YALE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PEABODY MUSEUM
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

January 29, 1914.

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

My dear Bingham:

Little's observations contain some valuable
data and I should like to have more from the same source.
It would add to their value if he could include a more
accurate account of the wind from forenoon to afternoon
and especially of ☀️ change of wind in the night. He
frequently records that there is a wind but in only a few
cases does he give its direction. From my standpoint
the winds' directions are the most important features in
all weather observations in the Central Andes.

Next comes the precipitation and the character
of the clouds. Temperature observations on short journeys of several days or weeks have shown that the value unless from thermograph records such as those which
come from Santa Lucia.

MSP/

26 BROAD STREET

New York, February 4, 1914.

My dear Bingham:-

I received your letter
of January 30th with the very attractive
photographs and have not acknowledged it
sooner because I was casting about for a
victim. Certain family and other demands
on me prevent my doing it myself.

I have one man who will prob-
ably give $500. and perhaps I shall pick
up others if you can leave the photo-
graphs with me.

With best wishes,

Professor Hiram Bingham,
New Haven, Conn.

February 4, 1914.

My dear Dr. Ferris:

The managing director of the National Geographic Society desires to present to his executive committee a statement as to the present condition of the scientific reports now in course of preparation in connection with the Peruvian Expedition of 1912. I should appreciate it very highly if you could find the time to give me, at your earliest convenience, replies to the following questions:

1. Without binding yourself to making any definite promises, when do you expect that your manuscript will be ready to go to the printer?

2. What is its length or how long are you planning to have it?

3. About how many illustrations would you like to use in connection with it?

4. Have you any preferences in regard to the form of publication?

Finally, any other remarks that you care to make which would appropriately form part of my present informal report to the managers of the National Geographic Society, would be much appreciated.

Dr. H. B. Ferris,
Medical School,
Scribba,
Yale University.

February 4, 1914.

My dear Gregory:

1. Without binding yourself to any definite promises, when do you expect that your manuscript will be ready to go to the printer?

Faithfully yours,

Professor H. Gregory,
Peabody Museum,
Yale University.

P.S. Please tell me who would be the best person to whom to send the samples of stone tools from Hechu Picochu for determination as to the kind of rock of which they are composed.

February 4, 1914.

My dear Bowman:

Faithfully yours,

Prof. I. Bowman,
Peabody Museum,
Yale University.

February 4, 1914.

My dear Eaton:

Dr. G. F. Eaton,
80 Sachem Street,
New Haven, Conn.

February 5, 1914.

My dear Sir:

In the April number of the National Geographic Magazine, a
copy of which can be sent you from this office on receipt of 50¢, you
will find a full account of our expedition to Peru in 1912. We are
still working on the books which will cover the archaeology, geology,
and anthropology. These are to be published some time during the
next year or two by the National Geographic Society.

February 5, 1914.

My dear Little:

I am glad to hear that you have been given a more interesting job at the San Francisco mine. Please let me know as soon as you make any change in your plans, and as soon as you hear from Mr. Carpenter.

We are looking forward to some more exploring in southern Peru next year, but I am afraid we cannot offer you enough salary to make it worth your while to give up a good job anywhere else.

Professor Bowman writes me that your observations on climate and meteorology contain valuable data, and that he would like to have more from the same source. He says it would add to their value if you would include a more accurate account of the direction of the wind, and particularly of any change in the wind, either day or night. From his stand-point, the direction is the most important feature in all weather observations in the central Andes. Next to this, comes the amount of precipitation and the character of the clouds. I t any rate, you can have the satisfaction of feeling that you have added an acceptable quota to science, and that there is no reason why you should not add more.

With kind regards, believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

Joseph P. Little, Esq.,
Morococha, Peru.

February 5, 1914.

My dear Mr. Bannard:

Thank you very much for your kind letter and for taking
so much interest in the Peruvian pottery. I shall be glad to leave
the photographs with you as long as you think there is any hope of
raising the money.

While in Philadelphia the other day at the Museum, I saw
the photographs of another collection of Peruvian pottery, and some
metal objects, for which the price asked was $3600.00. So far as
one can judge from the photographs, the pottery was not nearly so
good or so representative as this lot that is offered for sale in
Germany. I do hope we can get it, although I hate to think of
spending so much money for it.

Again thanking you for your interest, which I appreciate
extremely, believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

Otto T. Bannard, Bsq.
26 Broad Street,
New York City.

P.S. The next time you are in New Haven, I wish very much that you
would let me have a chance to show you what we got from Peru last
year.

Harvard College Observatory Station

Arequipa Peru .S.A.

Febru ary 5,1914.

My dear Professor Bingham:

Yours of January 14th is at hand .Concerning the matter
or paying railroad fares on my trip to Sta Lu cia,I paid them
without asking for free passes over the line,in view of the fact
that I had mentioned to you that I preferred you to make su ch
application,and then again Blaisdell was then in Lima,brown was
out of town,and only Corry was in charge of affairs.I calld Mr.
Blaisdell on the phone today ,and he tells me he has heard
from you relative to the matter,and the next time I need to go
up the line to call and see him first.Thus this matter app ars
to be settled.

I am daily expecting copies of rec'd from Mr. Barber
for December and ,anuary,and as soon as I have a chance to look
them over,to detect possible cases of improvement,I shall forward
them on to you.

It is hopeless to expect anything to be done at Sto Domin-
go,for the Inca has practically clued down all their places,and
Mr. E Emery is even now in Arequipa,evidently planning for the sale
of Sto.Domingo.I have recently written to Sr. Du que asking him
what he can do for us at Sta Anna,as well as writing to Mr.
Payne of Urco farm trying to interest him in the matter. I will
inform you of the results of my efforts as soon as I hear from
them.If it is found feasible to put up stations in one or both
places,I shall plan on making the trip as soon as the rainy seasn
lets up a trifle.

XXXXXXXXXX

About earthquakes, the one of August 6th, I can give you
the most data about. In Arequipa, the intensity was VIII to Ix, and
60 miles to the west, it was even stronger, especially in the region
Chuquibamba and Camaná, where many houses were thrown down, and
much damage done. Fortunately only a few casualties occurred. In
Arequipa many houses were badly damaged. I am now preparing a
report on the quake for the Bulletin of the American Seismological
Society. The quakes of November 7th were not felt in Arequipa,
although they were evidently very strong ones, IX or X. The center
appeared to be in Abancay or Aymares, in the department of
Apurinao. Reports by newspaper only, indicate great loss of life
and property, especially in Challhuanca. It seems odd that the
most severe earthquakes of the year should have occurred in the
regions where you had been making your studies. Under separate cover
I am sending you a newspaper item on the Aymares quake.

The latest news concerning Billingshurst is rather interesting,
no? Affairs appear to be rather quiet in Lima, though, and I do not,

raised. Peru appears to be in a state of unrest alright, and I
will not be too sorry when it comes my time to shake its dust
from my shoes. Life at the Observatory, is not so bad, but deliver me
from living els ewhere in peru.

With kindest regards, believe me,

Feb. 6, 1914

Dear Sir:

Prof. Bingham wishes me to thank you for your letter of February 5th, and for the very kind expressions of interest in the work of the Expedition.

We have a contact print of the view of Machu Picchu which was used as the frontispiece of the Preliminary Report last April. We could let you have this print for fifty cents. I am mailing you a copy under separate cover.

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

February 7, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Yale University.

Dear Bingham:

After full consideration of the matter of a
joint course on the economic geography of South Ameri-
ca, I am obliged to say that it will not be feasible
to undertake it at this time. I shall have eleven hours
of teaching next year and it seems unwise to add another
course. If it were not for the large number of hours
I now carry, it would please me very much to cooperate
on such a course.

Huntington has kindly changed his Geography
of Asia to the first half-year, thus giving me a place
for South America in the second half. The Geography of
South America will therefore be given at 9:30, Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, the second half of next year.
I hope this arrangement is satisfactory. Unless you wish
your schedule of courses returned, I should like to keep
it as a memorandum.

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

February 7, 1914.

My dear Bingham:

In reply to your inquiry of February 4th, I would say:

(1) I expect to have the manuscript of "The Andes of south-
ern Peru" ready for the printer by October 1st, 1914.

(2) I think it will make a book about four hundred
pages long if the style of type and the size of pages are (say)
that of Bandelier's "Islands of Titicaca and Koati".

(3) I should like to use somewhere between one hundred and
one hundred and fifty illustrations, these to consist of photo-
graphs chiefly, and also of diagrams and maps. I should like to
reproduce parts of Hendrickson's maps in the form of half-page
illustrations, done in color if possible, somewhat like those
in Salisbury's "Physiography".

(4) My own preference is for an octavo volume of the size
of Bandelier's "Islands of Titicaca and Koati". I very much
like the style of type in Bandelier's book. I think it is
cleaner and more pleasing than the average style and I also like
the effect of the uncoated and unusually white paper in his
book, and the untrimmed edges. The use of this style of paper
would, of course, require that the illustrations be insets, but
there is no reason why the insets should not be printed on both
sides instead of on one side only. He has eightyfive illustra-
tions on as many insets. Counting four photographs to each in-
set, we would need to have only about twentyfive or thirty in-
sets, plus perhaps a dozen or fifteen map illustrations. The
line drawings could be run in with the text.

(5) If the Society could let me have the galley proof very
promptly I could correct it and return it during the months of
October, November, and December of this year. I can definitely
set aside a portion of my time for that work; but it will very
seriously delay the correction of the proof if they delay the
printing until January or February 1915. I might add that it is
within the bounds of possibility that the manuscript will be
finished before October 1st. If so, the printing might begin
earlier and this would give me still more time for the proof.

Feb. 9, 1914

Dear Sirs:

In accordance with your
request of the 31st of Janu-
ary, (just received at this
office), we are mailing you
to-day, under separate cover
one copy of the preliminary
report of the Yale Peruvian
Expedition of 1912, "In the
Wonderland of Peru", by Dr.
Bingham. Your order reads:
1 - Bingham - Peru, and we
suppose that the book named
above is the desired one.

We enclose also bill for
$.56, (56 cents), for same.

February 110, 1914.

