ROBERT DEC. WARD,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

that I am more than glad to give you my suggestions. I do not recommend a hygrograph,
as those instruments are subject to large and variable errors. The wet and dry bulb
readings will suffice. And there is no good evaporimeter. Of course, if you were going
to have an American, or German, or Englishman in charge of your stations I should recom-
mend a more complete equipment, but my experience in Peru leads me to urge that you
do not attempt much, and I feel sure that you will then get better results.

I hope you are going on Davis's great tour this summer. I am a victim, for
the whole trip, if I live through it!

With kindest regards,

The Peruvian Expedition of 1912
under the auspices of
Yale University and the National Geographic Society

Hiram Bingham, Director

Permanent Address

Drawer J, Yale Station
New Haven, Conn., U. S. A.

Field Address

Care Ccs. Lomellini V Cia.
Cuzco, Peru

May 11, 1912.

Professor Herbert E. Gregory,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

At my request Yale University has expressed the desire that you accompany the Peruvian Expedition for the present season, leaving September 1st and returning the latter part of December 1912.

The work which I wish you to undertake is to make a reconnaissance survey of the Cuzco Basin and immediate vicinity. Under an agreement with Yale University you are to receive no personal compensation, but necessary scientific equipment will be provided and all reasonable expenses of transportation and maintenance will be assumed by the Peruvian Expedition. Your appointment presupposes an agreement to the following conditions:

1. That the results of your field study be prepared in such form as the Director may desire and published only with his permission.

2. That all notebooks, maps, photographs and other records secured in connection with the work shall become the property of Yale University

3. That an itemized account of all expenses (including receipts for items exceeding $1.00) be kept, and that you will be reimbursed only for such expenditures as are approved by the Director.

Will you accept the appointment described above?

Director.

Herbert E. Gregory
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

At my request Yale University has expressed the desire
that you accompany the Peruvian Expedition for the present season.,
leaving September 1st and returning the *xxxx* on or about the
latter part of December 1912.

The work which I wish you to undertake is to make a
reconnaissance geological survey of the Cuzco Basin and immediate
vicinity. Under an agreement with Yale University you are to
receive no personal compensation, but necessary scientific equip-
ment will be provided and all reasonable expenses of transportation
and maintenance will be assumed by the Peruvian Expedition.
Your appointment presupposes an agreement to the following con-
ditions:

1. That the results of your field study be prepared in such form as the Director may desire and *xxxx* published only with his permission.

2. That all notebooks, maps, photographs and other records secured in connection with the work shall become the property of Yale University.

Respectfully,

Director.

Copenhagen, Stormgade 12.

May 12' 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Dear Bingham:-

Thanks for your letter of April 24' and for the reprints about the
glacial man!

In regard to the ruins I am very sorry they have been delayed; I
had just about finished the maps of Oquente and Torontoy ruins when my
mother-in-law was taken very sick and had a dangerous operation perfor-
med; as my girl is alone (her father dead) I had a very busy time help-
ing her in her trouble.

As soon as this was over I got message from my future boss that he
was taken very ill and could find no other to help him, so I had to go
to Jutland to help him out for three weeks and have just retourned this
morning.

But now I really hope to have a quiet time to work on the maps; I
hope the delay has not been so bad for you as you are starting out on the
new expedition. Sorry I am not to go; I really understood from our last
talk about the matter that there was no chance whatsoever.

I note what you wrote about Mr. Tittmann's statement; I too think
it is hard to find a good man for that kind of a job.

to/

Within a couple of days I am sending you in Lima full description
of bench-marks in question, a map showing what has to be filled in in
Urubamba and Vilcabamba and a copy of my diary.

Very soon after that I shall send you the ruin-maps, but I advice
you strongly not to take them into the field; it is an old rule never
to take finished sheets in the field.

After that I shall go ahead with the A bancay-Camana map.

How long time and where are you yourself going in the field? And
who are the other members?

I am going to get married some day in July.

P.S. Sorry I can not do anything about Rosaspata; I never was
there myself as we were delayed by rain lower down the Vilcabamba and
had to go ahead to Conservidayo to keep the itinerary. Retourning I was
one day in Puquiura but it was raining all the time.

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Dear Mr. Dietz:

There is one more point that I should like to have cleared up. In case I start from Panama on a Peruvian line boat, and wish to go from Lima toollendo on some other line, is that feasible under the tickets which you issue? That arrangement will probably be the one that I shall desire to follow if possible.

Thank you very much for offering to take care of the matter of excess baggage. I am trying to take most of it with me next Saturday, so as to get the outfit at our headquarters in Cuzco as early as possible and leave as little as possible for the second part of the expedition to bring along.

If the Turrialba is not crowded I should like very much indeed to have a room alone, as I have a great deal of work to do on the way down. One of the rooms on the lower deck will suit me quite as well as any other, though I should like to be somewhere near Mr. Hotchkiss, a personal friend who has changed his sailing from the Lamport and Holt line in order to go with us as far as Peru on his way to Buenos Aires, Mr. H. Stuart Hotchkiss.

Faithfully yours,

Mr. F. H. Dietz,
General Passenger Agent,
United Fruit Company,
17 Battery Place, New York.

HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

May 13, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Bingham:-

Your letter of May 6 is received. By your present plan of obtaining continuous observations for several years, your results would undoubtedly be of great value.

We shall be very glad to loan you any apparatus we have, which is not in use. I will send you soon three barographs which we have here, if you wish. We have no extra thermographs here, but you will probably be able to get them at our Arequipa Station. If there is time to do so, and you desire it, I will inquire of Mr. Campbell at Arequipa just what apparatus they have in good condition at the station.

FEH

May 13, 1912.

Dear Doctor Nelson:

I am sorry that you have not been able to get ready the bulletin on sanitation and hygiene, but I shall be very much obliged if you will send it along as soon as possible. It will be copied as soon as it gets here.

Dr. William G. Anderson, the director of the Gymnasium, writes me as follows:

"It will give us pleasure to do what we can for your representative. If he will arrange his dates we will see that he gets the necessary training in anthropometry. A couple of days will give him the ideas but the skill or quickness will come along a little later, with more practice.

"Do you want the anthropometric chart or the card? I send a sample of each. We have the cards for all heights. Will you use the English or the metric system?

"I am here to stay and will see Dr. Nelson any time before the 10th of June."

It seems to me that you could not do better than come to New Haven as soon as possible after the 1st of June, and spend two or three days in the Gymnasium with Dr. Anderson.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 13th, 1912.

Dear Professor Bingham:

I was glad to meet you yesterday and ex-
change a word with you, as otherwise I might have missed seeing
you before your departure on Sunday. I had no idea that you were
going quite so early. You carry my blessing with you and I trust
that the results of the expedition may in every way be all that
you could anticipate and desire.

I received your note in regard to that paper by yourself and
Jamieson and am confident that you will be satisfied if the illus-
trations are arranged in the more modest way suggested. You will
be much hurried these last few days, but I wish you would kindly
give me an answer to three or four questions.

(1) Do I understand that you desire 300 reprints of all the
papers from the Peruvian expedition published in the Journal?
I have two of these now and I suppose that Bowman will have others
later.

(2) Are all the 300 to have covers, or do you wish 100 set
apart like the edition of the April number?

(3) Are the funds for the publication in the hands of the Yale
Treasurer, so that the bill should be sent to him?

(4) Do I understand that these funds will take care, at least
to a considerable extent, of the engravings made for the success-
ive papers? The Journal is not in the least grasping, but,
as you are informed, it has no resources to draw upon, so that any
help that can come to it in the way of caring for engraver's bills
or similar matters is much appreciated.

YALE UNIVERSITY
GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT
HERBERT E. GREGORY

NEW HAVEN, CONN. May 13, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Lampson Hall,
Yale University.

Dear Professor Bingham:

I will undertake to make a reconnaissance
survey of the Cuzco Basin in accordance with the
provisions of your letter of May 11th. Your own re-
quest, coupled with that of the University amounts
to a command, especially since I am so heartily in
sympathy with the important work you are undertaking
in South America.

Please fit me into your work anywhere that
I may be most useful.

HEG/GEW

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Dear Mr. Troxell:

I should be glad to have the maps inked in at once. The titles
need not be placed on the maps, but I should like to have the inking
in done just as soon as possible.

Sincerely yours,

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May 14, 1912.

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May 14, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,
Director, Yale Peruvian Expedition,
Drawer A, Yale Station,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 11th instant, we beg
to enclose a copy of our letter of the 11th instant to
Dr. Erving, explaining the status of this barometer. We
shall endeavor to complete the test during the present week,
but cannot at this time promise it definitely. Please let
us know what disposition you wish made of it when ready.
Shall we mail it to you direct, or notify Dr. Erving?

Inclosure:

Copy of letter.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Professor Dana:

Thank you for your letter of May 13th and for your very kind
wishes which I appreciate most highly. I trust that your faith in
us will not be disappointed. The results of this next expedition
will not be so interesting to the public as those of the last expe-
dition, because reconnaissance work in always more entertaining than
intensive research, but I confidently expect that the scientific
results will be considerably more important. In fact it is my in-
tention that such results be achieved rather than more new discoveries
of a spectacular character.

In reply to your questions: (1) The Yale Peruvian Expedition of
1911 desires 300 reprints of all papers published in the Journal of
Science. Bills for these may be sent to the Treasurer's office,
marked for the expedition of 1911. (2) Only 200 need to have covers,
as I expect to set apart 100 like the edition of the April number
for binding in the future. (3) The funds for the publication are in
the hands of the Yale Treasurer, so that the bills may be sent to
him. (4) The funds are very small, chiefly owing to the necessity
for paying out several hundred dollars to have the maps properly
drawn, but they will take care of extra engravings made for the

successive papers, and all necessary engravings that could not otherwise
be taken care of by the Journal may be considered a proper charge
against the expedition.

