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April 1, 1912.

My dear Dr. Dane:--

I am enclosing a portion of a letter from Dr. Christian, relating to your request for a man for the expedition to Peru. I would suggest that you talk with Dr. Wolbach about the matter. If you do not know him already you will find him quite an exceptional man, and in every respect desirable. You need not return the letter from Dr. Christian to me.

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WASHINGTON, April 4, 1912.

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

Friend Hi:

A few words in answer to the questions which you recently asked me regarding the expedition outfit: In regard to the character of the food, I would say that the chief article which we had in excess was tea, of which we had about four times the necessary proportion although it was used fairly freely. The amount of biscuits was less than was desirable and if a biscuit could be found somewhat similar but of smaller size which would pack more compactly and be less liable to crumble, it would be better.

As to the canned meat, I feel that the chicken was very satisfactory and the corned beef not very popular. For luncheon the former came in very satisfactorily and, I think, could replace the latter entirely with benefit. A larger allowance of jam than was in the previous original outfit would be, I think, also very desirable and would be more useful than dried fruit as a general thing although of the latter the peaches and apricots were very satisfactory, especially when cooked, and did not take much space. A smaller allowance of salt would also be satisfactory and some condensed soups in addition to the eibswurst could probably take the place of some of the canned meat. My section of the party also found the chocolate a very important item both for eating and for a morning

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drink. A larger amount of first class rice would also be desirable as what we were able to get en route was not sufficiently free from impurities to be very appetizing at times. I also found that this sort of food could not be cooked very satisfactorily at the higher altitudes as, before it was entirely cooked, it became a rather unpleasant mush.

I think that the food box unit is a very good idea but in the country which we traveled and with the mules which we had at our disposal, the boxes were too heavy and a little too large. As they were to be used but a reasonably short time each, I should think they could be lighter and enclosed in a stronger case for shipment to the base of operations and that when in the field, they should weigh with their contents not much more than seventyfive pounds instead of one hundred ten pounds each. The hinges and locks were, I think, very satisfactory.

In regard to the saddle, bridles and saddle blankets I can only say that I feel
my equipment which, you remember, consisted of a very light McClelland saddle with a
crupper attached and but a single girth, a light bridle, and a fairly thin saddle cloth,
was much more satisfactory than the heavy Cuban saddles. As evidence of that is the
fact that my mule stood the entire journey without developing any sores on the back
and was in good shape at the end of the trip. A succession of very hard trails and
light food made it seem wise to me to give her a rest of about ten days while in Apur-
imac; otherwise, she was in constant use except for the short time we were in the
lower reaches of the river about Pongo. Not only did this saddle irritate the animal
less, but it was also very much lighter. It also stood up well, for it was a saddle
which had seen several years' service in the army when I took it, but it is to-day in
good condition for further use.

I found that my officer's dunnage bag which also took the place of waterproof blankets to a certain extent, was very satisfactory as the amount it could carry was unlimited while the regular Deff bags could take contents only up to a certain diameter. I also think my six-foot seven inch cot was more satisfactory than the straight six-foot

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Professor Hiram Bingham,

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My dear Professor Bingham:

I should like very much indeed to furnish you with
what you require for your coming Expedition, and if favored with
your order would like to get at it as early as possible,
especially if you contemplate having any clothes made.

I have already written to England regarding Venesta
cases and should receive a reply shortly. As yet I have not
been able to find any that are cemented with waterproof cement.
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April 11, 1912.

Dear Mr. Wilson:-

I am naturally delighted at the good news contained in your letter of April 8th, regarding the favorable aspect taken by the Peruvian Government toward our plans for scientific research among the ancient ruins of Peru. I want to thank you very heartily for your kindness in sending the cable to the American minister in Lima and transmitting his full and very satisfactory answer.

Your letter was delivered to me on the train, just as I was starting to Boston to address the American Antiquarian Society at their semi-annual meeting. I telegraphed back from Providence, expressing my gratification at the news and my approbation of your proposal to telegraph the American minister to obtain permission for us to have the same privileges under which we operated last year, and your request that he telegraph the results of his efforts immediately. I hope that there was no delay in the delivery to you of the telegram sent from Providence.

I judge from your letter that it will probably be advisable for me to be in Lima during the extra session of Congress in June, but I should be glad to have a direct expression of opinion from you on this matter.

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April 9th, 1912.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

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New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

By request of our Arequipa House we are herewith enclosing
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which we trust you will find in order. We have no further details
but presume they have written you direct.

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April 10, 1912.

My dear Dr. Dane:--

In case Dr. Wolbach is not chosen for the expe-
dition to Peru, may I suggest that name of Dr. Millard? He is
now doing a temporary service on the surgical side of the Boston
City Hospital.

Dr. John Dane.

April 11, 1912.

Dear Mr. Tucker:

I was in Boston yesterday and the day before, and hoped very much to be able to call on you and see the map of Maochu Pichu, but my time was so taken up with lectures and other engagements that I had not a moment to spare.

I thank you for marking the pictures and for your reply to the questions regarding the expedition equipment. The pictures have been safely received. I wish you would return the map of Peru as soon as you can conveniently. The "Hints to Travelers", volume I, you may keep as long as necessary.

The charges on the ice axe amounted to about $10, although Grace and Company made no charge for freight or commissions. The charges on the axe up to the time it was received by them amounted to nearly $8, so apparently Señor Duque did not do his part for nothing. His name is Pedro M. Duque, and his address is simply Cuzco, Peru.

I must confess that I can not understand why it should take so long to finish the Maochu Pichu plan, which you have been at work on now for over three months. Seriously, as a matter of expedition policy, and in order to help me plan work for the future I am most anxious to find out just how many hours of work it requires to finish a plan made in three weeks of field work. The proportion between the time consumed in the field and in the office is quite alarming for the future. It would be very helpful indeed if you could give me

An approximately accurate estimate of the number of days or hours
which you have put on the map. Will you please give me a date at
which I can count on getting the map, as I must arrange for my
article which uses it as one of the chief illustrations.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. H. L. Tucker,

206 Church Street,
Newton, Massachusetts.

April 12, 1912.

My dear Touney:

Confirming my conversation of yesterday, we are planning for
another Peruvian Expedition to leave early in June and be gone for
six months. We are looking for a man to do reconnaissance or scout
work, the normal work of a forest field agent. We can pay all of
his expenses and give him a salary of $1000, expecting him of course
to spend at least four or five months after he comes back in pre-
paring for publication a report of his work. We are going into a
new region, although part of our work will be developing what we
discovered last time.

The particular work that we want this man to do is scout or
reconnaissance work. I should like a man who would be personally
agreeable, who would be interested to give us more than we were
able to pay him, who would be able to do fairly rapid map making,
and who would also be able to observe accurately all kinds of
natural phenomena.

Can you put us in touch with such a man? I should prefer to
have a man of experience to one who has just gotten his education.
I am writing to Craves to see whether he knows of anybody.

Faithfully yours,

Professor J.W.Toumey,

Director, Yale Forest School,

New Haven, Connecticut

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April 12, '12

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Director, Yale Peruvian Expedition
Yale Station,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

I have received and read with in-
terest the Perliminary Report of the Yale
Peruvian Expedition, reprinted from the
Bulletin of the American Geographical So-
ciety. I hope that you will let us know
when any permanent publication of the re-
sults of the expedition is issued, and how
a copy of it can be obtained.