My dear Gregory;

Many thanks for the excellent paragraphs of suggestions for further work in Peru. They contain just what I wanted in the way that I desired. I had already thought of preparing a map to accompany the plan. With this in view, I have had Bumstead take the Royal Geographical Society's map of southern Peru and shade the areas that have been done. There is so much information on that map that I think it works out better in this way than making an entire new map.

Now, how about the "Annales de Geographie?" We had taken it on trial for one year, but there is not enough in it to justify my putting up money for the South American Exploration Fund to subscribe for it as I have done through the past year. Don't you want to take it over in the geography department, or through the library? I am enclosing a number, and the bill. I am requesting Johnson to discontinue our subscription.

February 12, 1914.

My dear Eaton,

Many thanks for your letter of February 6th, which gives me just the information that I most wanted to have. I am delighted to learn that you hope to have the manuscript done by the last of June, although I understand that this is not, in any sense, a definite promise.

With regard to the ultimate form of publication: I shall be glad to discuss the matter with you whenever you desire to do so. I am wondering whether some anthropological journal would not be a better place for the report, although if you prefer the American Journal of Science, I shall be very glad indeed to follow your preferences. I hope to use part of your article and some of your plates in connection with my volume on Machu Picchu. In fact, your results will add considerably to the importance of that report. Do not hesitate to call on me any time you want to talk things over.

Miss Kirkpatrick has added a great many more cards to the bibliography since you were here last. We have gotten together quite a number of books on a shelf for you which we shall be very glad to have you look over at your early convenience and indicate which you would like to have reserved, and which can be restored to their ordinary places.

February 12, 1914.

My dear Mr. Pirsson:

We brought back with us from Peru a number of stone tools, stone
dishes, tokens, counters, etc., which are to be described in our forthcoming
report on the excavations at Machu Picchu. It would add greatly to the value
of our descriptions if we could be reasonably sure of the kinds of rocks of
which they are composed.

Would it be possible for you to assist me in this matter without
putting yourself to a great deal of trouble? If you could do so, would you
be so good as to drop in at my office, 23 Lampson Hall, at your convenience,
and look them over, and tell me how we might best arrange for this classification and description. I am nearly always at my office between ten and one o'clock, in the morning, but would be very glad to make an appointment to meet you here at any time more convenient to you.

Faithfully yours,

Prof. L.V. Pirsson,
Kirtland Hall,
Sheffield Scientific School,
Yale University.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL,

YALE UNIVERSITY.

Geological Dept.
Kirtland Hall.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

February 13, 1914

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Mr. Bingham,

Your note of the 12th is at hand in reference to the matter of the stone implements from Peru. I shall be very glad to help you out in this matter by examining these implements in your office and telling you what they are. I think I can probably give you all the information which you would need, by a sight examination. It is impossible for me at present to make any extended petrological investigation of this subject, and that is probably beyond what you need for your purposes, and would have, on the petrological side no special value. I would suggest that when I make the examination your stenographer should be present to

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL,

YALE UNIVERSITY.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

take down the descriptions which I will furnish.

I cannot go over in the morning, because I
am busy with classes in my laboratory every morning
from 9 until 1, but I can make an appointment with
you for Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday afternoon at
3 o'clock. If you will kindly select one of these
days, preferably a Tuesday or Wednesday, I will con-
sider the appointment as made, and will be at your
office at that time.

W. H. SCHLADITZ
CASILLA DE CORREO 1898
BUENOS AIRES-

Buenos Aires

4-494-

Clifton N.J., Febr. 15th 1914.

Falcon Engineering Co.

Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen,

Having just returned from a three years stay in South American
Countries, I am open for engagement and take the liberty, to ask you,
whether you have a vacancy in your staff, which I might be able to fill.

My experience would enable me especially for sales-engineer,
sales-manager ( especially export ) or superintendent.

I give you in the following a short outline of my studies and
experience.

I am 36 years of age, married, mechanical engineer by pro-
fession and conversant with German, English, French and Spanish.

I finished my studies at the Dresden Technical University Fall
1899.

Fall 1899 to Dec. 1900---I came to this country to study the manufacture
and sale of machine tools; Garvin Machine Co.,
New York, Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Buffalo,
N.Y., etc. etc.

Jan. 1901 to Aug. 1902---Engineer ( Technischer Leiter ) Machine Factory Bodenbach, Bohemia ( 150 men ).

Aug. 1902 to Apr. 1904---Superintendent Woodworking concern, Brooklyn, N.Y. ( 250 men ).

Apr. 1904 to Apr. 1907---Secretary and Manager American Dittler Co.,
New York, a concern spezializing in the con-
struction of waterworks sewerage system, etc.

Apr. 1907 to Mar. 1911---Brunswick Refrigerating Co., first sales-engineer, later manager of New York office.

Mar. 1911 to Dec. 1911---I travelled in Cuba, Europe and South-America.

Harvard College Observatory
Arequipa, peru
Casilla 51

February 15, 1914.

My dear Sir:-

Under separate cover I am forwarding to you the observations and instrument record sheets just received from Mr. Barber for the months of December 1913 and January 1914, with a small amount observed in the early part of November 1913, which he had not sent me earlier.

You will doubtless find a decided improvement in these observations over those made at first, and I find only one point that it has been necessary to advise the observer on, namely, the correct redding of the checks on the barograph. I think from my letter just mailed him, that this difficulty will now be corrected.

I have good news now from Mr. Collins, in that he feels quite certain that a station at Sto. Domingo will be a fact. The mine has not been sold, and as soon as Collins returns from Lima, within another month, he plans on going to that place and setting up that station. As yet I have not heard from Sr. Duque, but I have had a very favorable reply from Mr. Payne at Urco, who is very anxious to do what he can there for us. Accordingly We have bright prospects for at least three stations, and possibly a fourth. I am looking over what instruments I have on hand, to see that they are in good condition, and before the next mail goes out I will have prepared for you a detailed list of the instruments that each station has or will have. It will be necessary to send on to me several articles, especially thermometers, which one can never tell how soon or frequently will become broken.

Also, in view of the fact that the scheme now appears to be working out well, my idea is that each station should work on the same plan, and accordingly have printed record sheets made out in the same form. Then again the making of duplicate copies each month is naturally laborious, and this could be overcome by making them in duplicate at the time of observation, by using carbon paper. I enclose herewith sample forms of what I think these record sheets should contain, with the suggestion that you either have copies printed in New Haven, or give me authority to have them printed here, which can very well be done.

By addressing all packages in the name of the Harvard College Observatory, C/O Golding, Mollendo, or sending via the Observatory in Cambridge, all supplies can enter free of duty.

Early in April I hope to go to Urco and Sta Anna, if that
place proves alright, and set up these two stations for you. Mr.
Collins thinks it needless for me to go to Sto. Domingo, unless
some unforeseen difficulties arise.

Within a few months now, I hope to see your meteorological
work well established and results forth coming.

FRANK L. MATHER

4025 GRAND BOULEVARD
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

REFER TO
J. C. SCHWAR

Feb. 17, 1914

To the Librarian,
Yale University, Library,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

Will you be so kind as to furnish me with any
matter you have at hand that will give me the correct
names of places explored by the Yale-Peruvian Expedition,
1912? I wish particularly to know of the ancient ruins
explored and mapped, the name of the ruins, place and
valley. I do not seem to get the information desired
in various year books and other sources where I have
tried, and will appreciate the favor much.

February 17, 1914.

Dear Hendriksen:

Your letter of February 4th has just come. Apparently, we had a
narrow escape with the maps, but I am glad that they are supposed to be in
safety. You will be interested to know that we had an extremely narrow
escape with one of your finished sheets. It was rolled up in a piece of
Manila paper and carried down town by hand by our chief topographer who is
an extremely careful person. After personally attending to having it
photographed, he re-rolled it and brought it back in his own hands to the
office, only to find that the map itself had been blown out of its rollings
on the way up, a high wind then prevailing, and he was carrying merely
the Manila wrapping roll. By promptly putting an advertisement in the news-
papers and offering a reward, the map was recovered, although, as you know,
it was on tissue paper and had been blown about by the gale before it was
picked up. If we had lost that, and then had lost your original sheets,
on the steamer "United States," it would have been a calamity indeed.
Apparently neither has been lost.

Sincerely yours,

Kai Hendriksen, Esq.,
Stormgade 12,
Copenhagen, Denmark,

Feb. 16, 1914

Dear Sir:

Prof. Pirsson has advised me to send certain specimens of stone to you, asking you to please make for me thin cross-sections of each fragment, and returning them to me at your earliest convenience, in order that Prof. Pirsson may give me an opinion upon them.

The specimens go forward to you to-day by mail, under separate cover.

Harvard College Observatory

Arequipa peru.

February 18,1914.

My dear professor Bingham:-

I have just received word from Mr. Carlos Duque of Sta Ana that he will be quite willing to undertake any observations that we may ask of him at his hacienda. Accordingly this will make our fourth station, and all of them under competent observers. I shall plan on making a round trip to the three stations early in April, setting up these last two at that time. I hope that nothing will arise to prevent this work of yours now becoming a complete success. believe me,

Feb. 20, 1914

Dear Sir:

I have finished trans-
cribing the notes taken on
Wednesday afternoon, - your
remarks on the stone objects
from Machu Picchu.

Would it be too much to
ask of you, to hope that you
will be willing to look over
these notes and see whether
or not I have made any mis-
takes? The vocabulary was

entirely new to me.

Secretary, Yale
Peruvian Expedition.

February 24, 1914

Dear Sir:

Your letter of February 17th, addressed to the Librarian of Yale University, and requesting information regarding the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1912, has been referred to me for answer.

The preliminary report of the Expedition appeared in the April number of the National Geographic Magazine, 1913.

Should you care for a
paper covered copy of this
report, we can furnish one at
a price of fifty cents.

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W.R.GRACE & Co.

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February 27, 1914.

Dear Sir:

We beg to enclose herewith check for $565.00 representing
amount received by us from the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. This
represents refund covering the unused return portion of five tickets
from Mollendo to Panama. The numbers of these tickets were:

998, 999 and 1000

in favor of Messrs. Paul Bestor, R. T. Nelson, O. Hardy, J. Little
and A. Burnstead.

Trusting that the above explanation is clear regarding
same, we are,

TR.MS.

For Cashier.

February 28, 1914.

