National Geographir Society

WASHINGTON, D. C.

GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, DIRECTOR AND EDITOR

January 3, 1916

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

Dear Hingham:

General Greely has just called to ask me if I will ask
you to prepare an article of about 200 words, summarizing your
work in 1915. General Greely is preparing the article on explora-
tions in 1915 for the International Yearbook. I hope you can do
this for the General.

General Greely told me that he wished to say that he most
heartily approved the work of your expeditions and that he wanted
to congratulate the National Geographic Society on having been iden-
tified with them. He said that he regretted the fact that he had
opposed them originally but realized now that I was right to get the
Society into the work. General Greely was most complimentary in
his remarks of your scholarship and ability and of the really extra-
ordinary value of the exhibit.

I am enclosing a copy of a letter I am sending President
Hadley.

I have just been talking to Miller about the Heller speci-
mens and he says that the report that he was to distribute the speci-
mens is erroneous. We can draw our own conclusions about that. The
condition now is that all the specimens will be kept here in Washing-
ton, together, until Heller returns. I have notified Miller that we
regard the specimens as the property of the expedition until Heller
is through with them. After my talk with Miller I don't think we shall
have any trouble.

My wife and I so much enjoyed all your boys. They are all
such splendid, bright young fellows. My son took a great fancy to them.

With cordial regards,

G:B

National Geographic Society
WASHINGTON, D. C.

January 4, 1916

Dr. Arthur T. Hadley, President,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

My dear President Hadley:

I think you will be interested to know of the special
exhibit which the National Geographic Society has arranged of the
Peruvian photographs taken by Professor Hiram Bingham, Director
of the National Geographic Society-Yale University expeditions.
We were so much impressed by their educational and instructive
value that the National Geographic Society has expended consider-
ably over a thousand dollars to have 160 enlargements made for
exhibition purposes.

The exhibit was designed primarily for the Pan-American
Scientific Congress and for the meetings of certain technical
geographers in this city. The exhibit will be seen by from
fifteen to twenty thousand people of Washington during January
and February.

Men who know the value of such photographs, for instance,
Henry White, former Ambassador to France, Italy, etc., Alexander
Graham Bell, Henry Fairfield Osborn of New York, Major-General
A. W. Greely, are most enthusiastic about them.

I am sending you a catalog of the pictures which
Professor Bingham prepared. The collection is so unusual that
it occurred to me that perhaps Yale Alumni and under-graduates
might like an opportunity of seeing them. If you would like to
have the photographs exhibited at Yale, we shall be very glad to
loan them to you for this purpose in April, May or June. The
University would be put to very slight expense, because the
catalog is already in type. If advised within the next two weeks
I can have extra editions of the catalog printed for you at very
slight expense.

G-B

H.B. 2

January 4, 1916

P.S. Miller has been to see me this morning and shown me all the original papers in regard to Heller. Miller states that Heller told the Museum officials before he went to Peru that he had no desire to work up the biological specimens that he would collect, that he wished the National Museum to take charge of working them up. I have seen all the papers, including Mr. Rathbun's letter of instruction to Heller, dated last spring, from which it is apparent that all the National Museum officials expected to get Heller's specimens.

Miller has agreed to keep all Heller's collection in Washington in status quo until Heller returns.

I have been much impressed by Miller, who seems to appreciate the value of your Peruvian collections, and to wish to expedite their study and the preparation of the scientific monograph about them. I suggest you give yourself no uneasiness about the matter. When Heller returns we can make an immediate decision.

Miller had a letter from Heller this morning, dated early December, from Lima, in which Heller stated that he was going to visit Kermit Roosevelt in Buenos Aires and then planned to stop at Rio de Janeiro, etc., on his way north, so there is little prospect of his arrival in Washington before March.

G-B

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American Journal of Science

New Haven, Conn. Jan. 4, 1916.

Dear Mr. Grosvenor:

In accordance with a suggestion from Prof. Bingham, I directed our binders to fold and send to you several copies of the two excellent maps prepared for Gregory's article on the Cuzco Valley, which has come out in our January number. I trust that they reached you in time to be of service. Unfortunately I have been ill and prevented from writing you further. It seemed right that in view of the very liberal way in which your Society has supported Prof. Bingham in his explorations, that the fact of its meeting the special expense involved in this article, as to maps and other illustrations, should be mentioned by us. I consequently had a note added to the Table of Contents, which appears in the number now issued, and will be repeated in the Volume contents made up six months hence.