With many thanks for your continued interest in our work and for
your good wishes, believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

Professor Edward S. Dane,

Hillhouse Avenue,

New Haven, Connecticut.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Sir:

I am enclosing some information regarding the Peruvian Expedi-
tion of 1912, which is released for the papers of Friday morning.
May 17th. A more detailed account of the work of the expedition is
to be printed in the Alumni Weekly this week, and you can undoubtedly
get advance copy from them.

Sincerely yours,

Manager, Associated Press,
New Haven, Connecticut.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Mr. Bryant:

I am enclosing a copy of our plan for this year which I think
you will be interested in having.

Wishing you the best of luck on your Labrador trip, I remain

Faithfully yours,

Henry G. Bryant, Esq.,

2013 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Bowman:

I shall be glad to have your paper copied Tuesday and will try to
get it to you Tuesday night.

Can you lecture to my class in 25 Lampson on Saturday morning, May
18th, at 8.30, on "Northern Chile, the nitrate fields, and their relation
to the war between Chile and Peru"? My assistant will be in New York
that morning helping me get off, hence this request.

Faithfully yours,

Professor Issich Bowman,
Peabody Museum,
Yale University.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Bowman:

I desire to draw up a set of suggestions for topographical work
in the Vilcabamba region from Cuzco north between the Urubamba and
Apurimac valleys. A topographic map on the scale of a mile to an
inch, contour interval one hundred feet, is desired of these two
river basins. It seems to me that the guiding principles should be
representation of topographic features as related to geological struc-
ture rather than the exhaustive accurate geographical position. If
you can make a rough topographical cross section indicating the chief
geological subdivisions which are reflected in topographic form, as
you did for the outline of the survey of the Cuzco basin, I shall be
very much obliged. My idea is to run the survey of the Cuzco basin
north and northwest as far as it is practicable, roughly limiting the
survey by the two rivers above mentioned and their affluents to a
limited extent.

Sincerely yours,

Professor Isaiah Bowman,
Peabody Museum,
Yale University.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Mr. Wells:

Will it be possible to arrange for 300 reprints of each of my articles, and at what rate can we secure them? We should like to have 200 bound in suitable paper covers, and 100 unbound.

I am sending under separate cover two prints of a very beautiful
glacier in the Urubamba valley between Ollantaytambo and Macchu Pichu, to
illustrate the article on Macchu Pichu now in your hands. You will notice
that they can be fitted together and will make a very handsome illustra-
tion if properly treated. I hope you can do better with this than with
the pictures of Coropune.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. Thomas B. Wells,
Harper's Magazine,
Franklin Square, New York.

H.B. (2)

NEW HAVEN, CONN. 5/14/12

Watkin three-circle aneroid or a mercurial barometer to serve
as check. The observers at these stations should also be sup-
plied with printed blanks on which is to be recorded wind di-
rection, velocity, clouds, etc.

I suggest that cooperation be effected with
the Harvard Observatory whereby such equipment as they possess
may be made of use, and that additional instruments be supplied
and installed by you.

HEG/HEW

May 14, 1912.

Dear Professor Ferris:

I am enclosing a blank and a chart like those used in the
Gymnasium, with the request that you will indicate what measurements
are absolutely necessary and what are desirable for us to take in
Peru. In addition to these used in the Gymnasium I presume you will
have several suggestions to make. I believe it would be a good plan
for us to get some blanks printed containing just the requisite
data to guide Dr. Nelson, who is to take the measurements.

We wish very much that it had been possible for you to go with
us, but as this is now out of the question we hope you will help us
by your cooperation, so that we may make as few mistakes as possible.

Sincerely yours,

Professor H.B.Ferris,

Yale Medical School,

New Haven, Connecticut.

May 14, 1912.

Dear Mr. Gokey:

Where are my boots and shoes? I am leaving New Haven on
Friday noon, May 17th. If there is any doubt about your being able
to get them here by that time, please send them to me addressed in
care of the United Fruit Company's steamer "Turrielba", pier 16,
East River, sailing Saturday noon, May 18th. It will be a great
inconvenience if I do not have a chance to try them on before start-
ing.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. William H. Gokey,
Jamestown, New York.

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CLL

May 14, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A, Yale Station,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

Inclosure:

Copy of letter.

May 14, 1912

Mr. Clarence S. Brigham,
Librarian, American Antiquarian
Society,
Worcester, Mass.

Dear Sir:-

I am forwarding you today, under
separate covers, the original copy
and galley proof with corrections, of
the article on "Vitcos, the Last Inca
Capital".

As I am expecting to leave for
Peru on Friday, will you please ad-
dress all further correspondence con-
cerning this article to Miss L. M.
Kirkpatrick, Room 25, Lampson Hall,
New Haven, Connecticut?

Faithfully yours,

May 14, 1912.

Dear Professor Dana:

Thank you for your letter of May 13th and for your very kind
wishes which I appreciate most highly. I trust that your faith in
us will not be disappointed. The results of this next expedition
will not be so interesting to the public as those of the last expe-
dition, because reconnaissance work in always more entertaining then
intensive research, but I confidently expect that the scientific
results will be considerably more important. In fact it is my in-
tention that such results be achieved rather than more new discoveries
of a spectacular character.

H.B. (2)

NEW HAVEN, CONN. 5/14/12 19

HEG/HEW

May 14, 1912.

Dear Professor Ferris:

Sincerely yours,

Professor H.B.Ferris,

Yale Medical School,

New Haven, Connecticut.

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WASHINGTON, May 15, 1912.

Hiram Bingham, Esq.,
Yale Station,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Hi:

In reply to your letter regarding the barometer, I would enclose an
answer received to my inquiry of the Bureau of Standards, which is scarcely
satisfactory, to say the least.

In regard to the question of quinine on another trip, I should allow
three grains daily for each man while in the infected area and then multiply that
amount by three in case of emergency or a definite attack of fever. As to the
pocket medical kit, I believe that some waterproof container will be necessary
in order to avoid the damage which they suffered last year, and such a one may be
very possibly on the market, though I have not as yet seen any.

I have heard nothing from the Yale Medical Journal and trust they will
get the thing under way before I leave for the summer.

WGE-T.

May 15, 1912.

Dear Mr. Wilson:

Allow me to thank you for your letter of May 11th enclosing the
translated power of attorney, duly attested. We appreciate your
courtesy in this matter and your willingness to do everything, even
down to uninteresting details, to help the expedition to be a success.

Believe me to remain, my dear Mr. Wilson,

Faithfully yours,

Honorable Huntington Wilson,

Department of State,
Washington, D.C.

May 15, 1912.

Dear Professor Pickering:

Thank you for your letter of May 13th. We hope very much to establish a meteorological station below Santa Ana if we can find any rubber planter who can be trusted to keep the instruments going. I shall be very much obliged if you will send me the three barographs which you speak of as being in Cambridge. Will there be any difficulty about taking these across the Andes? Could they to be sealed up and opened with a can opener when we get to lower elevations on the other side?

I should be very much obliged indeed if you would inquire of Mr. Campbell atrequipa just what apparatus they have in good condition at the station, which you could loan to us for five years. Then this information is received, if you will be so good as to communicate with Professor Herbert E. Gregory, the geologist-geographer of the expedi-
tion, who will not leave New Haven for some time after my own depart-
ure, he will attend to purchasing such apparatus as you find cannot
be loaned to us by the Harvard College Observatory.

We appreciate most highly your generous willingness to cooperate
and we shall make every effort to obtain good continuous observations
for at least five years.

400 Witherspoon Building
Philadelphia

May 15, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Drawer A, Yale Station,

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Bingham:-

Thanks for your note enclosing outline of your plan
for the Peruvian expedition this year. The tasks you have im-
posed upon yourselves are interesting ones and I hope you will
have a full measure of success. I regret to inform you that as
yet I have not succeeded in securing a topographer as assistant.
The officials in Washington were sympathetic but had no one to
suggest. I am offering to pay $100. per month and expenses for
a suitable man. It occurs to me that in your search for sur-
veyors for your expedition you may have learned of one or more
men who might be available for my shorter northern trip. If so
I should be glad to hear from you. Failing to get a trained
tepographer, I must look about for a congenial companion who
would be a sportsman and a gentleman. I presume you will allow
us to publish your prospectus in the July Bulletin.

Wishing you good success and a safe return,

May 16, 12.

Mr. H. L. Tucker,
Newton, Mass.

Dear Mr. Tucker:

Thank you for the copy of the contract with Bingham;
also for the check for fifteen dollars received today.

The request to cut out the description of materials, etc. of Macchu Pichu was not intended to withdraw permission for a written report on the expedition such as you describe. Such a report, of course, we want. My idea was that at this particular time you had better cut out descriptive matter regarding Macchu Pichu and go ahead with the plans of the ruins.

Very truly yours,

HEG/NEW

SCIENCE
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

Garrison-on-Hudson, N.Y. May 16, 1912

Dear Professor Bingham:-

I am glad to have the article on the Peruvian
expedition. I am placing it in this week's SCIENCE, though
this will not allow of sending proof to you. If you wish
for any copies of the number, please let me know.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

May 16, 1912.

Dear Mr. Brigham:

As soon as you have finished with the photographs and maps that
have been sent you, will you please to forward them to Messrs. Harper
and Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, addressed to Mr. Thomas B.
Bells, in order that they may use them to illustrate a popular article
on Vitcos that is to be printed some time this summer.

When the Proceedings appear I should be very much obliged if
you would send a copy to me at the above Cuzco address.

Sincerely yours,

Clarence S. Brigham, Esq.,
Secretary, American Antiquarian Society,
Worcester, Massachusetts.

American Antiquarian Society

WORCESTER, MASS.