My dear Dr. Campbell:

Many thanks for your interesting letter of February 5th, and for
sending the photograph of Santa Lucia Station. Plans are under foot for
another Peruvian expedition. Nothing definite has been decided, so please
do not speak of this outside, but I hope to send two men down this spring,
to continue the reconnaissance work; and some topographers a little later;
and to go myself with two or three members of the 1912 expedition a year
from now. Perhaps it would be well to postpone your visit until the
arrival of our advance guard. Then by going with them arrangements could
be made for a more permanent kind of meteorological station.

Please cable, and charge to my account, what month the rainy
season generally lets up sufficiently to allow engineering work to be done
in the Central Andes. If you make your cable read "Bingham, Newhaven, April,"
I will understand from these three words that if a topographical party
arrived about the middle of April, under ordinary weather conditions, they
would expect to find not any more rain occurring than occurs in the middle
of November.

Thank you for telling me about the earthquakes, and I am greatly
obliged to you for endeavoring to establish two other meteorological stations.
With our new plans, this ought to be quite feasible. I hope to have a man
living in Ollantaytambo for the greater part of a year to study the Quichua
language, and to get a station going there.

With kindest regards, believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

March 2, 1914.

Dear Sirs:

Permit me to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your check of $565.00, refund covering the unused return portion of five tickets from Mollendo to Panama returned by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company.

Thank you for all the trouble you have taken
in this matter.

Messrs. W. R. Grace & Co.,
Hanover Square,
New York City.

(receipt enclosed)

Cuzco, Peru. March 4, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn., U. S. A.

My dear Professor Bingham:

I am sending you the missing num-
bers of the "Revista Universitaria" which you ask for the
Library, and should there be any further numbers missing
kindly advise me at once. The next number will probably
appear about the fifth of April, and corresponds to the month
of March of this year.

With kindest regards, as ever,

March 6, 1914.

Dear Gregory:

In order that the new expedition to Peru may be as well
equipped as possible, and particularly in order to avoid mistakes
made on former expeditions, I should be very much obliged if you
would be so good as to send me, at your earliest convenience, a
list of suggestions regarding the following points:

<u>**Outfit.**</u> How can the outfit be improved? What articles
furnished on the last expedition were useless or of little value?
What articles were needed that could not be supplied? How can any
part of the outfit be improved so as to secure greater efficiency?
Any other suggestions?

<u>**Food, What articles of food did you find least attractive?**</u>
What did you like Best? What recommendations would you make for
changing the food boxes? Do you approve the general idea of food boxes
as provided for the last expedition? Any other suggestions?

<u>**General Administration.**</u> How can this be improved to secure
greater efficiency? Have you any criticisms in regard to money matters,
note-books, vouchers, receipts, general orders, specific plans, camps,
instructions, etc., etc.

An early reply will be sincerely appreciated.

Faithfully yours,

Prof. Herbert E. Gregory,
Yale University.

March 6, 1914.

My dear Dr. Nelson:

**Outfit.** How can the outfit be improved? What articles furnished on the last expedition were useless or of little value? What articles were needed that could not be supplied? How can any part of the outfit be improved so as to secure greater efficiency? Any other suggestions?

**Food.** What articles of food did you find least attractive? What did you like best? What recommendations would you like to make for changing the food boxes? Do you approve the general idea of food boxes as provided for on the last expedition? Any other suggestions?

**General Administration.** How can this be improved to secure greater efficiency? Have you any criticisms in regard to money matters, note-books, vouchers, receipts, general orders, specific plans, etc., etc.?

Dr. Luther T. Nelson,
693 E. 66th Street N.,
Portland, Oregon.

P.S. Please tell me particularly what we ought to have in addition to the studd furnished by the War Department.

March 6, 1914.

My dear Mr. Keith:

The Research Committee of the National Geographic Society have approved my plans for another expedition to Peru, along the lines of the 1912 expedition, whose reports you have already received. We expect to continue topographical, geological, biological, archeological, and anthropological researches in southern Peru. It is expected that the scientific members of the party will be granted leave of absence by the University, and will serve without salary. We shall have to employ the assistant engineers and topographers at moderate salaries.

My wife and I expect to contribute $5000.00 a year for two years toward the expenses of the expedition. The National Geographic Society has agreed to make us an appropriation of $10,000.00 a year for two years. Would you be willing to contribute $1000.00 a year for two years to the University toward the work of the expedition? I know that you have a great many demands made on your philanthropy, but I hope from your interest in Costa Rican archeology, and your family's former connection with Peru, that you will feel disposed to aid us in this work, and that the United Fruit Company will be willing to grant us the same favors that it has granted to the other Peruvian expeditions, namely, a reduction of 50% in the passenger tickets, and free carriage of excess baggage.

We expect that the expedition will cost $20,000.00 a year for two years. It is proposed that the expedition shall include besides the Director and two assistants, a geologist, two biologists, an osteologist, a surgeon, a topographical engineer, an archeological engineer, and two assistant topographers.

Hoping most sincerely that you have approved sufficiently of what we have accomplished off former expeditions to justify you in helping us on this new one, believe me to remain, my dear Mr. Keith,

March 6, 1914.

My dear Bowman:

In taking up the matter of the publication of your book on the Andes of southern Peru with the National Geographic Society, I find that they will be very glad to publish for us a volume of comfortable size, including 150 illustrations; but they demur at the 400 pages of text. Do you believe that it would be possible to cut down the discussion of the subject about one third? I always believe in giving a scientific man all the room he wants in which to discuss his subject, but as the National Geographic Society is willing to assume the burden of publication, and as they feel that 300 pages of text on the Andes of southern Peru is better than 400, I am wondering just what do do.

Please write me frankly how you feel on the subject. When I wrote "Across South America," my first draft was 225,000 words. After two or three revisions, I cut it down to a little less than 100,000, and I believe the book was greatly improved thereby. Of course the cases are in no sense parallel; but I do hope that, without seriously affecting the scientific value of the work, you will be able to find it convenient to follow the suggestion that comes from Washington.

I am particularly anxious to get your advice with regard to the instructions to be issued to the members of the 1914-15 expedition in regard to meteorology. We have spent a lot of time in the past, and the men have taken a great deal of bother, taking full observations. We have not seen much result therefrom; although I know that you intend to work the thing up in the future. I am anxious to cut down the amount of weather observations to the lowest possible limit, so far as the moving camps are concerned. As you know men get very tired doing things that do not particularly interest them. Will you please advise me on this point? We hope to have one permanent camp at Ollantaytambo, and one semi-permanent one near Santa Anna, and I expect to equip these camps fully for taking weather observations, as the plans for taking them, through the courtesy of the Inca Mining Co. and the Inca

Rubber Co., have fallen out.

March 6, 1914.

Dear Dr. Blumer:

Do you know of any young doctor who has finished, or is
about to finish his hospital training, or any older doctor
who knows something about tropical medicine and diseases, who
would like to go to Peru this year with our next Peruvian Ex-
pedition, and be gone from June, 1914, to October, 1915? We
shall probably be able to pay not only all his expenses, but
an honorarium of $1,000.

We should like to have an agreeable chap who has done some
roughing it, and is able to turn his hand to photography, natu-
ral history, and anthropometric measurements.

It is an attractive proposition for the right kind of man,
but the best men who are already in practice as a rule do not
want to leave their practice for that long, and I don't want
to take a poor man and entrust our lives to his keeping, nor
do I care for a man who has had no hospital training. I had
rather have a surgeon than a physician. I had rather have a
man who has had courses in tropical medicine and is interested
in tropical diseases, if it were possible to get such a one,
although the region is a fairly healthy one. A knowledge of
Spanish would be most useful, and a fondness for collecting
natural history specimens would come in handy.

If you don't know of anybody, will you pass this request
along to that one of your friends who is in a position to
know the available candidates, if there are any?

Sincerely yours,

Dr. George Blumer,
Dean of the Yale Medical School,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

March 6, 1914.

My dear Win:

We are outfitting the new Peruvian expedition, and we are anxious to know whether you would be willing to favor us as you did in the case of the last two expeditions with a few arms and a limited supply of ammunition. We should like to have four 22 specials, two shot-guns, and two 30-30's, all "take-down" guns. The expedition expects to be gone about a year and a half and three of the members will stay in Peru during the rainy season. Consequently, we want to avoid rust as much as possible. The National Geographic Society is anxious to have us collect more natural history specimens than we have done in the past, and we hope to get some varieties of the Andean bear that exist in the vicinity where we are going, and which are extremely difficult to secure in the dry season.

You do not make side-arms. Do you know where it would be possible for us to secure six or eight serviceable revolvers without much expense?

We have always appreciated your generous interest in the past, and I hope you will not think this new request is unworthy your attention.

Winchester Bennett, Esq.,
Winchester Arms Co.,
New Haven, Conn.

March 6, 1914.

My dear Mr. Camp;

We are getting together our outfit for the next Peruvian
expedition, and we are begging for all the financial and material
assistance that we can secure. The "gold watches" which you were
so good as to give us last time, greatly assisted us by pleasing
some of our native friends and keeping our mileteers faithful to
us. Could you let us have two dozen this year? Please forgive me
this importunity, and believe me to remain
 faithfully yours,

March 6, 1914.

My dear Dane:

Here we are again with the same old story!

Do you know of any young doctor who has finished, or is about to finish his hospital training, or any older doctor who knows something about tropical diseases, who would like to go to Peru this year with our next Peruvian Expedition, and be gone from June, 1914. to October, 1915? We shall probably be able to pay not only all his expenses, but an honorarium of $1,000.

We should like to have an agreeable chap who has done some roughing it, and is able to turn his hand to photography, natural history, and anthropometric measurements.

Faithfully yours,

Dr. John Dane,
29 Marlborough Street,
Boston, Mass.

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NEW HAVEN, CONN., U.S.A. March 7, 1914.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

c/o Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

My dear Bingham:-

I have yours of the 6th inst. in reference
to arms for the new Peruvian Expedition and feel that you
can count on us to supply you with arms and ammunition as
indicated in your letter. I shall be glad to know about
when your expedition plans to start, as I should like to
sherardize some of the gun parts as we did for the first
expedition.

As to side arms, we do not manufacture any material
of this nature, but I believe if you will take the matter up
with Col. C. L. F. Robinson, president of the Colts Patent
Fire Arms Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn., you might be able to
obtain what you want. Robinson was, I believe, in the class
of '94 S., is a very jovial, good fellow, and would, I believe,
be glad to have such advertising as you might be able to give

29 Marlborough Street,

Boston, March 4th, 1914.