April 13, 1912.

Dear Ed:-

I have at last heard from the State Department that the American minister at Lima reports that the President of Peru is very favorably inclined toward my proposal, and is willing to present to Congress in June or July a bill granting us the right to excavate and bring material out of the country, with a concession for twenty years. He believes that in order to secure proper continuance of the work and security of tenure, this concession should be passed by Congress rather than merely granted by executive decree. He does not believe that it would be wise to postpone action on this matter, but thinks that it ought to go through while he is still President. He goes out of office in September. I shall probably have to go to Peru about the end of May in order to arrange for this concession. They expect to have a special session of the legislature in June.

In the meantime we are getting together our plans for this year's expedition. The Research Committee of the National Geographic Society have voted to grant me $10,000 toward this year's work. The University will give me $5,000, and I am proposing

good man for this sort of thing. He is very careful and
scientific in his work, and thoroughly competent to do what we
want done. The University will give him leave of absence and we
shall not have to pay him any salary. If we get permission to
dig extensively and bring half the material found out of the
country, as we expect we shall do, our expenses will be
increased by about $3,000. If we only have permission to do
what we did last year we shall not need quite so much money.
Would you be willing to give us $2,500 to carry on this work
begun last year, and an additional $2,500 in case we secured
permission to excavate and export material for the museum?
If you can do this it will enable me to go ahead and get all the
men needed for the expedition. The additional expense involved
in case we secure this concession, means chiefly the employment
of competent foremen and laborers, the cost of packing, shipping
and freight in handling the specimens, and an increased expense
of several parties who will be engaged in various forms of anthro-
pological work, who would, if we got this permission, be enabled
to add more excavating than otherwise, although even on the last

April 13, 1912.

Doctor Hiram Bingham,

787 Prospect Street,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Sir:

Referring to past correspondence in the
matter of the expedition which you desire to organize
for exploration among the ancient ruins of Peru, I take
pleasure in informing you that the Department is in re-
ceipt of a telegram, of the 12th instant, from the Amer-
ican Minister at Lima stating that the President cordial-
ly extends the same privileges as heretofore to you.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

Acting Secretary of State.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

WASHINGTON

April 13, 1912.

My dear Mr. Hilles:

Referring to the Department's letter of the 8th instant, in
regard to Doctor Hiram Bingham's expedition to Peru for the purpose
of making explorations among the ancient ruins of that country, I
take pleasure in informing you that, in a telegram dated the 12th
instant, the American Minister at Lima reports that, pending the
grant of the more extensive rights which the President of Peru is
Willing to ask for Doctor Bingham, the former cordially extends to
Doctor Bingham the same privileges as heretofore granted to him.

I am, my dear Mr. Hilles,

Charles D. Hilles, Esquire,
Secretary to the President,
The White House.

YALE UNIVERSITY
GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT
HERBERT E. GREGORY

NEW HAVEN, CONN. April 15, 1912.

Mr. Hiram Bingham,
25 Lampson Hall,
Yale University.

Dear Bingham:

I have been thinking over the names of all the men
of my acquaintance who might serve as your proposed scout
and out of the ten or twelve men whom I know personally and
have seen in operation I believe I have the one who will
fill the bill. K. C. Heald of Colorado College has had
very wide experience with forestry parties, survey parties,
geological parties, in various capacities. He knows trees,
and rocks, and ruins. For two field seasons he has been
with me as packer, sometimes as cook, sometimes as a general
assistant and I can think of no one whom I would rather
send out ahead to explore the country and bring back valua-
ble information. Heald is one of these all-round fellows,
incidentally an athlete; he came to college somewhat late,
and has made an excellent record at Colorado. He also
speaks Spanish fluently and knows how to get along with the
natives.

HEG/HEW

April 15, 1912.

Dear Dr. Bartlett:-

I tried to reach you by telephone yesterday to suggest that one
of the most interesting subjects of study which could be taken upon the
expedition was the effect on the Indians of the use of the cola leaf.
I realize that it would be difficult to do much in a few months, but
at least a good beginning might be made. It seems to me one of the
most important problems for the government of Peru and Bolivia.
Personally I have a strong feeling that the constant chewing of the
cola leaf is extremely bad for the Indian race and deadens their natural
human appetites. It makes them stupid, careless, neglectful and
unambitious, at least it seems to me that those are natural results of
the constant taking into the system of small quantities of cocaine.
A report on this subject would be immensely valuable.

As soon as you can let me know definitely that you will go I will
write to President Taft, asking him to secure for us a similar medical
outfit to that loaned the last Peruvian expedition.

We all hope that you will decide to go and that you will be able
to take an assistant with you.

Faithfully yours,

Dr. C. J. Bartlett,

Yale Medical School,

Yale station.

Mr. Eggleston -2.

This lot of 20 boxes to be marked "Peruvian Expedition, C. L. & Co.,
Cuzco, viz. Mollendo, Peru."

All goods to be of first-class quality, boxes to be strapped and burlapped and lined with waterproof paper, and kept as light as possible consistent with safe transportation. Do you know anything about laminated wood boxes?

I hope that as before, you will get the lowest possible price on this equipment and then push it right ahead so that there will be no delay in its reaching its destination. If you will let me know when it is shipped I will see what can be done in Washington to rush trans-shipment across the Isthmus. President Taft is very much interested in the expedition and will undoubtedly do all he can to help us get our food through in time.

We greatly appreciated your efforts last time and confidently look forward to equally good results this time.

Faithfully yours,

R. H. Eggleston, Jr., Esq.

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

New Haven, Conn; April 15, 1912.

My dear Professor Bingham:

Received your communication in regard to my account with the
expedition on my return from the vacation. I have no definite
knowledge of not accounting for the 20 soles with you, and the sole
with Professor Bowman. I believe I accounted for all the money I
received from the expedition, up to Sept. 1st, either verbally or
by a written statement. My intentions on the trip were to be to-
pay my expenses from my own and then get the amount from the
expedition, rather than have the expedition give me money to dis-
pose of. I remember giving you 2 pounds, or its equivalent, on the
train from Juliaca to Cuzco. You were ill on this day and perhaps
you forgot to make a memorandum of this amount. My book contain-
ing the accounts of the trip is at home, but I will send for it,
if this does not clear up the matter.

I shall try and see you within the next week.

BRISTOL. STODDARD. BEACH AND FISHER.

HENRY STODDARD.
JOHN K. BEACH.
JOHN W. BRISTOL.
SAMUEL H. FISHER.

865 CHAPEL STREET,
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Apr. 16th, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,
Prospect St.,
City.

Dear Sir:

I enclose herewith rough draft
of form of concession from the Republic
of Peru to you in reference to your pro-
posed explorations and excavations. I
have not had an opportunity to submit
this draft to Judge Stoddard, but I hope
to meet him this evening and do so. If
convenient for you I would very much like
to have your criticism of this draft this
evening.

HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

April 16, 1913.

Dear Professor :—

I have just received the marked copy of Harper's for
March which was forwarded from Arequipa, and I desire to thank you
for it. The article is very interesting on account of my not having
seen you after the trip and never heard much of the particulars.

When you come to Cambridge I should be glad to see you here at
the Observatory.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY.

FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION.