May 16, 1912.

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

Dear Dr. Bingham:-

The proof and copy
of the article on Vitcos have come safe-
ly to hand. I will send the page proof
and any further correspondence concern-
ing the article to Miss Kirkpatrick as
you request.

Wishing you an enjoyable trip and
a successful expedition in Peru, I am

CSB/C

May 16, 1912.

My dear Mr. Hadley:

I am enclosing a copy of a memorandum from the Department of State to the White House regarding the action of the Department in helping us to secure the favorable notice of the Peruvian government. After you are through with it I shall be much obliged if you will return it to be filed in this office.

I desire to take this opportunity of expressing my hearty appreciation of the great interest which you have shown in the Peruvian work and of the courteous assistance which you have given me on every possible occasion. I shall do my best to uphold the good name of the University in Peru, and I trust that we may secure a concession that will enable us to continue the work of anthropological and geographical exploration for some time to come.

With kindest regards, believe me to remain,

Faithfully yours,

President Hadley,

Yale University.

May 17, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Bingham:-

Your letter of May 15 is received. I am
writing by this mail to Arequipa in regard to the meteorological
instruments and will send you the three barographs within a few days.
We have only a few barograph sheets, and will send the greater portion
of them, for your immediate use, with the barographs. We shall have
some more printed shortly and can then send you as many as you wish.
As regards taking the barographs across the Andes, it is not probable
that the vacuum cell, which is the essential feature of the barograph,
would be injured by the change in pressure. The index should, however,
be disconnected, as otherwise it is likely to run off the scale and be
bent.

FEH

May 17, 1912.

Dear Herbert:

I did not realize that you were so closely related to that
Mr. and Mrs. Straus who gave the world such a splendid example of
marital fidelity on the "Titanic". What a splendid record to have
in one's family! There is no question that the action of Mrs.
Straus in standing by her husband has done and will do an enormous
amount of good in counteracting the present tendencies of the age.
While you and your wife have my deep sympathy in your bereavement,
you also have my admiration in being connected with such a heroic
family.

I am sailing from New York tomorrow and may telephone you from
the Belmont tomorrow morning. If you feel like helping this next expe-
dition the Treasurer of Yale University will be very glad to receive
a check from you for whatever amount you care to contribute. Part of
the expedition sails this week and the larger part in about three weeks
from tomorrow. I trust you received the financial statement of the
last expedition which was mailed you a day or two ago.

 faithfully yours,

Herbert A. Soheftel, Esq.,
42 Broadway, New York,

May 17, 1912.

Dear Doctor Nelson:

Many thanks for your special delivery letter, which came in time
to get the medicine cases filled. The remaining cases are in Boston's
hands awaiting your orders.

I think it most important for you to spend as much time as you
can with Professor H.B.Ferris, who is going to prepare an anthropolo-
gical measurement sheet for your use in the field, and who will secure
for you the necessary measuring instruments. Please write to him any
questions you may have. It will be much better for you to spend the
time with Professor Ferris rather than with Dr. Anderson. The Gymna-
sium measurements are not what we want, and I think we will cut them
out entirely, except as they happen to come in on Professor Ferris'
chart.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. L.T.Nelson,
Lawrence General Hospital,
Lawrence, Massachusetts.

May 17, 1912.

Dear Professor Ferris:

This letter will introduce to you Mr. Paul Bestor, my chief
assistant, whom I have asked to take up with you the matter of secur-
ing blanks printed for Dr. Nelson's ethnopological measurements.
If I were not leaving today I should try to do this myself, but as
the time is so short, I am going to ask you this very considerable
favor. I should like to have 1000 sheets printed and bound in note-
book form, so that Dr. Nelson may be able to take his measurements and
enter them as rapidly as possible without neglecting anything.

Willyou be so kind as to look over the enclosed plan which you
sent me with Mr. Bestor, telling him just what parts of it need to be
printed on the anthropological measurement sheets, suggesting a con-
venient arrangement, size of type, etc.etc. I should like to have the
sheets labelled, "The Peruvian Expedition of 1912. Under the Auspices
of Yale University and the National Geographic Society. Chart for
Anthropological Measurements fobyfield Use, prepared by Professor
H.B.Ferris, Anatomical Laboratory, Yale Medical School." I think it
would be a good plan to have the sheets given serial numbers.

I realize that this will take a lot of your time, but I trust you
will think it is worth while. Dr. Nelson does not finish his hospital
work until next month, and cannot reach here before the 4th of June.
He will have only two and a half days in New Haven, and I hope you
will

May 17, 1912.

Dear Mr. Hardy:

I thank you for your kind letter in regard to your son and the
expedition. I admire your son very much and think he has a good
future in store for him. Otherwise I should not have offered him a
chance to go on this expedition.

The dangers of the journey look serious to those who do not
know Peru. As a matter of fact on the last expedition all of us came
back better in health than we went down. There are not nearly so
many risks to body and mind as there are in New York City. If I were
in the life insurance business, I should charge ten times the rate to
any one living in New York that I would to any one going into this
part of Peru. This will be my fourth expedition to South America and
every time it has seemed easier and less dangerous, and each time
I have come back better in health than on any previous expedition.

Your son will be associated largely with Dr. George F. Eaton,
the curator of osteology in the Peabody Museum and one of our best
scientists. As your son has been vaccinated both for typhoid and small
pox, and will not be in the fever country, I do not see how he runs
the slightest risk to his health. Furthermore there are no recklessly
driven automobiles in Cuzco and the population is extremely law-abiding
and peaceful. I shall do my best to see that your son comes out of

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Dear Bingham:

I wish to suggest that Miss Thompson begin some work for me
next week, which will require about fifteen days or less time.
If she will keep track of her time in hours or pages I shall see
to it that Miss Williams of Gregory's office does an equivalent
amount of work for the expedition. This arrangement is made after
consulting with Professor Gregory who has the disposition of
Miss Williams' time.

The above plan favors me in that it enables the completion of
a piece of work by June first, and favors the expedition in that
my writing for the summer will be in typewritten form by the end
of August instead of the end of October.

Lima, 8th. June, 1912.

Mr. Hiran Bingham,

City.

Sir:

There is a splendid collection of Peruvian antiquities (Huacos, metal glasses engraved and a sceptre); all these things belong to the Incas. The collection is a small one but of great value for scientific men.

If you have any interest to get said collection, you can see it in the Hotel "Comercio", Dept. "4.

June 15,

12.

Mr. H. L. Tucker,
209 Church St.,
Newton, Mass.

Dear Mr. Tucker:

The pencil drawings of plans and maps indicated
in your letter of June 12th have been received. Am I right in
assuming that this completes all the work now in your hands?
If so will you kindly send down your notebooks and photographs
as they will be of use in inking in the plans? Mr. McConnell
has finished the Parinacoches map and is at work on the Para-
vide ruins. There are several points, especially with refer-
ence to the latter piece of work which are not clear in your
notebook and which might be cleared up by a conference with us.
It is for this reason that I should like to have you come to
New Haven. If, however, you find it very inconvenient, I am
not inclined to urge it, in which case we will let the Paravide
work rest until the return of Bingham.

Your bill for seventyfive dollars ($75.00) in-
cluding all which the expedition owes you up to June 11th, has
been O.K.'d and a check will reach you in due time.

Very truly yours,

HEG/HEW

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

June 20th, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Cuzco, Peru.

My dear Professor: -

As per your request in your telegram of the 19th inst
I have sent you today two cases of meteorological instruments
contents as follows: -

Large case,

12 thermometers: 10 self registering instruments: 4 sets of
Sun shine recorders: 4 base boards for thermometers: 5 small
thermometer brass holders, and 3 large: 2 brass screws: 2 brass pins:

Small case:

4 wind vanes: I bottle special ink: I key for clocks: 3 pen tips: 75 record sheets: Vol 39 of Harvard Annals parts one and two.

The clocks for the hygrographs will need some little
fixing up, since I did not have time to get them ready. The other
clocks ran for about a day, and seem to be alright.

I sent you a telegram this afternoon, and the Railway Co. are
to despatch the cases to Tirapata tomorrow.

JOHN BARRETT
DIRECTOR GENERAL

FRANCISCO J. YÁNES
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

PAN AMERICAN UNION

Washington, D.C.

June 21, 1912.

THE PAN
AMERICAN
UNION

is an international organization and office maintained by the twenty-one American republics, controlled by a Governing Board composed of the Secretary of State of the United States and the Diplomatic Representatives in Washington of the other American nations, administered by a Director General and Assistant Director chosen by this Board and assisted by a staff of statisticians, compilers, trade experts, translators, editors, librarians and clerks, and devoted to the development and conservation of commerce, friendly intercourse and good understanding among all the American republics.

Dear Madam:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 14, asking if we can furnish a list of the publications of the Pan American Union on Peru.

I attach herewith a list of our publications dealing exclusively with Peru. In addition to these, there are a large number of works in which Peru is given a chapter. If desired, we could give you a list of these also. In 1897 we published a commercial directory which included all Latin-American countries; this is now exhausted. The Annual Review of each of these republics was first published in 1899, and from 1909 on have been reprinted in pamphlet form.

We shall hope to receive a copy of Dr. Bingham's bibliography of Peru when completed, and shall be glad to be of further assistance if possible.

Miss Louise M. Kirkpatrick
Secretary to Dr. Hiram Bingham
Drawer A., Yale Station
New Haven, Conn.

/HLB

PUBLICATIONS OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION

RELATIVE TO PERU.

The Mineral Wealth of Peru. Reprinted from Daily Consular and Trade Reports, Aug. 7 and Sept. 20, 1911. (8) p. 8°. (Still available).