My dear Bingham:

Glad enough to hear from you again and to learn
that you are planning another "Little trip among the
Andes". Of course I will do everything in my power
to help, and will get in touch with all my medical
friends and see if there can be found the rather
exceptional creature that you wish.

1. An agreeable chap, who has done some roughing it.

2. Able to do Photography, Natural History, etc.

3. Hospital experience, Surgical in especial.

4. Familiar with Tropical Medicine.

5. Knows Spanish.

I take it as a great compliment to the Harvard School
that you dare hope to secure this paragon through
its agency.

You shall hear from me again whenever I get on the
track of anyone who seems to embody some if not all
your requirements.

Kindest regards to Mrs. Bingham in which Mrs.
Dane joins most heartily, and every good wish for
yourself.

Peabody Museum,
New Haven, Conn.

March 7, 1914.

Dear Professor Bingham:-

In reply to your letter of
March 6, it is a pleasure to state that, in general,
the outfit, food, and administration of the Peruvian
Expedition of 1912 were so excellent as to call for
practically no criticism. The few suggestions that I
can make are prompted largely by my personal taste, and,
with few exceptions, relate to matters of minor import-
ance rather than to essentials. My suggestions regarding
the points mentioned in your letter are as follows:

## Outfit

1.

I understand that Mr. Erdis recommends that pole-axes, instead of axes of the usual model, be supplied for the use of native laborers. I agree with him on this point. I would add that it might be well to provide a few coarse-grained corundum whetstones for sharpening axes and machetes, if much clearing is to be done with these tools.

2.

Each cooking outfit should include
a large iron or wooden stirring-spoon. This will increase
the cook's efficiency, and aid in the conservation of
cuticle and temper.

3.

Would you consider it worth
while to provide a few yards of mosquito-bar for
making head-veils, if men are likely to be sent into
fly-infested regions? I wish to remark here that the
cheap cotton gloves you gave us in 1912, especially
those with long web wrists, were a great protection
from the small flies met with on the Choquequirau trip.

4.

Under average conditions of
marching and climbing, low conical-headed hobnails seem
to give better satisfaction than the long screw hobs
provided in 1912. Besides, the low headed nails do
less damage to canvass tent floors. If tramping shoes
are armed with ordinary hobnails, it would still be pos-
sible to attach a few of the long-headed screws to the
shoe soles for safety under unusual conditions.

## Food

1.

Erbswurst was the least attractive

2. H.B.

March 7, 1914

to me of the staple articles of food. To my surprise I soon lost my taste for it, although I do enjoy the much abused pea-soup of ship's fare. I mention this merely in answer to your specific question, not in complaint.

2.

Rolled oats was by far the best liked and cleanest lerked article of food - especially when a little evaporated milk could be "saved" (or otherwise provided) for use with porridge. In view of the longing for more frequent rations of rolled oats and evaporated milk, which the men in 1912 preferred to all other foods for breakfast, it would be worth while to consider the possibility of increasing the allowance of these two articles. In regard to the brand of milk: the evaporated St. Charles milk gave more general satisfaction than the Borden condensed milk, and the former brand should be provided. The pickles taken in 1912 never went begging. Vinegar pickles might, however, be advantageously substituted for the sweet variety.

I heartilyapprove of the general idea of the 1912 food boxes. The quality, variety, and proportion of their contents were so well planned and so nearly satisfactory to average tastes, that one would hesitate to make any radical change in the system.

Experience showed that some of the men of the 1912 Expedition who habitually use coffee at home were more cheerful and readier to turn to their daily work in the field when coffee - even of poor quality - was served in the morning. It might be well to encourage the purchase of coffee when possible. The vague note regarding coffee (Official Circular No. 12, page 2) seems to have escaped general notice.

The quantity of tea provided in 1912 was greater than necessary, even if coffee were not used.

## General Administration

The system was excellent. Greater efficiency would have been attained in grave excavation at Machu Picchu and in fossil collecting at Ayusmamba, if maps had been made in time for use in the field; but this would undoubtedly have interfered with progress in topography elsewhere.

with the note books, the leaves tearing out very easily. Possibly a tougher paper could be used.

## Special Instructions

Medical instructions should include directions for the treatment of snake-bite.

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

March 7, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Lampson Hall,
Yale University.

Dear Bingham:

The outfit supplied for the Peruvian Expedition
of 1912 was highly satisfactory, and I have no suggestions
for improvement.

The idea of food boxes is a good one, but in 1912
there was, from my standpoint, too limited quantities of
condensed milk, oatmeal and dried or Dehydrated fruit. I
suggest also less tea and less macaroni. Canned chicken, too,
soon becomes unattractive food. From my standpoint, unlim-
ited quantities of cereal, milk, fruit, with a small amount
of bacon and beef, makes a satisfactory field ration. Blue-
berries, cranberries and rhubarb are now put up in Dehydro
cans and can be secured at small cost.

The general plans for administration seem to me
to have been well thought out and were entirely satisfac-
tory.

March 9, 1914

Dear Sirs:

Will you please duplicate
my order given you two years
ago, in the spring of 1912?

The bill should be sent
to Yale University, the Bureau
of Purchases and Stores, for me,
with the customary discount.

Very truly yours,

The Wm. N. Gokey Shoe Co.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

March 9, 1914

My dear Dane:

Many thanks for your kind
note, and for your willingness
to get us the "paragon" whose
qualifications you have so well
outlined!

With kindest regards, be-
lieve me to remain

Faithfully yours,

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

March 10, 1914.

My dear Bingham:

On returning from two weeks field work in Texas and Louisiana, I find your two letters of March 2nd and March 6th on my desk. I am glad to hear that the plan for another Peruvian expedition is maturing. I have so many irons in the fire that I am quite unable to add another; otherwise I should be very glad to help out to the limit of my small capacity and suggest plans for field work. I scarcely think that my ideas are sufficiently developed so that they would be of use to you. Personally, I am extremely interested in the coast region of Peru and especially in the archaeological material of the coast valleys. A good deal of work has been done on this subject but none of it has been sufficiently detailed or critical. The splendid sections in the sedimentary material like the one in the Majes Valley contain a fairly complete record of the climatic changes and the correlation of these two groups of facts is a problem well worth your attention. The opportunities for securing mules, for sending material home, for securing supplies and men, for making short journeys into the adjacent mountains, make the region convenient and tend to make the results proportionately large.

Another phase of the work in sharp contrast to that in the coast region is exploration on the eastern border of the mountains with a view to their better definition. In fact, as you know from our experience in the Cordillera Vilcapampa, there is scarcely any definition at all to the eastern border. From the pass 4,000 feet above sea-level and 3,000 feet above the Urubamba on the Pongo, I saw what appeared to be an isolated mountain range (small) well to the north-east. It may be the easternmost range of the Cordillera and the possibility exists that it represents an older mountain axis, whose history and position might give it a distinction. It was with great reluctance that I turned back to the mountains, leaving unexplored so promising a feature. The work on the east would be largely in tropical forests and by boat. It would be extremely arduous and would require strong men. I think detailed mapping would be out of the question but the party should include someone who could run sketch contours and if necessary do small detailed pieces of surveying. The results might be of the nature of my map of the great bend of the Urubamba - a sketch map, yet one which for many purposes is as interesting to

physiographers as the vastly more expensive maps by Hendrickson. The man in charge of the eastern party should be thoroughly equipped with field methods and one who would be really interested in establishing with reasonable accuracy the courses of the streams, the position and form of the eastern border ranges and the geologic history of the region. The mountains have gone up in recent geologic time; the plains have gone down. The history of these movements is recorded on the border of the Cordillera. Changes of a similar sort have been fairly well studied on the western border because it is fairly accessible. The eastern border is relatively unknown. Fortunately from your standpoint the eastern border of the Peruvian Cordillera has been studied much less than the eastern border of the Cordillera of Bolivia.

In regard to the illustrated Peruvian talk for April 4th. I wonder if your lecture of a few months ago before somewhat the same audience might make it inadvisable to give it now. Huntington and I are staying off the program simply because we don't wish to inject into the meeting Yale influences to too great a degree. I should prefer for the same reason to omit all Yale men from the program but it may be necessary to use Gregory in combination with another man, who may give a paper on the Southwest. The Secretary runs the show to such an extent that it is rather necessary for anyone connected with him to take a back seat : We certainly want you for the April meeting a year from now and would particularly like to have you if your present plans go through and if you could make the lecture a description of the results of the new expedition. I have written rather fully about this point rather to have you see the policy than particularly to answer your question. I understand precisely how you feel about giving the paper and heartily appreciate your desire to help out with the program.

I am rather pleased to find that the National Geographic Society would prefer a volume of 300 pages rather than of 400 pages. I put down 400 simply because I did not wish to say 300 and then find that it turned out 400. As a matter of fact I do not believe that it will be more than 300 pages long. As I now see it that will give me plenty of space and if they wish a definite arrangement at this time, we can put it at 300. It is always possible to omit chapters and publish them as separate scientific papers, if the book proves too long. I am intending to make it half narrative and half scientific discussion; the opening chapter to be the paper on the Canyon of the Urubamba or one somewhat along the same line; then will follow other chapters of a similar sort describing the scenery and topography in so far as it can be described in non-technical language and any incidents of the journey that have a scientific flavor. Part II would contain a series of papers on the geographic and geologic features of the work - geographic papers on the most important subjects. I should plan to have Part II so well illustrated with diagrams and photographs and written with sufficient simplicity of style so that it would not be wholly unpopular.

In regard to weather observations, I think that they
have little value if done in a perfunctory way. No permanent or
semi-permanent camps ought to be equipped for taking
weather observations. Thermographs and barographs ought to be
supplied for making continuous records both night and day. For
the rest I think that wind directions and extreme temperatures
are of most importance. I hope that funds will be available
from the forthcoming expedition for establishing permanent meteor-
ological stations clear across the Cordillera. This would be
especially advisable if it is planned to continue the expedition
work through a period of ten years or more, since additional funds
can be secured year by year for maintaining the stations; and while
ten-year records would be incomplete ( thirty years make a minimum
period), they would have very great value.

March 10, 1914.