Washington, D. C.,

April 17, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Director, Yale Peruvian Expedition,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Bingham:

As soon as your plans are made up with regard to
your coming expedition, I wish you would let me know
just when you will be likely to arrive in Lima, and how
it would be possible for one of our men, who is now on
his way to Europe and who is expecting to go to the
Argentine in July, to find you should he get over into
Peru after you have passed through Lima or Mollendo on
your way to the interior. In other words, please give
me the facts which would enable me to put in touch with
you an explorer in case I am able to land one in Peru
while your expedition is down there. You very kindly
suggested that you would be glad to have a botanist as-
sociate himself with your expedition in case it did not
increase your expenses. Whoever would be sent would be
provided with the necessary funds to bear his share of
any expense which he might be to your expedition.

Cr-n.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

ANN ARBOR

MUSEUM

April 17, 1912.

Mr. Hiram Bingham,

Yale Station,

New Haven, Ct.

Dear Sir:

Please accept my best thanks for the two publications so far received on the Yale Peruvian Expedition. These are of great value and interest to me, particularly as I hope to take a zoological expedition to the region in the near future.

E.V.H.

April 17, 1912.

Dear Vio:

Are you with us on this next expedition to Peru? It is going to be better and larger than the last expedition. The research committee of the National Geographic Society has voted me $10,000 toward this expedition, and in addition is going to spend $1000 for instruments to be loaned to our topographer. The Corporation will raise $5,000 and I am going to do the same myself. These funds will enable us to carry out our topographic, geological, and archeological work. I am particularly anxious to get enough additional to enable us to take along one of the professors in the Yale Medical School, who will make a special study of tropical diseases and of the effect of cocoa on the Indians of the plateau.

I hope you feel sufficiently satisfied with the work of the expedition last time to make you wish to support this year's expedition in the same way. I wanted very much to ask Harry Foote to go, but finally decided that it would not be best for his career as a chemist to take him off again so soon collecting insects.

April 17, 1912.

Dear Stuart:

Are you with us on this next expedition to Peru? It is going to be better and larger than the last expedition. The research committee of the National Geographic Society has voted me $10,000 toward this expedition, and in addition is going to spend $1,000 for instruments to be loaned to our topographer. The Corporation will raise $5,000 and I am going to do the same myself. These funds will enable us to carry out our topographic, geological, and archeological work. I am particularly anxious to get enough additional to enable us to take along one of the professors in the Yale Medical School, who will make a careful study of tropical diseases and of the effect of coos on the Indians of the plateau.

I hope you feel sufficiently satisfied with the work we accomplished last time to make you wish to support this year's expedition in the same way. I wanted very much to ask Harry Foote to go, but finally decided that it would not be best for his career as a chemist to take him off again so soon collecting insects.

April 17, 1912.

Dear Mr. Curry:

I expect to go to New York on Friday morning, and hope to call on you in reference to the saddles sometime between 10 and 12. I think we shall have to give up the cowboy style of saddle entirely and take either a deep seated McClellan or an English colonial type, fitted with crupper and two girths, and light saddle bags. I think the bridles we had last time were a bit too heavy and too large for many of our animals. I shall want the same type of horse blankets that we had before, also the halter bridle (instead of plain bridle). I am going to omit the front breeching and the lower part of the rear breeching and simply depend on a crupper and the two girths. If you have any suggestions I shall be glad to have them.

As I shall not have much time on Friday, for I am booked for a lecture that afternoon in Philadelphia, I shall be very much obliged if you will have everything ready for inspection. We shall want the belt lacing as before. It looks now as though we should need seven saddles.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. T. M. Curry,

President, Smith Worthington Company,
40 Warren Street, New York.

Apr. 18th, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Prosepect St.,

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Bingham:

I am in receipt of your letter
of Apr 11 17th, enclosing draft form of concession, and I here-
with return the same corrected as suggested by you. I also
send you herewith form of petition for such a concession. I
do not know to whom it should be addressed, but it may be well,
if you are going to Peru, to have the matter in the form of a
petition, executed by Yale University, with a proper authen-
tication of any votes that may be passed by the Corporation
authorizing the same. When you reach Peru, your legal advisers
there may suggest changes, and if the changes are important,
it may be better for you to be the petitioner. All these
things will have to be determined after consultation with
your Peruvian advisers.

H. STUART HOTCHKISS
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

New Haven, Conn., April 18, 1912.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,
Prospect Street,
New Haven, Conn.

Confidential.

Dear Hiram:

In spite of my tremendous interest in
your Peruvian expedition, I don't think that I ought to
contribute this year. My expenses have been increasing
in a much greater ratio than my income, and I seem to have
had an unusual number of calls this year. I am awfully
sorry, Hiram, and I assure you if I felt that I could do
it, I gladly would.

HSH/C

New York, April 18, 1912.

Mr. R. H. Eggleston, Jr.,
W. R. Grace & Co.,
1 Hanover Square,
New York City.

Dear Sir:

Referring to your esteemed favors of the 17th inst.,
being orders 2636/2 in two sections respectively for 30 cases
and 50 cases Supplies for Prof. Bingham's Peruvian Expedition,
we note that quotati n per box is desired before the order can
be executed,

As nearly as we could estimate at the present time,
the cost per case will be between $9.50 and $10.---, all charges
included, and this is about as close an estimate as can be made
before the goods are gotten together and packed.

On each order is stated,- "Required in New York
April 24th". It would not be possible to have the shipment in
readiness by that date. Please note that by letter from the
undersigned dated March 28th, we requested at least two weeks
for the preparation of the order. Prof. Bingham will under-
stand from his inspection of our shipment of last year that
the preparation and packing of these cases is very slow work,
and must be done with exceeding care in order to insure their
reaching destination in good condition.

Please advise us without delay whether we shall pro-
ceed with the order and give us two weeks from the date when
you authorize us to proceed before calling for delivery of
the goods.

As explained in letter of March 28th, laminated wood
is not available, and we purpose making cases like those supplied
last year. The weight of contents appears to be about 54 lbs.
instead of 44 lbs., as stated in your letter. This will bring
the gross weight up to about 70 lbs., but we will keep it as
low as consistent with safety.

Cotton Cloth Bags,- first item on the orders:-
measurements you state are literally 10 feet by 6 feet, but we
take it for granted you mean 10 inches by 6 inches, and have so
calculated in our estimate.

C. & B. Jams and Jellies,- last item on the orders,-
not obtainable in small tins, but we would supply the nearest
substitute available.

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NEW YORK

April 18th, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Prof. Bingham:-

We acknowledge yours of the 15th inst., giving
full particulars for your order for seventy (70) food boxes.

We enclose copy of a letter just received from
Messrs. Austin, Nichols & Co. Mr. Sullivan has just talked to the
writer and advises that they will do all in their power to keep the
cost down.

It will not be possible to ship before the s/s
"COLON", hence May 2nd, and we hope that you will communicate with
Washington in order to insure quick despatch across the Isthmus.

COTTON CLOTH BAG:- Your order reads "10 ft. x 6 ft." Do you mean
inches?

C. & B. JAMS AND JELLIES:- This item is not clear at all. These
jellies are packed wither in stone crocks covered with parchment, or
in glasses with tin tops. Which do you want?

Kindly telegraph us on receipt of this letter how
to proceed, whether or not the price is O.K. and the questions mentioned

Prof. H. B.