Municipal Organizations in Latin America: Lima, Peru. Reprinted from the "Bulletin of the International Bureau of American Republics"; May, 1909, pages 856-862. 8°. (Out of print)

Peru: General Descriptive Data Prepared in June, 1909. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1909. 18 p. illus. 8°. (Out of print)
Same, 1910. 24 p. 8°. (Still available)
Same, 1911. 26 p. 8°. " "

Peru (a handbook). Washington, Government Printing Office, 1892. 145 p. fold. map. pls. 8°. (Out of print)

Railroads in Peru. Law promulgated March 30, 1904, providing for the construction of four lines of railroad. Decree of April 8, 1904, establishing commissions for preliminary surveys, etc., of the new lines. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1904. 6 p. 8°. (Out of print).

(COPY)

June 25, 1912.

Dear Mr. Tucker:

Your bill for use of drafting table has been
started on its way.

It has seemed best to stop all the work which
Mr. McConnell is doing for the present, since it can be
taken up just as well at some time next year when funds
are available. We might go ahead a little with it, pro-
viding you are able to help us out with certain data,
and I am pleased to learn that you may find it possible
to come down to New Haven for a couple of days at which
time we can also talk over the lantern slide matter. It
would be a great convenience to me if you could plan to
come down during the first week in July as I may be
leaving at any time after that.

Very truly yours,

HEG/HEW

July 4 1912.

Dear Mr Collins:-

Thanks for your letter of July first. I am glad to hear that you can repair some of the instruments there and am obliged to you for arranging this with Arequipa. I know the Bolivian scientists in La Paz and have not much confidence in their weather observations; but still there is no harm in cooperating with them as far as we can.

All of our men are here now with the exception of Prof. Gregory and we are getting along finely with the work.

With many thanks and much appreciation for your interest in the work I remain

Mr. B.H.Collins,
Tirapata,
Peru.

July 6, 12.

Dear Tucker:

There must be some hitch about the photographs. Miss Thompson of Professor Bingham's office informs me that the photographs missing from the collection are the following:

Panticalla and Penas, Photos 570 to 590 inclusive
Chamana River, " 626 to 681 "
Maras River, " 889
Seamaycanhu (Pothole Rock) and scattered ruins, Photos 600 to 609 "

I did not know that you had sent the notebooks to Mr. MacConnell, but I can get them from him. I am very sorry that you do not find it convenient to come to New Haven to work further on your notes. This I had very much desired and I think, as you say, that the work is bound to suffer somewhat because your plans have made it necessary to turn it over to a man unacquainted with the field.

Since you are liable to leave Boston at any date and I am expecting to leave on short notice, I do not believe that any further work had better be planned for at the present time. I am very desirous that notebooks and plans should all be here together with photographs and other data, safely stored away in the safe deposit before I leave. You will readily understand the advisability of this decision and appreciate that it involves not the slightest reflection on you or your work.

My suggestion about lantern slides is, that you be given all that is necessary to make a first class lecture with Corapuna as the center piece. This would give you sixty or seventy selected slides all of which could be used to advantage in a single lecture. The slides other than those on your agenda, or people who can't attend because they would be too busy to travel to Bingham, the photographs to be collected in general cannot be used for slides for the present; probably not until after the archaeological work has been reported upon in print. This regulation applies of course not only to you to Bowman, Foote, and all the rest of us.

Very truly,

HEG/NEW

July 11th, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham, Director,

The Peruvian Expedition of 1912.

Cuzco, Peru.

My dear Professor Bingham: -

Your letter of the 4th inst duly received and contents noted. As yet, I have not heard anything concerning the returned instruments, but when they do arrive, I shall take steps to have them put in order, as you request. I trust that you will fully understand why I sent them to you not fully ready for use. Mr. Collins wrote to me, concerning clocks for rain guages. Shall I simply get some clocks in running order and then send them back with the other instruments, or do you desire rain guages made. Do you want to leave the matter of repairs in my hands entirely, and if so, does the Expedition, or the Observatory, intend to defray the expense. I have had no instructions from Cambridge as regards possible expenses on any of the instruments. I ask only for information, thinking that Professor Pickering may have made his plans clearer to you than to me.

We had a very pleasant visit from the last installment of your party, and look forward to the arrival of the next. At any time that I can be of service to you, do not hesitate to call on me.

Believe me,

Very Cordially,

Leon Campbell

Cuzco Peru, July 12, 1912.

Dear Mr. Wilford:-

You may remember the difficulty we had last
year in getting accommodations in December. I have not forgotten
your request that we let you know before hand. This year we ex-
pect to reach Panama about the ninth or tenth of December and
take your next boat to New York which, I believe, leaves on the
twelfth. Please reserve rooms as follows:

Prof. and Mrs Gregory.

Dr. G.F.Baton and Mr. E.C.Erdis.

Mr. Paul Bestor and Mr. Joseph Little.

Mr. A.H. Bumsted and Mr. Osgood Hardy.

Mr. K.C.Heald and Mr. Robert Stephenson.

Dr. L.T.Nelson and Mr. Woolbridge Bingham.

Prof. and Mrs Hiram Bingham.

Mrs Bingham would like to have Suite A or B
if possible. I hope you will be able to take care of the others
as indicated.

We shall have a lot of osteological and archaeological
material and the usual large amount of baggage. I shall be
greatly obliged to you if you will speak to Mr. Smith about
granting expressage across the Isthmus as when we came down.

You will be glad to know that although we have been in
the field only a month we have already made a number of inter-
ing discoveries, including a number of fossil bones of great

Macchu Pachu, Peru, July 30 1912.

Dear Miss Kirkpatrick:-

Please order from the Yale University Press
one copy of my book on Venezuela and Columbia sent to the Uni-
versity of Cuzco, Cuzco Peru unless they have already sent one.
From Houghton, Mifflin Co. Please order one copy of my book
"Across South America" sent to Caesar Lomellini, Cuzco Peru.
Please tell Mr. Schwab that Senor Carlos Antonio Romero Asst.
Librarian in Biblioteca Nacional in Lima has promised to send
us a copy of the "Revista Historia" and that he would be glad
to receive in exchange a copy of Professor McCurdy's book on
Chiriqui. I shall be glad to receive from you a statement of the wo
work that has been done up to date. I hope the "Bibliography
of Peru" is progressing favorably.

Sincerely yours,

Miss Kirkpatrick,

Drawer A, Yale Station,

New Haven Conn.

Macchu Pichu, July 28, 1912.

Dear Gregory:--

I am enclosing a letter from Mr. Barber from the
Santa Lucia Mine, which is not far from the railway to Lake
Titicaca. Anyone can tell you what station it is. I am also
enclosing a copy of my letter to Mr. Barber. If possible you
might install the station on your way up. You might anyhow leave
one of the barometers there and say yourself the trouble of
carrying it around. If you telegraph him the day before he will
meet you at the station. The other three stations are to be equip-
ed from the Inca Mining Company, Tirapata. As I wrote you before
this will give us a string of stations from the jungle to the
top of the mountains. Both Mr. Barber and Mr. Collins are enthu-
siastic and have consented to run the thing for five years.

Dr. Eaton and Mr. Erdis who is to have charge of the tunnel-
ing will arrive in Cuzco on or before the 19th of September. Dr.
Eaton has already done over three weeks reconnaissance work in
Cuzco and vicinity and will be able to help you on your arrival.
You should telegraph him as follows-"Eaton, Lomellini, Cuzco, Arrive
Thursday" or whenever. Then he will have rooms ready for you and
Mrs Gregory at Mr. Austins. I hope to be back in Cuzco by the

first of November but have no definite plans as yet. Everything is
going as well as could be expected except that Bumsted is awful slow.
When he finishes his map of the Cuzco Basin he is to send it to
Mr. McCulloch, Superintendent of the railway at Arequipa. He is
going to have it copied and blue prints made which you are to get
at the Arequipa station. If Mr. McCulloch is not there ask for Mr.
Corry. I have asked them to make several copies of blue prints
so that Dr. Eaton can have one and you can have one. I think
you will find Mr. Bumsted's map very satisfactory although it
has taken him so long. Mr. Campbell can tell you where the instru-
ments are that they are going to loan us for five years. Heald is
doing splendidly.

Faithfully yours,

Professor H.G.Gregory,
Harvard Observatory,
Arequipa, Peru.

under the auspices of

Hiram Bingham, Director

Permanent Address

Drawer A, Yale Station
New Haven, Conn., U. S. A.

Field Address

Carcos, Lomellini & Cia.
Cuzco, Peru

New Haven, Conn., July 27, 1912.

Mr. Hiram Bingham,
Cuzco, Peru, S.A.

Dear Bingham:

Your request that I bring down mercurial barometers and rain gauges will be attended to. Pickering has sent a list of the outfit which you obtained from the Arequipa Observatory, and in view of this information I will secure what apparatus is necessary in order to equip the stations you have chosen.

You will be interested to know that we are finally through with Tucker; that he has turned in all the material that belongs to the Expedition. MacConnell has completed his drafting and you will find a lot of stuff ready for you on your return.

It has turned out that I am not to go to Arizona this summer, so after completing a few things in connection with that work, I plan to start for Peru, leaving New York about the middle of August. This will give me a little more time at Cuzco. If, however, you have something in mind which you would like to have me do during the last two weeks of September, I can undertake it. I shall look for a letter at Lima, H.R.Grace & Co.

Bowman is very desirous that about two weeks' work be put in at La Paz in order to make a geological map of that city. You may not be interested at all in having this done, and I shall not go up there unless you wish me to do so.

Mrs. Gregory and I spent a day at Salem, and you would be delighted to see in what excellent physical condition all those little boys are. Mrs. Bingham seemed very well, but naturally is somewhat lonesome.

