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Senator Cluthwaite

New Haven, Conn.; April 30, 1892.

My dear Cousin,

I was sorry not to see you when I was in Washington last week, as I wanted to talk over a number of matters with you. One was the Geological Survey, with which, as you know, I am connected. I heard various rumors in Washington about a change of Directors, as Powell has had about enough of it, and wishes to give it up, and confine himself to the Ethnological Bureau. You have probably heard all this from Mendenhall or others.

I also heard that Herbert was still hostile to the Survey, which surprised me, as I had been told that his animosity had existed five or six years ago, and that he had been removed on finding that he had been misled by enemies of the Survey and of myself. At that time he did me great injustice, and I wrote him a frank letter pointing this out, and received a frank reply which led me to think he would not misrepresent me again. This he has recently done, however, in private, and may perhaps do it in Congress.

Some of the men who have been discharged from the Survey, or who are for other reasons hostile to it, may have tried to pre-judge Herbert and others. At all events, I think you ought to know some of the facts in regard to myself, and I have therefore written you a letter, which I enclose. This letter you are free to use, if, at any time, the matter comes up in Congress. I certainly hope you will have no occasion to use it.

With kind regards to all my other cousins, in your family
circle,

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New Haven, Conn., April 30, 1892.

Hon. J. H. Outhwaite.

Dear Sir: -

Various statements have been made by persons unfriend-
ly to the Geological Survey, which convey a wrong impression in regard to my
connection with the Survey and the memoirs I have published under its auspi-
ces. The statements I refer to are without foundation, and in simple justice
to myself, I ask you to correct them, if they are repeated in Congress.

(1) It has been stated that I have a large salary from Yale College, and at the same time receive pay for scientific work on the Geological Survey.

I have never received a single dollar as salary for my services in Yale
College. Moreover, my connection with that institution saves the Government
several thousand dollars annually in rent, and is otherwise of much benefit
to the Geological Survey.

(2) Memoirs I have prepared for the Government have been referred to as
examples of extravagance, on the ground that some of the illustrations used
in one volume were repeated in another. This refers especially to my mono-
graph on Odontornithes ( Vol. VII. Survey of the 40th Parallel ), and to a
subsequent article in the Annual Report of the Geological Survey, for 1881 -
1882.

For the entire preparation of the first volume ( involving several years'
work and several thousand dollars of my own money ) I received no compensa-
tion whatever. Moreover, the illustrations in the article mentioned were
furnished at my own expense, and cost the Government nothing.

In the preparation of my monograph on the *Dinocerata* ( Vol. X. U. S.

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Geological Survey), I again expended several thousand dollars of my own money. I also paid for the entire composition of the volume and electrotyping its pages, and presented the electrotypes of the whole work to the Government. This may be extravagance, on my part, but the Government has not suffered thereby.

(3) My connection with Government work was not of my own seeking, but since I have been on the Geological Survey, I have given my whole time to its service, and have received no salary from any other source. Moreover, although my own means are limited, I have expended on the work in hand the greater part, if not all the salary received from the Survey.

(4) Let me add that the pecuniary value alone of the vertebrate fossils I have collected for the Government far exceeds the amount expended on my division of the Geological Survey. Part of these specimens are already on exhibition in the National Museum, and other collections will be placed there as soon as cases are provided for them.

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New Haven, Conn.; May 21, 1892.

Dear Mr. Outhwaite,

I am greatly obliged to you for all you have
done for science and your cousin, and am only sorry some of your colleagues
take such narrow views of things. You made a very effective presentation
of my case, and I hope when the final vote comes paleontology may be put
upon its feet again. Please thank Gen. Bingham for his good work for
science. I shall write and thank him myself later.

Herbert's animosity is partly personal, as I will explain when I see
you. He was badly beaten in his previous attempt to injure the Survey,
and has waited all these years for his revenge. Many of the statements
he published in the " Record " he ought to know are not correct. I had
no connection with the Geological Survey, or any salary from the Government,
until more than two years after the volume on *Odontornithes* was published.
That was a scientific monograph. The popular article on " Birds with Teeth"
in Powell's annual report was for the general reader, and the illustrations
in it were all furnished by me without expense to the Government. To call
this popular article a volume, and the same thing as the monograph, was
unfair and misleading. I explained all this to him in the letter I sent
you. His tirade against paleontology as an ornamental branch of science is
ridiculous. Paleontology is to-day the foundation of all geology of the
stratified rocks, and this every civilized nation recognizes. The paleon-
tology of this country is far more important than that of any other part
of the world, and this is now known to all scientific men. The greatest
problems in science to-day, in all that relates to ancient life, must be

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

JOSEPH H. OUTHWAITE, Chairman, William W. Bowers.

Oscar Lapham. John A. T. Hull.

James S. Gorman. Newton M. Curtis.

John O. Pendleton. Benjamin F. Marsh.

John L. Bretz. Frederick H. Gillett.

Daniel E. Sickles. Ephraim M. Woomer.

John C. Black. Antonio Joseph.

Charles H. Morgan. Antonio Joseph.

Paul J. Sorg.

Nathan Gumble, Clerk.

Walter H. Allensworth, Asst. Clerk.

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Prof. O.C.Marsh,

Hartford, Conn.

My Dear Mr. Marsh:--I have mailed you a copy of the bill for which you wrote in yours of January 31st. Reporting to Congress means to report to both branches, and a copy should be sent to both branches at the same time.

I do not know anything about the subject which you mention in connection with my friend Mendenhall.

I am sorry that you did not find us in Washington when you were here during the Holidays. Mrs. Outhwaite did not come on with me until the first of January. We will remain here until a short time after Congress adjourns, when we hope to go abroad, , taking the Mediterranean route. She would join me in kindest regards to you if she knew that I were writing. Should you be in this city at any time before the tenth of March we shall be very much pleased to see you. We are stopping now at the Grafton, a small hotel on Connecticut Avenue.

Very truly yours,