You could doubtless obtain a good man from the
graduating class of this year at the Yale Forest School
by consulting Professor Toumey. I believe that such
a man would be qualified to do the forestry work for
your expedition satisfactorily. Professor Toumey can
doubtless put you in touch also with older men who have
had several years of practical forestry work since
graduation and who would be available for the expedition.
I shall be glad to have you call upon me again if I can
be of any further service.

April 18, 1912.

My dear Doctor Bingham:

I have your letter of
April 11th in which you state the pleasure given
you upon the receipt of the information from the
American Minister at Lima that the President of
Peru had assured the Legation of his readiness to
meet your wishes in the matter of the investigation
of the ancient ruins of Peru.

As you have already learned from the De-
partment's letter of April 13th, the President of
Peru has informed the Legation that he would be glad
to extend the same privileges under which you operated
last year.

Regarding the plans for the legislation
which the President has stated his willingness to
submit to Congress for approval and your plans re-
lating thereto, the Department is informed that an

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I am pleased to quote you as per enclosed, and
sincerely hope we may be able to secure your entire order.

I wrote some little time ago to get prices on Venesta packing cases, but I fear that the reply to the letter may have been forwarded on the Titanic, as it was due to leave England at just about the time of the sailing of this vessel, so I will write again for weights and prices. I think I am now on the track of getting cases similar to the Venesta, but as yet I have not procured prices. I am afraid that the people who make the ordinary packing cases out of birch veneer do not handle sufficiently good stock.

I am figuring on cases 8 X 16 X 12 inches I.D. A package of this cubic contents would hold 57 lbs. of water, and figuring the specific gravity of your stuff at .75, which to my mind is a fair average, I think this size is about right, and I believe that outside of the varnishing with the waterproof varnish we can make them to cost just a little more than the first class boxes. I will have a sample made if we can get a sample of the veneered wood; we have sent for this and it should be in almost any minute now.

About the tents: I have quoted you on "Abercrombie's Improved" tent. For a good many years I have been making a small tent for surveyors and scientists doing mountain work where it was hard packing and where poles had to be carried. I have built a good many in the past four years for the surveyors of the Alaska Boundary Survey, both American and Canadian, and seem now to have reached the standard in desirability. I am sorry I do not have a photograph of this tent to send you, but am enclosing a rough sketch, not drawn to scale, which I think you will understand all right. I have drawn the sketch as though the cloth were transparent.

The design of the tent is like an "A" tent for the first 36 inches; the balance to the back is a pyramid with back end cut off. The height on each corner in the back is 1 1/2 ft., and in the center 2 ft. It is 8 X 8 ft. on the ground and 7 1/2 ft. high. The short ridge increases the head room wonderfully over that of the plain pyramid, and the amount of material used is only 1 1/2 inches more than is used in the half of a plain pyramid, because the roof is so shortened by the use of the short ridge and the use of the little back wall. Hence the weight is but slightly increased.

Professor Hiram Bingham - 2.

In the front of the tent is an oval door closed by
a bag like piece with the mouth closed by a puckering string.

Over the door is a ventilating window covered with
bobinet, and having an outside flap to work from the outside,
and in the back are two windows similarly made.

In the bottom is sewed permanently a piece of very
light sheeting.

This tent is absolutely insect proof, and if the
person entering does not carry the insects in on the body the
tent will be free from them.

Riggs, Baldwin, Craig, Eaton and Ogilvy, all well
known Boundary surveyors, together with a number of the other
Geodetic and Geologic surveyors, claim that this is the best
tent in design, material and construction that they have ever
seen, and so far this spring I have sent out nineteen. The
Boundary surveyors did not take so many because they already
had quite an equipment from previous years, but most of the
others have gone to people to whom they recommended them.
I have not had an opportunity to sell a great many, for they
are not listed in our catalogue, but I believe a trial with
this tent will convince you that it is about perfect.

I think you will be surprised to find the amount of
head room in the tent, and you will see the advantage of having
a straight front. If you have a pure pyramid and the door
faces the storm, it is almost impossible to make a door that
will prevent the rain from getting in.

We supply a jointed pole for the center that weighs
about 40 ounces, and the ridge weighs about 14 oz. Unfortunate-
ly I cannot be exact in regard to these weights, for our records
show that the poles we get vary all the way from 4 - 6 oz. per ft.
The ridge can be left in the tent and the tent rolled up on it,
if desired, although it is usually taken out and tied up with the
poles.

The tent would weigh somewhere in the vicinity of
9 lbs., although this weight is apt to be a little more or less.
The largest tent that came through weighed 10 1/2 lbs., but
there was about 1 1/2 lbs. of extra ropes on it.

In this letter I would like to call your attention to
a cooker I make to be used where it is necessary to conserve fuel.
We make two - one buring alcohol and the other kerosene. If the
trip is for a short time alcohol is all right, but if for a long
time kerosene is much better, for there are more heat units in
kerosene than in alcohol. In a demonstration with this cooker
I have used 23% of the fuel (kerosene) that was used by the next
best apparatus. With an open device I suppose it would be as
economical as 10%, although I have never have made such a test,
for it would be unnecessary.

The capacity of the cooker is about a gallon, although

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as large a one as desired could be made. The outside is made
of aluminum, asbestos and wire gauze, it is cylindrical in shape,
is 9 in. in diam. and 14 in. high. The cooking pots (two)
are semi-cylindrical and rest on a flat disk above the burner.
The heat units from the flame are radiated and reflected, and the
pots above are arranged in such a peculiar way that the heated
air escaping from the burner below passes through narrow spaces
formed by the wall of the cylinder and the walls of the cooking
pots, and the inner walls of the cooking pots, and the heated
air in going through these spaces loses the heat units both by
absorption and another phenomona, for it is well known that heat
vapor going through narrow slits of metal loses heat, and something
else must get the heat is loses, and with my little apparatus
the food gets it.

I have made these cooker for a great many years, not
selling many, but they do what I claim. I have just received
payment for an outfit sent to Alaska to one of the chiefs of
the Boundary Survey, and he says in his letter that the cookers
are just the thing. I regret that he did not go into the
matter further.

With best wishes, believe me,

DTA:MA

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Apr. 19, 1912.

My dear Prof. Bingham:-

I am just in receipt of the following
cable from Mr. Ballin:

"Oemyl, - will telegraph later"

I think this is a telegraphic mutiliation of "Oemkl" given
in my letter to him of Feb. 17th which signifys that Ballen thinks
this is a favorable time to get the privilege asked for by you,
and that he will telegraph later when you should arrive.

I will let you know as soon as I get
the next cable, in fact I will telegraph you as soon as I get
word. Meanwhile he recommends that you do what you can to get
yourself in shape and get all the influence to bear until you
get the next cable.

BRISTOL, STODDARD, BEACH AND FISHER,

April 19th, 1912.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Prospect Street,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear sir:

I have your letter of April 18th. I will make
inquiries as to the nature of concessions, although I hardly
know where to inquire. I can see no objection to add-
ing a clause providing for a renewal of the concession at
its termination. My notion about the thing is to put in
everything we can think of, and some things may stick.

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April 20th, 1913.

My dear Professor Bingham:

I was unable to get my letter dictated yesterday off
to you, owing to having to hold it for a few prices.