The country is certainly to be congratulated that your work in connection with the Society and its magazine has been so effective that not only are a very large number of subscribers at once entertained and instructed by the Magazine, but the funds resulting from it are available for the prosecution of independent scientific work in geography and in different fields.

I remain,

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

Rochester, N.Y.

January 4, 1916.

Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor,

National Geographic Society,

Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Grosvenor:

Thanking you for calling my attention to the exhibit,

I remain,

National Geographic Society
WASHINGTON, D.C.

JOHN E. PILLSBURY, VICE-PRESIDENT
O. P. AUSTIN, SECRETARY
JOHN JOY EDSON, TREASURER

O. H. TITTMANN, PRESIDENT
GILBERT H. GROSVENOR DIRECTOR AND EDITOR

JOHN OLIVER LAGORCE, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
FRED'K. B. EICHELBERGER, ASSISTANT TREASURER
GEORGE W. HUTCHISON, ASSISTANT SECRETARY

L-W

January 14, 1916

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

My dear Bingham:

We have forwarded you a book, sent in our care by the Editor of "Tropical Life," published in London. The name of the gentleman is H. Hamel Smith, and the title of his work "The Rubber Industry of the Amazon."

Mr. Smith has gone far out of his way in the columns of "Tropical Life" to pay the National Geographic Society very great respect for its work in stimulating an interest in geography among the laity, calling upon the Royal Geographic Society to extend its scope of usefulness by doing the same thing, instead of saving it up for the favored few blessed with a technical education.

I should be very glad indeed if you could in any way help this book along, provided, of course, you found it to be of value. If any of your Yale publications care to mention it, I think it will gratify our English cousin. I myself have arranged for several reviews.

Every now and then, when I am tired out or worried, I stroll over to the Bingham Gallery and soothe my mind with the wealth of the Inca which you have placed upon the walls.

Is there any element of fact in the rumor that the bark of the Peruvian cheese-hound is worse than its bite?

With kind regards and best wishes, I am

January 21, 1916.

Dear Bert:

In the arrangements with the Yale Press for the Machu Picchu book, would it be agreeable for you to have me sign the contract? Or would you prefer to do so, with the stipulation on my part that I stand ready to give you my personal guarantee that your loss on the book shall not be over $10,000, provided that the first edition be of 5,000 copies, the plates being held, both illustrations and text, should a second printing be called for, the paper to be an American, all rag, deckle edged stock, the photogravure illustrations to be not less than eighty (80), the book to sell for five dollars ($5.00) a copy, and to be about the size and style of a volume of Mr. Stokes' book on distinguished Yale men (it being recollected that the copy which you have is on handmade paper and sells for $25.00 a set, two volumes in a set).

We figure the cost of getting out an edition of 5,000 copies of a volume worth of subject at about $22,000, including the ten per cent commission to the Yale Press (their usual commission for manufacturing books is twenty per cent). They will give their personal attention to every detail of the manufacture, and will furnish estimates for each item of manufacture. You will see that if you can sell two thousand copies through the Magazine at $5.00 a copy, without discount, and one thousand copies to the trade with a 40 per cent discount, the loss would be only $9,000.00. The best information that I can secure leads me to believe that these figures will represent our minimum sales. If we sell the entire edition we shall come out about even. If a second printing is called for, we can begin to make a profit on the transaction. This assumes, however, that you, with characteristic generosity, give the book plenty of free advertising in the Magazine. Mr. Hackett, who has been, practically since its inception, Director of the Yale Press, and is now their consulting "architect", is very enthusiastic about the book and will give it his personal attention.

Finally I shall, of course, submit to you for final approval a dummy of the proposed volume before we incur any further expense. But as the chief time element in the manufacture of this volume is going to be the production of the photogravure plates and printing from them, it is important that this begin at once. As soon as I receive word from you that you approve of it, I shall send the press at least forty pictures that we propose to rpproduce (those forty about which there can be no question) and let them get started on the plates.

As ever yours,

February 2, 1916

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Yale University,
Yale Station,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Hi:

I sent you, night before last, the photographs of
your Peruvian exhibit and hope they have been duly received.
They are an excellent piece of work, done by Mr. Charles Mar-
tin, who is now on the National Geographic Society staff. Mar-
tin for years was the official photographer for Dean C. Worcester
in the Philippines.

The reprints of Gregory's article on Cuzco Valley duly
received. This is a fine piece of work and reflects great credit
on the Peruvian Expeditions.

