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July 16, 1923
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la MS* you «r«r i««a» a am aAition y<w aay b« iat«rt.t«l
U kaw t]»t th» (l«r«na»iit 0««raphl« Bo^ ha. ^taigpA »mmii
abJMtiMMbls HUM in H(«i)oUt and Msndoeino Countiaa.
Thua th« arw within the baod or loop of South Pork Sai
at lfr«r. road hooaa haa bam, gi»«» it. original Indian na»o. Kw-taa-
Ao-ba. and tha Indian mm Kattlatalba haa boa. r«itorod to tha
plaM naually aallad Phillipafilla.
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Dr. Joseph J. ffi.ll
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, TSalif •
Ify dear Doctor Hill:
On returning recently from a field trip in the north I
fotmd ny manuscript on Jedidiah S. Staith's Route returned by
Doctor Bolton, along nith your letter of June 16.
1 wiflh to thank you for the attention you gave the article
and for your ren»rk8 concerning Smithes letter to General Clarke
Bvidently I failed to make myself quite clear in the matter. I
did not intend to imply that Smith wrote two letters, but that a
copy, dated five days later, was used by Dale and others. But I
did intend to imply that Dale tYw^kjmjiigtl^^ liberties with
Snith^s letter, which as published by him does not strictly con-
form with +-he original. Apparently Dale changed a word now and
then to •improve* the msaning. Thus the words •have got* instead
of •here got*, •acors^ instead of •acorns^, and sane others are
exactly as in the Indian Office copy of Smithes letter; and Dale*«
bungling of the reference to the Oila River strengthens ny
opinion that he took liberties.
It would be interesting as you suggest to make an actual
con5)arison of the hand writing of the two copies, and possibly 1
may arrange to do this after ny rrturn to Washington, or it migjtt
be done at the headquarters of the \lissouri Historical Society.
Possibly they might be willing to haie a photostat copy made at ar,
expense and sent me* If yon know the address of the person in -
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The last number of the Sierra Club Bulletin contains an
article on Jedidiah Snath's crossing of the Sierra in 1827
copies of irtiich I aa sending you and Doctor Bolton by this'nail
%ain thanking you for the trouble you have taken in the
matter,
'Vory truly yours.
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Mto Brenfc Altsheler
Louistille, Ky*
My dear Ifeo Altsheler:
Your letter of June 7 was forwarded from lashing^o^ "^
reeiches me on ngr return from a recant field trip. Hence, please
pardon delay in replying*
Regarding your coB(t6C5)lated fall trip to British Columbia
and the oatter of a permit for scientific specimens^ would say
that I an no longer in a position to help in matters of this kind
and would suggest that you address Ifre CJerrit So Miller^ CUrator
of Mammals, !!• So National Jtiseum, or Dto B« Wo Nelson^ Chief
of the Biological Survey, Washington^ D* Co
Ona would naturally think that any museum or institution
having the custody of natural history collections would be only
too glad to avail themselves of such axi opportunity e
With best wishes,
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Flat, Alaskao
Dear Sirs
Your letter of May 2 has just reached me.
I regret that tha cuttir^ down of the price of bear
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.skulls, owing to shortage of fUndSjhas loft you in a hole.
1 had no intention of doii^ this and will add enough to
the neit Toucher so that you will not lose anything hy the
transaction. -'
About three years ago, as I think I wrote you at the
tiioe, I was no looser able to pay the large price I had
previously paid for grizzly skulls, since which time I have
paid for nftlet little more than I formerly gate for fe-
male^
Apparently you have two or more skulls on the way, or
at least which had not arrived before I left Washincton.
Since I left 1 have not been notified of the receipt of
any skulls, but this does not mean *hat they have not ar-
rived as they sometimss forget to notify me. However, I
will agree to attend to the matter soon after nf return
in the fall.
Thanking you for the trouble you have taton in adding
to our collection,
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Mr. J. B. Cochran
BeurkervillOt Bo C.
Dsar Sir:
blanks for your latter of June 9 which has been forwarded
to me from Washipgton.
I shall be glad to have you send me the two grizzly bIgjIIs
you mentioned althotfgh from what you say of than they are not worth
very much, the male lackii^ the lower jaw, the fenale shot be-
tween the eyes. From ^^iiat you say I sliould tfcink the two would be
worth about $l5e If this is satisfactory please ship to th€r
Biological Survey as usual^not forgetting to attach a tag to
each skull givir^ the locality ard aj^P^^^ia^^^* ^ata of killing
and your own name and addresse ^
Uf lai^e book on the big bears is not yet published but
several years ago I published a technical work on the.^ears
which I can send you if you care for it. It was published by
the Biological Survey as No Am* Faiuia No* 41o I expect to work
in Qalifornia until about the end of October,
Vary truly yoVrB,
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Mr, S. N, Lafoneo
C5iico, Sfelif.
% dear Mr. lafoiiao:
n waa good of you and Mrs. lafonso to think of sending us
• card from Cbvelo and we are very glad to hear from you.
I had hoped to spend the 4th in Round Valley but was pre-
VGnted Ijy other aattara.
Since we parted at CJrindatone I haye been to Santa Barbara
to attend a meeting in the interest of Indians and I am happy to
say tmt a '.ranch of the Indian R,fenne Association was formed
^rith ar initial niemberahip of 100. This certainly is encouraging^
and the fact is still more encouraeir^ that o'or new S«jretary of '
Interior. Dr. Hubert Work, has invited a number of persons, of
whom I am one, to form an advisory council on Indiaii affairs.
I have also done a lot of field work, particularly in lake
and Jfendocino Counties.
Some of these days we hope and expect to drop in at Chico
to see you all again - probably not until the sunner heat begins
to taper. Meanwhile, with kindest regards to your mother, Its. "
I^fonso, your dear little girl and yourself.
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Ooldon Eagle
Bbld Ekgle
Rod-tail Hawk
Iferah Hawk
Xkick Hawk
Piah Hawk
Cbopor Hawk
.aiarp-shin Hairic
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Turkey Buzzard
Great -homed Owl
Bam Owl
Crested Blue jay
Oalifomia Blue jay
Brewer Blackbird
Bed- shouldered Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird!.
Oalifomia Woodpecker
lewis Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker _
Hed-breasted Sapsucker
Yelloidiaianer ci>t'?U%V^t^
Nuthatdi
Ueadowlark
Oriole
Shrike
Western Kiqg Bird
Oreat-crested Kingbird
Sqpidonaz Flycatcher
Black-headed Grosbeak
Scroaeh Owl
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Burrowing or
Ground Owl
Jonoo
Valley Qiiail
- linnet
Oova*
Lark Sparrow
Pigeon
Chipping ^)arrow
Roadruimer
Song Sparrow
Kingfisher
LafliU nndi
Crow
Tellowbird
Western Tellowbird
Cha«ink
Ik' own Towbee
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Yellow-throated Warbler
Yellow-breasted Qiat
Bobin
KiUda«
Ottllt
la Thrashei^
Russet-back Thrush
Tigers Ireo
Ifekrsh Wren
Tufted
Chickadee
Irentit
Bushtit
Isstem Blueibird
Sffin
Quiada Ck>0B*
Ihite-frontsA Goose
Millard
Shoteler
Ibod Duek
Bed Head
Ruddfy Buok
Great Blue Heron
Utile Green Heron
K,lgA Heron
Bittern
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August 2| 1925.
Dear Miss Clemencd:
Tour letter of July 16 reached me last ni^^t on oiir
return from a sixteen day trip in the northwest.
The same mai 1 brought a letter from f. ¥• Ashley »
Superintendent of the Reading Room of tile Library of OoQgrdss^
coniplaining that you have not returned two books taken from
the librai7» one as lopg ago as May 29^ the other June 22«
The books mentioned are Brinton^ Ifyths of the New World,
lienhard, Calif omien* You surely can appreciate how
mortifyiiTg it is to me to be served with a notice of this
sort and there would seem to be no good reason for keeping
a book out so long#
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1 am very glad to have yoTir statement as to the work
BO far acconplished this season, Bvidently you have hit a
lot of inportant records all of i^ch are for the good.
All of these items will help make our work more complete
You will be interested to know that durir^g our last
trijf I succeeded in catcMr^ the old Lolahnkok Indian at
his home and worked him for several days. Also, after
failii^ each visit for the past four years, succeeded in tak-
ing him over the Redwood Highway and getting from him mare
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has been familiar since childhood.
Also did a good piece of work with the Weyot of
lower Sel Rivex^ and then went to Petrolia and the lower liatiole
River where I got a fairly good vocabulary of the Ifaittol
language, includii^ a batch of rancheria and geographical
names* To ny great surprise I found that the languages of the
Bear River Mekanni and the Mattel differ greatly in the names
of animals^ plants^ and other thingB) although a considerable
percentage ef the words are the same.
J, Returned over the new road from Upper Hatble across
Elk Mountains and down Bull Creek to South Fork Bel, canqping
ose night with the Roscoe family irtiere Bailey bjA I camped
mora than twenty years ago.
^th best wishes.
Very truly yours.
IB. as Stella Clemence
1767 Lanier Place
lashington, D. C.
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Ifr. P. W. Ashley
Super! ntem«nt Readlr^ Rocxn
Library of Congress
lashii^on, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of July 19 has just reached me at ny sum-
mer headquarters at Lagunitas, California.
I regret that ny assistant. Miss Stella Clen»nce, has
not returned the two books you mention, namely, Brinton,
Jfyths of the New World and lienhard, Oalifomien.
I am writing Miss Clemence by this mail, calling her
attention to the matter and askir^ her to hereafter mako
a special point of retumir^ books prcoptly.
Thanking you for callii^ ny attention to the matter.
Very truly yours,
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Aiigufit 2, 1923,
Ifr. R. A. lhall
Ifetropolitan Air Goods Co»
Athol, Mass*
Dear Sir: ^
Herewith is ny check for ^16 in payment for the
Broipie Pad and cushion which you sent me on July 9.
Duriog our last trip of sixteen days from which we
returned last evenir^^we used your 8 X 8 umbrella tent
with much satisfactioh. For my purposes it is the siraplest,
most convenient and most satisfactory tent I have had
duriog a lifetime of camping.
¥ery truly yours.
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It. F. W. Ashley
Superinterient Reading Room
Library of Congress
Washington^ D. C,
Dear Sir:
Your letter ot July 19 has just reached me at ny sum-
mer headquarters at Lagunitas, California.
I regret that ny assi stent. Miss Stella Clemence. has
not returned the two books you mention, namely, Brinton,
Ifyths of the New World and lienhard, Calif omi en.
I am writing Miss Clemence by this mil, calling her
attention to the matter and askir^; her to hereafter nUce
a special point of retumir^ books proo^jtly.
Thanking you for calling ray attention to the natter,
Very truly yours.
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Atigust 2, 1923.
Mr. R. A. Ihall
Metropolitan Air Soods Co.
Athol, Mass.
Dear Sir:
Herewith is ny check for $16 in payment for the
Broipie Pad and cushion which you sent me on July 9.
IXirii^ our last trip of sixteen days from which we
returned last evenir^^we used your 8 X 8 umbrella tent
with much satisfaction. For my purposes it is the siraplest,
most convenient and most satisfactory tent I have had
durii^ a lifetime of camping.
¥ery truly yours.
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Mr* J« D. Cbr«st^ Chaiman Board of I)lr#etors»
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Star llr« firant:
IhankB for your latter of Julj 23 just racaiYad on n|f
froa a fiald trip in Buoboldt Coufaty.
I am obliged for tha statement concerning the gift of
IRedeood gro?e by Vrn^ RueSt notices of iriiidi I had already
in the nowapapere*
In the hope of eatablishii^ aboriginal Indian jbobb for
cexi^n plAces alor^ the Redwood Hif^imy before such abominabla
naiwe as FhillipeTille» l^jrer^a Bead Houee, Bull Creek and so on
becorM permanently fixed^ I haTe made duriqg the pest fev yeara
abotct twenty trips over the Hig^may. Duriqs prerious years I
secured a few nazass but was not able to find an old resident
idiom I could take oTer the route • This year I had better
success, findiqg the sou^t-for old man at hoB» and takii^ Mm
over the route aloqg South Fork lel wi th nhi ch he has been
famili€Lr from childhood* In this way I obtained more than ei^tr
Aames with exact distances between. Sonft of these will be sob-'
mitted to the OoTemment Geographic Board, idiich on ny races*
mendation has already adopted the nana Kittentelbe in plao# of
PhillipsTille; Kenteschobe for the flat in the loop of South Foric
Sal i^re Ifyer^s Road House is located^ and Lolanko for the Bull
CVeak Redwood Flat on the west side of South Fork« Ihile t^iese
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asvttrtbaloM, thty •«ttn niich mora desirable than the Bi^llsh
, «*etitut«» which have already founl their way en soiBe of tha
1 have obtained also frwn ten different Indian tribea the
aborieioal naoss of a large number of localities on the min
lel and its numerous tributaries^t these are not Ukely to ht
^ of interest to you in connectiA with the Redwood Highway,
} excepting those pertaining ie,the stretch of i«in Sel between
Scotia an^jpyerrilla. *
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August 4, 1925.
Dr. Joseph J. Hill
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, Qalif.
W dear Dr. Hill;
Ifenjr thanks for your letter of July 20 which I fiai on
returning from a field trip in Humboldt County.
I qoite agree witti you as to the desirability of making
an eiBct e<wparison of the «^io. of Jedediah Smith's letter
of July. 1827. As already stated I have a beautiful photostat
copy ef the original in the Indian Office. It only remins
to obtain a similar photostat cop y of the one in the possession
of the Misso,«.i Historical Society. You apparently orerlooked
my request for the address of the secretary or custodian of the
Ifissoiiri Historical Society in order that I might ask if they
will have a piurtostat copy made at my aotpense. If you will
kindly send me 1.his addr,„ I shall be greatly obliged as I am
far away from such sources of infonmtion.
Referring again to the matter of which copy i, likely to
be the original, and to yonr remark that General Clark may hare
kept the o>-iginal and had a copy made for the Indian Office.
it may not be unimportant to bear in mind that General Clark
to whom the letter was addressed was at that time Suprintenlent
of IMian Affairs, for which reason, it would taesi mtural
that the or:=,5nal would be kept on file in that office.
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Jtr, Charles S. Sloane
Secretary, U. S. Geographic Board
Washington. D. C.
}fy dear Mr. Sloane:
. fti returning from a field trip of sixteen days in Humboldt
County I fiml several cotnauni cations from you and also copies
of the decisions of i^ril 4, for which I am very much obliged.
I am obliged also for your answer to ny inquiry about
Indian population} but I forgot to ask flhat^dilution of blood was
accepted by the Census Office in rating people as Indiansl I have
hejird that the Indian Office accepts a very atten^uated dilution.
It is good to" know that the name Mt. Quincy Adams for a
mountain on or near the Canadian Boundajy has been accepted by
the Canadian Board, ag intimated in the letter from R. Douglas,
dated July 3. I assume that yo\i assumed Mr. Douglas in your reply
to his letter of July 12 that our board is equally desirous of
cooperating with the Canadian Board in the most friendly nanner.
As to the mountain east of Patrick's Point and not far from
on some maps, Rodg(
on others, and l^on^ury Jfountain by Mr. Thornbiuy on the map ac-
coiqpanyiQg his forthcoming book, would say: (l) The name
Mnity Mountain is most unfortunate, there beii^ two other
Trinity Mountains on the same east-west line across northern
Oalifomiaj (2) The name Rodger's Peak is current in the region^
(3) The name Thorribury Mountain I had never heard of until the
receipt of your comnunication, enclosing Ur» Thombury's letter
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(or PS-yohr) I was not quite sure nhich.
Durii^ ny recent trip I secured from an old Indian more
than eighty aboriginal names for localities aloqg main Sel
River and South Fork Bel on, or adjacent to, the Redwood Hi^iiay
With best wishes^
Very tnily yours.
Kindly send me a batch of the smaller size3oard enyelopes
for letters.
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Mr. Newton B. Drury
San n*anci8co, Cfcilif .
% dear Mr. Drury: "^^
Aicloeed herewith are a few decisions of the U. S. Geographic
Board irtiich may be of interest to you as referrii^ to places
along the Redwood Highway.
You may he interested to know also that I have finally
succeeded in taking an old Indian over the Hi^way and in obtain-
ing from him more than ei^ty place names for localities on or
adjacent to the Redwood Highiray between Scotia and East Branch
of South 7oA lei below Garberville.
For several years I have been tryir« to ascertain these
aboriginal names in order that some of them ndght be approved
by the Geographic Board before the more objectionable of the
present Kpglish names have become fixed.
You may have observed that the name KettinteAe instead of
Phi llip«t ills has already been published on the recent mp of
northern (klifornia and southern Oregon, issued by the Automobile
on.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours ^
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Dr. I^tley H. T. Jackson
National llisetim
Iftflhii^on, D. C. -
Dear Dr. Jackson:
Th«*. for y,™. i.tt.r of .7^ 13 ^,1^ , „^ ,„ ^ ,,^^^
latM «il „„ r,t«r„i„g fro„ . ,1^^ ^^ „,j^ ^^ ^^^
western QBilifomia»
n««, thank llr.. S,^,r for h.r Ur^„ i„ ^.g^ti to th.
tjrp^n-iting ««1 al.o ,xfr», our hoj. that A, 1. no, fullr
recoYered,
fc a« „ry glad t„ ta„, that 16-,. J«*.o„ j, ^.^^^^ „,^
th.,Bh th, i,,5ro,««rt 1. ,10, and co,««tuaat. j.u on «„i~
into an apart«nt rtth «, .l„.tor. I ocgratulaf you al« on
th. oireu^tanc. that th. tribulation. lncid.nt to botI^s a mn'.
ahrary and „th.r hou«,h,ld .ff«t. ar. no, o,.r and paat.
1 Urmriei l.tt«r f ro. a ■«» n«»d, .n«r.nt^, Ibn^r Sto*
of Wohard-on. U^, announc. th. rtlj-rt of four b..r rtulU
but do., not .tat. ho. th.y «r. Mpp^ or ho. addr««l. Ha».
th.y arrivKi? ih^ ..r. ihipiMd ls.t ^rll.
tith bs.t nidiM to you all
Very truly yourm»
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lb*. James C* Sherry .
2425 Hearst Ato.
Berkeley^ Oalif*
Dear It. Sparry:
Since w# met in the Crocker Bank a month or so ago I
haTa acconplished a sixteen day field trip in Hunfcoldt
Cbimty in the course of which I succeeded in finding the old
Indian of «hom I spoke, and'^akiqg him along the Bedwood
Highway. He gp-ve me more than eigihty place names in his
lai^uage for points on or close to the Hi^way between Scotia
and fttst Branch south of Garberrille*
It is a great relief after seteral unsuccessful atteiapts
to hate finally acconplished this piece of work*
Herewith I an enclosing a list of decisions of the
U* S, Geographic Board for i^ril 4, covering several points
along the Hi^way.
lith best wishes,
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Dear 1G.88 Bastwood:
Herewith I am encloBiqg a smll plant from MoCloud
River whidi ie highly regarded by Indians and whose
identity I am anxious to make absolutely certain. Shall
be greatly obliged therefore if you will tell me i*at it is.
In the sarM enrelope I am enclosir^ a poor specimen
of irimt I take to be Wjrethia angusti folia.
Or is it something else^ - <^ ^ -^t?*^ ^vCl^^u^^ ^^ ^ >%^i^»t^u^--^.
Yesterday I sent you a milky juice cospositet the part-
ly dried juice of which is used as chewing gum by Indians.
Trusting that I am not putting you to too much
trouble, and with best wishes^
Very truly yours »
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lfi.S8 Alice Batrbwood
Acaderoy of Sciences
San Francisco 9 Calif.
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Ur. Hector Beaulae
Ihitehorse
Yukon Territory.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of July 10 has been forwarded from
lashington to my sumner address in Qsilif omia.