My dear Mr. Schaefer:

I am enclosing the plans for a new Peruvian expedition which I hope will interest you. I do not know what we should have done in the past without the co-operation of W. R. Grace & Company. I have often wondered why you do not lose patience with us entirely, and turn us out for a lot of importunate beggars. If you had made us pay for all the time we have consumed, and all the bother we have given you, we should not have been able to have made our funds go nearly so far in doing the scientific work which we set out to accomplish. I am sending you another copy of our last report to remind you of what we are trying to do, in the hopes that you will feel disposed to assist us again.

If you believe in this kind of scientific exploration, and regard it as a good thing for Peru, and incidentally for Peruvian commerce, and are inclined to assist us in any or all of the following ways, we shall be very grateful. If you feel that you have done quite enough for the cause of scientific exploration, and that the results of our work do not justify the amount of time, trouble, and expense which you have devoted to it in the past, I shall be sorry, but I shall not blame you, nor shall I feel any the less grateful for your unnumbered kindnesses during the past five years.

The things which we crave your aid in are as follows:

1st. An assurance from the Peruvian government that we will be accorded the privileges of free entry, permission to excavate, and all the facilities usually accorded to scientific exploring expeditions;

2nd. Assistance from your various agencies in Peru in matters of shipping, government aid, etc., etc.

3rd. As this expedition covers a large part of the next two

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March 10, 1914

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Dear Hi:-

In reference to our conversation of this morning:

As I find you have already addressed Colonel
Robinson in the matter of donation of side arms, I am writing
him today as per copy.

ENCLOSURE

JC

March 10, 1914

Col. C. L. F. Robinson,
President, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co.,
Hartford, Conn.

My dear Colonel Robinson:-

As you are undoubtedly aware, Yale
University is now preparing to put another exploration party
into Peru this spring, and this party plans to be in the
Andean country for something over eighteen months.

While the University and the National Geographic
Society are backing the enterprise, the funds which have so
far been provided are by no means ample, and the expedition
must of necessity obtain as large a part of its equipment as
possible through the friends of the University.

Prof. Hiram Bingham, who has charge of the work
of preparation and who has done so much of interest in Peru
during his last two trips of exploration, advises me that he
has addressed you in the premises and has asked that I advise
you of the action which we are taking.

So far as our line goes, we are equipping this

March 10, 1914.

My dear Mr. Sullivan:

How is your Mr. Watson and is he prepared to pack some more
cases for another Peruvian expedition? How are your prices and can we
count on your co-operation as in the past? We want to make a few changes
in the bill of fare, and I should like to make the following inquiries.

What other dried soups besides erbswurst can you supply and at
what prices? Can you supply rolled wheat in the same form as the rolled
oats we had last time? The pin-money pickles were very satisfactory, but
sour vinegar pickles were more in demand. What can you offer in this line?
The quantity of tea provided was more than necessary. Is there a smaller
can available? Is there a coffee extract that does not take up too much
room and gives satisfaction? How are the prices on dehydrated fruit such
as blueberries, cranberries, rhubarb, and also on dehydrated vegetables?
What could you recommend in the way of salmon? As regards coffee again,
have you a small compact package of ground coffee that will keep its
flavor for six months? Have you any good seeded raisins to recommend?
What about Chidarelli's cocoa?

As soon as I get replies from you, I can make out the orders.
The boxes last time were very satisfactory. How long a time do you need
for assembling and packing. We expect to have the first instalment of our
party leave in about six weeks.

March 10, 1914.

My dear Sir:

You have been recommended by Mr. Marshall for the position of
assistant topographer to the Peruvian Expedition of 1914-15, which, under
the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society,
expects to have two topographic parties in the field this year. The
position of assistant topographer in the Peruvian Expedition offers a
salary of $150.00 per month for eight months, of which probably seven
months and a half will be spent away from New Haven, in the journey to
and from Peru, and in the field. The length of the field season will
depend on the weather, but will probably last from five and a half to
six months.

The region is a healthy one where we have worked during 1911
and 1912. I am sending you a copy of the National Geographic Magazine
for April, so that you can get some idea of the district, in the neigh-
borhood of which the new expedition is going to work.

If you care to consider this position, will you please come to
New Haven as soon as possible for a conference in regard to it, so that
you may learn more of the work, and we may learn more of you. Will you
please telegraph me at my expense in regard to your decision, and when
we may expect to see you in New Haven. My office is 23 Lampson Hall. The
entrance is on High Street near Elm Street.

YALE COLLEGE

FREDERICK S. JONES

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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

March 11th, 1914.

Dear Professor Bingham,

Joseph A. Blake, Jr., a member of
the Sophomore Class, asks for leave of absence
from about May 1st until along in the fall, to
go on the South American trip, being a student
of Geology.

I feel very doubtful about the
wisdom of granting him the desired permission.
He was an indifferent student in his Freshman
year and obtained only twelve hours of credit,
losing three hours in his Modern Language.
In Sophomore year he is doing better because he
takes a number of scientific subjects in which
he is more interested and is not compelled to
take the linguistic subjects which give him
trouble. His work is in Geology B3 -- a very
elementary course.

It seems to me that these elemen-
tary students should not be the ones to be sent
away on advanced work, and I rather favor giving
such opportunities to the upper classmen, rather
than to the Sophomores, especially when the

March 11, 1914.

I think you will be interested in the enclosed letter from our friend, Brown, which he sent to Dr. Peabody of Croton. While it is not flattering, it shows a keen insight and fine appreciation of the boy which is very satisfactory. Will you please return it to me when you have read it?

Everything continues to go smoothly with us; the children seem to have gotten over their colds and are enjoying their school as much as usual. The back of the winter appears to be broken, although just at present we seem to be on the edge of a storm.

It begins to look as though we were going to be able to get a number of our friends and contemporaries interested in Salem, although it would be quite a joke if we got several of them to spend the summer there when we were not there. Our friends, the Canbys, who had another son born this morning, are contemplating taking the Woodbridge house and our friends, the Footes, contemplate running the Marvel house; so that if we are able to spend any time in the camp, we shall find ourselves between two pleasant neighbors. It is barely possible that I may get another tenant for the Niles place, and that Mr. Brown may succeed in getting a tenant for his camp.

Aunt Lydia has just recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia. The doctor did not expect her to pull through, but she now seems to be gaining rapidly, and has made a week's visit with Mrs. Frear.

I am enclosing the plans for a new Peruvian expedition, which we are now working upon. The plans have been approved by the Yale Corporation and the National Geographic Society. We expect to have six or seven men in the field this year; although I do not expect to have to go myself until next March. Freda and I are going to contribute $5000 a year for two years toward the cost of the expedition. The National Geographic Society has agreed to

March 11th, 1914.

My dear Sir:-

It is a matter of great regret to us all that we
are to miss the opportunity of seeing and hearing you in New
Haven.

At Professor Bingham's suggestion, I am enclosing an of-
ficial letter along with this personal one, requesting your
cooperation in certain matters which are of great importance
to the success of the new Peruvian expedition which Mr. Bingham
is proposing to organize. Nothing is more essential to us in
a matter like this than the cooperation of the Peruvian Govern-
ment; and we need to be informed with the utmost frankness as
to the real state of public opinion on the subject as well as
the official attitude of the Government. Under circumstances
like these you can be of great service to us; and I feel sure
that you will give us the benefit of your candid advice.

Mr. Frederico Alfonso Pezet,
Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru.

March 11th, 1914.

My dear Sir:-

So great has been the interest aroused among scientific men in various lines by the reports of our last expedition to Peru that Yale University is desirous to cooperate with the National Geographic Society in organizing a new expedition on a larger scale. I take the liberty of writing at this juncture, not only to enlist your sympathy with the objects of the expedition -- for of this we have reason to feel assured -- but to make certain that the proposed plan would be agreeable to the Peruvian Government before we take any positive steps toward organizing and announcing the expedition.

We desire to make a geographical reconnaissance of a portion of southern Peru in the departments of Cuzco and the Apurimac. The work of the expedition would include topography, geology, biology, anthropology, archaeology, and meteorology.

Should you deem it proper to inquire by cable whether an expedition of this character would be agreeable to your Government we should be glad to have you do so, as the time for arranging the details of the expedition is limited.

With great respect, I have the honor to remain

Your obedient servant,

President of Yale University.

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The Peruvian Minister,
Washington, D.C.

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Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Bingham:

I have your note just in this morning, and will put it
in my pocket with the enclosure and read it through this evening.
I will get in communication with our Lima Office, and see what kind
of assurance we can get from the Government there in the way of
privileges.

As far as our own offices are concerned, they will, as always
be requested to place themselves at your orders, and will help you in
every possible way.

As far as the third item of your request is concerned, I
must remind you that we are now living in a very advanced age, and I must
therefore ask you to read the last two lines again before pressing this
request seriously. Our Government and legislators, in contrast with
Germany, are doing so much to "develop" foreign business, that men, like
ourselves, who are really doing it, hardly dare call their souls their own.
As things are now, I would not dare promise you "special

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New York, March 11, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Bingham:

Your favor of the 10th inst. is at hand. Mr. Watson is all right and begs to say he is in good shape to get ready another lot of cases for your expedition. The goods can be assembled and packed in accordance with your instructions in say about two weeks from the time of receipt of order.

Mr. Watson suggests that it would very much facilitate matters if you will indicate with your first order, the exact total number of cases so that they can be planned and arranged for accordingly.

I note your inquiries, - have begun to look into the matter and will report to you further within a day or two.

As to passing the business through W. R. Grace & Co. would say it is necessary to have someone attend to making out the various Spanish and consular invoices and bills of lading, as has been done heretofore by the Messrs. Grace. If you do not care to trouble them with the matter, or if you think that they would not desire to attend to it, we can have the matter attended to by the forwarding house of H. W. St. John & Co., City, who make a regular business of doing such work.

I will address you again, as above, within a very few days, meanwhile with thanks for your letter, I remain

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March 11, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of March 9th to our President,
Colonel C. L. F. Robinson, has been received and
opened in his absence.

Colonel Robinson has been in Florida for
the last three weeks, but is now on his way home
and will be at his office the last of this week.
If this will be too late to go into the matter of
the expedition referred to, kindly let us know.

March 12, 1914.

