM BINGHAM, DIRECTOR

June 29, 1914.

Dear Mr. Bingham:

The railroad accommodations were successfully secured, and they are mailing the tickets to you, registered, to Umbrella Cottage, tonight. They did not hear that everything was all right till Saturday, and then wrote to you at Colchester asking where to mail them. Didn't you get their letter? They telephoned the station agent at New London to know if you would be returning there, but could not find out.

Mr. Sweezey called me up ten minutes after you called to say the steamship tickets had only just come. I went to his office to make sure everything was straight and he has written you to Colchester this afternoon, and sent the tickets by registered mail, (which is slower and not sure to reach you in Colchester,) to Umbrella Cottage. He is also going to call you up at Colchester this evening to make sure he has done everything all right, and says he will tell you that the railroad tickets are O. K. and are going through by registered mail tonight to New London.

Chase & Company are sending the panama hat, blocked same style as others, size 6 7/8, to Umbrella Cottage by parcels post tonight.

Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor are sending up reprints to this office tonight, and I will attend to the mailing of them as you direct.

I enclose a list of the books charged at the Library which I cannot locate, and which are not found on the Library shelves after search made to-day. Please let me know if you recollect their being at the house, or if the Anales may be over at the Museum.

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

HIRAM BINGHAM, DIRECTOR

June 29, 1914.

Dear Mr. Bingham:

Received and deposited a check for $4.50 from
the Nation to-day.

A letter came from that graduate student in Geology,
Mr. Baker, whom Mr. Bowman recommended, and I wrote to
him that you would not return to New Haven till October
first. He was to be in town Thursday and Friday, and
wanted to call upon you.

The pictures for Watkins and for Little came Saturday. I stamped and mailed them, and sent Little his bill. Watkins had already paid. The bills from Eastman came to-day, and I O. K.'d them and sent them to the Treasurer.

The Library has sent a list of books charged to
you. I am checking them up so far as possible, and will
send you a list of those I cannot locate, to see if you
remember having returned any of them, or if you think
they are at the house.

Miss Thompson has finished making the extra sets
of Expedition circulars, and has written the headings on
all the L. of C. cards. She has arranged the latter, and
is now filing them. I will explain the scrap-books to her
before leaving on my vacation.

A book entitled "Cartas de Bolivar, (1799-1822)", by Señor R. Blanco-Fombona has come from the author, with the following inscription: "Al Señor Hiram Bingham, viajero, arqueologo, historiador, que ha escrito paginas muy interesantes sobre la Campaña de Bolivar en 1819. R. Blanco-Fombona, 36, Rue St. Sulpice, Paris, 1914." I acknowledged this, saying you were away for the summer. (On April 21 you asked the Press to send him a copy of your Venezuela-Colombia book.)

My vacation begins July 1st, and I leave town for three
weeks, beginning July 2nd. I shall leave my address with
Miss Thompson.

July 11, 1914.

Dear Mr. Reynolds:

Please send the service message given below to Mr. Kingsford
in Barranco, asking him to please forward it as before to Mr.
Erdas in Cuzco, and greatly oblige the Peruvian Expedition.

(Message) Professor Bingham started for Honolulu July second.
Your cable has been forwarded to him there. He arrives Honolulu
July 18th.

(Signed) L.M.Kirkpatrick, Sec'y.

Mr. B. H. Reynolds,

c/o Mexican Telegraph Co.,

64 Broad Street, New York City.

N BY POSTMASTER.

United States Post Office

(OFFICE AND STATE)

(DATE)

Respectfully referred to
~~So. Manchester~~

for any information he can furnish
regarding the missing mail in ques-
tion. Return all papers with reply.

POSTMASTER.

PHILIP TRUOP, P.M.

REPLY.

South Manchester, Ct.

Postmaster.

POSTMASTERS.

universal use, and will be sup-
should be filled in every particu-
lar name and exact local or street
post office of mailing and destina-
accurate description of contents,
REGISTERED, OR PARCEL POST.

t (sender or addressee) the post-
that it is complete in all details
of treatment at his office of
as the date of the report, and

ough the mails, it is proper that
L. and R., 1893, as follows:
the greater security of valu-
may establish a uniform system
ment or its revenue shall not be
count of its having been regis-

Form 3930.