I have not seen the article you refer to, concerning
a mouse of which specimens wre alleged to be wanted by
the &nithsonian Institution, and know absolutely nothing
about it.
Very trujy yours.
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Ausust 4^ 1923.
Prof .Asa M, Fairfield
Susamilldy Clalif*
Ify dear Sir:
On returning from a field trip in the Northwest,
I find your letter of July 21, tranenitting Vtb. Colbum^s
statement regarding the curious word *Natac[ua*» I am
very glad to hare this information as to the original
meaning of the name.
Tharidi^ you for your trouble in writing, and with
best wishes.
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Aesietant Higlway Engineer
Willi tB. Calif.
% dear Sir:
Herewith I am enclosing decisions of the Government
aeographic Board for i^ril 4,last,amor« which are several
which I assume will be iff iiterest to the Hi^iway Cbraniss:
In case of publication of any mc^ of the Redwood Hig
I shall be greatly obliged if you will kindly send me a
copy
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Dear Dr. Stephens:
We returned to Lagimitas the night before the death of
President Hardii^ since ^ich we have been rather oveniielmed
with various bits of work.
The receipt of yonr letter of July 14 just before oiur
departiire for the north gave me a papg of mortification over
my delay in sendir^ you the map of the Redwood Hi^way country*
Wa had it in our heads that you did not int^end to make the trip
80 ecurly for which reason I delayed writing until I had seen
Mr, Grant of the Automobile Association, in order to get the
latest word as to road conditions.
However, we €Lre very glad that you and Utb. Stephens have
made the trip and have had an opportunity to enjoy the grandeur
of the Redwood forests. We are also glad that you took a good
lock at the valley of South Fork from the Garberville bluff.
The bad detour this side of Willits is now a thing of the
past thougji the one over the fXS^ road that takes one to the .
town itself is still in use.
On our recent trip we were gone sixteen days. I found the
old Indian I was in search of at Forttina and succeeded in takii^
him over the Redwood Hig|hway to Oarberville and back, obtainii^
the names of more than eighty localities along South Fork lei.
I then visited the so called Lighthouse Rancheria at the south
end of HuEsboldt Bay. after which we drove to Ferndale and thence
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to Mattole RiTer which we followed down toward ita loouth. but
here, after fording the river four tioes.we stuck in the sand and
had to be hauled back in the road. However,! aucceeded in get-
ting hold of the old Indian who lives at the mouth ai^ in woj
with him for two days at our canp. Then we went up the river
to the place known as Upper Mattole where w. camped one ni^t on
the Roscoe Banch^in the sane plac. where Bailey and I camped with
a pack outfit between twenty and thirty years ago. From Upper
Ibttole we took the new road over Ilk mountains to Bull Creek iriiich
we followed to Byenri 11«^ where we took the Highway hone. This
new road is admirable both in surface and grade, and passes throu^
a most interesting and picturesque region.
We shall probably be her. for another week while writitc«fH««
Material gathered on the last trip^and shall make an effort to
see you befor. we start off again.
With lov. to you^from all of us.
As ever yours.
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August 6, 1923.
Ifr. S. Devi lie
atairraac. Geographic Board of Cbmda
Ottawa, Canada.
)fy dear Mr. Deville: \
On rettimipg from a field trip in norf.h»e8terR (ilifomia^
I find your letter of July 13» relating to the nana of a peak
on the International Boundary nfcich the U. S. Geographic Board
has narned Kto Quincy Adaxas.
Your becretaxy. Mr. R. Douglae, in a letter to our secretary,
14-. C. S. Sloane, dated Ottawa, July 3, states?
♦!>„* H^^y ^P'^^^^^^^^on of the. 19th ultimo now states
,. "The board has considerecfthis decision and I am
directed to say it has no objection to the change.*
Inasmuch as your board has acquiesced in acceptirg the name
Mount Quincy Adans, the matter would seem to be disposed of.
For many years our board has adhered rather strictly to the
rule that names of living persons were not to be approved for
geographic features. For this reason the names of a nunter of
distinguished explorers and cartographers preseited to the board
have been rejected. ""
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international names.
Tery truly yours,
Camrraan, U, S. Oeographic Board
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Mr* Q. *• ThcMfiTOBon
Htmboldt Redwood PlEirk
Dsrenrilla, Calif.
Ify dear Sir:
In con5)liance with ny promise I an sendipg you here-
with the natiTe Indian naxne of the place called Sehelling.
This nam id •Tobeah* (pronounced To-hq^>ah)>
The naine of your own station location is'TCahtahbe*^
(pronounced Kah-tah'-be).
With best wishes,
Very truly yours.
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Mr. P^ul a. Rodir^on
u. S. Forest Service
San Francisco, Oalif,
Jfy dear Mr. Rddji^on:
On returning from a recent field trip I find the
enlarged photographic prints af maps which your office has
been kind eno.^ to send me a* for which 1 w^sh to express
my best thanks. They will be of real help to m in ny^
field work and also^^platting results.
Trusting that 1 may haT» the pleasure of having a
visit from you and some of your assi stan% before the
season doses, and with best wishes^
^ery truly yours, .
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August 7, 1923 •
Mr. D» !• Thornbrjry
316 BuBh Street
San Pranci&co^ Calif*
Dear Sir:
Your letter of Jnjy 14 addreBsed to the Secrd^arj^ f^f the !!• S.
Gdograpliic Board at Waehirjcton has been forwarded to rae for at-
tention*
I note that on your new sap of Riaoboldt County you hate ple^ced
the narr;e Thorrib\iry Jitonntain on the pepJc nasr Big Lagoon ^hich it
generally known as Rodgers Paak.
^iat action the Greographic Board will take in the natter when
the case corrsee up in the fall I do notp of coiu^ee^ know but one
of the r^les of the Board is not.^adopt the tj^cxiob of li^ir^ persons
for geograpliic features, particularly for featm^os proviou«ly
narked*
I am interested in the announceDient of yo^or book entitled
•Calif orrda^s Redwood Wonderland* but do not see an^ nuention of the
price c I ehall be glad to purchase a copye
Ycu may be interc^sted to know that the mmes of two of the
localities Eiantioned on your roap have been char^j^sd by the uovem*
s^nt Geographic Boafdc The original Indian nasie, Kettintelpe,
has bean restored to the place called Phillipevillfiuend the nazM
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built, just west of the mouth of Ilk Creek.
Very truly yours.
Chairman, U. S. Geographic Board.
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Dear Neleon!
The last time I saw you you were eip ectirv: to r^ach LagimitaB
in ISay^but thus fai* no-ona hareaboutB uemsB to have aeen vouo
Are you still in WaBhinKton or on the wii^,and aro you entirely
wall again?
We don*t want to ruios you when you cow tbje -.ravo ?ieRse let
u« know aowtirae in advance as to when you expect to arrive sm we
are amy on field tripe much of the tin*.
Ij^learned frort: aaeka hunters, and alw, fron Preble, that
Grir,siy skulls are still arriving, and whot is stjli mrm inj^ortant,
I have actually received from Ltxther Goldiriin two old skulie of
Grizzlies from the Idaiio Desert repione
1 taa out of ersall penalty Hnveicpes for corroBpox>i.?nce and,
suspHcting that Mrs. Morrisnn is away on her vacation. I am niakirc
the req^ert fnr a fresh supply direct to ycr>, 2 have plenty of
return penRitiHS but none without the return.
Koping to Bee yon her* without fail thds Bea8on,and with
r©;?;;vdr. from us all.
Aq ever,
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Vb\ llnier N. Lafanuo
Chipo, Calif.
Ify dear Jfro Lafojjsoj
Or r^tuivuiig from a recent trip to Humboldt Bay, X&tt«Jle
River, a.rd various other places I fourd your latter of Jxiiy ?f
from Chi CO awaitim^ attention. Apparently you came to Tfl€:unitaB
to see U8. -W, are mere disappointed than I can tall that we
were not bom to ref?«.jv© yov, and yo^iv faraily arid hope that 3.r>T!»~
tin» you will tone again.
I am ^;lad you saw Stephen Khi^^ht and hp.d an opportunity to
talk things over with h^m. I wfsh tkit I could have been with
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We saw a notice of Jack Frai^o's death in one of the news-
papers. It i* sad that these old nen are passirg awr.y, the only
ones who know the real iiist.'-ry ef the people. I consider iz ^or/
fortunate th«.t I «a» ahle to see hin ard obtain ncterial fr<vn him
before too late. ^
On Sunday, July 2?„ we probably passed each, other on the row
between IV«rville and rmrVervillo. I was drivirg north with an
old Lolariknk Indian, w«i tl.e /nan I took to be your cochin %?,,*<
driving scrth., i tho.i{»;)-it I recopxdzed hjm but did no^ ^r^t* -.oiu
I expect to see you at (Taicc before the erja r:-f -.hn Beaisono
With kindeBt regmas to yoi. asji yoii:^ fai^diy^nj wnich IItbo Kerria^j
ard my dai^hter jcin^
Veiy truly your»^
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Ifr daar Ifro Boscoes ^ ^ a-
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,Uch you c^ «a.lly f«rTd» ««i which I n^l.ot«i to <.»i. ar,o.,t
wh«! nt your plac« » "l""* *»"» '^*
I. m IfcuntMn Fi,ie. th. «.-^ a. Bainbo* Hfe' .l»«n on
Borae of «i» ii*r-»' . .^ t .„
I, Oppor North S^ »ork th. ..taili-hed «... of th, .tr«un
th...t join. th. fettol. thro, or four mi U. <*o« your plac.1
:. T«at i. th. m.» of the litil. .tr«ua in th, J,uah hy your ho«.l
W^t i. th. «>™ of th. lone td«h rldfi. o« t«* to th. »outh
,h.n a.o«r<li!iG »» «* Ito"^"'*!" f™**'
I, th. T»Uan rame of your pJec. Kc«v:«*-kS?
Bo ,w hapron to snc. whether tho Imiar* fon..«rly living .=
„our r^<on >..loneod to th. ««« trib. a« tho.. on th, J^»T
With ki^iost regarte to you and youi' inothar, in which we all
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lev» +r.jy yours.
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Thanks for your lettor of Jtily 28, tQiling .re nf
tb9 receipt of t^o skulle from ¥. S. lyurj-Ha «if Ccok Inlst .
1 aiifll.t he vory glad if yen ^iil mtA m a m»]rio/ andiia
of the f-riisly b&ar fikulle r?»C85.Tftd %jr.C9 I loft WHshir^ton
in ^ril. I have recently written ^Jackson, aekir^ it
amrtbirg had >.een received from Henry Stock of Richardson,
Alaska.
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Byikftl^/, Ctlif.
I*, ia {^ccd to knoT that you tird !£rs. Iftgiier are cnt
hara in C^lifsmia and otill better t.o kiu;« tViat yoa &r«
siilint: to '^o tih« tifLg to c rur? «o Uiamitsi* to ft?a a?.
Jt is just as »r^ll ^mt yoi did net i^t.<p whsii ycu pAi-?i*I
for the reason Ujat we were then on the Coast of Humboldt
Bay oouatry*
vi^i ^ha .1 b'd hare th« first half cl mxt we^jic arid Fill
\^ deiirnted to see you arid Mrs. Va^.er. Prh yon not jtu.ch
with ut> eiUior ^/>iay, Tuesday, or Wndn^Bday, whichever would
'he r!K»8t convenient, for yuu? Supposd we leare it thia way:
We chall ezpoct you o-.. Taeeday if we do act hear from you
to ^he cont.rarye If Tuesday ie not comement please phone
Iftgi^nih X dtA l6:%ve weBsaga \nth the operator aM we will
get it. Tli-ire is only one phone at l6£.imitas and it is in
tiie Btors ard poetoffice.
^'>C2r^, oo r.c^.^ yo'T ^:^:) svjI '*i^n kindest regards to you
o t n.
Vary trily yo^rc^
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Miss Stella U. Brunm
Librariaji, Missouri Historical Society
St. Louis, Missouri. ■
Hear Miss Druom:
The willing busy people are always those who have additional
work thrust upon than. Having been told that you are to be classed
in this category, I am takir^ the liberty to ask if you can have
made for me at ny expense, of course, a photostat copy of the
letter from Jedediah anith to General William Clark, written in
July, 1827, and published by Dale in his book on the Ishley-Soith
explorations.
I have a very dlear photostat copy of the copy of this letter
in the files of the Indian Office at Washington. It differs in
date and certain slight details from the copy as puMiehed by Ifele.
The question naturally arises es to whether Dale's published copy
is verbatim or whether , as I suspect, he took certain liberties.
Then the question of date is hard to explain. Tiie copy in the
Indian T)ff ice ib dated unmistakably July 12, 1827, while the copy
published by Btile is dated July 17, 1827.
Are either of these the original letter in Smith's hand
writing, or is one a copy? In the latter case which is the original?
Since General Clark at the time the letter ^as written was Super-
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intendent of Indian Affairs, one would infer that the copy in the
Indian Office is the original. You may he ahle to help me in
determinirg this point. Have you any authentic eiaiaple of the
handwritir^ of either Smith or Clark?
I am anxious to coc^pare the handwritir^ and exact forms of
the text and punctuation in the two existiiTg copies, which will
explain W^ desire to see a photostat of your copy.
I have written an article on Jedediah Smithes route from ^
Utah to southern CSalifomia, correcting some of the errors of
Bble and others. It is in connection with this article that I am
anxious to determine idiich, if eitjj^r, of the existing copies of
Smithes letter is the original.
Trusting you will pardon me for trouhling you with this
matter,
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Mr. J. Kugene Law
2370 Altadena Drive
Altadena, Calif.
Dear Ur. law:
This is only a line to acknowledge receipt of your moat
interesting letter of July 18 and to state that I will write aome-
what fully later. We have recently returned from a long field
trip In the northwest and are starting in a few daya for the next
trip.
The Bcheme you have outlined appeals to me strongly. The
main queotion seecis to be a financial one. If you can secure
anough interested naturalists to put it through, you certainly
are to he congratulated and will have accomplished a great thing
not only for Southern California hut for natural science in
general.
What appears to me as an almost uns^-rmountable difficulty
is the sad circucistance that most naturalists ere poor. An in-
stitution of the kind you describe will cost a lot of money in the
start end will reqiure a certain modest income to run after it is
ostabiiehed. Too busy to write more now.
With kindest regards to Mrs. law and yourself in which we
all join.
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dief U. 3. Biological Survey
Waahirgtcn, m C. '
Dear Nelson;
When Allan Brooks was here he told ms some interesting
things about the range of the Ihite-tail Deer in British
Cblumbia. He is able to discriminate between Mocjuleue
I^ucoUb and nacrurus in the field and believes that the
former i. approaching extinction, while the latter is ex-
tending its range. He thinks he couW secure specin^ns
of 0. leucotis for the Biological Survey this fall, if you
write him a letter astLr^g him to do this.
Ifa-stily yours.
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Pacific Grove, Oa.lif .
Dear Walter:
Ihere are you and when do you return to your headquarterst
Two or three times so far this season I hat* phoned to
Palo Alto in hopes of connecting with you, and the operator has
replied that there was no answer either from your house or your
laboratory, from which I inferred that you were perigrinating.
!• are away on trips, as you know, most of the time Aen
not writing up notes between trips, which makes it difficult to
arrai^e long in advancejbut we want you to bring your wife out
here for a little visit and if you will let me know vdoat days
of the week you are free to be absent from Palo Alto. I will
try to catch you the next time we are hwne.
Our last trip of sixteen days covered work in the I/)wer
Bel and Humboldt Bay region and on S«,ith Fork lei and also at O^p-
Mendocino and the Lower Ifcittole River, from ^*ich we returned
by the new road over Elk Mountains to Iberville in the Redwoods.
With beet wishes tc you both free all of us.
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August 10, 1923,
Ifr. Siulio Taralio
255 1. 125 Street
New York, N. Y.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of August 1, enclosir^ a blue print of the dial
which you have invented, has been forwarded from Washipgton.
It certainly is an interesting piece of work but I must confess
frankly that I am not competent to judge of its practical utility
and would suggest that you send it to some of our astronomers.
With best wishes,
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Mr. Cfcarl«B S. Sloano ^. _ ,
Secretary, U. S. Geographic Board
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Dear Kr. Sloan :
ftteloeed i«: a letter and blue print of a dial from
your friend llr.OiuUeTarallo, with carbon of ny reply.
With beet viehes.
Hastily youre.
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Dear Ifr. AdamB:
> Acepuntanty &dth8onian Institution
Hartwith I am enclosii^ ny eaqptnsa account for July, araowafcipg
to $322.71,ar¥l also vauchar for Mibs Oertnada Beckar, stanographar,
for sarricas from July 10 to July 31 at tha rata of $136 par month
(for ^diich kindly fill in tha amount I, and for Zanaida Iferriam,
assistant, for six days, amounticg to $21.
Tha prasant account is unusually haavy as it includas tha pur-
chase of three new tires and tubes to replace old oMfcthat ex-
ploded*
During the last field trip we were gone sixteen days and
covered about 800 miles, mostly in mountain country. We went down
the Cbast to QBipa Mendocino and Mattole River in order to find an
old surviYor of the Ifctttol Triba, liiom I have heard about from othar
Indians for several years. I succeeded also in getting the only
survivor of the Jolahnkok Tribe to go with ma over tha Bedwood
Hi^way in order to get the naaies of places along South Fork of fel
River, of which names he gave na more than ai^ty.
The old litdiopdo man for irtiom I had hunted for five years
without success until this year, idien I found him and obtained
priceless material, died a couple of weeks ago.
levy truly yours.
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I F. 'Taylor kTanor.^interB. Siorra S^aratea
S. f.. rfocker * *o. ioOO pag. copy book
2 new tires, tubes
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lO-U fiJiiUta'SSI^'s r.t. y^^. T. .tr..t c»r. 48^
S. F. Meals $4.00 baggage^S^
fttrtwrirfit Hotel, S. F., r^oo
Sttusilita Oarag.. car overmght
&n ftifael. ff» ^j|jj*® ^^
„ sJn^SMimo changing tires k engine oil
17-31 Auto Field Trip:
17 Ukiah, oil ^
17-19 milts. Auto (M? . ^r^r^m huarinrs
19 lillits, work on car incl. new engine bearings
24 Rrtunal alendtiiK car k labor
Fortuna, oil fc labor
Fortuna, ▼ulcMUZing tir.
Fortuna Awto CSauif), 8 nights
Ukiah. New Tire and tube
ftdd Indians: ^ ^ , , . .
Trtrt.nna. 6«o. Burt I^lankoK
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fisalia, Qeilif.
Dear Col. Stewart:
fery nany thaiiks for yoiir letter of the 7th instant, con-
taining »o imny interesting iteme concerning Dr. Qartndll**
trip on Lower Klanath Riter in or about the year 1852.
The Doctor oast late used the word *cataract^ in a soBwrtat
differwit sense frwn that in i*ich we coononly eoqploy it, as thera
ara no cataracts or falls on th» Lower Klaoaith^and even Isf&he-
pishshe^just aboTS tha mouth of Salmon RiTer)is only a rapid;
hut thera ara plenty of lesser rapids and an abundance of gravel
bars, over which tha di©^"* canoes have to be hauled at low water.
The words you giva ara anou^ to show that tha Tribe was tha
PblikUor Lower Klamath (of ten called Yur ok, which is not, however,
thair nana for then»elves> Of tha words you mention gsfiifsTmeahs
good, as you stata, but lennsb (or Tannaw) means plenty or abundant
got big. lahpias is tha zMune these people apply to a triba or
nation of liiita people now extinct, lAom thay found on the Klamath
when they arrived from tha north. I am not familiar with tha form
lahg-ai irtiich you quota but it nay be another form of the same word
I l»ve recently returned from the third or fourth field trip
of the saasont the last one to Bel TUv^r and tha Coast at Gape
Ifendocino and M&ttole River, in the course of idiich I obtained a
considerable quantity of good material and sons additions to agr
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tell in advance idien you are likely to be in this part of the State,
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and are likely to make one or two other rather loqg trips so that
unless I know somBtim in advance I nd^t ndss you*
nth oany thanks for the trouble you hare taken in writing
these interestihg notes^and with kindest regards to ttrsa Stewart
and to Adly when you write or see hert
Yery truly yours.