I enclose copy of an article which appeared in the Sun-
day Star of January 16 about the Peruvian pictures. We have had
over a thousand visitors to the exhibit in the past two weeks,
and the number of visitors is growing daily. Probably twenty
thousand people will see the pictures before the exhibit closes.

The description of the title for the Fortress of Sacsa-
huaman has been received. I am sending you a rough proof of the
panorama. I think the engravers have been very successful in
bringing out the animals in front of the big stones.

I will advise you later about the panoramic or Cirkut
photographs. $300 is pretty steep. It seems to me it would be
better to ~~simply~~ have prints made of the best negatives only.

I enclose letter just received this morning from Mr.
Bathbun, and presume that you will want to send him the $299.66
for the transportation of Heller's material. It would be better
for you to pay this as Director of the Expedition out of your
Peruvian funds.

Dr. Merriam is very much excited at the possibility of
anyone working up Heller's specimens other than Heller himself.
Dr. Walcott says that if we leave the work to Heller we might not
get the results for ten years, judging from the National Museum's
experiences with Heller. Personally and confidentially, I am of
the opinion that if Heller is handled right, we can get him to
work up his material promptly. From what I know of the Museum
officials here, I am inclined to think they want Heller to measure

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everything by their yardstick. I don't believe Heller's material
would be worth 5 percent of its actual value if the results are
worked up by Museum officials who have never been to Peru. Dr.
Merriam agrees with me in this. I hope you sent Heller his $400.
If there is any payment due from the National Geographic Society,
let me know.

Heller's delay in returning is unfortunate, but it seems
to me inadvisable to postpone your article for the Magazine until
he arrives. I should think from what you know of his work that
you could give a fair summary of the biological results. I AM ANX-
IOUS TO HAVE YOUR ARTICLE BY APRIL 1 SO THAT WE MAY PRINT IT IN THE
MAY NUMBER.

Your letter about the difficulties with the Peruvian Govern-
ment was received just as I was starting for North Carolina. I have
not yet had an opportunity to show it to Mr. White, but expect to do
so today. On further reflection, I am more convinced than ever that
it would be unwise to enter into a controversy with Peru on this sub-
ject. It would involve a lot of my time and a lot of yours, time that
could be spent to much better advantage for the magazine on my part
and for your book on yours.

The first number of "Art and Archaeology" in its new form
is certainly a beauty. The reason that the pictures come out so well
is that the plates have been etched deeper than the ordinary plates
and that brown ink has been used. These are not photogravures but
simply ordinary printing with unusual plates and unusual ink.

Now as to your letter of January 21, which refers to your
Machu Picchu book, as I am responsible to the Society for this ex-
penditure, I much prefer to sign this contract myself. It would also
be better from your point of view for me to do so, as we can probably
save you some vexation. Seventeen years' experience has given me a
pretty fair conception of the disputes that always ensue. As I am
pretty well posted on the excuses that printers and engravers always
offer for any error, and as we have a staff of experts, I believe it
advisable for me to sign the contract. There is no reflection in my
remarks on the Yale University Press. As I understand it, the Yale
Press is not printing the book but simply acting as a middleman between
the printer and the author.

I had a very nice letter from Mr. Corwin, of Yale University
Press, who also sent me two copies of Memorials of Eminent Yale Men,
by Anson Phelps Stokes. The volumes are beautifully prepared. I hope
that the Machu Picchu book will be as elegant in appearance, but, of
course, we should have many more pictures in it. It is inadvisable
to send any pictures to the engravers until we have decided on the

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dummy. At present I do not know the size of the dummy and hence the size of the pictures proposed. The size of the engraving is a very important matter. We should endeavor to make all the plates as large as the page will stand. I believe in wide margins on text pages, but always advise sacrificing the white margin around a picture in order to make the picture as large as possible.

You will remember that I suggested your employing an artist, if necessary, to draw supplementary pictures. We want to be sure to put in all those exquisite illustrations of bronze and pottery utensils printed in our February 1915 magazine.

If you will hustle the dummy along we can decide all the details quickly. It is imperative that the book be published by November 1.

I am glad to note that the preliminary estimates of cost, given in your letter of January 21, include eighty photogravures. I would not limit the illustrations to this number, and I am inclined to recommend the use of other forms of illustration besides the photogravure. Please ask the Yale University Press to send me, when they send the dummy, the names of the engravers who are to do the plates, the name of the printer proposed, and of the firm that will supply the paper. I am afraid we shall have to pay a very stiff price for the paper, as paper rates have been climbing very rapidly during the past month. Luckily for us, we renewed in November last the contract for paper for the Magazine until April 1917.