In the estimate I stated in connection with the
pocket compasses that it was impossible to get these divided to
single degrees at $1.50 each, and I do not believe I could get
one at that price divided to less than five or ten degrees.
A compass at that price is really too small for anything near
accurate work. I have, as you know, a full line of compasses,
and should advise you to pay not less than $3.00 each.

I have heard further about the packing boxes. I
think I can get cases that will stand the knocks and that are
adapted to re-filling and that we can make waterproof with the
special varnish we have and the special cloth, and the price
should not exceed 75¢ each. A great part of the expense will
lie in making them waterproof. The weight should not be more
than 7 lbs. each. As near as I can calculate, this would save
you at least 6 lbs. over the ordinary packing case.

I have looked around a great deal on this subject and
in my investigations have run across Mr. F. M. Wheeler, Yale '01,
and he seems to have about as good a thing, without seeing or
demonstrating, as I have run across. I have not yet heard
from the Venesta people, but I do not believe that their case
is as light as this. Mr. Wheeler says that they have a big
machine for testing the strength of boxes, and if you come on
he can demonstrate to you that their cases are as strong as you
can secure.

awaiting your reply, believe me,

DTA:MA

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON

F-MS

OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN.

April 22 1912

Dear Sir:

I am directed by the Librarian to write you in response to your letter of April 17.

It has had the attention of the Superintendent of the Reading Room, who now reports that the Library of Congress does not appear to have the work you desire*, nor does he find any entry for it in our catalogues. The British Museum Catalogue records, however, a reprint from the edition of 1848, published at Lima in 1889.

With regret at our inability to be of direct service in this instance,

*"El brillante porvenir del Cuzco"
By Julian Bovo de Revello.

Prof. Hiram Bingham
Yale University
New Haven Conn.

UNITED STATES SENATE,

PRESS GALLERY,

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22, 1922

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

Dear Sir:-

As a newspaper writer in Michigan for the last 25 years I have come to know Mr. Edward Pound and his family very well, indeed, and it is with entire confidence that he is the exact type of man who will be of most assistance to you on the Hiram Bingham Peruvian expedition that I venture to write this. He is not only a thorough gentleman and a member of one of the best families in our state, but he has had the training and experience which ought to make him a real acquisition for the serious work you are about to undertake in South Ameri-

United States Senate,

COMMITTEE ON
COAST AND INSULAR SURVEY.

Washington, D. C.

April 22nd, 1912.

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

My dear Sir:-

I have been informed that Mr. Edward Harold Pound of Detroit, Michigan, and formerly a member of the class of 1911 of the University of Michigan is an applicant for a position as Forester in the Hiram Bingham Yale Peruvian expedition which is to embark in June next.

Mr. Pound left the U. of M. in 1910 where he was taking a course in
forestry and went to South America, which Continent he crossed from the
Atlantic to the Pacific by canoe and on foot, passing through Brazil,
Ecuador and Peru. He is a bright, active and intelligent young man, in
love with forestry and by training and experience well equipped for work
along the lines proposed by your expedition.

I commend him to you in full confidence that he would be a valuable
man for you if you should engage him, and this I hope you will do.

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

COURTNEY W. HAMLIN, MO., CHAIRMAN.
S.H.DENT, JR., ALA.
S.A.RODDENBLRY, GA.
HUBERT D. STEPHENS, MISS.
CHARLES R. DAVIS, MINN.
JOHN G. TILSON, CONN.
WILLIAM W. WEDEMEYER, MICH.

House of Representatives U. S.
Committee on
Expenditures in the State Department,
Washington, D. C.

April 22, 1912.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

This is to say that I have been acquainted with Mr. Edward
H. Pound for several years. He was formerly a student at the
University of Michigan, which is located in my home city of
Ann Arbor.

I have also known Mr. Pound's family for some years. He
comes from good stock, and I have no hesitation whatever in con-
fidently recommending him to your consideration.

Mr. Pound's brother-in-law, James A. Le Roy, was one of my
close friends, and in other ways I have known all about the family
as indicated. I am sure that any confidence you repose in Mr.
Pound will not be misplaced.

With kind regards, I remain,

VICTOR MORRIS TYLER
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

M. J. M. #7444.

April 22, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
Prospect Hill,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Hi:-

Your letter of the 17th of April in regard to the
contribution to the expedition to Peru puts me in a mournful
position as I am obliged to decline. I do this most reluc-
tantly for several reasons, the principal one being that it
is a great pleasure to work with you in any proposition, even
if that work is nothing but lending financial aid to a very
worthy cause. However, I have tied myself up in so many
things this Spring that I am unable to take on anything else,
and even if it were to insure sending Harry Foote again I would
have to sidestep and that is saying a great deal, for as you
know I feel under considerable obligations to him for many
favors he has done me.

April 23, 1912.

My dear Johnson:

Mr. Osgood Hardy of the Junior class is the best student that I have
this year, and I am anxious to have him go on the Peruvian Expedition as
one of the assistants. This will necessitate his being absent during the
fall term. Mr. Hardy is a graduate of Pomona College and took an M.A.
here at Yale last year in the Graduate School. Deciding to continue his
studies and wishing to secure a Yale B.A. he entered this year's Junior
class and has, I believe, done very well.

I suggested to him the advisability of taking your courses. This was
before I decided to ask him to go as my assistant. I then suggested to him
that he see you with regard to the possibility of your giving him a list of
books which he might read on the voyage up and down, which would enable him
to pass an examination when he got back, and enable him to go on with your
two courses in Modern Governments and American Politics. He is a hard
worker and a bright student and I believe could make good, unless there
were no books from which he could make up what he would lose by being away

April 23, 1912.

Dear Dean Jones:

In regard to Mr. Osgood Hardy whom I have asked to go as one of my assistants on the next Peruvian Expedition, he tells me that he only has thirty hours credit for the work done up to entering the Junior class. Would you be so good as to look into this matter and see whether, on consideration of the fact that Mr. Hardy received the degree of M.A. here last year, it would not be possible to grant him more than thirty hours credit toward his B.A.?

Mr. Hardy has taken sixteen hours this year and has stood at the head of my class, being the best student that I have had for some time. He is an earnest and serious-minded student, and will I believe derive great value from the work on this expedition. I most sincerely hope that you will do everything within reason for him to enable him to be absent during the fall term and not to be unnecessarily overburdened with work upon his return. If I can do anything further to help this matter along, please let me know.

With kindest regards, believe me to remain

Faithfully yours,

Dean Jones,
Yale Station.

WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian.
W. H. TILLINGHAST, Assistant Librarian.
A. C. POINTER, Assistant Librarian.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April 23d, 1912.

Dear Hiram:--

I wish we could find for you the pamphlet by Bovo de Revello, which you write about in your letter of April 17th, but we seem to have no clue to it here any more than you have.

I am glad to know that you are in this country again. One never knows where to think of you. With kindest regards,

YALE UNIVERSITY

SECRETARY'S OFFICE

EDWIN ROGERS EMBREE
ALUMNI REGISTRAR
AND ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

April 23, 1912.

Professor Hiram Bingham,
25 Lampson.

My dear Professor Bingham:-

I am enclosing a few clippings indicating the range of discussion that your South American expedition is still attracting in the newspapers.