ORDINARY.

(7) The name and present address of sender and addressee must be furnished in all cases, with their exact street or local addresses.

(8) Where an ordinary letter is stated to have contained a money order, the postmaster should add to his report the status of such order, date of issue or payment, of application for duplicate or repayment, and should advise the persons interested what steps should be taken to avoid loss or unnecessary delay in obtaining payment.

(9) CONTENTS.—A minute description of contents is indispensable for purposes of identification in domestic or foreign Dead Letter Offices, and for this reason the peculiar or distinctive features must be pointed out; for instance, if the letter contained check or draft, the date and number of its issue, and name of the bank should be furnished; if money is inclosed, the particular kind, the denomination of bills, and other exact description must be given, if possible. As regards PARCELS, the contents, such as gloves, handkerchiefs or other articles of merchandise, rings, lockets, brooches, earrings, watches or chains, and other articles of jewelry, knives, silver ware, etc., etc., the particular marks, numbers, initials, monograms, the quality, texture, color or make should be described; if books or music, the titles should be given; if photographs, the name of the photographer should be furnished if possible, and the size mentioned, whether small or cabinet size, etc.

(10) Where covers are received without contents the postmaster should request the addressee to furnish the name and exact address of the supposed sender, and such description of the probable contents as can be given. The cover should be preserved and attached to the report, Form 1510.

5-1734

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

HIRAM BINGHAM, DIRECTOR

July 23, 1914.

Dear Dr. Bingham:

I have just returned from my vacation, and find everything in good shape.

Miss Thompson has finished filing the L. of C. cards, and has written all the extra copies of the "Official Circulars" needed. She has also done a number of small odd jobs with the photographs and plates, written labels for Little's pictures, etc., and sent out the Monroe Doctrine list of reprints. The scrap-books she has not yet touched. She has almost done quite a little copying for Professor Bowman.

Miss Wrigley is at present working on the hunting up of Cuzco Department references. She will index the Raimondi sheet next. Another batch of manuscript has just come from Professor Bowman, and if she has been in the habit of doing typeing for him I am going to give this copying to Miss W. to do as a sort of rest while at work on the map, as that is extremely close and tiring work for the eyes.

Miss Carroll is taking two weeks vacation, beginning July 17th.

The proof came from the American Anthropologist. I read and returned it, ordering 300 reprints, (100 unbound). Part of this 300 we get free of charge, of course.

Under separate cover I send you a book just received from the Nation. Also under separate cover I am forwarding you a copy of the Amer. Geog. Soc. Bulletin containing Hardy's article. Only ten reprints have come so far, and I am mailing one to you, one to Hardy, one to Rev. W. P. Hardy, and one to Hardy's fiancée.

I hope I instructed Miss Thompson correctly regarding the treatment of the cable from Erdis respecting the assignment of Anderson and Westerberg. I had her cable through Reynolds that you were en route to Honolulu and would receive his cable July 18th, and had her send on his inquiry by cable to you in Honolulu. It was too late to reach you in San Francisco.

With best wishes for a pleasant stay in Honolulu, I am

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About 25 copies of the July number of the National Geographic Magazine have arrived. It does not contain any article on the Expedition, so far as I can see, and I do not understand why we have been given so many copies, unless one of the articles is supposed to be of value to the members of the Expedition in aiding them to do "hunting with the camera." Please let me know what to do with these. Probably the letter concerning them, if there was such, was forwarded to you before my return.

The page proof of the article for the American Anthropologist came Monday and I corrected and returned it.

I telephoned Hall regarding the enclosed bill from Horton, and he said it was O. K.

August 13, 1914.

Dear Mr. Bowman:

Your note concerning the
location desired for page numbers
and the kinds of paper used has
just been received - too late, I
am sorry to say, to be of any ser-
vice in the last lots of manuscript
sent.

You will find that only a
small amount of the different
kind of paper was used - we ran
out of the first kind, and rather
than delay the work I used some
of the other kind which seemed to
me very similar. All the last
lots were written on the right
variety.

I was afraid the number was
in the wrong place, but could not
remember where you said it should
go, and as you did not mention it
after sending you the first lot
on my return I judged I had hit
upon the correct location.

We will be sure to have these
things as you wish them in the
future.