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lfc*» D. L. Ihorhbury
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S»n Francisco, Cklif.
Dear Sir:
Tour letter of the 8th inetant is at hand. I am glad to
know that your book on Hunboldt County will be out so soon and t]
you will send ae a copy. If you will kindly enclose bill I will
remit on receipt of same.
lagunitas is hqt headquarters for afeout half of each year anc
I expect to be here between field trips until the latter part
of October. I am goiqg north in a few days but can doubtless
arrai^ to see you a little later in the season.
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August 11, 1923.
Dr. J. Sterling Bunnell
FhysiciarjB Building
, San Francisco, Galif •
Dear Or. Bunnell:
Thanks for your letter of the 7th instant, renewii«
your kind invitation to take me to the Bohemian Jinks
on Saturday, August 18. I shall, of course, be very glad
to g<\ particularly so with you. Ify bod roll is ready and
I am glad that you will be able to come to lagunitas. Cfen
you not spend Sunday night with us on your retumT
mth best wishes.
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James A. MdGfui
Denver, Colo.
Jfy dear Gblonel McGuire:
Many thanks for yoiir letter of the 7th instant and for your
kindness in writir^ Mr. Minnick of Indiaampolis, asking him to
present the big bear sktill to the National collection^ which I
hope he will be willing to do.
Replying to your incjiiry about our method of measuririg bear
skulls:
The raeasureraent known ai •greatest length of skull* is taken
in a straight line between two uprights, one at each end of the skull
(the unier jaw being removed if the under front teeth project beyond
the upper ones). This measurement is of little scientific value
for the reason that it varies with the age of the skull and also
in some cases with the species of bear. In iiamture skulls and
in the adults of some species the rear upright will rest against the
condyles (the projection idiich articulates with the backbone),
while in the majority of skulls it rests against the hind ent of
the crest, and since the posterior extension of the crest in*
creases with age you can readily see that the measurement known
as •greatest length* is often misleading.
For this reason naturalists prefer the^jneasurements known as
basal length, one of which is from the front of the bojge of the
skull (not the teeth), to the notch between condyles; the other
to th» ^ •''p;e or convexity of the condyles. Both Of these measure-
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All of the bear skulls that I obtain either by purchase or
donation are at once turned in to the National Museum collection,
where they are entered with the nam of the collector and. if
presented, are properly so credited.
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Mr. I. A. Vinnick ^
National Dry Kiln^Og.
1118 Bast Ibryland St.
Indianapolis, Ind.
)fy dear Sir:
Colonel MoSui re, Editor of Outdoor life, has just written me
that you hare the skull of an enonaous Kadiak Bear i*idh he thinks
you nd^t be wilUr^ to donate to the National Museum collection.
If this is the case I hardly need assure you that your kindness in
the mtter would be grefttly appreciated.
IXirii^ the past twenty-five years I have made every effort
to obtain for our National Maseum skulls of Grizzlies and Big
Brown Bears from all parts of North America irtiere such bears occur,
and have succeeded to such an extent that we now have more than
2.000 of these skulls. Ihile tWs is a very large nunfcer there
J-e ptiU important gaps in the series, and we will always be glad
to obtain exceptionally large skulls and skulls of fully adult
animals of all species. As the collection exceeds in value and
numbers all the other collections of bear skulls in the world
put together, therefore, is the collection to i*ich students will
be obliged to refer for all time to come.
Should you feel disposed to present your skull to tbd col-
tection, please have it carefully packed and shipped by express.
charges collect, addressed U. S. Biological Survey. Department of
Agriculture. Washington. D. C. where it will be properly cared for
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Trusting you will pardon the liberty I am takii^ in raking
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]fil«auko«, Hsconsin.
1^ daar Sir:
R»plyii« to your letter of Ayguet, 2 forwarded from WaaMngton,
would eay that I do not k&ow any more than you do in regard to the
proposed dutiea of the Adtiaory council on Indian Affaire appointed
by Secretary lork.
I asBurae VoSb the Secretary haa no synpathy with hi a pra-
deceaaorS altitude on lndi«n Affaire and that h» wiahea to learn
the Tiewa of those of ue who hate first hand information about
, before takir^ any active steps in the mtter.
Ify work durii^ the past thirty years has been wainly with
Indians in CkUfomia and Nerada, while you and Doctor George Bird
Grinnell and others are acquainted with the condition and needs of
tribesin other parts of the west.
To By ndnd nothii« is more absurd than the idea that a
definite poUcy or set of rules should be pronwlgated to fit all
of our Indians, for it mist be obvious to everyone ^o has studies
a nunfcer of different tribes that the condition, needs, and mental
attitude of the various tribes are as diverse as in the case of
peoples inhabiting widely remote parts of the ear«i. Therefore
according to ny point of view, each tribe or group of tribes shouU
be treated independently.
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Ifr.. Alfred C, Oillls
Jn^an Board of Co-operation
3 caw Hall Ave.
San fi-ancisco, Cklif .
Dear lb-. Gillis:
4gain I am under obligation to you for a ntaiber of additional
lintooo names of localities, and also for the little flower iriucfa
you were good enough to send.
I am not certain about the identity of this flower and there-
for* have sent it to a professional botanist for positive identifi-
cation and will let you know later what its name is.
!• have been away on a long trip in the northwestern part of
the State, spending sooetiiae on the Lower lel.and then goii« to
Cape Ifendocino and Ifettole River and back to the Hi^iway by the
new road from Upper Mattole over Ilk Uountains to Bull Creak.
&n you not come to lagunitas for a Uttle visit this week
as 1 shall be here until Saturday, the 18th. and if I hear from you
in time will be glad to drive to Sausilita to meat you and brii«
you up here.
If you have left the (5ty, please let me know when you will
be in this region again as we are anxious not to miss you this
With many thanks
and with beat wishes.
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Kr. Difi^t W. Huntington
Editor, Gam© Breeder
110 West 34th Street
New York City.
Ify deer Mr. Huntir^on:
In looking over the July nunfcef of the Oane Breeder last
evening, I happened to see your reference to a 16r. Corsan's state-
ment that th» Cotton-tail is "a rabbit iaported to this country
from England'. You are quite r?i^t in considering it 'a very
different animal from the ft^lish Rabbi^" and you might have added
that it is a purely American product, of which we have a large
number of species, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from southern Canada to Uezico.
But this eternal discMssion of irtiether our American Rabbits
are Hares or Rabbits always makes me tired. It is an inheritance
bailed on a misconception. Our IQiite-tail Jack Rabbit of the
northern Plains, and its relative the Arctic Hare are both'Hareai
so far aa it is desirable to perpetuate the term for any of our
American species; but none of our small Rabbi tsCunder which term
tnav be included the Cotton-tail, the little Brush Rabbit of
Cfeilifornia, the Pygny Rabbit of Idaho, and the Swamp Rabbit- of the
Boutheastrtrn States) have any close relationship to the small Rabbit
of Burope. Nevertheless, all are Rabbits for thie^ is the general
con5)rehensive'narae of the family, including all menfcej?*. irrespective
of size or habits.
With best wishes for the continued succese of your journal,
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Mr. J. C. Sperry
3425 Hearst Are
Berkeley, Cfelif.
l%r dear Mr. Sperry: "^
Sorry I forgot to encloee the list of decisions. It is
herewith enclosed.
It ia mighty fiiie that you were able to make the
Klaraath Biver trip in the coiT?)any you mention. I shall be
glad to learn the latest news.^
Mrs. Uerrian and my dau^ter join in kindest reg^oxls;
arid it goes without saying that we shall be glad to see you v»a
^if you find it convenient to come, but in case you do, please
don't fail to telephone the store in advance to find out
whether we are home or away on a field trip.
¥ery truly yours.
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Dr. Walter K. Fisher
Hopkins Marine Station
PiBLcif le Grove, Oalif .
Dear Waiter:
Sorry to learn from your letter of the 11th that it i»
iinpracti cable for you and your wife to visit ub here this sunmer.
We ahall be glad, however, to see you in TFashington in the winter.
Inoidentally, I wish to remark that when I said I phoned you
to Palo Alto, I lied. I did try to get you by phone twice at
Pacific Grove. The name Palo Alto in rajr last letter was a slip
of a cerebal cog due probably to adxajjicir^ senility.
All join in kindest regards and wishes for the success of
your coming trip abroadt
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Ifr. Hwrton B. ftrury ^ , , ,
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lionadnock Bldg.
San nrancdeco, Gkliz*
1^ dear Ifr. Drury:
Sorry I ondtied tha Geogn^ihic Dsciaione from ny previo
letter. You will find the same
Replyii^ to your in<jiiry,the oune Ket'tintejbe and all other
naraes adopted by the TI. 8. Geographic Board will superaede other
names for the same places on all (JoTemraent laapa including, of
course, those issued by the Forest Serrice and Coast Surrey, and
by numerous othe? business raap publishing concerns ^lich follow
the rulir^s of the GoTemn»nt Board. This includes Rand McNally
and other proainent map publishers.and also publishers of diction-
aries and encyclopedias.
But as to idiat such private concerns as the Belcher Title
Coi!?)any you mention will do. I hate no means of knowing.
I shall be glad to see you idien in the City.
Yery truly yours.
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It. H. R. Wagner
CiBilifornia Historical Society
508 Wells Fargo Bldg.
San Francisco, Oalif .
D&ar Mr. Wagner:
Thanks for your letter of the 16th instant in relation to
membership in the Cagilifornia Historical Society* I am returning
the slip herewith, along with my check for $10.
But in regard to a talk before the Society, I am not able
to commit myself at this time. This sort of thing takes a lot
more time in preparation than in delivery, and for a man as far
behiwi as I am in field work it is a serious matter to make en-
gagements alieaui for talks.
The manuscript you left with we and T^iich I am returning
herewith has proved enornorsly interestjpg, and I wish you had added
a few conraentB. Qaptain Sebastian Rodriguez Senaano appears to
have been approximately correct in his latitiides for Drakes Bay
ajid the Santa Barbara Islands, but if as he states he was in
latitude 42° on November 4 arri after laying to on that night rounded
Cape Ifendocino the risxt day, ard the f ollcwirjg day (No^eirJDer 6)
rounded Point Reves and anchored in Drakes Bay, he must h^ve had
an unusxially swift sailing vessel.
On the other hand his description of the arms of Drakes Bay
can not possibly be made to fit any other waters.
From the standpoint of ecu-ly information about Indians, as
well as from that of early exploration, the document certainly
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dat.. It .aa Tery good of you to lot ™ ha„ th. hnefit of it.
It 1. hardly ™oos«^ to add that .0 war, all ,ory. glad thai
you oro,^ »... ,^, ,^ ^. ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^
will come again. With kind ragard. a«i bort ,iri,o. to you all.
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Mr. John L. Von Blon
Lob Argelee Athletic Club
Los Alleles 9 Calif*
Ify dear Ur. Von Blon:
Your letter of the 16th instant is at hand.
Replying to your inquiry about the «o called Mono Lake-Shriinif
on which the Ifono Piute Indians feed extensively, would say:
These so-called shrimp, as you doubtless know, are the larvae
of CL dipterous insect of the gqnus Ephydra* In the late sxanmer
the northwesterly winds blow these larvae ashore in great quantities
along the south side of the Lake j where they are gathered and dried
by the Indians-, and when dry they are rubbed or rolled gently between
the hands which causes the skin to crack ar^ loosen from the inside.
The larvae are then 'winnowed in large scoop shaped baskets by
tossing, so that the wind carries off the fragments of broken
skin like cb^ff c The dried bodies of the larvae roiighly resemble
grains of rice but are very dark in colore They are preserved in
baskets and are kept for a long tin© to mix with other food.
They are very rich and oily and give a distinct flavor to the pine
nut Boup and other articles of food to which they are added.
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Dear Argie:
Zenaida tells me that she learned from you or ICbb Eastwood
that the firet Toluioe of Le Roy Ahraas Flora of California
is published. I shall be very glad if you will kindly order a
copy sent to me with bill for same.
The folks were very maoh in5)r©88ed by the general attractive
nosB and fitness of your new house. With best wishes to you
both,
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Dr. J* R. Swanton
Editor, American AnthropologiBt
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C.
Hear Doctor Swanton:
Thanks for the proof of my note on Erroneous Identifications
of Copper BffigiesJ It is in excellent shape and I am returning
it herewith.
This reminds me that I do not know what provision the Anthro-
pologist makes for author •s separates* I haare not yet seen my note
on the NuDK-kahhl, which I assume was published in the last nunfcert
as my copy would naturally be in nay Washington second class mail
which is not forwarded. If no separates were struck off, I wonder
if you could not find a copy or two among your proof sheets so that
I may have somathii^ to file with my stock of personal publications^
%.nd in the case of the coming note on Copper Effigies, could I not
have fifty sepcurates at ny personal expensel
The first trip after arriving in California last spring I
hunted up an t>ld Mitchopdo Indian for whom I have searched in vain
for the past five or six years. This time I had the luck to find
him. He was very old and feeble but nevertheless I succeeded in
obtaining a most valuable lot of material from him. A few weeks
ago he died.
Durir^ the past four or five years I have made at least two
trips each year to Humboldt Bay in the hope of gettir^ the only
surviving Iclankok Indian to go with we aloi^ South Fork of Eel
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have always failed. This sutamer. howewr, I succeeded and obtained
more than eighty geographic names from him.
Durii^ m last trip I worked F^th an old man named Duncan,
the only surTitor of the Bet-t^l^ (connonly called lfei:di5l) tribe.
Re lites at his old home at the mouth of Ifettole River, to which
plac<^e returned after having been captured by the whites in the
early fifties and taken to Smith River and thence to Hoopa Reserva-
tion. I was surprised to find that his dialect differs in hundreds
of words from that of the adjoining Nekamu.^ of Bear River. This
nearly conyletes iqy vocabularies of California Athapaskaji dialects,
of lAiich I l»ve collected eleven or twelve.
I am setting out in the morning in the hope of finding an
old woman between BriceUnd and Shelter Cove who I am told by other
Indians speaks a different dialect from any of those already secured.
With best wishes,
7ery truly yours,
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Dbar Doctor Swanton: ^
Thanks for tha proof of ny note on Krroneous Identifications
of Cbpper BffigiesJ It is in excellent shape and I am returning
it herewith.
This reminds me that I do not know what provision the Anthro-
pologist makes for author's separates. I haare not yet seen my note
on the Nui^-kahhlt which I assume was published in the last nunfcer,
as my copy would naturally be in ny Washirgton second class mail
which is not forwarded. If no separates were struck ofi; I wonder
if you could not find a copy or two among your proof sheets so that
I may have somathii^ to file with ny stock of personal publications^
%nd in the case of the coming note on Copper Effigies^ could I not
have fifty separates at ny personal expense!
The first trip after arrivii^ in California last spring I
hunted up an t)ld Uitch^pdS Indian for whcwi I have searched in vain
for the past five or six years. This time I had the luck to find
him. He was very old and feeble but nevertheless I succeeded in
obtainii^ a most valuable lot of material from him. A few we^s
ago he died.
Durii^ the past four or five years I have made at least two
trips each year to Humboldt Bay in the hope of getting the only
survivirg lolankok Indian to go with wa along South Fork of lel
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havt alwayt failed. This Buniner, howoTftr, I succaeded and obtained
more than eighty geographic names from him.
Durii« ny last trip I worked ^th an old man named I>mcan.
th. only BUTTiTor of the BetHW' (conmonly called Ifefcrifil) tribe.
He Utos at his old home at the mouth of Ifattole Riter, to which
placJho returned after haTii« been captured by the whites in the
early fifties and taken to Smith Riier and thence to Hoopa Reserra-
tion. I was surprised to find that his dialect differs in hundred,
of words from that of th. adjoining Ng^ffii' of Bwr Biter. This
nearly coB^letes n^ vocabularies of CSalifomia Athapaskan dialects,
of irtiich I l»ve collected eleten or twelte.
I am settii^ out in the morning in the hope of finding an
old woman between BricUnd and Shelter Cof e who I am told by other
Indians speaks a differ.nt dialect from any of those already secured.
With best wishes,
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San Francisco, Galif •
Dear Miss Eastwood:
¥erj' many thanks for your identifications of the plants
I sent you a short time agOo
But I am sorry that I can not help you with the plant from
^Aiich Hetchhetchy Valley is said to derive its nara.
I hope you had a very interesting and siiccessful trip to
the Humboldt Bay coimtrye We secured a fine lot of material up
there about the same time or a little earlier.
Please thank your sister for her kindness in writii^ me that
you were away.
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Vr. L. H. Roscoe
Upper Mattole, Calif.
Dear Mr. Roscoe:
Uany thanks for your kindness in answerix^ mj questions
so promptly.
It is a misforttine that we have no good topographic map
of northwestern Qalif omia — nothir^g that shows the mountains and
streams with any accuracy.
With kindest regards to your mother in which my family joinw
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In lookir^ over bopib nuioberB of Scienca Monthly I find on
article by you entitled •Sources of Water Supply for Desert Ifcun-
meds*. It is a fine article and when you go hom and get your
separates I hope you will put aside a couple of copies for me.
There are only two points in the article which seera in any
open to criticism. The first is that the word •considerahle* is
considerably oYeicworked. The second is in regard to the well known
habit of taking water from the big cactuses, especially the Wis-
lisini &ctus, by mountain sheep, deer, and I think also antelope*
This habit is so well known and has been obsenred by so many hunters
that I was surprised at yotir faint allusion to it.
But your article is chucked full of information and interest,
and is a real contribution to desert zoology and to a certain extent
to botany. I cor^atulate you.*
Doctor Sterling Bunnell picked me up Saturday afternoon and
took me in his car to the Bohemian Jinks which came off that ni^t,
returning the next day^ wMch happened to be both Simday and yester-
day. As usual Burjiell is ovexLrf lowii^ with ideas and experiments
with small raainmals and reptiles. It is a pity he is not record-
iqg his precious observations^ but he is dreadfully busy with his
surgery and apart from his hospital work has four assistants in his
office (one doctor, two nurses, and a private secretary).
It is so long since I have heard from either you or Florence
that I am beginning- to worry as to liiether one' of you has upset the
canoe or set the woods on fire. Tell us about it.
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Dsax Sirs:
ae paper iMch you sent on August 25 has arriTod and i.
erttiraly too big. Instead of agreeing in size with the san^le
giten you. in spite of the fact that special stress was laid
on the size". it"oth broader and longer and therefore worth-
less for m pmroses. I am returning it herewith for triondng
to agree with size of the encloBod sainple, which is the san- as
the saoqple given you, *— *"
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Ibar Doctor lucas:
YotiTB of the SOth instant has just reached me.
Please tell CSstptain Bob Bartlett that the Ice Uaster
of the Proteus durii5g ny tisit to the seal fishery in 1883 was
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Qeiptain Richard Pike whom he doubtless knew well.
We returned last evening from our fifth or sixth successful
trip amoi^ the remnants of little known Indian tribes.
' With kindest regards from us all to all of your family.
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Ifr. Marcus H. Dall
The Dsane School
Montecito, Calif.
Dear Marcus:
fe ratiu-ned last night shortly hef ore midnight from a trip
to the coast region of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties and have
just received our accuraulated mail, includii^ your letter of
August 19.
We are glad to know that you can cor» to see us. We expect
to be at home all of next week while I am writing up notes from
our recent field trip, and shall be pleased to have you come as
early as practicable. If Marion and the children o^ come at the
saiae time we shall be very glad to see them also.
If you come at once -- to save delay in writing -- leave your
grip at the store opposite the station and we will go down and
get it.