Ollantaytambo, Agosto 3 de 1912.
Teon Doctor Heivam, Bingham emp. vido
Machupicchu

Muy digno y respetable Doctor...
Por la presente lo saludo respetuosamente, deseándole todo agénero de prosperidades en su penosa empresa.
Recien doy respuesta á su estí-
mable telegrama, en cuija virtud más antes que los portadoves de la presente marcharon á esa Tacitío Banios y Ramón Pereira; ahora marchan José Dávalos y Matías Covos; á los demás continuaré mandándole así como sean habidos. Tres la poca gente que hay en este pueblo, se halla exparsida en razón de estar perseguidos por muchas convíziones oficiales. No será demás manifestarles dignos D'r. que este pequeño pueblo cuenta con muy reducido número de operarios, siendo la mayor parte de ellos, pertenecientes á las fincas circunvecinas, eu yos patones son los dueños absolutos de dicha gente, como le consta al Ingeniero Mr. K. L. Heald el día que le quitaron dos perones que le entregué.
Así que, más conveniente sería pedir gente del Distrito de Maras, mediante

THE MOLLENDO AGENCIES COMPANY
MOLLENDO

Cable address: "Molagenco"

Mollendo, July 25, 1912.

Hiram Bingham Esq.,

Director
Yale Peruvian Expedition,

Cuzco.

Dear Sir,

We are in receipt of your favour of
the 13th. inst., and beg to state that we will be
very pleased in complying with your instructions
upon arrival of the mentioned cases.-

Coy.

July 24, 1912.

Professor H. E. Gregory,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

Professor Bingham requests us to inform you that he has
obtained at the Arequipa Station of this Observatory, the following
instruments:-

1 Mercurial Barometer, ✓ 2 Greene Maximum Thermometers,
✓ 2 Standard Thermometers, 01 N and Z Maximum Thermometers,
01 N and Z Minimum Thermometers, ✓ 3 Small Barographs,
✓ 3 Thermographs, 0 3 Sets Sunshine Recorders,
. 3 Wind Vanes, ✓ 2 Wet-bulb Thermometers,

I also enclose some samples of meteorological sheets forwarded by
him from Arequipa. He has secured a few of these for immediate use,
and desired you to order others like them. I will say, however,
that we have already ordered a supply of these sheets and shall be able
to furnish you as many as you need.

I am sending you Volumes 39 and 49, of our Annals. These relate
to Peruvian Meteorology, and are sent for the Peruvian Expedition, at
Professor Bingham's request.

FEH

Cuzco Peru, July 14, 1912.

Dear Mr. Gregory:-

You need bring but two mercurial barometers when
you come. Mr. Dietz the United Fruit Company Manager in New York
suggests that you remind the Company's agent in New Orleans
that you wish a return to New York and not New Orleans. If you
can secure a 3A Special Eastman Kodak conveniently please do so
and charge to the Expedition. It is for Mr. Erdis a new member
of the Expedition. He is very anxious to have a special.

The work is going as well as could be expected. I am leaving
tomorrow for the interior.

Professor H.E.Gregory,
New Haven Conn.

Cuzco Peru July 14, 1912.

Dear Mr. Collins :-

I am sending you by the kindness of Doctor Nelson who is on the way to Arequipa a copy of Davis's Meteorology, probably the standard work on this subject, and also three mercurial barometers, a spare tube and a bottle of mercury. When the instruments are returned repaired from Arequipa you will be equipped to set up your meteorological stations with the exception of the rain guages which I have sent for.

I am leaving tomorrow for the interior and do not know when I shall get back, probably not until November. The work here threatens to take much more of my time than I thought it would when I talked with you. I hope to be able to take the trip which you have so temptingly laid out for me but I fear very much now that it will be impossible. The amount of work that has to be attended to down in the Urubamba Valley is too great for me to do in the time at my disposal. Accordingly if you feel like establishing the stations yourself I feel sure that with the aid of Davis's book you can do it exactly as well as any of us could for we would have to consult Davis in order to be sure of our work. Professor Gregory will bring with him meteorological blanks for the self registering machines for the period of five years. I want to congratulate you on having so great an interest in the cause of science as to make you willing to

Machu Picchu, Peru, Aug. 17, 1912.

Dear Professor Campbell:-

Your letter of July 11 just received. I understand from Doctor Nelson that the instruments were eventually received and were turned over to Muffiz for repairs. The Expedition intends to defray expenses for these repairs. If you will let me know what they are I will give you an order on W.R.Grace & Co. Arequipa. Professor Pickering said nothing about expenses for repairs but it seems to me that we should meet them as we are to have the use of the instruments for the next five years. Mr. Collins thought that with the aid of clocks he could make a self registering rain gauge particularly as I have ordered some registering rain gauges from the states. So it is merely a matter of getting three or four clocks in running order. With kindest regards believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

Professor Leon Campbell,
Harvard Observatory,
Arequipa, Peru.

Macchu Pichu Peru, July 30, 1912.

Dear Mr. Barber:-

I thank you for your kind letter of the 12th inst.
for the interest which you show in promoting scientific research
in this part of Peru. I found that it would take some months to
complete the set of instruments needed for your station and have
written to the states to have them brought by Professor Gregory who
arrives the latter part of September. Either Professor Gregory or I
will install the instruments some time after his arrival. It may not
be possible for us to do this before the middle or latter part of
November but certainly not later than the last week in November. I
am writing to Professor Gregory to ask him to attend to the matter
and it is possible he may install the instruments in September if
that is convenient for you, but I rather imagine it will be in Nov-
ember. Mr. Collins is going to take charge of three stations and this
should give an excellent line of stations. Thanking you for your
kindness and for letting me know of your absence from Santa Lucia
and for assuring me of your appreciation of the work, I beg to remain

Faithfully yours,

E.Claude P.Barber Esq.,
Santa Lucia, Peru.

Cuzco Peru, July 14 1912.

Dear Mr. Morkill:-

I am taking the liberty of sending you by this mail a copy of the most rabid opposition paper in Cuzco, the very paper in fact which printed the false quotations in regard to the cleanliness of this city. I think that you will agree with me that they have somewhat changed their tune.

Tomorrow I am starting for Macchu Pichu and the interior. If I carry out the plan which will accomplish the best results for this years work I shall not return to Cuzco for about four months.

If, on the other hand it becomes necessary to interrupt this journey to go to Lima on account of the concession it will sadly interfere with any new discoveries which I might hope otherwise to make. Everyone with whom I have talked seems to be friendly disposed towards the project so I suppose there will be no need of my presence in Lima during this session of Congress.

The result of this first months work in Cuzco leads me to believe that this country has great possibilities, even greater than I had imagined, for future study. It striles me that the establishment, ofn or near Cuzco of an International School of Archaeology would prove decidedly advantageous not only to the progress of science but also to the interests of this section of the country. Like the International Schools of Athens and Rome it

would eventually attract quite a number of people, not only students and Archaeological specialists but also their friends and spread the fame of this section. There is plenty of work for such a school to do within a radius of twenty five miles of Cuzco. It seems to me that there is no other place in South America so admirably suited for a center of Archaeological and Ethnological study as this historic Cuzco Valley.

But this is apart from the subject in hand. I hope that am
among your multitude of duties; you will find a few minutes to
keep the concession from dying a natural death during the next
few weeks for I know that a few words form you will help things
tremendously.

Faithfully yours,

Mr. W.L.Morkill,

The Peruvian Corporation,

Lima, Perú

Cuzco Peru, July 11, 1912.

My dear Mr. Hadley:-

The work of the Expedition is progressing as favorably as could be expected. The amount of bones and sherds which we have found in the Cuzco Valley together with several un-described ruins of considerable importance have led me to believe that the first thing to be done was a map of the Cuzco Valley on a larger scale than I had at first planned, and more extensive. In connection with last years discoveries it had been decided to make a map of some parts of the Valley but it seems to me to be the best policy to include the entire Cuzco drainage on a scale of one mile to the inch with one hundred foot contours. As this is to be made as carefully as our chief topographer, Mr. Bumsted is capable of making it, it will be of great value for many years. The more I study the Cuzco Basin the more I become convinced of its great importance historically, archaeologically and geologically and I believe that the very first thing that I ought to do is to make a map upon which our future discoveries can readily be localized. The making of this map as carefully as is proposed will take probably from two to three months but it will be work of which we can be proud and, as I believe, decidedly worth while.

As soon as the Cuzco Basin map is completed the topographers will proceed down the Urubamba Valley in accordance with the

original plan. Mr. Bumsted is not a rapid worker but on the contrary is extremely careful and painstaking so that while you may have occasion to be disappointed at the small amount of country that will be covered on this expedition you will, I am sure, be gratified with the maps that are completed.

At the present time Mr. Bumsted is being assisted by Asst. Topographer Stephenson and by assistants Hardy and Little. It is not my intention to divert any of the men from his staff and it is my purpose to facilitate his work in every way possible. He also has two Peruvian men who have had considerable experience in rail-road survey work.

Dr. Eaton's Department has progressed in a particularly satisfactory manner. Perhaps the most important discovery has been a portion of a humerus of a prehistoric mammal. It may be a Megatherium or some allied form, just which cannot be said until further study has been made in New Haven. Dr. Eaton has also found several fossil bones, some at considerable depths below the surface, but the work of excavating in the immediate locality of the so-called "Glacial Bones" of last year will be deferred until the arrival of Professor Gregory. In the meantime we have definitely determined the fact that bones of sheep and cattle belonging, presumably, to the colonial period are to be found in the Cuzco Basin.

interstratified with the gravel five feet below the surface of the ground, intimating that a large amount of aggradation has occurred sometime during the last four hundred years whereas the present epoch is one of degradation. Dr. Eaton has also been successful in collecting human bones from various localities, particularly from stratified material.