Sincerely yours,

August 19, 1914.

Dear Sirs:

In a letter received from Dr. Cyrus C. Adams of the American Geographical Society he says that you report that "Mr. Hardy's reprints [of an article by him in the July number of the American Geographical Society's Bulletin for July] were sent to him addressed to Osgood Hardy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., on July 1, for which we have the Express Company's receipt."

This must refer to the ten copies of the Bulletin which were received here all right about that time. What I wanted to find out about were the extra copies (separates) which were ordered on your regular price blank when returning proof on May 20th. Professor Bingham ordered three hundred copies if I remember correctly, and asked to have the words "Results of the Peruvian Expedition of 1912, under the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society" printed on the cover of each separate. Can you tell me where these separates are? We have not received them.

THE MOLLENDÓ AGENCIES COMPANY
MOLLENDÓ

Cable address: "Molagenco"

Mollendo,
AUGUST 29, 1914.

ELLWOOD C ERI 3,
C/o. Cés. 1 hellini & Co.,
C zco.

Gentleman:

From your esteemed letter dated
August the 24th., we had the pleasure of withdrawing
40 cents in stamps together with our account for
telegrams during July, which we now beg to return
duly cancelled.-

Thanking you for this remittance,

We are, Gentleman,

o.

August 29, 1914.

Dear Sir:

Your very kind letter of August 5th in reply
to the night letter which I sent you in the name
of the Expedition upon the receipt of the cabled
resignation of Dr. Meserve, has received no ac-
knowledgment earlier because I could not quite
make out the earlier of the two addresses which
you mentioned in your letter.

Your letter was addressed to Professor Bingham,
though I believe I stated in the telegram that he
was in Honolulu.

He is expected to return to New Haven in about
a week.

Thanking you for your interest in the Expedition,
believe me to be,

Dr. John Dane,
Care of Mr. E. B. Dane,
Seal Harbor, Me.

September 23, 1914.

My dear Mr. Means:

I have delayed replying to your letter of resignation of July 31st until I could have an opportunity of going over my correspondence with you and your father relative to your going to Peru.

You say: "I have come to Peru full of eagerness to valuable work in Peruvian archaeology. I find that after the date mentioned [between the first and fifteenth of September, 1914] this work will be seriously interfered with by the rainy season, by trapping, and by meteorological work, as, indeed, it has already been interfered with by the necessity on Mr. Erdis' part of acting as commissionariat to two widely separated camps. Here I may remark that I had no idea of the existence of such ends as trapping and meteorology; I thought that the main work of the expedition, at least as far as Mr. Erdis and I were concerned, was to be archaeology. Therefore, inasmuch as my work after September would be even more broken into by outside affairs than it has been up to now, I shall leave Cuzco with Dr. Meserve in the first half of next September, the exact date to be cabled to you later. Regretting the necessity of having to write this resignation, I remain," etc.

Let me reply to this point by point.

You say you went to Peru "full of eagerness to valuable work in Peruvian archaeology", and that you "thought that the main work of the Expedition, at least so far as Mr. Erdis and you were concerned was to be archaeology." The whole tenor of your letter is that you were encouraged to go to Peru on false pretenses. You were not told of the plans of the Expedition apparently, and your eagerness to do valuable work in Peruvian archaeology has been seriously interfered with by various matters.

I should like to review our correspondence from the beginning for the sake of getting this matter definitely on record, as it is a very serious matter to be accused of encouraging you to go to Peru under false pretenses. I shall pass over for the present the fact that you came to the decision to quit the Expedition before you had been in the field more than two weeks, and long before you were in any position to judge whether the training which we designed to give you as an assistant would benefit you in the career which you had mapped out for yourself. You apparently got frightened at the start by the climate and the stories of the rainy season, and were so anxious to leave the Expedition that you were not ready to take your

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chances of getting what you could out of the country. But let us
glance over the correspondence relative to your going to Peru.