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Mr, H. R. Wagner
atlift)rnia HiBtorical Society
508 Walls Fargo Bldg.
San Francis CO » Cklif .
Dear Mr, Wagner:
On retumir^ from a field trip to see som Indians in the
Briceland-Shelter Cove region, I find your letter of August 22 in
raj accumulated mail*
In regard to the talk before your Historical Society, would
say that if a convenient date fits in between ny field trips I may
give an informal midday talk on the distribution of Indian tribes
in northern California, in connection with the results of early
contacts with the white invasion.
Referring again to your most interesting docun»nt. on the
.•Voyage of Rodrigue2i«SerMeno', would say that from the latitude he
gave as his farthest north I had assura9d that he mistook Point St.
George for (iipe Mendocino.
With best wislies and kindest regards from us all to Mrs.
Wagner,
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Mr. B. N, Laf onso
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Dear Mr. Lafonso:
On retiirning from a field trip to the Briceland-Shelter
Cove region. I find your letter of the 27th instant awaitii«
attention.
I can not say at present just irtien I shall be -able to go to
CSiico but probably not until about the end of September or sone-
tine in October, as I am anxious to complete work over the bad
roads country before the rains set in, so go ahead on your hunt
and I wish you success.
We had a fine thunder and lightenir^ «torm in the Redwoods
about three days ago.
With kindest reganis to Mrs. lafoaso And your mother.
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Mr. Greorge W. Stewart
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Watsonville, Calif.
Dsar Mr. Stewart:
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On retumir^ from a field trip to the Briceland-Shelter Cot.
country, we find your letter of the 27th instant among our accu-
mulated mail.
It is good news tha't you can come to see us next week and you
do not need to be told that we will be verjr glad to see you and also
Mrs. Stewart if she can come. The time you mention, Wednesday,
Septaafcer 5, will be entirely conveniant for ns and we shall expect
you to stay at least one night — loiter if you can spare the time.
It is good that you and Ifrs. Stewart were able to mke such a
splendid trip as the one you describe through the Sierra.
I am writing in son. haste now, as I oust go to San Rafael to
have some work done on our car. *
With kindest regards and best wishes to Mrs. Stewart and to
fciily and her husband,
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Ify dear MisB Dnmm:
¥ery mny thanks for your letter of Avgust 15, in regard to .
the Jedediah Sbiith letter of July 1827.
Acting on the inforaation you have kindly given me, I have
just written the Secretary of the Kansas Historical Society at
Topeka, ar^ I am hoping to obtain a photostat copy of the lettef in
their posseesion.
Replying to your inq3iry,would aay that I nay publish my artiOle
on Smith's route from Utah to California in the Quarterly of the
Gklif omia Historical Society, ard shall take pleasure in sending
you a copy. Thanking y^vl for your courtesy in the matter,
7ery truly yours.
September 3, 1923.
^. Hartley H. T. Jackson
^tipnal Maseum
Waalungton, 8. C.
Dear Doctor Jackson:
y^n for your l,tt.r of iugurt 2,, t,m^ „ ,,„^ ^
f ~- Grizzly .kull. fr« m.h.rd.„„. Ala.ka. I „ gXad to 1.,. "
this information and will writ* +« ♦v,^ ,. ,
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sent the skulls.
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lashington, D* C,
Defiu: Doctor Swanton:
Thaoks for your letter of August 27 just received.
I am very glad to know that it is your custom to have thirty
or thirty-five separates struck off of material published in the
Journal. This number will answer noy purpose and I do not object
to the matter that may fill out the pages.
Since I wrote you I have made a trip (that I have been puttir^
off for several year«)in order to secure much needed material from
an Athapaskan tribe represented by only a single Sfurvivor ~ a very
old woman. I succeeded in obtaining the needed material, and also
material from an old man of the Odkotcmti^ tribe^ previously
believed to be extinct with the exception of a sii^le old man* This
gave me an opportunity to check the two as I had already worked the
other man, after hunting in vain for him for four or five years.
Very truly yours.
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September 3, 1923,
ft*. S. W, Nelson
Dear Nelson:
Yours of At^st 27 at hand. Glad you will write Allan Brooks
to try to secure specimens of OdocoUeus^ljucotis for the Survey
collection.
Sorry you are going to be so late in reaching California.
We have not set a date for returning hut expect to leave the latter
part of October or early in November.
Have just returned from an interesting trip to the coast
region in the nei^borhood' of Shelter Cove and Needle Rock in the
course of which we drove to a Redwood forest containing some un-
usually large trees. One of these which I measured very carefully at
a height of about ten feet above ground is fifty feet ei^t inches
in circumference. *
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ProfeBBor 0. IfcConk^
(totario Agricultural College
GueJ^Jn, Canada.
Dear Profesaor McConkey:
On retumine from a field trip in northweBtern California.
I find your letter of Auguet 21 a^iting attention. I am glad to
know that you are training your Btudente in auch a way +hat they
will have an intelligent graep of the fundaflental principles of the
distribution of animals ind plants in AmBrica,aB this must formHv^.
basis of successful agriculture. But I fear I shall have to disap-
point you in regard to the additional information for which you
ask. I have not published anything on the subject since the bul-
letin on 'Ufe Zones and Crop Zones' of itbich you speak, although
about five years ago I prepared a fairly large scale map of the
United States showing the zones. This was to have been published
pron?.tly in the Atlaa of the Department of Agriculture, but owing
to the war was postponed and has not yet appeared.
Rainfall and humidity maps are available but I can not put
my hand on them at try sunroer headquarters in California. Would
suggest that you write to Charles f. Marvin, Chief, U. S. leather
Bureau, Washington, D. C. for reference to authoritative maps.
Regrettii^ that I can not help you further, and with best
wishes.
Very trixly yours.
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Secretary, Kansas Historical Society
Topeka, Kansas.
Ify dear Sir: '
In prepariT^ an article on the route of Jedediah Smith from
Utah to Southern Cklifomia in 1826, a question has arisen as to
whether the copy of SrRith*s letter to General Clark preserved in
your archives, or the one on file in the Irdian Office in Washington,
is the original.
The copy in the Indian Office is dated July 12, 1827 while
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etatemente*
I have a very perfect photostat copy of the one in the Indian
Office, and ehould be very glad if you would kindly have a photostat
copy made of yours at iny expense so that I may compare the hand
writir^ of the two fitnd various details which in the Washir^ton copy
do not agree exactly with the copy as published by Dale. I am told
that your Society is fortunate enoi:|gh to possess a number of
Jedediah Smithes letters • If not too much trouble, will you kindly
con?)are the handwriting of these letters with that of the famous let*
ter to Gerwral Clark, dated July 17, 1827, and let me know if they
agree<
An early reply will greatly oblige.
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608 Wells Fkiigo Bldg.
San Francieco, Oalii.
Dear llr. lagner:
•Your letter of At^ust 31 is before me on ny retiim fr<» a
field trip to the nei^orhood of Needle Rock and Shelter Cote
where I succeeded in obtaining much needed information from »ur-
▼ivors of two Indian tribes.
As to the publication of ny article on 'Jedediah Smith's Route
From Utah to ftilifomia in 1826*, would say that the article and
map »re ready for the press except for the conparison of the two
existir^ copies of Smith's letter to Clark, written in July 1827,
which we discussed when you were here a few weeks ago. Since then
I have had a letter from Miss Drumn telling me that the letter in
question is believed to be in the collections of the Kansas His-
torical Society at Topeka. I have just writ ten the Secretary of the
Kansas Society in the hope of obtaining a photostat copy, if the
letter is still in existence.
Miss DruDin tells me that the Kansas Society has a number of
Snith's letters. I have therefore asked the Secretary to compare
Smith's letter of July 17, 1827, with their batch of Smith's letters
in order to determine whether or not the handwriting is the Ba^»
cbangss
groof it ndght be well to wait a few days iratil I hear from the
ansae Society. Do j'^ou not think this the better
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Dear Mr. Adarao:
Herewith I an enclosii^ ray eaqpeneo account for August,
amounting to $111.48, and also vouchers for Miss Gertrude B. Becker
stenographer (Aijgust salary) $136; and. Kiss Zenaida Merriaa (7 days)
$24.50, which I shall be obliged if you will kindly pay as usual
from the Harriinan fund.
IXiring the last trip to the coast I succeeded in locating and
workir^ retmants of -.we laore tribes on the verge of extinction, and
cbtained a splerdid lot of rraterial. But on the way back we had
serious trouble with the car. The car stopped and I spent some
tiJH© in vain in tryi:^ to locate the trouble when iny daughter
Zenaida found that the main cable leading from the battery had
broken squarely off. By means of some copper wire she rnade new con-
tacts and wo v<ere able to proceod about 100 miles to a garage whers
we liad the break welded.
About fifty miles farther on, the ear again caine to a sudden
stop and this time we were auoh lor^er in locatirig the trouble, v^ich
wa3 finally foual to be in the coil. I got a ride in arx)ther car
to Cloverdale whera i hired a garagenan with a coil for another
make of car which he happened to have on hand, and after several
hours delay this was attached to our car, ena^Dlitig us to drive hoa».
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In the course of this trip we discovered what is probably
one of the largest Redwood trees in existence. We meas;u-ed it
carefully both going and coming; its circumference at about ten
feet above the ground is fifty feet eight inches. '
'^e drove over several mountain raises aloi^ very narrow tor-
tuouB roads but had the good luck not to meet but one car in a
bad place - and its driver was good eno-ogh to do the backing.
I forgot to tell you that durii^ the precedir^ trip, the one
to Ifettole River, we had to ford the River several times and got
stuck in the sand and gravel and v;ere hauled out by a mn with a
four. horse team. Singular to relate, he declined pay for his ser-
vices, rerrarkins that the few inhabitants of Ifettole Valley tried
to treat others as they would like to be treated under similar
circumstances^
Durir^ the last trip we had a tremendous thunder and lightening
storm but it did us no harm; and I returned in time to lunch with
Mrs. Harriman and her daughter Mrs. Runsey in San Francisco last
Saturday .
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San Francisco, Roll gum paper 50^; clips and eraser
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Committee on Adraissions
Cosmos Club
Wasiiir^ton, D, C.
Dear Sirs:
Ify attention has just be«n called to the nonanation of Neil M.
Judd for memberaliip in the Club.
Mr. Judd as you of course know is an ethnologist and archae-
ologist of well known ability. For the past two or three years
he has been conducting excavations in the Pueblo Bonito region and
has made discoveries of much in5)ortance in relation to the antiquity
of the early population of that attractive country. His article
on the subject in the July number of the National aeographic
Ifegazine shows his ability to f^ive an interesting account of his
work.
I have known Mr. Judd for a nunfcer of yoars and feel that he
is the kind of nian the Club needs and is in every way fitted for
membership.
Respectfully,
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Septeraher 10, 1923e
Professor Wilson Popenoe >
U. S. Dept* of Agriculture
Washingtorij D* (ti
Dear Professor Popenoe: .^
In accordance with your suggestion of the 4th instant, I
have just written the Coninittee on Admissions, reco^mnendiT^ Neil M.
Judd for memberB}dp in the Cosmos Clube
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Ify dear Miss Hastings:
Your latter of Augist 28, forwarded from Washirgton, reached
me today.
I regret very much that I am unable to supply the intormtiMi
you seek in regard to the Wawona Big Tree. Have you consulted the
County Hi story?
The only other source that occurs to me at present is Hutdi-
ings. Several editions of his book on the Yosernite appeared in
the sixties and seventies, followed by his work on the Sierras.
It occurs to me that his articles on the Big Trees may contain this
information.
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Colonol Janes A. MoGuir*
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D»nTer, Colorado.
Dear Colonel licfiuire:
What ia the iftttar wiih the Deiwer poatoffice? You will
observe from the enclosed that a letter irtii ch I wrote you on
August 13 and which was miled at lagunitaa the same day, addressed
to you at Denver, was forwarded to the Biological Survey as unclaimed
and has ju*b reached ne at lagunitas on my return from a field
trip to the California-Oregon Boundary. This will explain ny ap-
parent discourtesy in not replyii« to'*%i'^inquiry 4* the measure-
ment of tear skulls.
Very tnxly yours.
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September 22, 1923.
Dear Doctor Stephens:
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pUc» unharmed. .< oi o our ,
of .ol<ix„vUd„ cr. which o«<to th. tun. at M»Iar,n-. plac
ininediat»ly below our house.
I found our vault packed to the ceilir^ with household
valuables, besides which Ilizabeth and Zenaida had taken heavy stut-
cases down to the store. They had been ordered out of the house and
spent one night on the floor of the Lagunitas Woman's Cltib and
ar^ther at a house across the Girryon. It was a severe strain for
them. Elizabeth has just received a most loving letter from Mrs.
St^ens whose kindness we all appreciate. Some of us will try to
run over to see you next Tuesday or Wednesday but we can not be
absolutely siire.
The dai^ter of Doctor Dall of Waslungton (sister of Ifarctui
Dall who was with me on ncr last trip) is comir^ here with her "^
children tomorrow ^on her way home from Santa Barbara. She apparent-
ly is scheduled to leave San Francisco for WasMrgton on the 26th.
m. . ^MS'' ^^Y W?5v.*^ °^ **^« ^4*^ i"8<^*nt which I found in
my accumulated mail With ^ove to y<»u all.
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Berkeley, Oalif.
Dbht Mr. lagiBr:
Your letter of ^ptenfcer 11 in regard to certain Gkilif omia
Coast Indians awaited my return from the Oregon Boiuadary.
Most of the questions you ask are exceedingly difficult to
answer and sorae of them I fear can not be answered at all. I will
tackle thera in the order in which you put them.
1. The only boats used by the Indians of Drakes, Torailes,
and Bod«go Bays were the Tule rafts called* Balsas* by th» Spaniards .
2. The boats of the Channel Island Indians were -of boards,
but just how far north and south this anomalous type of boat extended
I do not know. They surely were the kiwi, in connon use on Santa
Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands. The tribe at Sto Luis OWspo ^ile
referred by ethnologists to the ChatBshan stock nas a tery differeit' •
trib« from the ona inhabiting the shores of the Channel, and 1
know nothing about their boats — if they had any.
On looking up the matter in py lexical notes on th» K«h»koon
Tribe of Point Sur and Ce^rml, I find +iie word Ko>no-nah(nsuallY
slurred to .^-nOi^ as the nace used by this tribe for the Tuls
boats, the only kind they had. This would carry the Balsas alot^
the Coast from Bodega Bay to Point Sur, south of which for a loi^
distance I have no information.
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kinds, Tula houses called Lo'tkus jep'-chah.grasa or straw houses
called Ktf-le ko'-chah, and the large ceremonial or sweat houses
called IflT-nah. Qonsistir^ of a strong wooden frans with a brush
covered roof plastered over with mud. This would seem to clear \xp
the discrepancy you mention in the descriptions of Drake and
Rodriguez.
The word •tobacco* is foreign to the vocabularies of th»
last Ooaat tribaa but^seoaB to be in coraoon use by tha Spardah
Amaric ana* Could not tha form •tobah* rich you oantion ba
maraly a typograiMcal error for nobak*. Both tha Point Ravas
tribe (Hoo-non-twash) and the Monterey-Point Sur tribe used wild
tobacco. The Point Reyes Indians called it (Vyen Ki'-ah. while
their near relatives of Bodega Bay called it sinqply Ki'-ow. The Sur
Indians callad it Sow-wana but I am not absolutely sura of tha
identity of the curticle. However^ they smoked it in straight
pipes called Hoo^rup.
In looking over ny coaat Tocabularias I fail to find the
word "Petah* irtiich you mantdon as apparently soma kind of grain.
The nearest approach toitinnynotesis Pe^te-lahy the Point
Reyes naoa for the connon coast Lilac (Qg^nothus thyrsi florus) the
seeds of which are greedily eaten by chipmunks, but I neglected
to find out whether or not they wera used by the Indians. These
sama Indians called the comoiion coast Huckleberries Pp*te
but this would hardly answer the descriptions yon refer to.
As to th» ThistlSi there are several native species of the
genus CSrsiiim^ the seeds of soma of which I find ware eaten by Bom
of the Coast tribes north of San Francisco Bay.
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Vtr. S» N. lafonso
Chico, Cfelif,
Dsar Mr. lafonso:
On returning from a field trip in northwest Qalifomia, in the
course of idiich I crossed the Oregon Line, I find your letter of the
17th instant, a/id t ara very glad to hear from you again. I can not
of course go to the Auburn meetirg of whidi you speak as the time is
already passed, and should not have been able to go anyway on account
of the forest fires raging in this nei^borhood. For, as you may
have seen by the papers, Lagunit as was in great dangsr of being
burned out and a nucfcer of houses were burned at Woodacre four
miles east of us, and one hoxase less than a mile away.
Before reachir^ home my car was halted i by soldiers, who let
me pass when I told them that I lived at Lagunitas. Several
hundred soldiers and a number of Italians have been fightir^ the
fire on the ridge back of ny house for several days but the rain
has put out most of it, and we think we are Bsfe now althou^
small fires are still to be seen in a nucter of spots*
I hope you will be successful on your next hunt on which you
expect to start about the 5th of October. I shall try to see you
in Chico later.
With kindest regfinis from us all to your mother, Mrs. Lafonso,
and the dear little girl,
Very truly yours.
September 34, 1923.
Miss Clara Francis
feK'KinSr" ^***" HiBtorical Society
Ify dear Uiss Francis:
Very nai^ thaks for your interesting letter of the 8th instant
which I find on returning from a field trip to the Oregon Um,
Ihat you tell me about your copy of Jedediah Sraith's letter to
Greneral Clark iiterests ne enormously.
So lorjg as it is impracticable for you to furnish ras a
photostat co]iy of yoiu- letter I fear the only alternative is to
wait until ny r*tum to Washington, and then send you ray copy in
order that you laay find out whether or not the two are in the same
handwriting, o-X. wxjfcw, 4^-j <h-»^ w ^-_j,^ As*ix^.
The Historical Society has asked me for ray article in order
to publish at once and I do not yet know whether they will be willir^
to thrfw until i^jr return to Washing on. It seems to me important
that this detail^shoTild be correctly stated once for all.
Thanking you for your courtesy and t rouble in the matter,
?ery truly yoiu-s,
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Mr. Robert Caahmeui Jtirphy
American Museum of Natural History
New York City.
Dear Mr. lAirphy:
On retumir^; from a field trip I find your letter of the 11th
instcmt awaiting attention.
DonH you think it a little funny to aek a naturalist if hm
'made any notes' on a trip to the Ice, made expressly to study the
habits and distribution of seals?
Yes, I made rather Yoliminous notes, accon5)anied by roi^
sketches, and wrote up the material for publication some years ago.
The only reason I did not publish was that I hoped — and still
hope ~ to obtain photographs of the Hooded Seal on the Ice.
Durii^ the past few days our Lagunitas home has been in great
danger of destruction by a forest fire^but now, owii^^to the effor
of local fire fighters assisted by several hundred soldiers arui
finally by^blessed rain, we believe the danger to be over.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours,
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September 34, 1923.
Mr. J. D. Cochran
Barkerville, B. C.
% dear Mr. Cochran:
Tharks f or your letter of Septenfcer 1 which I find on
returning from a field trip along the Northwest Coast.
On try return to Washington I shall be glad to send you a copy
of my technical work on the Big Bears.
Thanks for your kind invitation to give m a "close up with
&8UB- in your district, but tinfortiuiately I am an old man and my
hunting days are over. I appreciate the invitation all the sane.
I am sending to Washington a voucher for $15 for your two
Grizzly skulls, a check for which should reach you hefore the
middle of October.
With best wishes,
Very truly yours,
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Ur, Alfred C. GillU ^.
Indian Board of Cboporation
3 Caty Hall Ave.
San JranciBco, Oalif .
Dear Ifr. Gillie:
The little plant you sent m some time ago belong* to th»
genu* MinHiluB and ite cocnon name ie Brownies.