Will you let me know, on receipt of this letter, whether I can count on receiving your article by April 1, and also the approximate date of the dispatch of the dummy? It will make my plans easier if I know several days in advance of the arrival of the latter. We can't really proceed further until the dummy and all details are decided upon.

One more word about the Machu Picchu book. Have you realized that every page of advertising in the National Geographic Magazine today costs $350 to print? This is for paper, ink, post-age and the printing, for an edition of 475,000. If our plans do not go amiss, the edition for next November, when we begin to advertise your book, will not be much less than 575,000, which will mean that each page of advertising would cost approximately $440. Now, travel books and books of exploration have a very poor sale, and the usual edition of them is about 1,000 copies. Your book, as proposed, will be far superior in illustrations and get-up to anything offered by publishers in many years, but its poor selling power will lie

Night letter, Feb. 3d

Gilbert H. Grosvenor,
National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

Your ~~satisfactory~~ letter received. Report on this
year's Expedition will be prepared at once so ~~we are every-~~
~~thing will be ready in four weeks. April first. Regarding dummy, ~~bills~~
~~are proved to be false.~~ You should receive it Monday. Mr.
Hackett of the Yale Press ~~ready to go to Washington to consult~~
with you if you desire.

Hiram Bingham

Y.P.E.

National Geographir Society

WASHINGTON, D.C.

O. H. TITTMANN, PRESIDENT
GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, DIRECTOR AND EDITOR

JOHN OLIVER LAGORCE, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
FRED'K B. EICHELBERGER, ASSISTANT TREASURER
GEORGE W. HUTCHISON, ASSISTANT SECRETARY

F-R

February 3, 1916

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Drawer A, Yale Station,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut

My dear Professor Bingham:

Enclosed are two matters that have come up recently and
upon which I think perhaps you can give me the answer.

The letter relative to the discovery of the Chilean tunnel
is very interesting and written in such a straightforward and
sincere manner that I think it deserves special consideration.
The other enclosure, which has photographs of the figures dis-
covered, is right in your line and I feel that you will be
interested in seeing the pictures. This man also I would
like to give as good an answer as is possible, inasmuch as he
has taken the trouble to send the photographs with his letter
of inquiry.

In answering these men I would like to say that I have
referred the questions to you and that your reply is as follows:

With much appreciation of your courtesy in helping me with
these things, I am,

2 letters and 5 photographs enclosed

February 8, 1916.

My dear Mr. Fisher:

Thank you for your letter of February 3d.

The letter relative to the discovery of the Chilean tunnel is indeed interesting. So far as my personal knowledge goes, there is no existing record of the discovery of this tunnel. I ought to say, however, that my acquaintance with the northern Chilean coast is not very great, being based on two hurried visits and what I have learned from coast travelers. If Mr. Bowen himself visited this cave and can attest to the facts which would prove its artificial nature, the document would certainly have considerable historical interest. He says the tunnel is, in places, "lined with perfect keystone masonry". Since the American aboriginals are not known to have had the use of the keystone principle in masonry, one of two things are probably true. Either he used the word 'keystone' in some other sense than it its usual meaning in masonry, or else the tunnel (or that part of it covered with masonry) was made since the Spanish discovery. There is one other point, Mr. Fisher, which, confidentially, we must consider in examining this evidence, and that is that Mr. Bowen left that country twenty-two years ago and has probably told the story a great many times since then. It is well known to students of history as well as to students of psychology, that in twenty-two years a story can undergo very extraordinary changes notwithstanding the honesty, integrity and good intentions of the narrator. Furthermore, unless Mr. Bowen were a trained scientific observer, accustomed to writing his observations in his diary at the time they were made, or within a few hours thereafter, or had a set of photographs taken at the time we should be inclined to discount this story, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Bowen was able to repeat it in detail to someone else after having told it to Mr. John Carter Anderson. The most reasonable explanation that I can offer of the whole thing is that the "tunnel" is probably part of an old river bed, or underground stream, that its mouth was used as a burial cave, many caves along the cost having been so used, and that the amount of masonry that it contains is probably small and limited to a relatively small area near the mouth of the cave.

February 4, 1916.