The South American expedition, particularly the discovery of the glacial man, has attracted more comment in the papers during the winter than any other single piece of work in the University.

MAR/

YALE UNIVERSITY.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.
PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

New Haven, Conn., April 23, 191 2.

Dear Professor Bingham,

I have seen Dr. J. P. Schaeffer who is Assistant Professor of Anatomy here in the Medical School. He is favorably im-pressed with the proposition but feels that he most communicate with parties in Philadelphia before giving a definite answer. If I can secure Dr. Schaeffer or an equally satisfactory physician to go with me so that we can have a medical unit as brought up in our talk yesterday, I will accept the offer to go with the expedition; provided, however, that it can be arranged so that the doctors will not have to start until after commencement. It is a matter of sentiment only, but a man's twentieth reunion comes only once. I dislike very much to miss it. I understood at our first meeting that it might well be arranged for the doctor to start a week or two later than the rest of the party.

Yale University

Allen Johnson
Earned Professor of American History

Yale Station
New Haven,
Connecticut

April 24, 1912.

My dear Bingham:-

The "seeming impertinence" of your note is neither
apparent nor real. Of course you have a perfect right to know why
I was inclined to exclude Hardy from my classes. I say inclined,
for on second thoughts I am disposed to waive technicalities and
admit him to the course in Modern Governments. I had a talk with
him this morning and told him the conditions under which I would
permit him to come into the course after Christmas. He seemed per-
fectly willing to conform. As to the advanced course in American
Politics, I shall have to be stubborn. I am admitting to it only
men who have taken the course in Modern Government. To do the sort
of work which I contemplate, I must insist on this prerequisite. If
I could talk with you ten minutes, I could convince you of the
reasonableness of this demand; but I won't take your time now. I
have absolutely refused to admit a dozen or more men to this course.

Hardy is a good fellow, albeit Western, and I think
he has good ability. I should be glad, if conditions permitted, to
admit him to both courses.

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April 24th, 1912.

My dear Professor Bingham:

Your kind favor of the 22nd inst. duly received.

I will be able to show you the cooker when you call, but cannot show you the exact model of the Improved Tent. I can show you a tent almost like it and can point out the improvements to you, and I think you will get a fair idea.

It is not necessary to have the bottom of light cloth,
but the idea is to keep the weight down. You can have it of
heavier duck and waterproof, and the only difference will be
the increase in weight. You will find the tent extremely rigid.

I do not see how your Bureau can get a general bid
on the list you sent me. I am very anxious to secure your whole
order, and would like to be sure that all parties are bidding
on the same thing.

Hoping to see you tomorrow, I am,

DTA:MA

April 24, 1912.

Dear Doctor Fairchild:

Thank you for your kind letter of April 17th. The Peruvian expedi-
tion expects to sail from New York on June 8th and I suppose will be in
Lima in a little over two weeks from that date. I shall probably have
to go to Lima two or three weeks earlier myself. We hope all of us to be
in Cuzco by the first of July. Our address in Cuzco is care of Cesar
Lomellini and Company. Mr. Lomellini or his clerks will know where we
are. W.R.Grace and Company in Lima or Arequipa will also know of our
whereabouts. The Harvard Observatory in Arequipa will also probably know.
I hope these facts will enable you to put your men in touch with us.
We shall be delighted to have a botanist associated with the expedition
if it does not increase our expenses.

I have talked today with Mr. Pound who seems to me rather more
interested in commerce than in science. I appreciate greatly your interest
in the expedition and I hope most sincerely that we may cooperate.

Faithfully yours,

Dr. David Fairchild,
Department of Agriculture, Washington.

April 24, 1912.

Dear Mr. Hadley:

I am enclosing a letter from Mr. Bristol together with the final form
of the concession which he has drawn up, after making such changes as I
suggested. I should be very glad to have you look it over and critique
it if you feel so inclined. I am advised by W.R.Grace and Company that
they have heard from their confidential agent that this is a favorable
time for securing the concession in Peru, and that they will telegraph
later when I ought to go. The State Department advises me that they have
received another cable from our Minister in Lima assuring us that the
President will grant all necessary privileges for this year's expedition,
according to us the same favors granted us last time. It seems to me we
are now in a position to go ahead without any further difficulties except
those that can easily be overcome as they arise.

The plans are progressing favorably and everything looks bright for
a good expedition. I have told Dr. George F. Eaton definitely that I want
him to be the osteologist of the expedition and I trust that leave of

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April 25, 1912.

Prof. Hiran Singhaw,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

Your letter of April 23 has been received. I am glad that you have
asked to know more of my proposed South American work, for it gives me the
opportunity of expressing my views on zoological field work.

It has seemed to me for some time that our methods must undergo a
radical change. From now on nothing can be gained by general collecting or
superficial observations on the fauna of different regions. What we need
now are careful surveys of limited areas. By careful surveys I do not mean
simply the working out of the general zoogeographic regions, as the U. S.
Biological Survey is doing, but a careful study of local distribution with
a view to determining the habitat facies. Such work yields an abundant har-
vest of results that have a direct bearing of the problems of origin, nigra-
tion and evolution.

I have tried to work out my ideas to some extent, and I believe that
the results have been of particular value. I trust that you will believe that
it is with due modesty and only for the purpose of making clear to you what I
am convinced such work ought to be that I refer to some of my publications.

In a study of the reptiles and amphibians of portions of New Mexico and
Arizona (Unfortunately I have no copies of this paper, Bull. American Museum
of Natural History, XIII, p.483 et seq.) I secured excellent results by this
method. The latter was applied again in a study of the fauna of Iowa, and
yielded what Dr. Scharff has been pleased to say in his recent book *The
Treatment* of the subject. The same has been said of the work

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in this state, and reports on an expedition to Mexico and on another survey
in this state are now in press.

I repeat that I only refer to my own work because I want to make
plain my ideas on the subject. My plans for the future contemplate work in
southwestern North America, Central America, and South America, and in the
course of the work in the last named country, I expect to visit Peru.

I assure you that, if you could get the zoologists of the Yale Peru-
vian Expeditions to attack the problems in that country as I have suggested,
the results would be very gratifying and a decided credit to the expeditions.

I take the liberty of sending you some of my publications.

E.V.H.

George Worthington, Pres.
T. Minor Curry, Vice Pres.

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Charles A. Rogers, Secy.

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I expect to be in Hartford tomorrow.

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Aoril 25th, 1912.

My dear Professor Bingham:

I should like very much indeed to secure your entire
order and should like to talk over the quotations with you and
see if it is possible for us to come to an understanding.

There is a difference in the price of the 15 X 42 in.
bags over that of last year, but there is quite a change in the
work and some change in the model. The Swiss canteens are
15¢ higher, but they cost more to import this year. The
tents are higher in price by $1.50 each, but they are a different
model. The rot proof tent of flax is slightly lower in price.
The sleeping bags are about the same.

After looking over the prices again, it seems to me
more necessary that we get together, and if it is not
convenient for you to come down here I will run up to see you
if you will make an appointment.

It is absolutely impossible for me to take a catalogue
and quote you a regular discount.

DTA:MA

P. O. Box No. 592,
Harrisburg, Pa.,
April 26th, 1912.

My dear Professor Bingham:

Ever since our conversation the other afternoon, I have been wondering whether your remark about desiring to have an Army Officer, a Graduate of West Point, along on your next expedition to Peru was a challenge, an offer, or merely a feeler for information. Assuming the last, I am taking the liberty of thrusting some suggestions upon you.