I have just returned from the Oregon side of the CaUfomia-
Oregon boundary and drove home in 2t days, driving 225 milee the
last day. There were forest fires nearly all the way from Oregon
to Ifarin Cbunty. The one whieh concerned us most deeply was
on the ridge bwsk of our house at Lagunitas. It did a good ddal of
damage and burned up a nuiAer of houses a few miles east of us but
fortunately did not reach our place.
I would like very much to be present at the ¥intoon meetirjg
at Baird on October 10 but I am afraid I can not make it. However,
I shall hope to see you here when you cone to San Jrancisco. Pleace
let me know about idien you expect to be in the city so that if
possible I can catch you between my field trips.
With best wishes,
¥ery tnxly yoiurs,
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Pear Ai^gie:
Ifciny thanks for your kindness in getting and forwarding
ia>rar» Botany. It carae in perfect condition and I am mighty
glad to have it.
But you forgot to send a receipt which I could use ^as a
voucher, the only thing you semt being a slip in your own name
instead of mine. I am enclosing a subvoucher which please sign
and ret\im or send a copy, if you prefer •:
Very truly yours,
Mrs* Ae U. Gilbert
Mill fallty, Oalif.
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Indian Board of Cboporation
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San francisco, CSalii.
Dtar Ur. Gillis:
Iho litil» plant you stnt m B«»tiiBi ago b«longi to th»
gonua MimalBi w>i ita c<naBon nana ia Browhiaa.
I hava just retumad from tha Oregon eida of tha OaUfomia-
Oragon boundary and drota horn* in 2k daya. driving 228 ndlaa tha
last day. Thara mf f oraat f iraa naarlf all tha way from Oragon
to Iferin County. Tha on* whiah conoamad ua Boat daaply w^
on tha ridga back of our houaa at Lagunitaa. It did a good d«al of
danaga and bumad vcp a nwfcar of hbuaaa a few ndlaa aatt of ua but
fortumtaly did not raadi our plaoa.
I would lika tary imach to ba proaant at tba Wintoon naetipg
at Baird on October 10 but I am afraid I aan not laaka it. Howeiar,
I ahall hope to eea you hara idian you ccne to San Rranciaco. Plaaa
let ms know about lAan you expect to be in the city ao that if
poaaibla I can catch you between ny field tripa.
With beat wishea,
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Pear Angie:
IfaicQr thanka for your kindnsas in getting and forwarding
Abrarm Botaiqr. It came in perfect condition and I am mighty
glad to hare it.
But you forgot to aend a receipt which I could uae-aa a
toucher, the only thing you aext beii« a alip in your own naae
inateadofnine. I am encloaing a aubvoucher .which pleaae aign
and return or aend a copy, if you prefer.;
Very truly youra.
Mrs. A. IL Gilbert
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September 26, 1923.
Mr. Charles S. Sloane
Secretary, U. S, Geographic Board
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Sloafte:
Enclosed are two letters concerning soias of the recant decisioiB
of the Geographic Board, one from F. f. Bonner, Forest Service
Engineer, the other froo W. S. Graham, Mstnager, Snow Mountain
Water and Power Conpanj'-. Sndosed also are copies of ny replies
for your files.
In your reply to ny letter of August 4 you expressed the feelii^
that the mountain which Mr. Thombury nacftd after himself should be
given its Indian nane. I would not reconmend this for the reason
that there is some doubt both as to the proper spellii^ of the
Indian nane and as to its application, as it may refer to another
elevation. I tried to verify the name duriig a trip from which I
have just returned, but failed to find the Indians idio know about it.
Would not the wisest course be to adopt the name Rogers Peak which
is already on some of the maps, in place of either Trinity or Thom-
bury? I assume that it was named after one of the former heads of
the Coast Survey but I am not sure whether he spelled his name
•Rogers" or •Rodgers^ and have no means of looking it up here at
Lagunitas, ' ^
Our place has just escaped a forest fire which biuTied over
a considerable tract of country on both sides of us and on the
back side and top of the high ridge behind our house.
I am not likely to return before the end of October.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. B. W. JVermann
Director^ Oftlifomia Academy of Sciencae
San Francisco, Calif •
Dear Doctor EverEKinn:
TharJcs for your invitation to attend the opening of your
great Aquarium. It goes without saying that I should like to be
there, if practicable) but in any case please do not reserve a seat
for ia9 on the platfom as I do not crave that sort of notoriety.
I have just retiirned from the Oregon line via the Redwood
Highway, paLsir^ forest fires all the way from Oregon to Laeunitai
I made the run in two days and three hours, driving 225 miles the
last day. As you of course know^ our country here at lagunitas
was afire, but through the efforts of our local fire fighters
assisted by several hundred soldiers and a splendid rain 1* did
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Vj .^rijhf^ saamm is ^nttii^ IMe and I am behindhand m mjMjieitfworli:
rf.«¥fe nwrfh-^e^ ouW^«irt«i e«u:-iy jia^ practical) l^^«iil ft# lietjiiMSable
to be present at the Aqucurium celebration. In any case I will see
e.t^t?^.*^fer<feT^>urnine e^st^ - .. ^e-^m. . e( ^^^on a>^ ixtj^ bxBoS
^a^'. .. t "r!e. "yTB rtB oi
With oest wishes^
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September 26, 1923.
Mr« W. S. Graham, Uanager
Jnow Mountain Water &Power Co.
Z16 Pme St., San Francisco, Calif.
Dear Sir:
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' >,n»r.^?l*;"^T^P^ ^/*^ * t^f}^ ^^i'P along *he Oregon-California
boundary, I find your letter of the l^th instant awaitingkttention.
(Jeo^IZ?*Snl?if f^f".ri^?^^2e that the decieione of the U. S.
St^S ««v.?2^^*«'^5 "tentative-. They are final unless reversed.
?« rrwfr,^"^^®^* ^^ reconsidcrati on in cases where sufficient reason
J. w gx von.
+>,- iZ^^lJr^® that the two strearas meetii^ at Dos Klos renain as on
mJ^^'^u?^"? 2^"^ rP» Je^^y* "i^dle lei River and South Bel
mver, iiay l ask what m this case becomss of the main " ■"*
r^r.^ rv.5^iL**^ 25 vears sgo the Government Board adopted a set of
? i?Si?„ fi: one, of which was that only one rsme should be applied to
fn?w^*i?''"^°"* i^^ '"'*i^« l^"^^* ^ that this name sESuld
*-l2ii^«V?«**^5 loigest branch. Irrespective of this rule, nhich has
b^f ollowed for so many, years, I think you will admit I.Jatni
«^«^$2£?wi^°" ^l coETOasB namerin the case of 8*1 Ri*«r^iB mosiewi*
Movrart^jfije^confuMng. particularly ta persons TnitiTeeident of
• r^aTi^wS *ll c- ^*-»ot ^Ficult to^grasp ^^»,necfesfii«'ft for a South
Kel River (either with or without the word Porki? .
p^.x^ Hi*^°"*' ooveriiK these points have already been pp.de b" the
c ^1^^^^*^°^ be changed unless th«r fioartl sees rea«b[f lo''^,te
foW1?^i£^£?^* ^® ?oard, however, is always willir^to listen
to a)r ai-^>taaeht for recorlisideration. iaf.v h»- - ^
YeryHnily yours.
Chairman, U. S. Geographic Board.
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September 26, 1923.
Mr. f. I. Bonner, District Engineer
U. S. Forest Service
San Francisco, CSlalii. ^
Dear Mr. Bonner:
Retiirninr from a field trin in the northwestern corner of
(iilifS^i^^^ind your letter of Septenber 12 awaiting attention.
Your office admits the desirability of discard! ne^^^^
South F^Jkof^ddle Bel Rivej- but objects to the r^
variouB parte of th« United States?
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name of this particiiiar B-oream wiau 1.0 ""J'^^r-j-r- +v '^v region -
SSSuStered oJ^Bition to any mmeB of thiB kind ^the Bay ^lon
such as Napa, Sonoi».01em.01urro«^li. malum, am^
were early estahliBhed. On the o^^«ri!^»-H«i6 to anv cbaiEe oi
of^the Board that oppoBition almost always ariaeB to_any c«b^
«affi«4aparticttlaPly f^ong th? local residents. 0
/f Am* r«rdi»
ticttlfLl^ly fiTiong thf locai re^iaon-^o. ^ .^ .^e'!
.eiJIhJi ^d i^.rfmyB willing tc^liMt^^,^m¥^'^"
bsmpi^niip^f ^ib ' io . xo^ ^u j> ^ ^leTxH leS ro :iy''?
11) u .uv» „ tnilv vours^
Very truly yours.
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Dear Mr. Ifegodr:
Durir^ the early stages of the forest fire
which has recently raTaged pa»t of our beautiful
region^ I was engaged in field work on the Oali-
f omia-Oregon Boundary. I drov^ home in two days
and three hours , driving 225 miles the last day.
Wham passii^ Woodacre, I was halted by a body of
soldiers who on lecurning that I lived at Lagunitas
allowed me to pass. Throu^ the efforts of several
hundred of these soldi era » seconded by our local
fire fighters and a most fortunate rain, the ad-
vance of the fires has been stopped, and we trust
the darger is passed.
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in writii^ and {^ning.^ %
It deaply syiBpathisse with Doctor Omj) and the
many others who lost so nwch during the terrible
conflagration at Berkeley. It was one of the most
<lr^e4ful calamities I ever heard of.
With kindest rega^rds to Mrs. Wagner from all
of us,
Very truly yours,
Mr. H. R. WagMr
90 El CaminoTieal
^ Berkeley, Calif.
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8M3 PranciBco, Cftilir.
Dear Mr. lagner:
Your letter of the 25th instant arrived this morning, and
in coopliance with your request I am enclosing herewith ny article
on Jedediah Smith's crossing to Southern California.
You will remember that I held it up in the hope of obtaining
final information as to Aether the two existing copies of Smith's
letter to General Clark agreed with on» another, and if so which
was the original. In this I have been only partly successful, as you
will see from the footnote on page li of the accompanying manu-
script. Two rather important points however are cleared up by Miss
Francis of the Kansas Historical Society, (l) That the date of the
letter in General Clark's letter book is July ^not July 17 as
priited by Dale; (?) That the letter in General Click's letter book
ie^gt in the handwriting of Jedediah Smith.
I am plarjiing additional field trips and shall be greatly
obliged if you will kindly let me know about how soon proof may be
ezpectod.
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TO SOTJTHFJ^ CALIFORIHA: ROUTE OF JEDEDIAH S. SMITH IN 1826
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In the early fall of 1826 the venturesorae explorer and
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ornia. He appears to have been the first white man to
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the Taflt expanse of unknown deserts between the
Rockv Mountain region and sout-hern California, as he was
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of Indian Affairs, from which the cpotations in tha present
article are taken, is preserved in tha archives of the Office
of Indian Affairs at fiishington. It is written in a re-
markably clear hand and is dated "Little Lake of Bear River.
July 12th, 1827. •
. Dale in his book entitled •The Ashlajr-Sraith Rxplorations*
Cpp 186-194, 1918) published what is believed to be a
copy of the same letter, as contained in the letter book
of General William Clarfe, still preserved in the archives of
the Kansas State Historical Society at Topeka. As printed
by Dale the letter is dated July 17, 1827. but I am in-
formed bv Miss Clara Francis, Librarian or the Kansas His-
torical Society, that this is an error. Miss Francis writes;
•I note that you mention the discrepancies in date. I suppose
that has come throug:h transcribing or poor T)roof reading for
this letter, under my hand at this moment, is dated July 12*^,
and the 2 is utterly unlike the 7 in the year 1827. So
there could be no possibility of its being July 17.* Miss
Francis adds the important information that the letter "in
the letter book of General William Clark is not an original
letter from Jedediah Smith", and goes on to say: "We have
SOTO original letters and the writing is utterly unlike."
In this connection I wish to record my obligation to
Miss Francis and also to Miss Stella M. iH^m, Librarian
of the Missouri Historical Society at St. Louis, both of
whom have contributed valuable irlormation bearing on this
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Berkeley, Calif*
Dear Mr. Law:
Your letter dated at Altadena September 22 reached rae this noon,
and I hasten to reply.
I happen to be at home between trips, havir^^ recently returned
from the. Oregon line, and expect to be here until October 3 or 4.
I am too busy writing up notes from the last trip to admit of goii^
to San Prancisco unless the necessity therefor were exceedingly
urgent*
The most practicable way to get together would seem to be for
you and Mrs. Law to come out here to lunch on Tuesday, October Z.
You do not say whether or not you have your car. If you have, you
would naturally cone by the Richmond- San Rafael Ferry; if not, you
will have to cona on one of the two morning trains, the first of
which leaves Ferry BMldir^, San Francisco, at 8:15, the other
at 9:15. You had better inquire about the trains in advance for the
reason that certain trains are sometimes dropped on October 1, but no
new tima table has thus far been issued^ so that we have no means of
knowir^ what is going to happen on the first. The 8:15 morning
train however seems to be a standby arai so far as I remember has
never been changed.
It will be fine to aee you again* With best wishes from us
all.
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Marsh & Co.
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Son Francisco, Calif.
Dear Sir«:
Herewith I an enclosing two negatives; tm of these is of an
old Indian woman, the other is a picture of an Indian woman and two
children. Your printer seems to have >>een looking out of the win-
dow when he did the printing of the woman with the children, as he
cut off the left side of the face in both the small prints, and the
three enlargements. There is little enough margin on the negative
and I want of course all, that it is possible to get of the face.
From both of these negatives please send three prints each
2i I 3i, and also three each postal size — all good strong prints.
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Septenter 28, 1923.
Mr. & Mrs. Sam Lopez
Smith RiYer, Del Norte Co., Calif.
Dear Friends:
The photographs I took of Mra. Lopez and her mother with two
of the children cane out very well, and I am enclosiiTg prints here-
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with. Sorry the whole fanily was not there.
The forest fires continued all along the road home. I drove
225 miles the last day, arrivir^ home at ten o'clock at night.
When within three or four Mies of my house I was held up by a bunch
of soldiers who told me that Lagunitas was on fire and that a num-
ber of houses had been burned within three or foiu- miles. Several
hundred soldiers and thirty or forty Indians were fightirg the fire
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on the ridge back of itr/ house. After a couple of days a heavy rain
came and put out the fire, for which we all are very thankful. The
fire did not reach xsy place and did not bum anj^ houses right here
at Lagunitas, although it did biurn a number not far away.
I hope to see you all again some of these dais's, but not this
fall as I have all I can do in other parts of the State before
returnir^ to WashinRton.
With kind regards and best wishes to you all
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Mr. Joe Dimcan k Mr. Ike Duncan
Petrolia, Humboldt Co., Oalii.
Dear Friends:
Since I left you about the end of July I have been on several
interesting trips, the last, of which was to the coast region on
the Cklifomia-Oregon boundary. Ihen I returned I found a big
forest fire ragii^ here at lagunitas. It was burning on the ridge
back of my house, and a numlier of local «en and also a troop of
soldiers were fighting it. It burned a number of houses but did not
reach our place, a:^ was put out by a heavy rain which carne just
at the right time.
Enclosed you will find prints of the best photographs I took
of you. With best wishes to you both from ue all
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September 28, 1923.
Mr. George Burt
Fortiina, Huniboldt Co., (Talif.
Dear Friend:
Bnclosed is a print of the last photograph I took of you; I
thought you might like to have it.
I stopped at your house a week or ten days ago on my return from
the Oregon line, but your house was closod and nobody there. When
I returned I found a big forest fire raging here at Lagunitas. It
was burning on 1iie ridge back of ray house ani a nunfcer of local
men and also a troop of soldiers were fightiiig it. It burned a
nunfcer of houses but did not reach our place, and was put out by
a heavy rain ishich came just at the right time.
Hoping that you and your wife are well^and with best wishes
Very truly yours.
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llbr. Ton Bell & Itrs. Sally Bell
Kenny, Mendocino Co., Calif,
Dear Friends:
Your photographs came out very well and I am sendii^ copies
to you herewith.
Since I left j^ou I have been to visit Indians on the Coast alorg
the CSalif ornia-Oregon boundaryo When I returned I found a big
forest fire ragirg here at lagunitas. It was burning on the ridge
back of nrj house and a number of local men aod also a troop of
soldiers were fightir^ it. It burned a nunfcer of houses but did
not reach our place, and was put out by a heavy rain which came
just at the right time.
With best wishes to you both from us all
' Very truly yoiu's,
September 29, 1923.
Adjut€uit General
Sacramento, Gklif.
Dear Sir:
Recently I have been informed that your office has published
a work erititled'Cklifomia Ifon in the[CiYil]War» i*iich was said
to contain information concerning some of the tribes of fSilifornia
Indians.
I am anxious to procure a copy; and if you will kindly have
one sent to lae at lagunitas with bill for sane, I shall be greatly
obliged, and will remit by return mail.
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lliBS Ibrothy H, Hi^gFjiriB
California Historical Society
508 Wells Fargo Bldg.
San Francisco, Calif.
Dear Msb Hxiggins:
Your letter of yesterday is at hand, telling ns that you had
sent the printer ray article on Jededlah Smith, and that the proof;
is expected promptly. This is good news, as I an anxious to start
as soon as possible on ray next field trip.
But the second part of your letter rather appals rae. I ex-
pect to start on another field trip irarnediately after reading the^
proof of the Jedediah Smith article, and could not think of proniisiiTg
to give a talk on ftetober !?• /Ind irrespoctive of the date^ I had
no thought of giving an^address^but raerely a most informal talk.
Verj' truly yours,
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Mr. Henry Stock
Richardson, Alaska.
Daar Sir:
Your letter of April 19 reached me in August a^ the four bear
skulls which you iSntioned have arrived at the National Ifcieeum.
I have not seen thera aa I have been at v^^k duriiqg the surmer
in Calif omia, but a letter from the Biological Survey tells me
about th«a. Tliey appear to be v/orth ab^ut $25, and I am sending
in to the Smitlisonian Institution a voucher for that amount. The
check will be mailed to you early ^n October.
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W. W. I. Adams. Accountant
aflithsonian Institution
%shinston, D. C.
Dear Mr. Adairis:
Knclosed is cy expense accoimt for Septeniber, amounting to
t, and also voucherB for J. D. Cochran (Barkerville. B. C.)
two Grizzly bear bIcuIIb anountix^ to $15. Henry Stock (Richardson ,
Alaska) four big hear skulls amounting to $25, and Miss G. B.
Becker, stenographic services September 1 to 27 at $136 per nonth
(kindly fill out the artorint).! 'i^2-'^°i
On this last trip I took with n» as field assistant Marcus
Dill who agreed to go for expenses, so there is no salary voucher
for him.
Durii^ the past month there have been terrible forest fires
in various parts of California. During -a recent auto trip to the
Oregon line, I was close to forest fires for more than 400 miles,
and in one case drove 6T.iftly through a tongue of the fire which
was brirnir^ alonf; the road.
Just before reachir^ home at ten 6' clock at nif;ht (having
driven 225 miles that day) I was halted by soldiers, but allowed
to proceed wiien I told them where I lived. They said that Ugunitt
was on fire, and that troops and civilians were fighting it on the
ridge back of r%r house. The fire in tMs neighborhood continued
for about a week, ard it i s said that 33 houses were burned in the
setneicent of Woodacre, three or four miles away, and a few others
still nearer, but T^/^initas escaped. This was due partly to the
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and 40 Italian experienced fire fighters alon^; our ridge, aided at
the time by a splendid rain. On two days, before my return, my
family were ordered out of the house. Most of the women in the
settlement went to San Francisco but my folks spent one night on
the floor of ^ha bidlding at the bottom of the Canyon, and another
night in a house on the opposite side. So you see there has been
plenty of excitement here of late.
On rqy last trip I droYeyy800 miles to obtain i*«iterial from an
Athapasken tribe in the extreme northwestern corner of California,
thus completing vrf vocabularies of a dozen Athapaskan tribes in-
habiting this State.