Dear Bert:

Let me thank you for your long, full, and most satisfactory
letter. Knowing how extremely busy you are, I appreciate all the more
your taking the time and trouble to go so fully into everything. I sent
you a telegram last night, which I hope will give you the information
you most desire.

Saturday morning.

I was interrupted in this letter and the interruption was
followed by the semi-annual examination. In the meantime, your letter of
February 4th has come with the request to send the numbers of the eighty
subjects for the photogravures and wishing that I would indicate the
numbers in the catalog list enclosed. I am not yet prepared to give you
the numbers of the eighty subjects, only having settled on about half.
I have ordered from Eastman some new prints, made on platinum so as to
bring out their best points, of about eighty of the old pictures, and I am
waiting to order some of the new pictures from the albums when they come.

I quite agree with you that it seems highly desirable to include
a few general photographs of the country, showing mountains, llamas, alpacas,
etc. I am returning the catalog of the exhibition with those pictures
marked which I am sure I want for the book. Will this give you the informa-
tion you desire? It will take quite a lot of time to give you the negative
numbers of the pictures, although that can be done, of course, if it is
necessary.

Many thanks for the photographs of the Peruvian Exhibition which
have been received, and have proved to be most interesting. It was a hard
job and has been well done.

Thank you for your kind words about Gregory's article. I do feel
very proud of it, and am glad to have your enthusiasm. I am enclosing a
letter just received from Professor Mark Jefferson. Do you care to send him
one of your one hundred copies? You know we have supplied copies from here
to all your board of directors.

The article in the Sunday "Star" has pleased me more than any-
thing that has been written about our work in a long time. It appreciates
so fully the work that I have been trying to accomplish. I wish it might be
given greater publicity, for there are a good many scientists who seem to

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February 9, 1916

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

Dear Hi:

I have just telegraphed you as follows:

"Much pleased with dummy. Request Yale
Press send me immediately complete specifi-
cations, giving names of proposed engraver
and printer."

The dummy arrived yesterday morning and I have spent
considerable time looking it over very carefully and like it
very much indeed. What I now want is complete specifications
so that the contract may be made and all the details arranged
beforehand. There are many kinds of photogravures and many
kinds of rag paper and of type and of ink. The price quoted of
$22,000 seems very high.

I believe always in having complete specifications be-
forehand so that there cannot be any unpleasant controversies
with the printer after the work is done. In my experience, all
printers are alike, very rich in promises and rather difficult
to pin down to details beforehand.

Could you and the Yale Press between you get up a dummy
including the number of folding maps, panoramas, etc. Put in
dummy block papers of size of maps etc. used
Of course, all the plates of the engravings will belong
to the National Geographic Society. All copies printed will belong
to the National Geographic Society, which will handle the volume
just like any other of its publications, its "Bird Book," "Book of
Monsters," etc.

I suggest that the author be provided with 100 copies
gratis.

It has always been against the policy of the National
Geographic Society to put any of its publications on bookstands,
and I am disinclined to do this in the case of the Machu Picchu
book. The book agents usually request a large commission. Even
at $5 there will be a loss on every volume, for, in addition to
the printer's expense there is also the expense in connection
with expressage, postage and of the box for each book. If we

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gave a discount of 40 percent, the amount mentioned in one of your letters, we should get only $3 on the volume, or, in other words, lose $2 on every copy so sold.

It is probable that through the membership of the National Geographic Society and the Yale alumni lists we shall reach everyone in the United States who would be interested in the book.

It seems to me inadvisable to have any of the pictures exceed the dimensions of 6 x 9½ inches. Where do you propose to have the text for each picture, on a tissue sheet fronting each illustration, or beneath the picture?

I should like the specifications to include the cost of a suitable carton or box for each volume, and also to include specifications for binding 500 copies in leather.

I like your selections for the photogravures.

Bumstead will prepare the map work for the magazine as proposed in your letter of February 7.

Referring once more to the dummy, I like it much better than Maudsley's arrangement.

I am very desirous of getting the complete specifications within a week so that I may present the whole proposition to the Research Committee. All members of the committee are most enthusiastic about your work and I anticipate no trouble in getting the Research Committee to make the appropriation necessary for the publication, but I always like to have a subject complete before presentation.

I duly received the book on "Journeys to Bagdad" and have put it aside for reading some evening soon. I have only one criticism of it, the leaves are not cut. Be sure that our specifications provide for cut leaves. All the leaves in Stokes' book are cut. Few busy people have the spare time nowadays to cut leaves. It's not necessary to have the leaves trimmed. For a book of this sort I like the rough edges much better.