I think the matter could be presented to the Secretary of War in such a way that he would consent to detach an officer for the purpose. The Military Information Division is always desirous of obtaining information about foreign countries, and especially about South America in view of the approaching completion of the Panama Canal, it would be a good experience for the officer concerned in a professional way, and with the backing of Yale University, a very pretty case could be made up. Of course, there is always a shortage of officers, but the routine work seems to go on just the same, no matter how many are away on special details. Besides there are many precedents for such a procedure.

The difficulty would rather be to find your man in such a short time as remains. There are a great many men who could handle the work in good shape, and many who have had considerable experience along similar lines. Most of those competent, however, would not be available, and of those available, few would care for the work or would find it convenient to go along. I question whether there are a dozen lieutenants in the Army who have ever heard of Peru and certainly not many who would care to go on an exploratory survey, when they can keep on drawing their pay in such an easier manner. Then too, it might be that the only condition on which the Department would allow a man to go would be for him to apply for six months' leave of absence without pay,

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in which case he would be dependent upon the amount you would be able to
offer, which would be little inducement to a man unless he were very much
interested in the work for itself, and I gather that this is the only kind
of a man you want in any case.

The most available men would be from this year's class at West
Point, graduating about June 10th; but these men would be absolutely
without practical experience, either in field engineering surveying or in
general knocking about, and I am certain no one of them would be willing,
after the four years of prison life at the Point, to give up the three
months' leave due him on graduation. He would also have forgotten all of
his Spanish, which is a Sophomore study.

The most likely man would be a first or second lieutenant of the
line who has been engaged on military surveys of various kinds, preferably
in the Philippines or Cuba. It would take the War Department too long to
find a suitable man who is willing to go, as the time is so short, even
were your request granted; so that I should not advise taking the matter
up with the Secretary of War unless you can apply for a particular man by
name. If you have a man in mind, then the procedure would be to have
some influential Senator make the request of the Secretary of War. The
man himself could not appear in the matter in the position of using other
than military channels of approach. He could submit your offer in the
regular way and request that he be allowed to accept it, but his request
would probably be disapproved by his immediate commander who would not wish
to lose one of his assistants, so that in any case it would be necessary
to fix the people higher up. I am sure the general Staff would look
favorably upon such a request, and I do not think there would be a great
deal of trouble about it, provided you have a competent man in view who
wants to go, and whose services can be spared.

I know several men, just the men you want, around Washington or
Leavenworth, but they are either tied up with aeroplanes or are in the
middle of a course at one of the post graduate service schools. However,
there are many others, and I can go through the list and suggest some
names if you wish it and will let me know more definitely what will be
expected of the man. Many men can make good accurate maps rapidly who
are poor ornate letterers or who cannot make a freehand perspective sketch
to save their lives. On the other hand, as you know, the artistic fellows

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April 26, 1912.

Dr. Hiram Bingham,
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New Haven, Conn.,

Sir:-

I have the honor to inform you that, by direction
of the Surgeon General of the Army, one (1) Detached Ser-
vice Chest has this date been turned over to the U. S.
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I am inclosing herewith a Memorandum Receipt
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me at the above address.

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W.

measurements of his subjects. This would give us a basis for the study
of the Peruvian Indians which has not hitherto existed in this country.

In short the medical department of the expedition, in addition to
looking after the general health of the members of the expedition, would
have the particular task of studying the Indians, both healthy and unhealthy.
Dr. Blumer, the Doan of the Medical School, has given his consent to
Professor Bartlett's absence during the fall term, but I am not aware what
arrangement has been made with regard to substitutes, except that I under-
stand that Dr. Bartlett's present assistant is capable of carrying on
most of the work during the fall term, and furthermore we are proposing
to pay the chief medical officer of the expedition an honorarium of
$600, about $100 of which would be needed to cover the cost of his personal
equipment and the other $500 could be applied in part to meeting the
extra expense of a substitute. I should suppose.

I trust that this will answer satisfactorily your question.

Faithfully yours,

Professor E.S.Dana,
Hillhouse Avenue,
New Haven, Connecticut.

New Haven, Conn., April. 26, 191 2.

Dear Professor Bingham,

I have just had another interview with Dr. Schaefer. He feels that he must be counted out, although he has asked to reserve the right until this evening to change his decision. I am sending special delivery letter to the other man that I have in mind and have asked him to telegraph me at once if he considers it favorably. If I do not get such reply and communicate with you before your train tomorrow morning, I fear you will have to call upon the Harvard man.

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Prof. Hiram Bingham,
787 Prospect St.,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

We have your favor of
the 24th and in reply would say
we will be pleased to make you the
two pair of boots and will get them
off to you by the time you want them.

We have forwarded catalogues to
the parties you mention and have
referred them to you as to the merits
of our goods.

We are also in receipt of a letter
from Mr. F.B. Johnson of the Treasurer's
Department, Yale University asking us
to give him quotations and discounts
and we have written him that we will
allow for your expedition on whatever
goods you may want a discount of 20%
from catalogue price, which we trust
will be satisfactory to everybody,

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THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR.

April 27, 1912.

Dear Dr. Bingham:-

I am returning under separate cover by registered mail
the three photographs that accompanied your letter of the twenty-
fourth. I am very much interested in these because they show
much better than any of Weberbauer's photographs the hedgerow
maguey of the interior of Peru. There is no question that this
is introduced and not native. I do not distinguish it from the
Amoy aloe of China and the *dew* aloe of Mauritius and perhaps of
India, Agave lurida. It will interest me very much indeed if on
the occasion of your next visit to South America you can without
inconvenience get an additional larger scale photograph of this
and perhaps also of the one on the west slope which I think must
be different. The enclosed memorandum will show how one can sim-
ply handle the more essential herbarium representation of these
plants.

I have kept for our herbarium the photographs that you
have kindly allowed me to see, but of course shall not publish the
pictures without at least securing your preliminary consent and I
do not now anticipate the need of publishing them.

Trusting that if I can ever be of service to you, you
will give me the privilege, I am,

Yours very truly,

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

Director.

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MEXICO CITY April 29th, 1912

Mr. Hiram Bingham,

Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

Mr. Wm. H. Avery has forwarded me copy of your letter of April 15th., also his reply. I enclose you sailing list for our steamers for South America and trust you will find it convenient to use our KIYO MARU leaving Salina Cruz on September 24th. You should leave this City not later than Sept. 22nd. and if you will call at this office I shall be pleased to furnish you ticket Salina Cruz to the point you may desire to go, or that our steamers touch.

The fare from Mexico City to Salina Cruz is about
$15.00 U. S. Cy., sleeping car fare $4.50, time thirty six hours.

HCD/JRH

cc to WmHAvery

YALE COLLEGE,

FREDERICK S. JONES,
Dean of the College.

NEW HAVEN, CONN. April 29, 1912

Dear Mr. Bingham,

Upon receipt of your letter I looked
up the case of Paul Osgood Hardy of the Class of
1913. I find that he applied for admission to
the Junior Class and made no request to be credited
with hours in Junior and Senior years. If the
application had been for admission to a higher class
or for credit for more than thirty hours, it would
have been granted, without doubt. It seems then
that Mr. Hardy was not refused credit for the regular
amount granted a man graduating from another insti-
tution, but was given all that he asked.