Very truly yonrs^
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Agent Standard Oil Co
Point Hoyes, California
Dear Sir:
Ten daye or more ago we sent you a postal adcing you to
refill our Kerosene tank at Lagunitas, but as you have not come
we fear the card miscarried.
I hope you will be able to come witliin a day or two.
Very truly yours,
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Mfcilliard & Schmieden
203 California Street
San Francisco, Calif.
Dear Sirs:
The Insurance on ny house at Lagunitas (Atlas Policy No.
2902269) expires on the 5th of this month, and I sliall T)e obliged
if you will renew for a period of three years, as usual.
But I would like to increase the insurance on the house
from $4,000 to $5,000. The house cost me more than $4,000 twelT.
years ago. i*en the cost of building was less than half what it is
now. Purtheraore, two buildir^- contractors who have been here
tell me that I could not repUce it for $10,000. So it is evident
that I need more protection.
But there is one clause in the printed Policies ^lich
renders them worthless to me: I refer to the clause protidir^ that
the Ctoenpany is not liable if the building is vacant more than ten
consecutive days. Pleaso have this eUuse canceled. If you can
not do this, kindly wire me at once and I will look elseid\ere.
Yery truly yours.
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San franeiseo
Baar Ifer lugnar:
lhanlcB for the proofs whidx came with ratoarkable
pronqptiMMiB ai4 is in axcellent Bhape. It is rettumed herewith.
An encloaiqg alao copy and proof of a cotrple of obitiiariee that
were with my proof*
mi you kindly arrange to have 50 separatee of ny
.^Sedediah Skaith article strudc off at ny eig;>enee.
I eoqpected to atart on another field trip today, but
ha?e decided to wait for page proof.
^ Aa to the talk before your Society: Will let you know
aa soon aa I know idien I ahall be hoeie-*whidi always depende on
hew the Indiana "pan out**
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OliT^r Oil-GaB Burntr Co.
St Louis, IflBBouri
Omt Sirs:
In rwponBe to my inquiry about your burner for a hot
vatar FORNACB you ha^e sent rae a lot of stuff about Immers for
[VDt STOVES— 'in idaidi I am not in the least interested.
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I am inquirir^ with reference to the Hot water Furnace
in my house, 1919 16th Street, Washii^on, D.O.
The house has 12 rooms, is on an eoqpoaed comer, and is
of bride. It is hard to heat.
Please inform me: Have yeu an Agent in Washington^
How much kerosene is burned par hour of operation by your
burners No. 30, 10, an^ 60 raspectiiely? I find nothing in the
literature reciefed to base a calculation on as to the expense of
operation.
Please send reply to me at lagunitas, Oalifomia, as I
do not expect to return to Washii^on till about the end of the
present month.
7ery truly yours.
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ReT. F.G.Collett
Indian Board of Cooperation
San Francisco, Caliromia
My dear Mr (bllett:
Thanks for your letter of September 22, whidi awaited ny
return from a recent trip to the Oregon line.
We shall be glad to be present during at least a part of
the Conference beginning October 22, profided this fits in with our
field work- -which has been interrupted by the too abundant rains.
Am glad to see the Indian Herald of July, but have reciev-
ed only one copy, instead of the three subscribed for. Kindly have
the other two sent me, and oblige,
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Mr S. L. Hoffman
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SSJa^'SSiaS*!^*- Defense ABBOOi^tion
Dwr Friend.: ^ . x.,* .BkinF me to accept member-
Your letter of the 3d metan*. aeJ^ing me
., . r*«r-m++«#i reaches me betweea field
,hip »8 one of your Advisory Conmttee. reacn
»nip •» o i ^ personal know-
trips. I sm gUd to accept, for the reas
*v.. Tr,rtiRnB of the northern part of the
l«tee of conditions among ^^^ Indians or x-n
i«ig« oi «^»~ „ _4*v, ftf forts to secure better
^ # .>»«4«A in connection intn oiior«>B
Staf may be of seme, in conn ^^ ^^^^
treatment from th.ir #iita neighbors, and
7ery truly yours.
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SUadard Oil CoaoKm
fltal^rwieiseo, Gkilif.
Smt Sir»:
On or tSboat Sapteriber 20 w© wrote your Agent at Point Reyes
aakiic him to refill our Jceroswie tank here at lagonitae.
He failed to enne, so on October 1,1 wrote him again, but
he etill ataya away and I am obliged to buy keroewie locally and
cart it vqp to the house at increased cost and trouble.
We do all our cooking and part of the heating, and run a
Saloe elactrie plant en keroeene, so you may imagine idiat it means
to be deprived of the supply.
And BK>raotar, the dr^s in the bottrai of the tankhava clog-
sad the IM.CO ei^ne so hadly that I hate not yet been able to etart
it.
If you have any neana of aendir^ ma acme keroaene at onee
ahall be greatly obligede
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Oct. 6. 1923
Mr (j6org© F, CVam
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111 North Murket St.» Chicaeo
De«ur Sir:
Replyirig to your letter of Septeniber 28, forwarded to me
from ^feshii^on, would call your attention to the enclosed state-
ment conceiming the name of Mount Rainier.
This I trust will answer your question as to why the name
ftiinier is retained by the unanimous tote of the U.S. Geographic
Board.
Very truly yours.
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Dear Miss Cleiwnce:
Your letter of October 1 came this morning.
I am glad to know that you are finding good material in
the files of old California newspapers.
Check for $3.60 in reinbursement of expenditure for sup-
plies, is enclosed herewith.
Yes, the folks had a good scare at the time of the fire.
I was at work with Indians on the California-Oregon line and there-
fore knew nothing about it till held up by soldiers 3 miles from
home on the way back. Mrs M and Zenaida slept in their sleeping
bags on the floor of a building at the bottom of the canyon one
ni^t, and in a house up on the opposite side another. They had
been ordered to leave LaguniUs with the other women, btit would 'nt
go. They stacked our tault chuck-full of household duds, on top
of my notes, maps, and tocabularies.
On the last trip— the only one this year without Mrs M
and I— I did a good job with the northernmost California Athapas-
kan thtbe, the Hah'-wun-kwut , thus getting the material necessary
for the completion of ray classification of this group.
It is rainir^ here now about everj' night and some days
alBO-not encouraging for field work. We may return to lashington
about the- end of the month*
Have you found anythii^ promising in the way of ^ office'
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likilliaird k SefaBi«d«ll
205 Cklifomia Street
Sun nraneiseo.
De«r Sirs:
ThMik* for yemm of tho 4th instant, enclosing AtUs Poliej
S-38466 on i^ house at lagunitas.for three years ending 0ct.5.W2<
This is entirely satisfactory, and I sm enclosing herewith
check on Crocker Bank for $73.75 in payment.
Thsidciz^ you for your trouble in the matter,
• Tory truly yours.
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Porett Sftnrictt,
Dear Mr Bonner:
neer
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Oct. 8, 1923
Recently a nan startii^ for Orleans asked me where Orick
wae located and showed me a Forest Serrice map having the najne SWAN
in stead of Orick on the place where Orick is. How do you account
for this?
And I notice that the ultra- technical ethnological spel-
ling "B^* is used instead of the usual Ambrican spellir^, Hoogi,?
and Jft Konocti instead of Konokti.
And why should your office in printed /wtter intended for
the enlightenment of tourists refer to Hoopa ?alle>' as The home of
the Hupa, the most magnificent of all California Inditns"!
Please do not imagine that I am trying to •sti ± pins* in
the Forest Senrice-a Serrice for idiich I have the highest regard,
but I feel that you will be glad to have your attention caliad to
such slips in detail as those above mentioned.
Yery truly yours.
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W H. R. Wagner
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Berkeley. California
Dear ttr Ifcigner:
Thanks for your letter of yea*«rday, nhidi reaches me
just as we are packing the car for the trip north.
I will phoHTMiss Huggins as you suggest; do not expect
to be gone more than a week-ffT ten days at most.
About the separa*»s: Kindly have the pagination exactly
as in the Quarterly-no* repaged. I like to have separates un-
chained. BO tb»y my be jjuoted or referred to by the original pagi
nation— t-hus saving valuable time to all who use them.
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Daw Kr. Dickey:
You and your gpod »ifa^ haTo dotfctlam bamiad
this 'bnmch of the* lierriam family aa both dilatory and
grateful in not replying earlier to ytmr letter of Oci<
we found on returning from a f i«id trip in ths north.
Since then, I hay a been ab orerwheLnd
preaaix^ m>rk that it has been iopoaaible to write utf
I apent abeut a weric attending «ufi Indian confer enee , in con-
nection with whidi I brot:i^ two batchea of Indiana 4« our hcB»
here at lagunitaa; the laat batch stayed a wedc and left <mly
two daya ago«
In Tiew of the fact that I have bees working
frt» half -past six arery morning until between nine rad Wn in
the OTeningi you may infer that it was izspoaaible tt €eeide on
plana for the future, and equally iispoeaillle to write letters.
All of thia by wa^ of apology.
Un. Uerriaxn^ Zenaida and ngrself agpreciate your
kind isyitation to yiait you and shail be very glad to apuid a
night with you if you ar# la Baaadena at the time of our r»turB»
But unfortmately, we ean not yet set a date.
On the. o^er hand, ahould you and Urn. Didcqp
to the Bay region before we go, we hope you will giwa xm thi
ure of a little visit hare. «t Iftgunitaa. We ahall be her#
aat ten days loiter, aKheu^ IT i]|e weather ia ^ood I omr
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you can always learn whether or not we are at hone. There i»
ohly one telephone in the conraaiity and it ie at the store ard
postoffice near the station.
Your trip to Layaan oust have been a great eiq>erience
but it is sad to know what you tell m t>i t^e results of the
ratagOHB of rabbits on the island.
I have not had tiBB to go to Berkeley this year but
hope to do so before returning oast, and shall be nd^ty glad to
see 6r^ll*s wolf skull fronCalifornia. And speakir^ of skulli
it is hardly necessary to add that I hope you will secure the
Monterey arissly skull of which you spoke.
The photograph for iihich you ask I think I can dig
up on HQT return to lashir^on.
With best regards to yowr mother, yow wife aid yonr-
s.lf fro. all of us. and still hopir^ that we my see you here
before roturning*
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Dear Ut.Iaw:
Your l.U«- of Oct a r«w=tod ^ In *a.
*XJp.. Si«=. then I .P.nt a ..* att.™U«S •«
I„di«n oorforenoo, in oonn.cUon « -h -»
^o. to lag^nita. two ..tcho. of In*.».. «>' la^ -
^riv, until t« day. .6«. ^o yw
W ti» to writ.. ^ fur*or»r.. » not y.t .bl
. ..*. for our r.tOTn to «a.Uneton. Hi.
to .=t a d... for ^ ^^^ .^ ^ ^,.
pro»«bl.. how...r. that » *all
or .0 art I .till hop. to "pan* » day or two 1
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OaUfomla on th. way. If 'o. " *'^'
your t«*tin6 invitation. __^
Your wseaa"™ *"** ^ ^ ^ ..^k,,
, ♦>. U S G.oe»phie Board h«r a ..rial »rt..r .tnk..
of ft, U.S.Geograpm ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^
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}fy dear Dr. Work:
Referrir^ to your letter of Oct. 8 in
regard to the meeting of , the AdYisory Conmittee on
Indian Affairs to be held in Washington Dec 12, next,
would state that I eipect to be present and shall be
greatly interested in the outcome.
I have just completed about seven
months field work arnorg the Indiians of Calif omie,
in the course of ihich I have obtained mach additional
isaterial that may be of service in relation to Indian
affairs in this State.
Very truly yours
P.S. May I express the hope that the proposed allotment
of lands to the Palm Spring Indians has been indefinitely
postponed.
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My dear Ifies Keep:
Please pardon ry delay in replying
to joor letter askim m ^o.^^I^AiSl^lt'^ciS
Btuaents of your college. ^A*,*^ *i°?„" ?SSir with
OwiiK to the presBure of finished
work, and th» additional fact tfiat I « OTwdjJ in
laSington at the present tim, I mi obliged to de-
cline yoiir invitation.
Very truly yours
Rosalind A. Keep
nhairrwr. Hanpus
Activities Coram ttee
Mills College P.O.
California
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Dear Mr. Jaraea:
Your latter, reachdd ne in due aeaeon
aid I waa ^ery aorry th^tA you were not able to oocia to
6ur place. Since then we have had viaita from a
number of Indiana fron varioT» placea in the Northern
^ ;part of the State*; two from Pit Riyer who spent a week
with ua Bave just gone home*
We are hoping that you will be able to
eome to ua at aome time nert year.
Inclosed with this you will find tti«
pictures I promiaed to send you of the coyote that
awallowed you at Grrindatone. You were ao deeply «a-
bedded in his interior, that you will hardly recognize
yourself.
With beat wishes to yourself and to Jesse
Berryessa and Geoi^ Bill,
Very truly yours
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Dear lir.lvsnaiB:
Returning from a recent trip I found
your attracMTe 8,nnoimcement of your book of Foiurteen
Spattinh Song*. I want t»o copiw ani shall be obligBd
if you will have thm sent to ny Waahington addreee,&«
indicated on the accompanying slip. % che<* fbr
$3.fX) is irwlosed.
For y«ara I have knoim that you ir«*»
at work in securing theae aongt for peroarent pre-
aervation, and I wwit to congratulate you on hating
fimlly accoBpliBhed this desirable purpose.
Hopir^ to see you ao^in next season, ai
with best wishes for yt.ur continued good health.
llery truly yours
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Dear Mr .Parish:
Your letter came while we were away on
a trip in the north and therefore did not reach me
unti 1 some time afterward. We were tery glad to hear
f rwB you.
¥e n»de a nunibenbf trips to the north
this year ard worked at different points along the Coast
from Oregon Une to Mattole BiTor and the Shelter Cote
and Needle Roland also did some woi* in the interior.
This took so wQch time that we were not able to go to the
Point Arena country. Next year, however we hope to s>
there and see you.
Two weeks ago I attended the Indian Con^
f erence at San Francis eo, after which I brought several
of the Indians to cy home at lagunitas.
We eipect t o return to Washington in a
few days but hope to be out again early next spring.
% wife and dau^^ter are very glad to
1. *v,-+ ««,, AT-A w«ll a.rA ioin me in kindest regards
and best wishes.
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Dear
Your letter of Oct. 20 has been for-
imrded to me here froBdfoehiiigtan.
The man, Frank X, Holsner, eememiic
vfaon you are Boekir^ infonnation^ nas at one tine a wi
knoim BBnnal eolleetor. I thixdc ha naa a aoldier and
that he eolleeted for the late Dr.Bdgar A^lieama. Tou
can doubtleea obtain reliable information about ^m
bj addreeeix^gi
Genritt S.Mlller
CSirator of Nanmals,
U.S. National MUseum.
f ery truly youn
Mr.lteunl G.Jaogar,
RiTarsid* Junior Collage,
RiTeraida.Oalif*
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Not. 8, 1923.
Daar Vr.Bonnar:
Thanks for jovar latiart of Oct 10 and
Oct 15, irtii^ I found on ratuming to lagunitaa.
I am antiraly willing to wdc tha Qaogr^phi
Board for a racsonaidarati on of tha nama "Poopotaruk*.
I agraa with you in tha faaling that tha
rH.
Gaographie Board
1 if arrai^ad \if atataa. Thia mttar has hoMi
discussad for sooa yaars and tha Board has hopad thi
aaall appropriation for printing ni^t ba ineraasad
ly to add to tha ganaral list a qpacial list arrangad Ij
states, as in tha c^sa of tha poatof f ica guida. la all
agree ae to the adTieability of thie, but aa yet, hare
not had the i^iaans ei^iher to print such a liat^Hwr to pre-
pare it for pi4)llcationt All of the labor in connection
with the eork of the Board beir^ done by inditidual msHbere
fe hate no^ecretarj^md no clerk of any deacription; the
only money appropriated by Congreea being for the publica-
tion of the liat of Moea in ita preeenft form. We are
etlU hopefult btxt the ererlaatii^ cry for econony in
appropriatiom^and the abaenoe of political preaaurot work
a^nat ua«
With beat wiaheai
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NoTo 8,1923.
Dear Sir:
Referring to joxir letter of 0ct8, which I
found on ray return from a field trip, would iay that in
accordance with your raqueat, on iqr return to WaBhington,
I will bring before the (Jeographic Board your st^ggeBtion
of a reconsideration of the action of the Board in the
matter of certain forke of the lal Riyer. Meanwhile,
I would BUggoBt thjtt you write the Board giving your
reaeons for requesting the reconsideration*
The next meeting of the Board will be held
daring the first we A of December o I SEi^ct to be in
Washington at that time.
Very truly yours
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(Jeneral Ifejiager
Snow Mountain Water
216 Pine St.
fiahFranci sco . Ca li f .
& Power Co
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%• dear Iftr. Albright:
Mar^ thanks for yo\ir letter of Oct 1, wMdi
I f OTind on v^ retiim from a field trip in the northern part
of California. I am obliged Aleo for the clipping telling of
the attack of an alleged Grizzly on a forest ranger, named Larsan.
But since adult Grizzlies are not able to clinb trees, the story
looks a little fishy.
On By return to Washington, in compliance
with your reque«t, I idJI^ll send you a list of socm of the more
in5)ortar* publications on bears. And while on the subject of
bears, how about the skulls of Grixzly bears whidi you hate
promised to sand m» from tim. to tiae for several years past? I
am afraid you do not realize the irnportance of Grizzly skulls
from the Parte region for the reason that this area appears to
be a roeting ground for several distinct species* of Grizzly whose
ctfiters of distribution lie in varioxxs directions from the Park.
Without the skulls of adult Grizzlies for study, it is impossible
to work out the characters and rangeii)f the species with anything
like certainty.
It is amazin?: to know that so many as one
hundred and ttiirtyei^t thousand persons visited the Park during
the past season.
Hope to sea you in Washington durir^ the
winter, . ,_^ ^^^ truly yours
Mr. Ho race M.Albriijht
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Rer» are the pictiirss I promised
to send you. They cane out pretty well. I hope
jroit got hoB» in good ahape and found your wife well
and glad to bw jon.
Wa all wijoyad your Btay with nsn '
very rauch and hope you will be able to cooa again
Bometirae. I appreciate the infonmtion you gare
We are going east in a few daye and
eaq>act to return early next Bpring. We will try to
Bee you early in the Beaaon.
Itj- dai:^ghter went to the hoepital
the day after you 1 eft and the operation on her
throat waB aucceBBful. She will probably be able to
corae hoMB in a few daye.
With kind rcgardB from ub all,
¥ery truly yourB
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Big Bend,Cal2f.
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Dear Mr.Gbnoony:
The photographa I took #ien you
were here cane out fairly well. The best ones
are inclosed hsrewith.
% daughter went to the hospital
IfiiB day after you 1 eft and her throat was op«rated
on at once. She is doing well and expects to
com hon» in a few days. We were very glad to
have you with us and hope you will come again sooe-
tirae.
We are* going hone in a few daj's but
cacpect to return to California early in th» spring.
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Then we intend to yisit^^Pit River coiuitry and shall
hope to see you.
With best wishes from as all,
Tery truly yourj
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Jonas B^oB^
DanvorpColo.
Dear Sirs:
Yoiir latter of Oct 5 has been
forwarded to oe f ros Washington. Tbm skn^
of a big Kadiae bear «hiofa jpou sent to
lashington ^t the request of Ur. Ira Ifinnick
of Indianapolis has probably reacdiad the
Ibseurn all right, althoi^ I hare had no
notification of the fact.
I eaq)ect to return to lashiqgton
in a fee days and will then hunt it nf.
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1^ dear Sir ;
4 clipping in the StocktonRscord of Oct
22t states that you shot a ti!!i[>er wolf in Placer Cotuity
a short ticA a^^o.