In the very first letter which I wrote to you I said that I
should be glad to see you, but continued: "It might be well for me
to give you a few facts first, which may make a difference with your
wanting to go. In the first place, I do not expect to go to Peru
myself until a year from now. The six or seven men who are going
down this spring are generally engineers, who will be making maps
of the region, but doing very little archaeology. Only one archaeol-
ogist, Mr. Erdis, who was superintendent of the work at Machu Picchu,
in 1912, is going down this spring, and he will have general charge
of the whole party so that he does not expect to do much archaeology
until I arrive. If you really intend to go into archaeology, and
want to go with us to Peru, it might be best for you to come and do
some work in Inca pottery in our workshop, at the same time continu-
ing your study of Spanish, and fitting yourself to be a very valuable
assistant to go down with us a year from now. It would also be ex-
tremely wise for you to study surveying, particularly palne-table work.
Anyhow, I shall be very glad to see you."

If you will read this over carefully you will see that we planned
to do very little archaeology, and that not even Mr. Erdis expected
to do much archaeology until I arrived in the spring of 1915. I did
not advise your going to Peru, but suggested your studying and fit-
ting yourself to be a valuable assistant to go a year from now.

You say that you had no idea of such ends as trapping and meteor-
ology. Had you read carefully the plans of the Expedition, which were
published in this country before you left, and which I think you must
have seen, you would have observed that the collection of mammals and
the taking of meteorological observations were part of the plans of
the Expedition. I do not see how you can say that you thought the
main work of the Expedition was to be archaeology, as in the very
first letter I wrote you I said that the six or seven men who were
going down this spring "are generally engineers, who will be making
maps of the region, but doing very little archaeology." I called your
attention also to the fact that Mr. Erdis would have general charge
of the whole party and could not expect to do much archaeology till
my arrival.

You complain that your archaeological aspirations have been in-
terfered with by the necessity on Mr. Erdis' part of acting as "com-
missariat to two widely separated camps," - and yet that is precisely
what I told you he would be doing in the first letter.

In my first letter to your father (of March 20th) I told him
that I did not like to take very young assistants, and had never but
once had anyone under twenty-four years of age. I told him that the
qualifications that we desired for our assistants were ability to

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use Spanish, experience in field work, engineering parties, map working and the like, and experience in roughing it, handling horses, mules, cooking, and packing. Nothing more was said about desiring assistants to do archaeological work or who had had experience in archaeological work. In my various conversations with you I have no recollection of encouraging you to believe that you were to do archaeological work in Peru this season, but that you were to prepare yourself as assistant for another season when I should be going down myself.

Over and over again I warned you that the work was dull and uninteresting, that it would consist chiefly of cooking and camp routine, and warned you that once before an assistant had become disappointed because he was not taught what he expected to be taught, and told you too that in his case also I had repeatedly warned him that the work of an assistant was anything but interesting.

In your letter to me of March 22nd you say that you have had very little experience in field work, engineering, map making, and the like and that this is what you chiefly wish to gain under my direction. In my letter in reply to this you were warned that we would do little archaeology and that I was not going down this year.

You little realize how useless a man is in the field who has had such a small modicum of actual experience in exploration as you have had. This expedition was to give you your opportunity to show what kind of stuff you were made of. I remember telling you in my office that I did not like to risk taking assistants in my own parties who had not already demonstrated their ability to be good cooks and good camp assistants.

You seem to feel that your training in archaeology and anthropology was going to be all in connection with ruins and excavations. I suppose you had no realization of the fact that nearly three-fourths of my own time in Peru is given up to matters not strictly archaeological or anthropological. When I wrote your father on March 31st that we should endeavor to give you instruction in field work in archaeology and anthropology, and that as Mr. Erdis's assistant you would become thoroughly acquainted with our methods of archaeological reconnaissance and would have an opportunity to visit a considerable number of ruins and to learn the Quichua language of the Incas, I had no idea that you could suppose, after what I had written you in my first letter to you, that you were to spend all your time in archaeology, or that the main work of the Expedition was to be primarily archaeological. Field work in archaeology and anthropology incur a vast amount of drudgery, such as experience in handling mules, experience in handling Indians, ability to get across country rapidly, and ability to handle pack-animals. It is perfectly conceivable that an archaeological assistant doing field work in archaeology and anthropology should only be in or near ruins one third of the time.

It was my plan that your instruction in anthropology should consist largely of a study of the Quichua language, in which, after the rainy season commenced, you would have had full assistance from Mr. Hardy. It was not for a moment expected that you would learn trapping or meteorology, but it was supposed that while Mr. Erdis was attend-