Dr. Nelson arrived with Mr. Bumsted and the three assistants. He has devoted himself chiefly to securing different measurements of types of Cuzco Indians according to suggestions furnished by Dr. Ferris of the Yale Medical School. Dr. Nelson is showing himself to be an unusually conscientious and careful operator. Of each subject that he measures he takes two or three photographs. The total result of his work will be most interesting.

Mr. Heald has already left for the interior with orders to repair the goat trail that leads to the extensive ruins of Macchu Pichu. Asmit is my intention to go there in a few days to begin work of excavation.

If myself have been in Cuzco about three weeks and have already visited five or six ruins within twenty miles of Cuzco whose existence is known to but few residents of this ancient Inca Capital. There is an enormous amount of work to be done in this Valley to untangle the problems of Historical Geography

and all the excursions that I take, tend to convince me of the
necessity of a large amount of scientific exploration in the
Department of Cuzco.

I was very much disappointed. I wrote you from Dunaq, to
find that the disturbed political condition of the country made
it inadvisable, to call an extra session of Congress for June 5th
as I had planned. The regular session of Congress occurs on
July 28th. Owing to the fact that the Presidential elections
in May were nullified by the action of armed mobs it will be
necessary for Congress to elect a temporary President to take the
place of the present incumbent whose term expires September 25th.
Both the Government and the Opposition claim a majority of the
members of Congress. If Congress elects the Government candidate
a Revolution is sure to follow. It will probably be confined to
Lima and vicinity where the Opposition candidate is extremely
popular.

If the Opposition candidate is able to control a
majority of Congress we may expect fairly quiet weather. But
in any case I am advised that nothing can be done to obtain
our concession until the end of August unless there is too
great a political upheaval for the Members of Congress to give
their attention to minor matters.

Our concession is almost certain to go through although in
a slightly modified form. The chief alteration that has been

made at the suggestion of President Leguia is to reduce the term
of years from twenty to ten. Our concession is at present in
the hands of a man who has the reputation of being the ablest
lawyer in Lima. He is Counsel for the Peruvian Corporation and
is a cousin of the Presidents. He is working on Congress with
W.R.Grace & Company's confidential agent and they have agreed to
notify me if my presence is needed in Lima. We have endeavored
to make friends with the Opposition papers and have succeeded in
securing the support of the editor of the most widely read
paper in Peru.

Since my arrival I have been able to secure many more friends
than formerly notwithstanding the fact that the publication of
an uncomplimentary remark had roused considerable antagonism
before my arrival. Learning of this while still in Lima I pre-
pared an article describing our discoveries near Cuzco last year
and incidentally threw in two paragraphs of praise in regard to
the advance which Cuzco has made since my first visit in 1909.
These paragraphs were telegraphed to Cuzco and were printed in
the local papers. The entire article was somewhat widely dis-
tributed by mail and as a result my reception was unusually pleas-
ant. Soon after my arrival I was invited as an honorary member
of the Faculty of the University of Cuzco to attend the final
examination and presentation of thesis by a student who fortu-
nately had taken for subject a discussion of the origin of

some of the famous nearby ruins with which I was familiar. I was invited to reply to the thesis and did so to the best of my ability. I also desired to present to the University a shield with a bronze Yale seal on it and was requested to wait until a different meeting of the University which was to be held in the near future. To my surprise I was asked to prepare an address giving an account of our work last year and our plans this year and, and any other matters which might occur to me. In the course of my address I took occasion to present the greetings of Yale to the University of Yale together with the shield and an American flag, a gift to the Expedition from the Cheneys of South Manchester. This was received with applause. I also took occasion to show the prehistoric mammoth bone which Dr. Eaton had found a few days previously. To my great surprise at the close of the address the President of the University conferred upon me the degree of Doctor of Letters in conformity with the action of the University taken before my arrival at the exercises. I mention these facts in detail because the University is in opposition to the government and could make it extremely difficult for the government to secure the passage of our concession if it so desired.

Another good effect of the friendliness of the University has been the marked increase in friendliness on the part of the

most cultivated and wealthy citizens of this locality whose
knowledge of its history and antiquity is extremely helpful
for our purposes.

In conclusion I do not need to state that if necessary
I shall go to Lima whenever those in charge of our interests
there send for me; nevertheless I trust that this work here
will not be so interrupted and I have hopes that owing to
the friendly attitude taken both by the Government and the
Opposition there will be no difficulty in securing our con-
cession, providing of course that the country does not go
into the throes of a Revolution. The Government has the army
behind it; on the other hand the Opposition candidate is ex-
tremely popular and the Government has ruled with such a firm hand as to become extremely unpopular. If the Government attempts to force its candidate on the people a Revolution is almost certain to result. Personally I believe that President Leguia is perfectly aware of this and will make no effort to force a President upon an unwilling people.

Before closing I desire to request that the Corporation
appoint as Archaeological Engineer of the Peruvian Expedition
of 1912 Mr. Elwood C. Erdis. He has had considerable experience
in railroad engineering and in mining engineering and takes a

genuine interest in his present position which he is filling to
entire satisfaction. I was so fortunate as to secure him at the
expiration of his term of service with a Peruvian railroad and
have agreed to pay him one hundred dollars per month and his ex-
back to New York. This raises the number of men officially con-
nected with the Expedition to eleven. I might say in passing that
Mr Erdis has been getting one hundred seventy five dollars but
was willing to accept much less because of his interest in scien-
tific work. He will have charge of the tunnelling that is to
be done in connection with the work in the locality where the
"Glacial Bones" were discovered last year.

Believe me to remain with sincere regards,

Faithfully yours,

YALE UNIVERSITY

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

WOODBRIDGE HALL, 105 WALL STREET.

August 21st, 1912.

My dear Mr. Bingham:-

I have been greatly delighted to get your
two letters, giving an account of the progress of your plans.
The first met me in my office on my return from Europe a week
ago; the second has just come in.

The political difficulties were by no means unexpected, and
I think we may congratulate ourselves that matters have been no
worse. I am particularly glad, under the circumstances, to hear
what you say about the attitude of the University of Cuzco toward
you and your projects. It is seldom that a man can make such
good connections on both sides. I remember how Jenkins, of the
Agricultural Experiment Station, had occasion to do some business
at the City Hall, and when it was over the Irishman in charge of
the department said, "Who keeps you in office, the Republicans
or the Democrats ?" "Both," said Jenkins. All that the Irishman
could find to say in reply was, "Begorra!!"

I am especially glad to hear that George Eaton seems to be
dealing with the situation so effectively. He has plenty of
ability, if something could only be found to wake him up.

At the meeting of the Prudential Committee yesterday, Mr.
Erdis was given the title of Archaeological Engineer of the Pe-
ruvian Expedition of 1912, as requested in your letter.

I had the pleasure of attending the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Society in London, and saw several geographers who were decidedly interested in what I told them about your work. The whole meeting was a great success. The committee wisely avoided long addresses, which are the pitfall and snare of anniversaries, and gave us instead a dinner in the Guildhall and a garden party at Windsor Castle. There are several things that the effete monarchies of Europe know how to do better than we do.

With best wishes for your success, I remain

Dr. Hiram Bingham,
Care Ces. Lomellini & Cia,
Cuzco, Peru.

is little if any opposition to the project I believe that the
only thing necessary is to see that it does not die a natural
death from neglect or oversight. There will be so many more
important things for the President and his friends that I should
not be surprised if they forgot all about our concession. I
hope that you will find it consistent with your instructions
from the State Department to see that the project does not per-
ish from neglect. The opposition papers here in Cuzco have been
extremely friendly to me and I do not think that your task
will be a difficult one. I certainly hope that it will not be
unpleasant. Anything that you can find convenient to do to
assure the early presentation of the law in Congress and to
secure friends for its passage will be very greatly appreciated.
I have the honor to remain

Very sincerely yours,

The American Minister,

Lima, Peru,

Cuzco Peru, July 14 1912.

Dear Mr. Ballen:-

Thank you for the telegram. I judge that the concession is receiving favorable treatment. We are progressing here extremely well with this years work. Even the opposition papers in Cuzco Cuzco are our enthusiastic supporters as you can see from the paper which I enclose. I am very anxious indeed to make a long journey into the interior and not return to Cuzco for four months. I plan this the more confidently because among all the people with whom I have talked about the concession there seems to be no opposition to the project. If you can only succeed in having the presentation of the proposed law strike opening of Congress I feel sure that it will go through without serious opposition. I know that I can rely upon you to see that the members of the Committee to which I suppose it will be referred are encouraged to believe that it will be a good thing for the country. If it should be absolutely necessary for me to go to Lima a telegram to Senor Lomellini will reach me as he will know my whereabouts. I am sorry to go into the interior without having signed the agreement. I had no idea there would be so much delay. I imagine however that if Congress passes the law granting Yale University such privileges on condition that such and such are agreed upon

it will be time enough for me to sign the documents after the
law has been passed which I hope will be before I return to
Lima which I expect will be the latter part of November. It
will greatly interfere with my program if I have to take a month
out of it to go to Lima and I hope you can find some means of
avoiding this serious loss of time. With kindest regards and
many thanks for your many favors of the past I remain

Faithfully yours,

Hiram Bingham, Director

Permanent Address
Drawer A Yale Station
New Haven, Conn., U. S. A.

Field Address
Care Ccs. Lomellini & Cia.
Cuzco, Peru

Sept. 10, 1912

Dear Dr. Bingham:-

Your letter of July 30th reached me to-day. I wrote the three
letters, copies of which I enclose, immediately upon receipt of your
request.