If this is correct,! would like to know
idsethe^j^ or not you presenred the wolf *s skull, and if so»
will you lend it to i» for esacdnation. Tinber woItos
ar# extremely rare in California and most of the alleged
qpeelaens proTS to be the lai^ coyote of tho moudbaine.
In cas# you have this skull and^u^e willing*
to let me exaedne it, will you kindly haTe it packed and
sent by express , diaries collect, addressed to the n,S.
Biological Surrey, Department of Agriculture, Washii^on,
D.C« Please attach a tag to the skull giving 3rour nane
and address so that there nay be no question as to who
it is from*
I eipect to return to Washir^on within a few
days.
Very truly yours
!]r.J«L.Cbllins,
Turlock^
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GhaTrolat Motor Co.t
Oakland, Calif.
Dear Sin:
Do you oTarhaul yoir own
cars? I Imta an FB-60,1920 ihich I
hava dritan about 17000 milas. It
naada or arhaulii^ and I lould lika
io know whathar you do thit at your
factory or whathar I mast faava it dona
at Bonia ^bltbqp.
If
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Amorican Badiator Co.,
QiicagOflll.
Daar Sirs:
In tha advartisaraants of your
fumaoas I do not find any msntion of oil
bumors* Doas it not saam to you that
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tba timo is past for shoralii^ in coal and
shoTaling out ashas? In othar words, is
it not tic© for you to put out an oil
bumar.
Very truly yoiurs
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Nov,9>1923*
Publifther.
American Forestry
Waehington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please dhange the address of lay
copy of Anorican Forestry , froa lay suaoer
address Laeunitas^Cal fornia, to ay winter
address » -
l^P Sixteenth Street,
WashingtontD.C.
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American Forestry
literary Digest
Sunset
Nature
Indian HeraW ^^
I Rer.F.a.Cbllett
The O^Uook
Field & Stream
OuCTtoor Life
Motor land
The Oarie Breeder
Boonetille Herald
1523 L.St.
Waahii^lton B.C.
354 Fourth Are.
New T^rk City
460^ Fourth St.
flan Francieco
1918 Hartford At«
Baltinore Md.
3 City Hall Ate
San Francieco
381 Fourth Av»
Rev y«rk City
25 West 45th St
New Y.rk City
ijB24 n^irtie St.
Denver, Colo
1628 Van Ne&e Ave
SanFrancisoa -
110 West 34thSt.
New Y^rk City
Boonetrille
New York
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Thanks for your letter of
the 6th instant, inclosii^ notes of i^y
racfcling talk before your society on Oct. 26.
I was so ovenrtielned with
work during the preceding two or three
weeks that it was impossible to prepare axty
sort of an address, and I luiderstood yoti to
■ay that it was to be a most ipforml
affair. I am, therefore, considerably
surprised to find that stenographic notes
wer» taken. However, I an returnii^ to
lashington in a few days and wi 11 take wi th
me the notes you have sent so t}»t I my
check them up with definite dates and so on.
Very truly yours,
^♦v,«?5 separates of ny article on Jerediah
anto»8 route have not arrived. If they are
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Mr. H.R.Wagner,
^li form a Hi s tori cal "So ci ety
San Francisco, Calif.
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PofltmaBter,
Waahir^on ,D.C.
ar Sir:
On and after receipt of this
letter, please forward no more mil to
lagoni tad, California addressed to me
or to other menibers of my facdly at
1919 Sixteenth Street. Washington D.C.
I expect to rettim in a short tjae.
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About two weeks ago I called at your place
fatrd talked with your tire nan about a lesteni Hant
^*tire, 33x4 which I purchased from you on July 10 last,
and from which the tread is worn off^aTarge part of
the circumf ererc e.
I purchased two tires from you at the same
tioB and put both on the front wheels of ny car, where
they have since remained. The distance travelled by
these tires is 3600 miles. The tire on the left front
wheel is still in fairly good condition, liiile the one
on the ri^t side, as you will see, is very badly worn.
I am sending it to you by parcels post today and sliall
be glad to know what you will do about it. Kindly
boar in mind that you guaranteed these tires for 12,000
miles and mine has run only 3600 miles. ^
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Not. 11, 1923.
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MEursh & Co.,
712 Ibrket St.,
San Francisco, Calif .
Dear Mr.Marsh:
Herewith I an inclosing 9
ne6ftti7«8 froKJ' which I ;7i8h you would pleasa
vBkB three prints each, enlarged to poBtal size.
Inclosed also you will find
two perfsctly worthless prints from the last lot|
Please ask yoiur printer to be no re careful in
making tiiese prints — all of which are in-
twided to bring out as clearly as possible the
f eatiires of the men.
Very truly yours
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Dear Mre. Murray:
Very mny thanks for your
i\% in writing raa about Mr.Sloarrfs death.
, It is unnecessary to say that I am deeply
grieted; both because he ms a imich-appraciated
persoml friend, and also because his long
experience and eminent fitness as searetary
of the Geographic Board, make it ipqiossible to
fill his place.
We are OKpecting to return
to Washington in about 10 days.
¥ery truly yours
A>«OT^i^
%»4ir8. E.R.Murray
Census Bureau
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Nov. 12, 1923.
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Dear Angle:
Some years aeo, I think in th» -k
sixties, but m not sure of the date, a book
was published by th» Adjutant General of the
State of Califorria, entitled •Cklifomia ^mor
Men in the War of the Rebellion.* The edition
is exliausted and the Adjutant Oeneral's office
is no longer able to supply copies. In case
ywx should harpen to run across one, 1 would
like very niidi to purchase it*
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Mill Valley, Calif.
Dear Mr .Dickey:
Your second letter and mine to you
QUBt have crossed ia the raailse
Anyhow, we are glad that you are
eqniDQ this way so soon and shall be very glad to
see you both - the sooner the better.
If you drive out^ doubtless you wiil
coiM by the Ttichmond-San Rafael ferry. If you come by
train you will doubtless corae by Sausalito.
There is no phone at lagunitas ex-
cept at the postoffice* I shall be obliged, therefore,
if you will kindly phone Lagunitas, leaving a raessage
to be put in ny box telling us ?dien and how you wi 11
eona* We shall be mighty glad to see you. Bring
your ni^tshirts and tooth picks so you will not be
in too much of a hurry to pull otit. We are all delighted
at tlie prospect of having yon and Mrs.Diokey with us
before ^ur departi*re for the east.
Very truly yowrn
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Care Joseph Grinnall,
llQseum Co2iD;>arativ e Zoolog^^
Berkeley, Qstlif.
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Deer Mr. >7agner:
^ , , Thanks for your last letter, '.vhich wes
;2«r^®v i^v ^I'f^ineton to Legunitf^s ; nd then
rtH2'^^ ^° t-nshMgton. ^e p topped in Southern
oalMorni; on the ^ay Er^st , thur dcT vine our
return. ^ & «*
\.u u J ^* I^wrotr ycu from Lepm itts, I w;.nt to
check TEA verily cs to dc tes vt'A'sc en the report
??^r ''■** '^^ 'J? remerks ;-t the October meetirg.
iiT^T (! r^ cff-ncrid tfilk for the double reason
th. t I h;_d i I i/!gur.it.' s no sorks to refer to end
no time for prep; r^^tion. As soon ts I c.-n look up
few points. I '.nil retuni it. Jieen.vhile, I wish to
express my indebtedness to the stenogreoher ind'tc
whoever worKed it up in its present shape, £s it
18 much better then my talk.
T J J- u ■J'^^^ h;;g become of the separates of mv
Jededish .^mith article? Thev hf,d not retched
Lpgunites when I left rnd ; re not here, t-nd I find
neither word nor bill from th*? printer.
Very truly ycurs ,
Mr. H. H. V/agner
tjells Pargo Bldg.-
San Prancipco, Cnlif.
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kr Ifi. !• Adams, Accountant
anithsonian Institution
Kashington, D.C.
Dear Mr Adams: '»
Eeremth i am enclosing expense accounts for the
months of October (•l^'.44) and November (364.65) amounting
to Sl:09; and also voucher for Zenaida Merriam. assistant,
for $35.00. ^hich I shall be obliged if you iiill pay from
the Harriman ?und. as usual.
^ Sxpecting to see you in the near future.
Very truly yours.
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191S i6th Street. Washington. D.C.
Octi^er 1923 Expense Account
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!t. 3-4 |are.Pairfax-3ani'rencisco d return 60-Stri»«t ^ny^TH^
Boom, Hotel Court 3.00; Meals sI^IS *^'^^'^"'** caig^^
0 oanBafael.New Uoodyear Cord Tire i
bparrow Bros. Mew car lamps & adjusting bv new Iax.
10 iSt?ief!°10%lJ fA '^^'^^^'^^ oldiiJL^IS
^^ a5 »}• Hotel,Room».self & asst 3V Bkfsi do*!*'
nAi9 lT^?°|l» Gfrag«.car over night 50; Oil 30 -Gas 6'
11&12 fletwin Indians 2 daj^s Vocaf wort* '
ix, Lundlti self & asst
Colusa, Oil & alemiting car
Colusa. BiTerside Hotel, fiooms self & asst 3
'^^ 13 Pd Lhch^T.'' -^ ?- ^g^'?' ^^ " ^1^3trsua3
aJwv?^4 ^°^"°?* Sacramento River
5l?ls^|^jTV^* * '"* '•^'' «^PP«^ 1-
15 ^.X".gniv Hotel Su^^^ Igg. J bkfst self , asirj4
Bodeo Ferrytcar I ^l.iOj ilShJofd Per?? 1.09
.10 gals gas 1.55; lunch & supper self Pas; t 2.
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8 50
32 00
1 90
1 00
1 60
2 19
3 50
4 50
•1 65
6 00
1 50
2 60
5 00
4 00
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3 00
2 50
85
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2 00
6 00
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SanRafaei; Duffy Bros, fixing rods & running \>o^
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Eoom.Cartwright Hotel ,
Meals, self and Indians
San Anselmo, 10 gals gas .4. b i„v«- a
Fairfax Garage, changing motor oil» a^f^^J* *pi^2jL,Sce^
25-26 Return fare.Palrfax-SanPrancisco (Jo Indian Conference)
Meals, self & 4 Indians 9.50; street cars 70
Room, Cartwright Hotel . .A
Denny. Maps Colusa, Tulare & Fresno Counties »«,»
27 j?8res 5 Indians, Sausali to Perry d 18
27-28 Meals for 3 Indians
28 Pares 3 Indians (Steplis. Gillis & i^t^W/.^^p^L^
30 " 2 Indiana (Hulsey & Carmony) Sausalito Pena^
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10 cals gas ,San Anselmo
31 Pd Indian W. Hulsej 2 days vocab wojjk
Pd John Carmony, 2 days
Marsh & Co., Photo work in October ^'^
Stampt envelopes & postage^ .
Proc. National Academy of sciences
Garland, Book of the Am. Indian
Omitted from September Account: ;
Sept. 16 Crescent City uarage, car night 50- IfDor 'iS
16 & 17 Smith River MoutE: Pd 3am lope z & wife & his
father & her mother (Hawunkwuta)
18 Fortune Garage, Alemiting car i labor ^„«*M9
26 Itockett-Fisle Co., Stationery (use of kiss Clemence)lE
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6 00
1 60
4 95
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10 20
2 50
1 50
54
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2 20
5 00
6 00
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Hullfty.Indian, services Nov.1-4
4
oil"'!""""'"'*. "". '^*'" -prancisccseil & 2 Inrliftna"
7 R«I-*n i"?*r^^R Francisco & return
7 Room, Car twright Hotel ,
illU f*«°Ofrapher. SanPrancisco to Fairfax
in qf«^p and afreet car fares "°'
12 G Gn?«nS2^*f^*^ gals gas 1.60; fix starter 50; tire 50
u:«i,^f*^*'"°Srapher, services 5 days 2 5 2
M'^fSi Stenographer, 5 days 0) 1.50 ^ ^
16 TSKBhSL'tr^frSS'''*- ^unites to San Francisco
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StffSf%a?i*40^^ii!?.i-f ' f«gg«§f San Fran.50 *
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Sleeper. SanFranciscp to Los Angeles
SiHf ftn?* (S.P.PanFranciscf tSttashington
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92
60
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42
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96
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of interest awaiting attention: one was your letter. of
November 20, the other a crack in the water sy^^n of our ^
furnace which for several days prevented the building of
a fire.
The Indian Yellow-Jacket, of vrtiom you speak, is an
interesting character who was greatly abused a few years
ago by false charges and imprisonment. I have obtained
much information of value from him. He is an Athapascan
and belongs to the tribe c(»nmonly called Wylakke. His wife
Sally Jacket is a KoiVelmuk belonging to the Wintoon stock
and came from Hay ?ork Valley.
flhat you say about the destruction of fur-bearing
animals as a result of poisoning coyotes is most di8tate>Bdl%,
but in addition to this calamity the wholesale destruction
of preditory animals, ^ile it may be of temporary economic
benefit, is bound to upset a natural balance which will be
difficult to restore.
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The lighV^ing job you did on my left hind leg jnst
before train time resulted in complete healing, for which.
I 8D properly grateful.
Just now I am under a good deal of pressure in pre-
paration for a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Indian
Affairs appointed by Secretary Hubert iKork last summer.
The meeting begins day after tomorrow but how long it will
continue i^ hi impossible to say.
With kindest regards.
Hastily yours
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Mt. Lassen Geographical Research Society
San Francisco, California.
My dear Mrs- Colburn: Ji-j,
Owing to certain unforseen coii5)lication8, including
an injury to one of my legs which caused me t^ fecure the
serTices of a surgeon, I was unable to see ydu^ before
leaving California. This I very much regret as I shall
not be able to return before about the end of March.
It is encouraging to know that you have made such
progress in the matter of naning features in the Mt.
Lassen, Siskiyou, and trinity regions and I shall be glad
at any time to consider the names that have met with
the approval of your Society,
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Hon. John S. Raker
House of Representatives
Washirgton, D. C,
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Bear Judge Raker:
^Th^nks for your letter of the 4th inst. just re-
oeivedyin respect to the naming of features in the
tieighborhood of Mt. Lassen.
I had expected to sea Mrs. Colburn again before
leaving California but an injury to one of my legs
prevented* I am interested in the matter and have
written her that I shall be glad to see the list of
names she has under consideration.
When the names are to come before the Government
GeograpkicpBoard the Board will be much pleased to
listen to your recommendations.
Very truly yours
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California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
San -Francisco, Calif.
Dear Mr. Mailliard:
Your letter of November 28 reached Lagunites after my
departure and has been forwarded to Washington.'- h*-
The bear skull you mentioned would doubtless be of much
interest judging frcan its locality — Haines, Alaska— and
and in case 1 am lucky enouglti to re-examine our Southeastern
Alaska skulls this winter I may ask if you will be good
enough to loan it to me for a short time.
I fully intended to visit the Museum before leaving
California, but a slight injury to one of my legs^and i*xat
seemed a most unnecessary delay in securing the necessary
railway reservations Ifor myself and family, prevented it.
with kind regards to all at the Museum and also to
your sister.
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Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor
President National Geographic Society
Washington^ D. C.
lHj dear Dr. Grosvenor:
Thanks for your letter of November 7, irtiich
reached me on my return from California a few
days ago» telling me that the surviving founders
of the Society, myself among the number, have
been elected Life Members of the Society—a
courtesy which I fully appreciate.
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Mr v. !• Adams » Aocoontant
SidthsoniaD Institution
Wdshix^ton» B.C.
Dear Mr Adana:
Herewith I am enclosing my check for $500 in repayment
of amount advanced to me for field work laf?t Aprils under the
Harriman Fund.
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Dr. Witmer Stone, ^ ,
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Philadelphia. Penna.
Dear Dr. Stone:
In examining my accumulated mail I find thfl report of
the Academy for 1922* It contains three articles on explora-
tion *ich are of considerable interest to me, namely: those
jon Nicaragua, the Andes of Colombia|and the California to
Mexix^o Borderland, by A. G. Rehn. This leads me to ask if
the Academy carries separates of these articles. If so, I
shall be obliged if you will have the proper person send me
one copy each with bill for same.
Re had an interesting and fruitful season in California,
spending more than seven months in active field work, chiefly
in the northwest quarter of the state.
With kindest regards to Mrs. Stone and yourself.
Very truly youfs.
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§r. Gilbert Grosrenor, Pres..
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"8«»iiHgton, B. C. '
My dear Dr. Orosrenor:
'■^jlenj thanks for your letter of the 13th inst. tel-
ling ffle thav fiye copies each of the Society's publi-
oationa entiUd "ffi3 CAPITAL OJ? ODE OOUNTHX- and "H0BS2S
Q? THS WOfili)." h.^e been placed at my disposal.
I shall be greatly obliged if you niU kindly send
them to me at 1919 .16n» street so that I may distribute
them before Christmas.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours,
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Mrs. 2. R. Murray,
Geographic Division,
Census Office,
Washington, D. 0. ,. v
Dear Mrs. Murray:
Very many thanks for your tindness in sending me
the letter to accompany the resolutions passed at the
last meeting of the Geographic Board. I signed and sent
them to Mr, McCormick for his signature several days ago.
1 am obliged also for your thought fulness in sending
Board stetionery. as I had taken all of mine to California.
With best wishes,
Very truly yours.
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The Honeywell Heating Specialty Co.
Wabash, Indiana.
Dear Sirs:
I have a hot water heating system in my house and
would like to know whether or not your Mercury Pressure
Apparatus would increase the heat in the system'.
If you have an agent in ITashington please let me
know.
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Dr. A. 2. Jenks
National Beseardi Council
Washington, D. C.
Dear Dr. Jenks:
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Your letter of Noveoiber 29 was written irtiile I was still
in i^alifornia.
ily experience in handling separates corers more than fifty
years, during which several widely different n»1hods were tried.
In the early years I had them hound under subject headings but
abandoned the method after finding that additional articles al-
ways turned up belonging to one of the bound volumes.
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Then I tried horiaontal boxes in a case of flat pigeon-
holes made to fit; and leter abandoned this for vertical paste-
board pamphlet cases to stand on shelres. These were made of
different thicknesses, from half an inch to two and a half ^
inches, but some were always less than half full while others
overflowed.
Finally, ebout fifteen years ago, I adopted the vertical
file system aliich I still use and which seons to me the meet con-
venient of the methods heretofore attempted. It has the advan-
tage of indefinite expansion and also oX accwaodating itself to
a few leaflets and. when properly classified, is a great time-
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vertical file cases covering materials relating to Geography.
Biography, Ethnology. Zoology and several other major subjects
subdivided under a multitude of headings.
I shaU be glad at «y time to show you my system if you
care to call at my home, 1919 -16th Street.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. George W. Offutt, Secretary,
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American ^utcnobile ^seociation*
Washington, D. 0.
My dear Sir: ^
Referring to your letter of the 7th instaftt nould
say that I fail to see any reason why District not crista
should be called upon to either carry liability insurasace
or provide an indemnity policy.
I hope this proposition is not to be used in con*
nection with the impending legislation in faror of the
two cent gasoline tax.
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U. 3. Geographio Board,
kn James McCormick» Secretary*
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Dea r Mr . Mc Cormi ck :
Thanks for the correspondence from R. Douglas^ Secretary of
the Geographic Board of Canada, which is herewith returned.
But in attempting to write him I found that I had no copy
of the Resolution passed at the last meeting of the Board expres
sing our concurrence in his suggestion for an exchange of infor-
mation concerning points on or adjacent to the International
Boundary. If you will kindly send me a copy of this resolution
I will write Mr. Douglas immediately.
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Since writing the above I have received your note enclosing
Mr. iJouglas's letter of the 14th instant. This letter proves the
truth of your prophecy as to the accuracy of the statement made
to the Board to the effect that the Geographic Board of Canada
had already approved a number of the names in question.
It also emphasizes my need of the actual phraseology of the
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Mr. ^ James McCormick,
U. o. Geological Survey,
Washington, D. C.