I have enjoyed immensely reading Dr. Stokes' volumes. I had not realized that Whitney and Morse were both graduates of Yale. I do not know of any other university which has among its graduates two great inventors comparable to these two.

February 11, 1916.

Dear Bert:

In reply to your letter of February 9th,--

The Yale Press tells me that complete specifications cannot
be made until the manuscript is actually in hand together with all the
pictures that are to be used, maps, etc. They have prepared a contract
and sent it to you, which, as you will see, permits you to pass on all
prices before they are adopted. The sum of twenty-two thousand dollars
($220000) is their outside estimate, but they will make it as much
lower than this as they can.

I will try to get you a new dummy, but I think we had better
wait until you have settled on the kind of paper you want to use. It
seems to me that five dollars is too low a price to charge for this
volume, but I presume you know best. I think

I think the best place for the text for each picture would be
on the tissue sheet fronting the illustration, rather than beneath the
picture.

I have asked the Yale Press to secure bids for binding five
hundred (500) copies in leather.

Do I understand that Bumstead will prepare both the maps suggested in my letter of February 7th? We will, of course, furnish him, in a few days, with the necessary data for adding the new river.

I am glad you liked the dummy. Both of them seemed attractive,
although Mrs. Bingham is inclined to prefer a solid cloth binding in one
color, and light grey in tone. Perhaps the next dummy that we get up
can be bound that way. Have you any suggestions to make in regard to
its binding?

I regret to say that it will be quite impossible for me to
furnish the completed manuscript to the Yale Press before the first of
June, although I can let them have the pictures so that the engraving
on the photogravures may proceed much sooner than that. Forty have al-
ready been selected, as you know, and could be sent to them tomorrow;
but complete specifications cannot be had until later. For this reason
it seems to me that the form of contract that they have offered, in

February 17, 1916

Dear Hi:

I regret that I cannot sign the contract which the Yale Press has sent me. I have given it a great deal of thought, analyzing it very carefully. The terms are very indefinite and afford us no protection against bad work by engraver, printer or paper maker. The proposal is that we pay a commission of approximately $2200 to Yale Press, in addition to expenses of Yale Press in connection with the work, but I can't see what the National Geographic Society gets in return for this commission. The only interpretation I can place on Article IV is that all services rendered by Yale Press, such as travelling expenses of their representatives, postage and express expenses in connection with their work for the book, have to be paid by us, as well as 10 per cent of the total expense of the book. One of the assistants in the office of the National Geographic Society could do all this at no expense to the Society, thus saving approximately $2500 charged against the book. I should subject myself to very harsh criticism from our Board of Managers if I submitted a proposition like this contract. As we are to give our advertising pages in the National Geographic Magazine to the book, free of charge, I find it difficult to understand why Yale Press cannot also contribute something. I didn't appreciate the proposition of turning the book over to Yale Press to publish, when you suggested it to me last December, or I should have immediately said no.

The reason I acceded to your suggestion that the Yale Press Manage the publication was that I understood that we would be put to no extra charge, and I was glad to give this opportunity to Yale Press to put its imprint on a monumental work, but I do not see how I can approve a proposition that would involve a $2500 commission for doing what we could handle for nothing.

The dummy sent me by Yale Press is good as far as it goes, but it is very incomplete. You know I wrote in my letter of February 9 for complete specifications. We always prefer to deal directly with the printer and engraver, as it is much easier to bring them to terms this way than if we are dealing through a third party.

COPY. SENT PROFESSOR BINGHAM FOR HIS INFORMATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY,

WASHINGTON, D.C.

FEBRUARY 18, 1916

Mr. Gilbert H.Grosvenor,
National Geographic Society,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Grosvenor:

Your letter of yesterday is just received. I am preparing a brief
statement of a general nature regarding the results of the expedition and the
materials secured. This I hope to furnish in a few days, certainly before
March first. At the same time I am pushing forward the article on Ancient
Peruvian Agriculture, as agreed when Professor Bingham was here recently.

Your offer to make prints from our negatives is much appreciated, and
may save considerable delay, though the preparation of labels, as requested by
Professor Bingham, will still be a difficulty. I wrote to Professor Bingham
yesterday offering to send at once a complete set of prints as they are, so that
he could go over them and select any that he would be interested to use in the
National Geographic Magazine, or in his lectures, and give him the data for
these at once.