As to the "Bibliography of Peru", I think it is coming on very
well. As you know, I returned from my month's absence on July 15th.
Miss Thompson had picked out all the cards (not L. C.) concerning
Peru which she could find in the author card list filed in the small
office. The first thing I did on my return was to catalogue these
entries, assigning them subject headings, writing out the subject
cards, and, in cases where the author entry was made in such a way as
to be not available for printing, writing out a correct author entry.
In each case I made sure that the entry was not already made in the
form of a Library of Congress card. I also made subject cards and
headings for all the entries I had found in the periodicals in the
Yale Library during the spring. After this I went to work on the
books which I had over here in Lampson Hall belonging to the Library.
I have gone through all these, making author and subject cards where
I found I had no Library of Congress card, and where I did find L. C.
cards, entering the Yale call-number in red ink on that card. In making
subject headings I have followed the wording of the L. C. subject head-
ings, so that they will be uniform and consequently more convenient for
reference. Before assigning the headings in history I have consulted

September 19, 1912.

Professor H. E. Gregory,

Cuzco, Peru.

My dear professor: - As near as I can find out at the present time
Mr. Collins now has at Tirapata the following instruments: -

3 Greene Max. Thermns.: 3 stand. Thermns.: I N-Z Max. Therm: I
N-Z Min. Therm: 2 small barographs, 3 thermographs: 3 sets sunshine
recorders: 4 wind vanes: 2 wet bulb thermns.: and 2 Min. Thermns.
Mr. Muniz has under repair one baragraph and one thermograph,
which should be ready ere long. Besides those mentinoed above,
Mr. Bester took with one mercurial barometer, belonging to the
Observatory. Mr. Corry telephoned me that you had left a mercurial
barometer in Arequipa and I have inducted Mr. Muniz to take care
of the same at his shop.

I saw Profesor Bingham in Arequipa this week, but only for a
few minutes.

We trust that you and Mrs. Gregory are both well, and enjoying
yourselves in Cuzco. We both have very pleasant recollections of
your all too short visit at the Observatory, and look forward to
another some day. Our kindests regards to you both.

Sept. 26, 1912.

Dear Dr. Bingham:

I am forwarding two communications which have come to you from
the Dean's office.

Since writing you a week or two ago the cards formed by cutting
and pasting the Dorsey catalogue have been returned finished by the
Secretary's Office. I am now at work upon them, - making subject en-
tries and cards for them. There are a large number of them, so that
it will take some time. I find the spelling extremely inaccurate in
these entries. I have weeded out the misspelling as best I could,
and substituted the proper form of name where he had often used the
wrong one in the Spanish entries. In spite of these inaccuracies
the entries make a very substantial addition to the bibliography.

The "Vitcos" reprints have not yet arrived from Worcester, nor
have any more come as yet from Harper.

The University is a busy place once more and all the students
have returned. The electric wiring is also being put into Lampson
Hall, so that the summer's quiet has suddenly disappeared.

Mr. Brigham says that they have a large number of old works on
Peru in the Antiquarian Society Library. If you decide to have me
visit any libraries outside New Haven, perhaps this would be one of
those which should be included.

With regards to the members of the Expedition whom I have met,
and with best wishes for your success, I am

W. R. Grace & Co.

Cable Address, "GRACE"

New York La Paz
San Francisco Valparaíso
Lima Santiago
Callao Concepción
Arequipa Valdivia
Piura

Lima, 7 de Setiembre de 1912.

GRACE BROTHERS & Co., LTD.

LONDON.

Señor Profesor
Hiram Bingham
c/o Ces. Lomellini & Co.,
CUZCO.

Muy estimado Doctor:-

En varias ocasiones he sido favorecido con sus cartas y telegramas, á los cuales he procurado prestar mi mejor atención; pero lo que más me interesaba era poder comunicar á Ud. el estado en que se encontraba el proyecto contrato que deseaba Ud. celebrar con el Gobierno.

A los pocos días de su salida de Lima llevé al Doctor Romero los originales de su proyecto, con la respectiva traducción literal, al que había agregado yo todo lo que se me había ocurrido, con el fin de que dicho Doctor incluyera en la solicitud las mayores ventajas para la Universidad. Deje pasar bastantes días para dar tiempo al Doctor Romero que redactase el proyecto y cuando fui á verle me dijo que ya había convenido con el Presidente sus términos y se lo había entregado. Desde entonces la situación política absorbió por completo la atención y el tiempo del Presidente y temí que no se ocupara más del asunto; así lo creyó también el Doctor Romero. A nuestra gran sorpresa supimos despues que el Gobierno estaba listo á mandar el proyecto al Congreso y para no demorar el asunto, á falta de Ud se hizo intervenir al Ministro Americano en nombre de Yale, con lo cual el asunto ha tomado un aspecto más serio y oficial. El cuatro hice á Ud un telegrama á Abancay avisándole, que el Gobierno había presentado el proyecto á las Cámaras y ahora le incluyo una copia que he podido conseguir.

W. R. GRACE & CO.
LIMA.

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Ayer recibí su telegrama preguntándome si sería mejor su venida a Lima ahora que tiene Ud oportunidad. Quise consultar el punto con el Presidente, pero no he podido verle, así que acabo de ver al Doctor Romero, quien me ha dicho que su presencia no es necesaria, puesto que se ha hecho intervenir al Ministro Americano y que el Señor Morkill le ha telegrafiado a Ud en ese sentido; yo acabo de hacer lo mismo por conducirte de Lomellini.

El proyecto me parece que encierra todos los puntos que Ud necesita, pero si así no fuera, hágame pronto sus observaciones para ver si es posible hacerlo modificar por la comision de instrucción, a la cual ha pasado, y que se compone felizmente, de buenos amigos, con quienes nos estamos empeñando para que dictaminen pronto y favorablemente.

Su telegrama de Maquina (¿) me puso en apuros, porque no llego a comprender cómo podriamos conseguirle desde aquí operarios. He consultado con varias personas y todos me dicen que seguramente el Prefecto de Abancay la prestaria su apoyo. En ese sentido le telegrafí el día 4 y espere que Ud me avise si ha conseguido su objetivo, para, en caso contrario, procurar ver al Presidente. Hubiera sido conveniente saber cuantos peones necesita Ud y a que lugar deben dirigirse. El Senador Samanez, hacendado de Casinchihua, a dos jornadas de Abancay, me asegura que por esos lugares pueden conseguirse muchos indios por un jornal de 40 centavos.

En cuanto a su deseo de exportar este año sus coleciones, sea así no aprobado el contrato por las Cámaras, me permito indicarle que no lo creo prudente mientras no veamos qué rumbo toma el

W.R. GRACE & CO.
LIMA.

asunto y para ello llamo la atención de Ud á la última parte del artículo 11º del proyecto, que estipula claramente, que solo desde la promulgación de la resolución legislativa, producirá el contrato sus efectos, Creo que vale la pena esperar un poco hasta que se-pamos cual es la opinion de la comision dictaminadora ¿ No le parece?

Tengo también que acusar recibo de su carta del 16 de Julio, con los diversos inclusos que me remite y de los cuales haré uso conforme se presente la ocasión. Las cartas dirijidas al Presidente le han sido entregadas.

Tambien le mando el cablegrama que vino para Ud en
Junio 24 y cuyo contenido le trasmití por telegrafo.

Temo haberme extendido mucho y cansar demasiado su atención.

Espero que siga gozando de perfecta salud y reciba
un respetuoso saludo

FR.

TELEGRAFOS DEL ESTADO

N.º 5. A.

No. 460.

Procedencia Cuzco.

Fecha de depósito 17 de octubre.

Telegrafista Leith.

Rep. No. Lucero - 9919

Dr. Burgham.

W.R. Grace y Cia.

Lima.

Quiero salir Paruro noviembre primero, no hay aquí instrumentos
para mapas, necesitase transito ó alidade telescopio, es importante que
Carlos Duque sea de expedición. Sirvase aprovechar estos pedidos.

Eaton.

EL MECANOGRAFO

TELÉGRAFOS DEL ESTADO

N.º 5. A.

No. 459.

Procedencia Cuzco.

Fecha de depósito 18 de octubre.

Telegrafista Leith.

Rep. M. Lucco - 9010

Burgham.

Grace y Cia.

Lima.-

Telegram de bunestad octubre 7 diciendo no posible trabajar más de un día la semana causa de lluvia;ayer vino otro diciendo sus ce jones comida, comida puede llegar arriba octubre 27, claro el pienso salir noviembre 10 ó más tarde, dirija si envió comida si no envíeme instrucciones para él,los adelantaré.Todo va bien aquí.Saludos.

Haald.

EL MECANOGRAFO

Hiram Bingham, Director

Field Address
Care Ccs. Lomellini & Cia.
Cayco, Peru

Lima, Peru;

4 Oct. 1912

My Dear Mr. Hadley:

The Congress of Peru, obeying the popular cry - and disregarding the explicit terms of the Constitution - declared the election to the Presidency of Mr. Billinghurst. This was contrary to all the political prophecies that I had been able to hear. All my friends had assured me that as the elections fell through in May, Mr. Leguia, our first friend, would succeed himself for a year or until new elections could be held next May. Consequently I was caught a month's journey away in the interior when the news filtered through that Mr. Leguia would be replaced on Sept. 24th.

I hastened to Lima as fast as mules, slow trains and late steamers would carry me; and arrived here four days before the 24th. But it was too late to get our measure rushed through and Mr. Leguia was so occupied with a final burst of nepotism and favoritism that in three visits to the Palace and many hours of waiting I was only caught wasting time. However I did what lobbying was possible, met the new President at dinner and later called on his first day At Home.

During the first few days of the new administration it was not possible to do more than mark time; but within the past two days I have seen the President twice, - once with the owner and editor of the most powerful Daily in Lima (the paper which did more than anything else to bring Mr. Billinghurst to the presidency), and once with the American

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Minister. Mr. Billingshurst is a very wealthy man whose chief interest all his life has been fighting for money in the law courts. He has been remarkably successful and has acquired a profound respect for his own opinions. His interest in science is limited to the value of nitrates; but he wishes to stand in with the U.S.A. and he says he will not oppose our project although he considers it a "disgrace" to Pefu. He knows the country ought to do this kind of work itself, but is far too poor. (It is currently reported in business circles that Mr. Leguia left behind an empty treasury and debts of more than four million pounds sterling.)