My dear Sir:

We are planning another expedition to Peru on the lines of the
expedition of 1912, a copy of the preliminary report of which is being sent
you under separate cover. At present, the position of topographic engineer
is vacant. [Your name has been given me by Mr. Clarence L. Nelson, and you
have also been recommended for the position by Mr. F. E. Matthews; but neither
of them were at all sure that you would care to consider the position.]
It calls for a salary of $180.00 per month and traveling and field
expenses. We expect to give each topographical engineer, of whom we hope
there will be two, a field assistant who has had some little experience in
topography. We hope that the topographic party will leave New York not
later than the 25th of April, and be gone about seven months and a half;
returning to New York early in December, and coming to New Haven for the
office work.

If you wish to be considered for this position, will you kindly
let me know at once by telegraph at my expense? If you do not care to be
considered, will you also please let me know by telegraph at my expense?
Unless we have found a satisfactory man in the east among three or four
whom we are now considering before your reply reaches us, it is quite likely
that on receiving your word that you would like to apply for the place, I
should telegraph in reply, asking you to come to New Haven at our expense,
so that you might learn more about the position, and we might learn more
about you. You will quite appreciate the fact that one does not like to
tie one's self to a party or a person without having first personally
looked the field over.

If I should telegraph asking you to come to New Haven at our
expense, it would be on the following conditions:

let, in case we decided definitely that we wanted you for the job,
that you would be willing and ready to sail on the 25th of April;

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Gentlemen:

Attention Frank H. Simmons.

Your favor of the 11th inst., relative to the five
Nickel-plated Lamps which you shipped to the Yale University
addressed to Mr. Hanger, was received in his absence.

We will no doubt have a representative in New
Haven within a short time when we will have him call and see
what the trouble is.

We were very much surprised to learn of this
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right.

After we have a chance of testing these lamps
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March 11th, 1914.

My dear Hi:-

I am in receipt of your letter of March 9th,
concerning the proposed Peruvian expedition for 1914-15.

Before giving you a definite reply to your request
I would like to know whether any institutions in this
country, such as the Peabody Museum for example, will be
likely to profit by receiving specimens, exhibits, etc.,
through this expedition; if so, what will be the nature of
the material brought out?

If you do not contemplate bringing out material,
I would like to have some word from you in your own
language explaining just where the importance of the
proposed expedition lies. For example, is the country
that you expect to explore one that is likely to be of
use to civilization in time to come, or does it possess
a climate which will probably prevent civilization from
ever taking a foothold there?

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

ESH/WCH.

March 11, 1914.

My dear Mr. Taft:

Many thanks for your kind note. I hope most sincerely that if we ever succeed in getting the Peruvian Minister, it will be at a time when you are likely to be in New Haven.

You will be interested to know that we are planning another
expedition to Peru under the auspices of Yale University and the National
Geographic Society. The object of this expedition is to make a geographical
reconnaissance of a portion of southern Peru, continuing the work of the
last expedition, whose report was printed in the April, 1913, number of
the National Geographic Magazine. From the standpoint of geology and
physiography, as well as of archeology and biology, this area offers a
most attractive field of study. It includes what is probably one of the
largest, undescribed, glaciated regions in the world. These glaciers we
hope to map this year, and to send a geologist to study them next year.

Our plan of work includes as usual topography, geology, meteorology,
biology, anthropology, archeology, and historical geography. It is expected
that the staff of the expedition will include ten or twelve men, including
several professors of this University. If we are to get good results, it
will be necessary for us, as in the past, to have the warm co-operation
and hearty support of the American government and of the Peruvian government.

It was owing to your own interest in the expedition of 1912 that
its success was so much greater than we had dared to expect. If you feel
disposed to lay the plans of the new expedition before President Wilson, I
am sure that there will be much more likelihood of our being able to secure
the official sanction and the co-operation of the Peruvian government.

It may be that you would rather not do so, in which case please
feel under no obligations to grant this request. I should not venture to

Mr. Taft, 2.

3-11-1914.

ask it, were it not that our work is entirely free from political
affiliations, and that we are not asking for any expenditure of the
government money. The most that we could hope for would be explicit
instructions from the state department to the American Minister in
Lima to secure at the earliest possible moment the promise of co-oper-
ation from the Peruvian government; willingness on the part of the
American government to assist us in any way that did not require
the expenditure of any money; and the lending on the part of the war
department of a detached service medical chest for the use of the
surgeon of the expedition.

In the hope that you may feel disposed to favor this request,
and trusting that I have not trespassed too much on your time and good
nature, believe me to remain

March 10, 1914.

My dear Mr. Hadley:

As Mr. Pezet cannot come to New Haven, it becomes all the more
essential to write him in reference to securing the co-operation of his
government in the Peruvian Expedition of 1914-15. When last in Washington,
I had a talk with him about this matter, and he said it would make it
easier for him to carry out our wishes if you would write him officially
requesting him to inform his government that Yale University desired to
work with the National Geographic Society in making a geographical re-
connaissance of a portion of southern Peru, in the departments of Cuzco
and the Apurimac. If you would also tell him that it was hoped that the
work of the expedition would include topography, geology, meteorology,
archeology, biology, and anthropology, it would tend to make the Peruvian
government realize that the expedition was not mainly interested in
archeology, which is the idea they have gotten in the past.

It might be well to suggest that all those facilities which may
properly be granted to a scientific exploring expedition be extended in
the present instance, and that as the time for arranging the details of
the expedition is limited, we should be very glad if he found it convenient
to inquire by cable whether the proposed expedition would be agreeable to
his government. Such a letter coming directly from you as President of
the University, will, Mr. Pezet believes, remove the suspicion which was
started by some Peruvians unfriendly to our work, -- that I was actually
representing a commercial treasure-hunting company instead of Yale University.
Like all Latin-Americans, the Peruvians are sticklers for form, and they
would rather grant such a request coming from the President of the University
than from one who at best is merely an assistant professor. As Mr. Pezet
expects to go to California in a day or so, it would be greatly to our
advantage if we could get in official connection with him at once.

Faithfully yours,

President Arthur T. Hadley.

March 12, 1914.

My dear Ed:

The present law in Peru will allow us to bring out all duplicates of everything which we find, of which there is a representative in the museum in Lima. This means that the South American collections here at Yale will profit almost as they have in the past. The Peabody Museum will undoubtedly receive a large amount of osteological material, as it has from the expedition of 1912. It is easier to persuade the Peruvians to let the bones of their ancestors leave the country, than some of the more attractive pots which their ancestors made. We expect also to bring out quite a number of biological specimens, most of which will go the Smithsonian as in the past, in order that they may be promptly worked up and the results published.

Mr. Darkness, 2.

3-13-1914.

be made of all the ancient ruins in Peru. The ruins along the coast are fairly well-known and many of them have been extensively explored. But in the Andes, owing to the difficulty of reaching many of the locations, it is believed that a great deal of evidence still remains to be collected.

It is proposed to base this map on geographic and archeologic evidence. The two must go hand in hand in order that the one may interpret the other. The character of the land formations in the neighborhood of the ruins should enable some thing to be said in regard to the number of people formerly occupying the region, the causes of the location of the cities, buildings, and forts, and the reasons for their final abandonment. An examination of the ruins, studies of the styles of architecture, and of the artifacts and other remains that may be found fairly near the surface of the ground, should eventually enable a classification to be made which, in connection with physiographic, linguistic, and historical studies, ought to result finally in unravelling the puzzle of the ancient civilization of South America.

You will readily see that this proposal calls for a considerable expenditure of time, effort, and money. In consulting with some of the men in the National Museum in Washington, however, I believe that it can be done by taking up various field units in Peru, so that each year will see definite progress made toward a definite goal. It is our idea that each piece of scientific work in the land of the Incas should be undertaken in such a manner as to contribute to later comprehensive studies, and, at the same time, to yield completed studies of field units which will be of permanent value in themselves.

With this plan in mind, we have selected the Cordillera Vilcabamba and some portions of the Apurimec and Urubamba water-sheds for the near future, to be used as a base for the development of this region, with the view of increasing use to civilization intime to come. As fast as problems of transportation are satisfactorily settled. If ever the aeroplane becomes fairly cheap, safe, and practicable, it will revolutionize conditions of life throughout the Andes of southern Peru.

Mr. Harkness, 3.

3-13-1914.

Owing to the tremendously deep canyons, the cost of railroad building is almost prohibitive. The fact that we find so many remains of the ancient civilization scattered all over this area, would seem to answer quite definitely in the affirmative your question as to whether the country which we expect to explore is one that is likely to be of use to civilization in time to come.

Finally, among the practical results of our work are, first, the enthusiasm for the early inhabitants of South America that has been and will continue to be aroused among the more intelligent people of the United States by means of the National Geographic Magazine, which already has a circulation of more than 200,000 copies a month, and is increasing at the rate of 4,000 or 5,000 each month. There is no question in my mind that bringing to the attention of the people of the United States the beauties and the marvels of ancient Peruvian civilization, contributes greatly to broadening their mental and moral standards. Second, the ascertaining of accurate scientific information in regard to the geology, meteorology, and biology of an unexplored or semi-explored region, particularly one which is in its climate very much like Switzerland and northern Italy, is likely to benefit the progress of civilization in the near future. Third, the collections which we expect to bring home, eventhough we have to leave many interesting things in the National Museum in Lima, cannot fail to help to strengthen both the University and the National Museum at Washington as places for scientific research.

I did not mean to write such a long letter, but I greatly appreciate your interest, and I only wish, as I have so often said, that you would take a day off and come to New Haven, and see with your own eyes just what we have been doing during the past three years, and decide whether you think this work worthy of your continued support. Have you ever asked Mr. Otto Bannard what he thinks about it?

ERNEST HOWE

77 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE
NEWPORT, R.I.

13 March 1914

Dear Hi,

I do not know any of the topographers
whose names you mention so I am afraid I
can not help you out on that with first hand
advice. I expect to be in Washington in
about ten days or so, and if that will not be
too late I can make some inquiries.

I believe you can rely on what Marshall
tells you as to the ability and training of
the candidates, but I imagine that you want
something more in the way of confidential
opinions.

Are you going again yourself or are
you only sending a special party? We have
been waiting for the weather to improve
before inviting you and Freda up here to
pay us a visit, but I am afraid if you are
organizing another expedition you may not be
able to get off. Let me know if there is a
possibility so that we can arrange dates.
Also let me know if you can wait until I go to
Washington before deciding on the topographers.