In view of the fact that he will have
accomplished more work than is necessary for grad-
uation, I shall recommend to the Faculty that he be
given leave of absence, with the privilege of taking
twenty-one hours after Christmas to count for fourteen
hours for the year, and complete his B.A. work. It
seems to me probable that the Faculty will grant this.
Action will be taken on Thursday next.

Professor Hiram Bingham
787 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.

April 27, 1912.

My dear Doctor Bingham:

Referring to your personal
letter of April 22d, regarding the expedition which
is about to leave under your leadership for the explo-
ration of the ancient ruins of Peru, I take pleasure
in informing you that the American Minister at Lima
was instructed by cable on the 25th instant, in accord-
ance with your request, to telegraph the date upon which
the extra session of the Peruvian Congress will open,
as soon as it shall have been definitely known by the
Legation.

A copy of a despatch dated April 1st
from the American Minister in Lima, which was received
subsequent to the sending of the above mentioned tel-
egram, is enclosed with its enclosure, for your confiden-
tial information, from which it will appear that June 5th
is

ROBERT W. PATTERSON, PRESIDENT
FRANK FINNEY, M.D., VICE PRESIDENT

R. PHILLIPS, CASHIER
C.R. BUCKEY, ASSISTANT CASHIER

The First National Bank
of La Junta, Colorado

Apr. 30, 1912.

Prof. Hiram Bingham,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

I am under a very many great obligations to you for your
recent favor and the valuable time which you devoted to giving me
the information contained in your letter. You have told me just
the things I wished to know. I will study your recommendations and
hope to be able to follow out a good many of them at least. I will
try to secure the works which you recommend, although those which are
not to be had in this country, I presume I will not be able to secure.
I might say I have bought something like twenty-five volumes of
travels and other works upon South America to which I have given
considerable time. I have also devoted a little time to the study
of Spanish, spent something like six weeks in Denver University under
Prof. Fleury one year ago. I had planned to take my trip one year
ago, but our cashier was attacked with appendicitis and had to submit
to an operation; hence, I was compelled to take charge of the bank
until his recovery and did not get out until the first of September,
then I was so worn out that I went to the mountains for six weeks and
then was called south to attend to some business. I might have added
that I have been a cow boy, know how to pack, cook and camp and have
done a good deal in that line of business. If I have a few simple
cooking utensils and a little grub, I can get along even if there are
no hotels and if the people refuse to house and feed me as they did

R. PHILLIPS, CASHIER
C. R. BUCKEY, ASSISTANT CASHIER

#2, Prof. H. B.

you at times on your trip. I had planned to have spent a couple of
months in the City of Mexico in order to familiarize myself with
Spanish conversation, but on account of the unsettled conditions, will
pass Mexico by for the present. I may possibly go to San Jose as
suggested by you. I might add also that I am not planning to travel
simply in scientific research, but merely to see the country as it
is, both in the well trodden paths as well as in a few new ones. I
want to become acquainted with the countries in all its interests,
resources and social and political conditions. I am expecting to sail
from New York about June 1st. It is barely possible I might take a
run over to New Haven and spend an hour with you. Again, repeating
my grateful acknowledgments, I am

Truly yours,

TALCOTT WILLIAMS,
916 PINE STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

April 30, 1912.

My dear Fred:

There is no formula in regard to getting the good offices
of the State Department in an application for permission to excavate
in any country. The main object is to make certain that the State
Department really orders the Minister to get the permit, if he can,
and does not make it simply one of the things that are passed on to
the legation with the full understanding on both sides that it is
unnecessary for the Minister to worry himself. If I were in Bing-
ham's place, I should reach Taft and go to Washington and secure
the services of both senators and all congressmen. This will stir up
the State Department, and the Minister at Lima will understand that
something really has to be done. Howard, who is Minister now, is a
negative political appointment, with good connections, but no special
interest, so far as I know. I should also get Barrett, who is
pretty close to the Peruvian Minister at Washington and stir him up.
My impression is that Pardo is a man interested in these things. I
should also get at W. R. Grace, 1 Hanover Square, New York and
Charles R. Flint, 25 Broad St., both of whom have agents all over
South America, and their resident agent is generally of very much
more weight and influence than the American Minister, for the time
being. They both have the reputation of paying out a good deal of
money in the course of a year and can get almost anything they want.
I assume that Peru or some Spanish-American country is the matter
under consideration. Of course if it is a Central American point,

Professor Williams.

4/30/12.

the proper people to get at are the United Fruit Company.

I dare say Hiram Bingham, who has been most successful,
knows all of this already. The State Department, I may add, does
not pay any attention to these matters, unless the whole thing is
properly documented. There should be a request from the University
as well as from the Museum, and all the various things which can be
added to show that serious work is in prospect. I am sorry and dis-
appointed to say that under Knox the State Department has no inter-
est in anything but commercial concessions, but that either scien-
tific or archaeological study gets slight attention, unless it is
backed by the kind of people who were so long Knox's clients. Every-
thing which the Museum here has got in Turkey or elsewhere has been
by following the plan I have outlined and then camping in the foreign
capital until the concession was obtained.

I am glad to hear that Frances is better; the treatment
you allude to is along the new lines and would be valuable to every-
body, if it were given them when the first signs of nervous over-
strain begin. It is really almost as simple and almost as diffi-
cult as being good.

I am expecting to take a vacation in the summer, but I
do not know yet just when. I have had about ten times as much to
do in starting the School as any one anticipated.

W.R.GRACE & Co.

NEW YORK

LA PAZ

GRACE BROTHERS & CO., LTD.

LONDON.

NEW YORK April 30, 1912.

My dear Prof. Bingham:-

I have your letter of April 29th with
reference to the Treaty necessary to get your concession. I do
not think this should be difficult for you to obtain. After all,
the mere thought of a Treaty has a rather alarming sound, but
I think it would be a simple thing to have the President, or the
State Secretary write to the Minister at Lima, stating that they
would be glad to see the concession granted and tell the Minister
to do whatever is reasonable for the purpose of obtaining it.
If the instructions are broad enough, that will cover the Treaty,
and I think it ought to be obtained very quickly, but we re-
commend that prompt action be taken as the elections take place
shortly.

It seems to me that the only advice I
can give you at this moment is to go to Washington, see the Pres-
ident, or the Secretary of State or whoever is in charge, that they
write the necessary instructions to the Minister to Lima, and stay
there until you see the letter written. After that I would get
ready to go to Lima as promptly as you can conveniently do so,
and think that May 18th would be all right.

April 30, 1912.

My dear Doctor Bingham:

Referring to past correspondence regarding your plans for the exploration of the ancient ruins of Peru, I am glad to inform you that the American Minister at Lima, in response to the telegram sent to him recently requesting information regarding the contemplated extra session of the Peruvian Congress, telegraphs that this special session has not yet been definitely decided upon but that the President has informed the Legation that it will be advisable for you to come to Lima at once in order to insure success in obtaining favorable action in the matter of the concession for a term of years, which the President desires be given to you by law of Congress.

I am, my dear Doctor Bingham.

Doctor Hiram Bingham,

787 Prospect Street,

New Haven, Connecticut.

823.927/10