The contract with Yale University, granting an exclusive concession for ten years, was signed by Pres. Leguia and sent to Congress. It was referred to the Committee on Education where I found it peacefully sleeping. The members of the committee had not even heard of it.

At my initiative they took the matter up and decided to send the concession to the president of the local Historical Society for him to pass on it. I am now working on him, but as he had never heard of Yale, I am an old fashioned recluse. Very rich and very exclusive, there are few of my friends who have any influence with him. I have called on him three times only to find him out so that I have not been able to explain the project or meet his objections. But I shall try again until I succeed.

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It was reported that the president of the Society for prevention of cruelty to Ruins was decidedly against our project. After a long and somewhat trying interview (and a cup of chocolate) he decided to back us up and can be trusted to do as he says.

Mr. Morkill, the resident director of the Peruvian Corporation, assures me that the only way to get the concession through congress now is to stay right here and keep it from going to sleep in committee. As Mr. Gregory is now in Cuzco within reach of most of the work that is going on and there is no immediate need of my presence there, I believe it is for the best interests of our work that I stay here until final action has been taken - but this whole business is rather tiresome and not half so interesting as exploration.

I thank you for your very kind letter. George Eaton continues to do splendid work. I am only afraid he will work himself sick.

Please excuse this badly written letter. I have no stenographer here and am using a borrowed machine of a sort that I have not used before.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Hadley, believe me to remain,

Faithfully Yours

E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO.
WILMINGTON DELAWARE, U. S. A.

E. N. CARPENTER, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

CASILLA 1422, VALPARAISO, CHILE S. A.
DIRECCION, CABLEGRAFICA "CARPONT"

Lima, 14 October, 1913

My Dear Mr. Hadley;

During the past week, from all that we have accomplished here, you might reasonably suppose that I had been playing Rip van Winkle. I have seen Mr. Leguia twice and asked him to intervene in our behalf by writing to the Minister of Justice, who owes his place to Mr. Leguia. I have had two interviews with the aforesaid Justice Minister but have accomplished nothing except to contradict some of his foolish ideas.

The whole trouble seems to be that we are under suspicion; for the following reasons: (1) Mr. Leguia got accustomed to pushing his pet measure through without regard to the letter of the law. Our case was one of his pets. Most people believe he did nothing except for the love of gold. He is supposed to have been moved by very base motives. Hence we must be crooked. And as we offer them no bribes they are balky. (2) Mr. Howard, the American Minister is also under suspicion. He has congregated with many every concession carpet bagger that has arrived from the U.S.A. He was particularly thick with the AGENT who was selling to the rich Limenos preferred stock in the Seewanee Life Insurance Co. of Rome (or Athens) Georgia. He has been very active in trying to see the Government on our behalf. Hence we too are from Rome (or Athens). (3) Dr. Max Uhle, the late director of the National Museum, worked in a most plausible fashion pretending to increase the Government's collections in Archaeology, and is believed by many of the best men in the Geographical Society to have smuggled out of the country nine tenths of his discoveries.

E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO.
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, U. S. A.

CASILLA 1422, VALPARAISO, CHILE S. A.
DIRECCION CABLEGRAFICA "CARPONT"

Hence all foreign archeologists are in bad odor and we are probably no exception. "They" are quite sure if Uhle would do such tricks we would too. So there you are. (4) W.R.Grace & Co. are known to be our warm friends. They have been and are our agents and have always worked very hard and unselfishly to advance our projects. They are distrusted by the present administration because they were so thick with the last. The very fact that made it so easy for me to get all the favors I needed in the last administration makes it correspondingly difficult now.
(5) There is considerable jealousy and suspicion between the Geographical Society and the Instituto Historico. The former, feeling that the latter were doing nothing in their proper realm, has recently taken up the task of appointing agents in the various departments to conserve the ancient monuments, a task that properly belongs to the members of the Instituto.
As I am a member of the Geog.Soc. and not of the Ins.Hist., and as the Geo Soc. has already passed a unanimous vote of approbation in regard to our project, the Ins.Soc. which under the present regime seems to have a big push, is naturally opposed to granting me anything.

Yesterday I had a long conference with the president of the Ins. Hist. and was able to meet many of his objections, so many in fact that he fell back on the unanswerable argument: "Well, as for me, of course I should be delighted to see such a distinguished University as Yale undertake studies in Peru, but my colleagues in the Instituto are so strongly opposed to this that I fear little can be done." As a matter of fact

fact, the members of the Instituto do not appear to have been consulted for I saw one of them this morning, a very bright and active young chap who knew nothing about it and even went so far as to say he had been smoking yesterday with the Hon.Sec. of the Ins.Hist. They discussed a page article of mine that appeared in the Presea yesterday (It was translated from the last Harper's Magazine) and they liked it, but said nothing about difficulties. This is a queer place, honeycombed with subterfuge and suspicion.

The West Coast Leader, an English daily with a larger circulation than might be supposed had a flowery, albeit well-intentioned, editorial in our favor last Thursday. I have mailed you a copy under separate cover. As a result, a Deputy from Cuzco, whose family have been very friendly, made a speech in Congress, in our behalf and asked that the Minister of Foreign Affairs be requested to say what progress this was making. He referred to me as Professor Mister Wigan; but he means to be nice and I am to have a conference with him this afternoon.

The Minister of Justice is to give me an definite answer tomorrow afternoon (that is he says he will, but I doubt it) Mr. Howard, the American Minister was to have obtained an audience for me to-day but he had such a hang-over on Saturday morning that he forgot to ask for an appointment.

Three weeks work here seem to have accomplished nothing. If I have this same story to tell next Monday I shall begin to feel that Peru is after all just like the other Republics - and I had supposed

The *Peruvian* Expedition of 1912

under the auspices of

*Yale University and the National Geographic Society*

Hiram Bingham, Director

Permanent Address

Field Address

Care Cts. Lomellini & Cia.
Cuzco, Peru

it was better.

I regret to report that Prof. Gregory has been suffering from the
effects of the altitude but is able to continue with his work. Dr. Eaton
reports the discovery of a great quantity of fossils, including the
bones of mastodons, megatheriums, and eques. The map work has been very
seriously delayed by heavy and prolonged rains. Mr. Bumstead reports
that they have recently been able to work only one day in seven.
Mr. Heald, the strongest man in the party has ripped away the ligaments
of his right clavicle and will have to carry his right arm in a sling
until he gets home. Mr. Bestor had a form of dysentery for seven weeks,
and has seen you himself once this reaches you. Our first shipment of
bones and fossils has been held up in Mollendo and the Customs people
desire to unpack all the cases and make an inventory of all the
specimens. This would spell ruin to Dr. Eaton's carefully packed
collections, so I am fighting their decision as hard as I can but so far
without success. Truly it is pouring. Nothing succeeds like success
to make these people suspicious of one's efforts.

Much as I hate to do so, I must remain here until permission
has been obtained to export our collections. This was granted by Mr.
Leguia but is now declared illegal.

Hoping to have better news for my next letter, I beg to re-
main,

Faithfully yours

Lima, 7 Oct. 1912

My Dear Mr. Hadley:

Within the past few days our affairs have taken
a bad turn - or rather the bad turn they took some time ago has been
uncovered. I finally managed to see the President of the Instituto
Historico to whom the Congressional committee has referred our pro-
ject. He was more cordial than on the first visit; and he had reason
to be for he had just had a long call from the Manager of the Lima
Lumber Mills, an influential friend of his, who had kindly taken the
trouble to go and see him on my account. As they had been discussing
the project for over an hour, it did not take him long to come to the
point, and assure me with a pleasant smile that he was opposed to our
plan. He said he had only one objection to it, viz. he had himself
introduced a bill before congress prohibiting absolutely the exporta-
tion of objects of archeological or antiquarian interest. Naturally
he could not in justice to himself be in favor of a law which proposed
to allow a certain portion of such objects to leave the country.

It seems probable that the Committee, not desiring to have the
odium of refusing to pass favorably on our request, yet not being at all
keen about any of the late president's projects, saw a splendid and
very crafty way out of the difficulty. None of us knew that Mr. Lar-
rabure had this project before the house; he would be sure to oppose it
"to save his face"; and as he was pres. of the Instituto Historico we
could not possibly object to the project's being referred to him.

Of course his project was referred to this same Committee on Instruction and they were probably the only ones in Congress who remembered this. One cannot help but admire this master stroke of petty politics.

After consulting with various friends, one of whom was sure the only way to reach our man was by bribe, I called on Mr. Leguia, the late President of Peru. Hung in a very prominent place in his Library-Study was the Yale Shield I brought him in May; and just below it, the engrossed Latin version of the Corporations vote of thanks, which he has had handsomely framed.

Mr. Leguia was very cordial, but said there was no hope of our being able to get the project through this congress. It rises the 24th of this month. He strongly advised us to drop the project for the press and take it up at some more auspicious time. He said the best thing I could do was to get a special executive decree officially recognizing and authorizing this years work and permitting exportation. In other words the same things he promised us orally. This was rather disappointing, as I had supposed he would at least offer to see Mr. Larrabure who was his own vice-president.

The Lima Geographical Society is very enthusiastic about the project. I am doing what I can to get the Committee to ask them for an opinion; but the dice seem to be loaded. My most active and energetic friend, the acting president of the Geographical Society, promised Friday to do everything in his power to further the favorable action of Congress. That afternoon his wife was taken seriously ill and to-day