I have been obliged to be in New York a
good deal this Winter and somehow have slipped
by New Haven. I hope, however, to get in a
visit there later in the Spring.

March 13, 1914.

My dear Bowman:

Many thanks for taking the trouble to write me so fully in
regard to the Peruvian work. I am very glad to find that you feel that
you can do yourself justice in a volume of 300 pages. It will be more
satisfactory to the National Geographic Society if you can make that
definite arrangement. It seems to me that your plan of making the
bookhalf narrative and half scientific discussion is an excellent
one. I am sure we are going to get a good book out of this.

I quite agree with you that weather observations are of little
value when done in a perfunctory way, as they usually are in engineers'
camps. We expect to have two permanent camps equipped for taking
weather observations with thermographs and barographs. If the other
parties are equipped to take maximum and minimum temperatures and wind
directions, I judge you feel that it would not be necessary for them to
take wet and dry bulb thermometer readings or ordinary barometric readings.
This will relieve me of a great deal of unpleasant responsibility.

Now, in regard to the talk for April 4th, I am delighted to
find that you can just as well get along without it. Your circularer
was so urgent that I did not know but what I was under someobligations
to do something. Consequently, I am greatly relieved to have no
obligations for April 4th.

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My dear Prof. Bingham:

Now referring in detail to the contents of your letter of the 10th inst., I would report, as follows:-

**PRICES** are not very different from those charged in 1912 except that Canned Meats are quite a little higher. If, when you have made up a memorandum of your wants, you will sent it to me, I will give prices on each item.

**DRIED SOUPS:**- I enclose herewith list of the Maggi Dried Soups in small packages, of which I am sending you one by this mail. Also a list of the Dehydro Soups, Fruits, and Vegetables.

**ROLLED WHEAT** is not packed in compressed form as with the Oats previously supplied. We have the article in bulk and could pack in small sealed tins of any size desired which would, of course, be quite expensive, and the article not being compressed, would be comparatively bulky.

**PICKLES:**- We can supply Sour Mixed Pickles in 8 oz. bottles at $1.60 per dozen.

**TEA:**- You had this in ¼ lb. tins. We can supply ¼ lb. tins of same grade as before at 50¢ per lb., but it occurs to me to suggest as a smaller package, the cup size in foil, net 1/6 of an ounce, of a higher grade, Sunbeam, at $1.35 per pound, the higher cost being due not only to the quality, but to the more expensive mode of packing. Notwithstanding the cost, this might be desirable for convenience and avoidance of wastage.

**COFFEE EXTRACT:**- The only article in this line that I know of as satisfactory is the G. Washington Prepared Coffee in small tins, which is generally sold by the grocers here, and with which you are doubtless familiar. While in my personal opinion this does not make as good a cup of Coffee as the best original Coffee, still it is very good, and the package is compact. The smallest commercial package of ground Coffee that we have is the one pound tin, but we could have some special smaller tins made if desired, and if sealed, I do not see any reason for loss of flavor within a period of six months.

**SEEDED RAISINS** of excellent quality we have in stock in one pound cartons. These cartons could be put in special sealed tins if desired, though of course, all this making of special small tins is quite expensive.

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March 13, 1914.

My dear General Gorges:

We all want to congratulate you here on your well-merited promotion and to express our appreciation that goes with it. I hope very much that you may have the lot to enjoy your position and to continue to make the world a more healthy place to live in.

I, General, when we want to Peru with expeditions, the office of the surgeon general of the war department lent us a detached service chest for the use of our field surgeon. Do you think it would possible to grant us this leave again for the Peruvian Expedition of 1914-15, which is soon going out under the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society?

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My dear Mr. Hardy:

Enclosed please find copy of a letter
we received from the Waterbury Mfg. Co., in reply to our
letter regarding the defective lamps you have.

As they cannot send a representative to
see you at once, we kindly ask you to ship the lamps to
the Waterbury Mfg. Co., Waterbury, Conn.

We have written them stating that the
lamps will be shipped direct to them by you, and we have
asked them to examine the lamps and report to us the cause
of the leak.

Thanking you for the interest you have
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March 13, 1914.

My dear Dean Oertel:

The Prudential Committee have approved our plans for the next
Peruvian Expedition on condition that the departments concerned duly write
to the Corporation in regard to the necessary leaves of absence for these
officers of the University who will participate in the expedition.
Accordingly, I am writing to ask if you would be willing to recommend to
the Corporation a leave of absence for me, as Director of the Expedition,
from February 1st to October 1st, 1915?

Sincerely yours,

Dean Hanns Oertel,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

March 14, 1914.

Dear Ernest:

If it were possible for you to write instead of waiting until
you go to Washington, I should appreciate it very greatly as we are
anxious to come to a decision in regard to the topographers within ten
days. What we want more than anything else is a confidential opinion
as to how a man will fit into an organization like ours, and how he
will get along with other men in the field; what his reputation is for
stead work, loyalty, devotion, and also as a good mixer.

Our plans extend over a period of about a year and a half.
We expect to have two or three men in the field during the entire time;
but Gregory and I will probably not go down before next year when the
maps are finished.

I am afraid it will not be possible for us to pay you a
visit this spring, as Freda is not going anywhere at present. Don't
forget to get off at New Haven instead of slipping by next time.
Remember we are only an hour and a half from New York, and it is always
possible to take the eight o'clock train.

With kindest regards,

Ernest Howe, Esq.,
77 Rhode Island Avenue,
Newport, R. I.

March 16, 1914

Dear Sir:

Under separate cover we are sending you by mail to-day
copies of the preliminary reports of the Peruvian Expeditions
of 1911 and of 1912, under the duspbtson of Professor Bingham.

The price of the two, including postage, is 76 cents. De-
ducting the 25 cents in stamps which you enclosed in your let-
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., U.S.A. March 16, 1914.

My dear Hiram,

I have yours of the 13th enclosing copy
of your instruction circular No. 15 relative to the care
of the .22 caliber automatic rifles, and am pleased to note
the care with which our early advices in reference to the
care of arms have been observed.

There is nothing we can add to this other than that
the arm should be cleaned as soon as possible after it has
been used.

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HARTFORD, CONN., U. S. A. March 16, 1914.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Sir:-

I found your letter of the 9th, and also
one from the Winchester Company, on my return from
Florida on Saturday.

Will you be kind enough to let me know
how many arms you would require and I will be very
glad to take the matter up with our Board of
Directors.

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NEW HAVEN, CONN., March 16th, 1914

Dear Professor Bingham:

I am glad to learn from your letter of
the 13th that the way has been made clear for your expedition to
Peru in 1915. It seems to me highly desirable that Dr. Eaton
should accompany you, and I will take steps to have the matter
arranged for formally at an early date. On the previous occasion
a committee of the Graduate School Faculty was appointed to con-
sider such cases. I am not quite clear in mind as to whether
this committee should be called together now or whether a recom-
mendation from the executive committee of the Museum would suffice.
Possibly you may have some information in regard to the matter.

Professor Hiram Bingham,

New Haven, Conn.

March 17, 1914.

My dear Sirs,

We are planning another expedition to Peru on the lines of the
expedition of 1912, a copy of the preliminary report of which is being sent
you under separate cover. At present, the position of topographic engineer
is vacant. Your name has been given me by Professor Herbert E. Gregory. The
place calls for a salary of $180.00 a month, and traveling and field expenses.
We expect to give each topographical engineer, of whom we hope there will be
two, a field assistant who has had some little experience in topography. We
hope that the topographic party will leave New York not later than the 25th of
April, and be gone about seven months and a half; returning to New York early
in December, and coming to New Haven for the office work.

If you wish to be considered for this position, will you kindly
let me know at once by telegraph at my expense? If you do not care to be
considered, will you also please let me know by telegraph at my expense? Unless
we have found a satisfactory man in the east among three or four that we are
now considering before your reply reaches us, it is quite likely that on re-
civing word from you that you would like to apply for the place, I should
telegraph in reply, asking you to come to New Haven at our expense, so that
you might learn more about the position, and we might learn more about you.
You will quite appreciate the fact that one does not like to tie one's self
to a party or a person without having first personally looked the field over.

1st, in case we decided definitely that we wanted you for the job,
that you would be willing and ready to sail on the 25th of April;

2nd, in case we came to an adverse decision that we should pay your
expenses back to Virginia;

3rd, in case you decided that you did not want the job that you
would pay your own expenses from Wäldtfinnland return.

March 17, 1914.

Dear Ed:

If you had heard one of my public lectures on the Peruvian
Expedition and seen the beautiful colored pictures, or if you had been
here in New Haven to look over our work-shop and see the things we have
brought back from Peru, I could understand better your generous interest
in our work. It touches me deeply that you should offer to contribute
so generously, and that you are willing to continue your support. It
is perfectly splendid of you to offer to give us $2,500. a year for the
next two years on condition that the whole amount required is raised.
This condition I am meeting by underwriting the entire amount. In other
words, we need $20,000 a year for the next two years. The National
Geographic Society has promised to give $10,000 annually; Mrs. Bingham
and I have promised to give $5,000 annually; you have agreed to give
$2,500 annually; and I have agreed to raise the remaining $2,500 annually
or give it myself.

I have not yet heard from two or three friends who have aided
us in the past, but I am perfectly willing to carry the extra load if they
back out. It is a tremendous comfort to have you take such a large share
of the burden.

Edward S. Harlness, Esq.,
26 Broadway,
New York City.

Museum of Comparative Zoölogy,

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

Mar. 17, 1914.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Hiram:

I have examined the snake which you sent me,
and find that it seems to be nothing more than the common
Fer-de-lance, or better, Lachesis lanceolatus, and as
the species was represented in your previous sending, it
does not make necessary any addition to the list. How-
ever, I am just as much obliged for the opportunity to
examine another individual.

I know you will be sorry to hear that a few
days after I saw you, our only child died of malignant
scarlet fever, having been ill only twenty hours. As I
think I told you, Ros. has been an invalid since October,
most of the time in bed with a trained nurse, and this
coming on top of that siege has made it doubly hard for
her.

G

March 17, 1914.

My dear Sir,

In reply to your kind favor of March 16th, we do not expect
to have more than eight men in the field at any time. We should
like to supply each one of these men with a serviceable revolver and
a few rounds of ammunition, not more than fifty rounds. We should
prefer to leave to you what type of weapon you would like to have them
carry as a sort of walking advertisement.

I have carried a Colt's automatic myself for many years, and
it has always interested the people I have met down there very much;
but I know that these are more expensive than your "Navy" gun, and I
should prefer to leave the details in your hands.

With kindest regards, and many thanks, believe me to remain

March 18, 1914.

My dear Mr. Kingsford,

Yale University and the National Geographic Society have arranged for another Peruvian expedition. Public announcement of this fact is waiting on word of its approval by the Peruvian government. Our objects are purely scientific and in no sense commercial. The scientific workers on the expedition give their services, and the engineers and assistants receive moderate salaries; generally considerably less than they could obtain on railroad or government work.

We hope very much that you will feel disposed to extend to us the same favors and privileges granted to the Peruvian Expedition of 1913. I took the liberty the other day of asking Mr. Reynolds, of the Mexican Telegraph Company, to send you a service message, requesting that Mr. Campbell and Mr. Morkill be communicated with. I asked him to let me know if this message could not be sent; and as I have heard nothing from him, I took it for granted that it was forwarded to you.

Will you kindly let me know how the matter stands, and greatly oblige,

Yours sincerely,

(COPY)

Mr. Ferdinand W. Haasis,
Swansea, Massachusetts.

Dear Mr. Haasis:

If you will address your inquiry about exploring expeditions to Professor Hiram Bingham, Drawer A, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn., and will state particularly what you are able to do, would like to do, and would be willing to do, your application would be filed and taken up at the proper time. Your letter should be accompanied by a statement of your qualifications.

Expeditions will probably be going down from time to time, and there is always need for good men. Nevertheless there are quite a number of applications, and I do not know what chance your application would have. Can you do topographic work? What has been your experience in that line? Do you like to do it? Would you expect to receive anything more than traveling expenses? Would you be willing to do the hardest kind of work, - in short, anything that you are asked to do, whether you wanted to do it or not? These are some of the essential features of a man's character which play a large part in the determination of his worth to an expedition.

Sincerely,

March 18, 1914.

My dear Mr. Sullivan:

Many thanks for your letters of March 11th and 13th. We are now ready to give orders, and I am asking the University Bureau of Purchases and Supplies to take up the matter directly with you. The total number of cases desired will be between eighty-five and a hundred. Let us say a hundred to be definite. We do not expect to ship the cases, but to send them down piecemeal with different parties, who will take them as personal baggage so that consular invoices and bills of lading are not necessary.

The first order is for fifteen cases, to be packed as usual in strongly made, water-proof, lined boxes, cloth covered as before, and ready for delivery on April 15; shipping instructions later.

The second order for thirty-five cases should be ready for delivery on April 23rd.

The third order will probably not be send off before the 1st of June. I am sending you a duplicate list, so you may know what to prepare for, as it may be a day or two before the official order reaches you. I am not sure about the Washington coffee. How long will a half pound tin last; or, in other words, how many cups of coffee will it make? It may be I have too much. These boxes are intended to last two men eight days.

March 18, 1914.

My dear Win:

Erdis and Hardy had a fine time talking with you yesterday, and got
many good ideas. Permit me to thank you for giving them so much attention.

It seems to us, in regard to the gun cases, that the ordinary water-
proof, canning and leather covered case is so much lighter and handier than we
better not use any other form. We have never had difficulty in getting guns
rusty while passing through Panama. I am extremely sorry that you never got a
satisfactory report on the results of the guns you gave us in 1911. I am afraid
you did not lay quite enough emphasis on the fact that it was an experiment. I
judged from the way you spoke of it that it was a well-known method of preparing
guns for the tropics. So far as I was able to judge, it worked splendidly,
except that Harry Foote, as you know, had some trouble with his .22. On this
expedition we shall be more careful to get exact figures, and we expect to keep
the guns for several years, instead of using them for trading purposes after we
did not need them, as has been done in the past.

It is very kind of you to offer to get us some small traps, and we
shall be very glad indeed to have them, and thank you for your willingness to
take the matter up with the Newhouse Company. It seems to me that it would be
worth while to take a large enough trap to catch a small bear, if that is feasible;
and as far as I know, there are no traps to catch field mice, of which there are said to be several
new species in that part of Peru.

Have you ever talked about snake-poisoning with Dr. Blumer? If not,
you will be interested to do so.

With kind regards,

As ever yours,

Winchester Bennett, Req.,
New Haven, Conn.

P.S. When the guns are ready, please send them to Room 5, in the basement of Wright Hall, so that they may be packed in the individual duffle bags.

March 19, 1914

My dear Mr. Minister:

It was a great disappointment
to us that you had to give up your
engagement to lecture here to-day,
and it is doubly so now that we ap-
pears that you might have come after
all!

As regards the attitude of your
government towards our work in Peru:
I understand from your letter that
matters are likely to be settled
by the 23rd of this month.

Now, considering the fact that
we are not asking any special fa-
vers, but merely for permission to
work under the Executive Decrees
that have been issued for the regu-
lation of scientific work, are we
not justified in going ahead in for-
mulating our plans? Of course, if
we were asking for special favors,
I realize that that would be out of
the question under the present cir-
cumstances.

Can you give me a copy of the
Law or Degree governing scientific
expeditions?

March 19, 1914

My dear Mr. Minister:

March 19, 1914

Dear Tom:

I am greatly distressed to hear
your sad news. You have indeed been
having a terribly hard time. I do
hope that with the coming of spring
your good wife may get back her
strength.

We sympathize deeply with you
in your bereavement, and we most
sincerely hope that happier days
are in store for you.

It was good of you to take the
trouble to examine the Perde-lance
from Machu Picchu, and I am glad
to know that it is not a new species,
and will not make necessary any ad-
dition to the list. If you care to
return it, I think Dr. Eaton would
be glad to have its skeleton.

Again assuring you of our deep
sympathy, and with kindest regards,
believe me to remain

TRADE MARK
REG.-IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE
AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

G.E.HODSON, PRESIDENT & TREASURER.
WINCHESTER BENNETT, 1ST VICE PRESIDENT.
H.S.LEONARD, 2ND VICE PRESIDENT.
A.J.WARD, SECRETARY.

H.F.BEEBE, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT.
D.H.VEADER, CASHIER.
F.G.DREW, SALES MANAGER.
W.R.CLARK, ADVERTISING MANAGER.
I.L.LIPPENCOTT, TRAFFIC MANAGER.
A.W.EARLE, AUDITOR.

JC 53

NEW HAVEN, CONN., U.S.A.

March 19, 1914.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

My dear Hi:

I have yours of the 18th inst. in reference to
my conversation with Erdis and Hardy and I will see that the
guns are all equipped with takedown or Victoria canvas and
leather cases.

As to the sherardizing of the guns, frankly I am
a little afraid to try this. Sherardizing as a method of
preventing rust is old and well tried out for fences, railings,
rough iron work, etc. There is some question as to whether
it does not reduce the tensile strength of small steel work
and decrease the life of small springs. We have not had
sufficient experience with it to know very much about it and
therefore I would have been particularly interested to have
had a chance to go over the expedition's guns which we had
sherardized two or three years ago. Under the circumstances,
particularly in view of the fact that the expedition plans to

Prof. Hiram Bingham.

3-19-14

be out for such length of time I would not deem it advisable
to sherardize the guns for this trip. Foote's gun, by the
way, was not sherardized.

As to traps I have written the Oneida Community
today and trust to hear from them in the near future.

I never talked with Dr. Blumer about snake poison-
ing but shall be glad to get hold of him at the first oppor-
tunity.

I shall see that the guns, when ready, are de-
livered to Room 5, Wright Hall, but, as agreed with Erdis,
I am going to have him come up and look over the material
before we ship it.

Yours very truly,

TRADE MARK
REG.U.S.PAT.OFF.

ESTABLISHED 1836

HARTFORD, CONN., U.S.A.

March 19, 1914.

Dear Sir:-

Beg to acknowledge your letter of the 17th.
I have placed your request before the Board of Directors
at our Meeting to-day, and it gives me pleasure to say
that we will donate to the Expedition eight Colt Army
Special Revolvers, Cal. .38, with ammunition. Will you
kindly let us know when you will want these arms ?

This is a much better and more modern arm
than our so-called Navy Model, and is at this moment
being supplied to the Greek Government for their troops.

Trusting you will not have occasion to use
them, we remain,

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

NEW HAVEN, CONN., March 19th, 1914.

Dear Professor Bingham:

Your note of the 17th is before me. It
will be easy for us to make the recommendation in regard to Dr.
Eaton, but before passing that on to the authorities, would it not
be well for you to talk the matter out with him? I inferred from
what Professor Schuchert said that his enthusiasm for a second trip
to Peru was not as great as one might expect.

With best wishes,

Professor Hiram Bingham,

New Haven, Conn.

The end of the note
from Sidney Paige, pink
 received, will assure some
from your questions.

Sam leaving tomorrow for
Washington and shall
write you from there if I
learn anything further.
My address will be
1724 I St and 100 St.

March 20, 1914.

My dear Mr. Sullivan:

Many thanks for your letters of March 11th and 13th.
We are now ready to give orders, and I am asking the University
Bureau of Purchases and Supplies to take up the matter directly
with you. The total number of cases desired will be seventy.
We do not expect to ship the cases, but to send them down
piecemeal with different parties, who will take them as personal
baggage, so that consular invoices and bills of lading are not
necessary.

The first order is for fifteen cases, to be packed as
usual in strongly made, water-proof-lined boxes, cloth covered,
as before, and ready for delivery on April 15th; shipping
instructions later.

The second order for forty cases should be ready for
delivery on April 23rd.

The third order of fifteen cases will probably not be
sent off before the 1st of June. I am sending you a duplicate
list, so you may know what to prepare for, as it may be a day
or two before the official order reaches you. I am not sure
about the Washington coffee. How long will a half pound tin
last; or, in other words, how many cups of coffee will it make?
It may be I have too much. These boxes are intended to last
two men eight days.

Faithfully yours,

Mr. G. F. Sullivan,
The Austin, Nichols Co.,
New York City.