Bear Mr. McCormick:
•^-iir. Donald Dickey. 514 Lester Avenue. Pasadena, Cali-
fomia. has written me asking for reports of- the Geographic
Board's Decisions. I shall be obliged if you will kindly
send him a copy of the Fifth Beport (published in 1&21) and
also the Decisions. July 1920- July 1&£2. I assume that the
Decisions July 1922-July 1923 hare not yet been published.
Do you know if they are ready for the printer.
I should be glad to hare half a dozen copies of the
Decisions since the Fifth Report, as I often have requests
for them.
Very truly yours.
By the way, I have no Board envelopes smaller than the
one in which this is enclosed and shall be obliged if you will
kindly send me a smrll supply.
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|r. Donald B. Dickey.
014 Lester Avenue,
Pasadena, California.
Mjr dear Mr. Dickey:
Your letter of the 11th instant arrived yest^day and
I have just written the Secretary of the Government Geographic .
Board to send you the reports of the Decisions of our Board
so far as published.
Mrs, Merriam and Zenaida enjoyed the beautiful drive
Mrs. Dickey was good enough to give tiieia while you were filling'
me to overflowing with various phases of your importait work.
We are expecting our daughter Dorothy with her two chil-
dren next week. The youngest child I have not yet seen.
with kindest regards to you all,
Very truly yours,
Captain d. k. Bartlett,
American Museum of Natural History,
New York City.
My dear Captain Brrtlett:
**^^:0n returning to Lagunitas from a field trip in the
mountains of northern California I found your letter in
regard to the seals.
After reading your letter (v«hich I find very interesting)
two or three times, I failed to find any definite questions
as to just ^at information you are seeking.
There are many questions in regard to the life history
of all of our seels which no one ^s yet has answered or is
likely to answer in the near future. For instance, we can-
not yet trace the movements frpm year to year of the young
seals. If you will tell me exactly what you want to know I
will look through my material and see if I have it.
With best wishes.
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December 18, 1923
Dr. H. U. T. Jackson,
U. 3. Netional Museum,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Dr. Jackson:
Ti?ill you kindly send me a memorandum of the bear
skulls receiTed since I went to California early fii April
last. I should like veiy much to hare the museum numhers,^
name of collectors, locality, and date received. This will
enable me to check up my bear letters before going to the
museum <
Very truly yours.
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December 18, 1923
Dr. George Bird Grinnell,
238 B. loth St. ,
New York City.
Dear Grinnell:
l,e missed you sadly at the recent meeting of Secretary
Vorkl^ 'Conmittee of One Hundred'. The meeting lasted two
days and was, of course, very much over-crowded for a time.
If it had consisted of a dozen or fifteen well chosen persons
and had been given a week for deliberation and discussion the
results would undoubtedly have been very much more satisfactory.
it the same time, a good deal was done notwithstanding the fact
that the church influence was disproportionately large.
I have just obtained your splendid work on the Cheyenne
and look forward to the many hours I shall spend in reading it.
I want to congratulate you on living to bring out such
an important work and also on having it published in such fine
shape.
I had a wonderful season in California; perhaps the most
successful in all my field work among Indians, but will not
take time to tell you about it just now.
With love from us all to yourself end Mrs. urinnell.
As ever yours.
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December 16, 1923
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Bureau of 2thnolo^,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Dr. Swanton:
Before leaving California I received the sepA^tes
you sent me of my note on the Application of the Athapaa-
kan term Nung-kahhl, for which I am obliged; but I have
not yet received separates of my comment on Erroneous
Identifications of "^Copper Effigies*' from the July-Sep-
tember number of the Anthropologist. I diall be obliged
if you will kindly have them sent to ray home address —
1919 .16th Street.
Hoping to see you in the near future.
Very truly yours.
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kr. Louis Vallot-Duval.
10, rue des Trois-Conils,
Gironde,
Bordeaux, France.
My dear Sir:
^^On my return from California a few days ago I found
your letter of November 16. in regard to the reports of
tiie Harriman-Alaska Expedition.
Unfortunately I have no control of the distribution of
these volumes and have only one copy myself. They are published
by the Smithsonian Institution.
Regretting that I cannot send you the set.
Very truly yours.
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December 19, 1S23
1500 °qfJ^*^ GMnyille Minifie.
loyo Sacramento Street,
ban ?ranciscd, California.
My dear Sir:
Thanks for jour memorandum of November 27 relating
to the unfortunate use of the word "Frisco". I agree
with you that it is a detestable word and one never
employed by any patriotic Celifomian.
Very truly yours,
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Ottawa', Canada-
Dear Sir: -
. Referring again to your letter of July 12 and later
inquiry of November 7. asking whether a mutual agreement
respecting- International boundary names '^ould be accep-
table to the U. 3. Geographic Board, each Board agreeing
to submit all International names to the other Board
prior to arriving at a decision respecting same, I am
pleased to say that at its last meeting the Board approved
and agreed to your excellent suggestion.
In accordance with this decision I have asked our
Secretary, Mr. James McCormick of the U. 3. Geological
Survey, to forward to you such information as we have
concerning proposed boundary names not yet acted on by
our Board.
Yery truly yours,
Chairman, U. 3. Geographic Board.
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Geographic Board,
Ottawa" Canada.
My dear Mr. Douglas:
Owing to my late return to Weehirigton from field
work in California, to the confusion resulting from the
death of our late Secretary, Mr. Sloane.and to illness
in iriy owe family, I have not been able to attend earlier
ta the matter of cooperction with your Board.
I hope you will accept this ""explanation as an
apology for my delay.
With best wishes and greetings of the season.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. James McCormick
U. S. Geological Survey
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. McCormick:
Herewith I am enclosing a carbon of my letter
to B. Douglas, Secretary Geographic Board of Canada,
and shall be obliged if you will send him the in-
formation mentioned concerning International boundary
names proposed to our Board but not yet acted on.
I am enclosing also the previous correspondence
in relation to this matter.-- vl-^■^-icv^ Ibu-^^of ^K<i.
Yours very truly,
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Ukiah, California.
My deer Mr. Knight:
The recent meeting of the Advisory Committee on Indian af-
fairs appointed by Secretary Hubert Work accomplished some good
though we cannot yet say how much. After a discussion covering
two days and one evening, a number of resolutions were passed ex-
pressing the feelings of the members present on a number of points.
In most cases they were necessarily a compromise between contend-
ing views but on the v*iole mark a distinct step ahead. I have not
yet received copies of these resolutions or I would send you trans-
cripts of those that epply to California. I hope to do this later.
In ttie LakeCPort Bee of i)ecember 6, it was stated that one
of the largest tribes of Lake County had been forced away from the
productive land originally belonging to them "in the lower end of
the County" and had been moved to "an arid area several miles in-
land irtiere water has to be carried a mile to the village."
If this is true, can you give me the nane and original loca-
tion of the tribe and also the name of the place to irtiich they
were removed.
In a day or two, when the Christmas mails are less over-
crowded than at present, I will send you a little book on Washington
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As yet I hfi7e not been able to learn anything about
the outlook for the case now in the Courts, but will let you
know as soon as I have any information of value.
We hope to return to California very early next Spring
and I look forward to aeaing you at your home*
With best wishes to you and Mrs. Kni^t from Mrs. Merriam,
myself and my daughter Zenaida,
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December 24, 1923
Dr. Witmer Stone
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, Penna.
Dear Dr. Stone:
Thanks for your letter of the 19th instant telling
me that no separates of the articles mentioned were
printed, hut offering to smd me mother copy of the
report containing them. I shall he greatly obliged
if you will kindly do this.
With greetings of the season to you and Mrs.
Stone ,^ ♦.^ 1*-* •ftiiw -
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Mr. Charles A. ^llen
San Geronimo, Calif.
Dear Mr. ^11 en:
Thanks for your Igjiter of December 15, in *ich you and
Mrs. Allen enclosed Christmas cards to our family.
We are glad to knew that you hare had some rain out there
80 that the country will net be dried up before we get back.
I am interested also in what you tell me about Gibbs Mole.
Shortly after our return Mrs. Merriam met with a rather
severe accident, brenping her head against a register box on
the ceiling of the basement. After bending over she stood up
suddenly and the corner of the box cut her head open from the
middle of the forehead up into the hair. The wound was sewed
up immediately and has now healed but she has been suffering
from the concussion and has beos in bed most of the time for
ten days or more. She is getting better every day now and we
hope soon will be in her usual health.
We had a thunder storm yesterday but today is bright and
clear and fine and doubtless will continue over Christmas.
With kindest regards from all of us to Mrs. Allen and
yourself,
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Gelifoniia Academy of Sciences
i>an ?rancisco, Celifornia.
Dear Dr. Xvermann:
Thanks for your letter of the 14th instant in'regerd
to the coming Congress of the Pan-Pacific Union at Honolulu
and inviting me to attend.
. Much as 1 should enjoy a visit to the Islands I feel
It my duty to stick to my knitting until I have finished
the particular job I am now at work upon with California
Indians.
In rt.. of my tim, of lif, and the rast quantity of
«npubli,h,d .atorxBl in my hand, I do not feal at liberty
to tai, e„oh trip, a, th, one you propo,.. „o matter ho,
tempting they may be.
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1615 La Loma Avenue,
Barkely, California.
Dear Professor Hall:
Since the Merriams left your hospitable home after the
lunch Mrs. Hall so kindly gave us, various things happened—
some of them with a gpod deal of energy. To begin with, about
two hours after leaving you I had a small piece cut out of my
^ lef t leg. Then on arriving home and attenpting to start a fire
we fouiril the water system of our furnace split open with all
the water leaked out. This caused a delay of several days,
after which Mrs. Morri(Mi» in cleaning out a place under the
cellar stairs, stood up suddenly under a register box with the
result tftat she split open her scalp from some distance above
the bair line down to about the middle of her forehead. The
wound was immediately sewed up by a good surgeon and has healed
nicely but the results of the concussion have not yet entirely
disappeared and she has been in bed most of the time since.
She is much better now however and we hope will be in normal
condition in a few days. She appreciated Mrs. Hall's thought-
fulness in returning her veil.
Hoping we shall have the pleasure of mixing your three with
our three at Lagunitas next season^and with best wishes and greet
ings of the season to you all.
As ever yours,
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December 26, 1923
Dr. Herbert B. iJolton,
Bancroft Library.
Berkely, California.
My dear Dr. Bolton:
lour letter of :io,e«l.er 22nd in regard te the Oalif.mi.
State Historical i=.ooiatio„. after »king t« trips acre,
the continent, has reached »e at .y -inter headquarter. ,.n
in
Washington. ^
I did not kno- that there .ere two hi.toricel .oci.tie.
ir California, easting naturally that the California Hi.tori-
cal Society *ich puhli.he. The Quarterly magazine CTered
the »hole ground. It eee.. to ™ a. an out.id.r that there
i, hardly room for t.o euch a.aooiation. in the .ame .tate.
Ho^erer you are the heat judge and ai-o. the new one ,ee., t.
have heen already eatahli.hed I *8U of curse ha glad to
<oin and a» enclosing here.i«- -y m-bership due. (IS.OO)
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With compliments of the season.
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Hon. Charles H. Burke.
Conmissioner of Indian Affairs
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:
Before leaving California a short time ago I
.,i. learned that the Indians on Tule Eirer reservation rere
•ngigwetly disturbed over a rumor that they wer3 to be
•«OTed to son,e other place. Is there any truth in this
rumor?
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Hon. S. Wallece Dempaey,
House of Representatives,
Washington, i). C.
Dear Sir:
Replying to your request of the 11th instant I
have sent Miss Kathryn Praemassing of Buffalo, New York,
a copy of the last report of the U. S. Geographic Board.
If she desires a copy of the full report contlSlning
all place names passed on by the Board up to the year
1920 the seme may be obtained by addressing the Secre-
tary of the Board. Mr. James iicCormick, U. 3. Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C.
Very truly yours,
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December 26, 1923
Mr. Horace IL. iklbright
Superintendent,
lellowstone National Park.
lellowstone Park. Wyoming.
My dear Mr. Albright:
Thanks for your letter of November 20. »*iich I
found on returning to Washington a short time ago.
In regard to the alleged climbing of the Grand
Teton in 1872 by Langford and Stevenson, it was generally
believed that they did not reach the summit of the main
peak but did attain the top of a subordinate peak.
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Plainfield, New Jersey. ^
Ky dear Sir:
. ■* y«8r ago last November I purchased an i»merican-3ii tour-
thf^2®Lf o f''°''V* from Plaxnfield to Washington. On the way
there was a terrible crash resulting from what proved to be a
ig^g PPfc ^^J-^^ transmission, fifhen this got into the gears the
shock suggested a dynamite bomb and the reaction was ?o great
that It broke the heavy hanger plate under the right rear spring
d must have done other damage to t'le internal vise "^^""^-"P^^^^e
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scera of the car.
The engine has
that seems Xo come
.naj seems .o.come fJoTfhe«glla?l"1?^* Tr^^^
tL i£^ S«^ ^r" {**u°*V ^lack eye with strangers: iher drivin?
tnr.n™?"?*^ "^^^^ ?r-,??e« about "^ this but notling has been dene ^
to correct it. I would like to have it eliminated.
««,.o„I*f L"'^"*®'^ trouble developed wi th the brakes which local
^fZf^t Kfr rT®/°^ ?S^? *° remedy. Your mechanic. i.r. Bryant.
during his brief visit here readjusted the brakes.
Dow«/^^I^2j^Tj^f«^°«5 l^^^^^ "^^^^^ ^« S**r *0'^<i heat and lose
S2J MP i.SSiv 5^«;fS °fiH'u ®°«'"® removed and found the End cylin-
tM.^n^ f«^il ecorea t.11 the wev around. 1 wrote the company about
ti PlJfnfiSir^^L'**'?'''®? ? ^Su*^®^ requesting me to bring^thi car
;^/i5^°:"F; Uniortunately this was too late, as I was then on
I han1etter'fri2^J^°5 %tH'''?''^' ^o?" «"fr reachiS^ California
fiSlJ ii^ii L r" ^' ^' ^^^* General sales Manager, dated Plain-
oJ? to pfriifiJfH*SJ'!!i^ ""^eret that I was unab!e to bring the
S" in S io -f »4 ??^vi^^ • °§i Just as soon as it is conveni(
»"" to do so we will be mighty gled to take care of you."
you
ent for
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il^ ^it^ over bumps and in turning comers the gas tank makes
f«nv*fl* v^? ® cvclone under. a tin roof. Your Mr. Bryant took the
nf?f2£t ^^°2"^4 not core it. The Company offered lo send me a
new tank last Spring but I was then just leaving for California.
«nA^2^L^f^fu^^^^ f^ re not tight and spatter grease all over the
SSeJtli^ °*^ ^® ^° ^® refilled altogether too fre-
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She steers very hard on sharp turns.
I have now returned and expect to remain in Washington until
Spring. 1 have iust seen i^^r. ^. Penny and his son who tell me
that you have nol yet an a^ent or a service station in Vlashine*
ton, which I greatly regrei. I suppose therefore thE^t it will he
necessary to drive the car to Plainiield.
I shall be glad to hear from you on the matter. t
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Hon. Hubert Work
Secretary of the 'interior.
Washington, D. U.
Dear Dr. work:
At the close of th. recent meeting of your Cornnittee
of one Hundred on Indian Affairs a number of resolutions
were adopted. Mr. Geox^ge Vaux said that copies of these
would be sent to all members of the Conurdttee. ky copy
has not yet arrived.
I an 7ery anxious to see these resolutions and should
be glad if you could have two or three copies sent me.
Very truly yours,
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Mr. H. R. (fagner,
508 Wells J?argo Building,
San Prencisco, Calif.
Dear Mr. Wagner:
Tl-ie long looked for separates have at last arrived and I
am much disappointed to find that they are re-paged— an abomi-
nation I have fought against for many years. I am now re-
paging than in ink so that it may be possible to refer to them
without the necessity of going to a library to consult the
originaHuarterly in which they appeared. Otherwise they are
admirable.
I have now looked up most of the data for the off-hand
remarks I made at the Society's lunch, to make sure that there
ere no errors and to insert or correct a few dates, and am ex-
pecting to return it in a few days.
Shall be gled to hear from young Hafen, but shall be im-
mensely amazed if he is able to show any weak spot in Jedediah
Smith's route. The amount of water in L'eadow Valley Wash and
the Muddy, as in moat desert streams, varies with the season.
Moreover, one would be very rash to assume that the flow a hun-
dred years ago was the same as today.
Very truly yours,
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December 30, 1S23
Prof. ?. 5. Olmsted,
Stanford University, Calif.
ky deer Professor Olmsted:
Pardon my delay in replying to vour letter, which reachAH
fSfVowlf T.^ ^"^T ^\^i"S fhi excitement attend'i^ our biff ire
has iult Sm^L^'?aV;^^' ^1 i'^«hington. .Howev^. the litter*
wl?did by e^press^ ^''^ ''^ ' ^^*°^ °^ lagunitas materials for-
T v,.^^fK^° ^-'l i^dien^ of Taraaloais-Point Rayes region- Yes
I had the good fortune to work with survivors of tfetribl^or
Ilcu?inP^rTJt^^?°^' their final extinction and succeeded in
\nl S'Saoifo'rS ^iT-^^^^^'^ thfif^tltm-ifi?n ace mpa^nj!
L'^Lf ^fP 1 °" the distribution and classification of the
obpIs 42''%¥' (ti''^, ^^? P^°?^ft-i" '?"««tion are treated on
^pril-^June. lyovf! ^'^^^^^^ SnthropSlogist . Vol.5. No.E.
publ
w V t u^^?* i ®"' 1" the field a larpe nart of thp tim^
but by 'phoning Lagunitas (the only 'phone is in the %tnr^
you may learn .vhetKer or not I am at K! "^^^
with best wishes and apologies for the long delay,
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Mr. Edmund C. Jaeger,
Riverside Junior %llepe,
Riverside, California.^
Itear Mr. Jaeger:
Please pardon my delay in replying to your letter ask-
ing for a list of species end sub-species with synonyme of the
Mountain Lion. I was in the field at the time your letter
came and it has only recently turned up in a batch of mail
shipped by express from Lagunitas.
I am too overwhelmed 77ith accumulated work to take the
time necessary to dig up the material you ask for, but think
you will find it in the last edition of Gerrit 3. Miller's
List of Nor th^ American Land Mammals published by the National
Museum. By writing Doctor Miller at the U. 3. National iluseum
you will probably be able to secure the information you are *
seeking.
Very truly yours,
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December 30. 1923
Mr. A. 0. Oemptell.
Care of Outdoor Life,
Denver Colorado.
My dear Sir:
I was mudi interested in your article in Outdoor Life
telling of tne killing of a big old Grizzly in the Pish Creek
country of western ^nlyoming.
J?'or more than thirty years i have been er^aged in a study
of American bears and have succeeded in bringing together in
our National Museum at V^ashir^ton more than two thousand skulls.
Specimens from western Wyoming are exceedingly scarce and I am
most anxious to examine as many as possible. I sci taking the
liberty, therefore, to ask if you will kindly loan me the skull
of your big Grizzly for comparison with specimens in our Museum.
Very truly yours.
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December 30, 1S23
Book Depfirtment,
The White House,
San i'rancisco, Calif.
Dear Siirs:
Thanks for your memorandum of the 21st instant
telling me that you have treed a copy of Caiifornia Hen
inJhe.War_pf. the Bebellion which may be purchased for
$15.00. The price, I regret to say, is more than I am
able to pay. I an obliged, however, for your courtesy
in the matter.
Very truly yours,
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December 30. 1523
Dr. Paul Bertach,
U. 3. National iiuseum,
Washir^ton, D. C.
Dear Doctor Bartsch:
Early last March I gave you. in compliance with your
request the manuscript of my address on Professor Baird
with the expectation that it, along with the other addresses
delivered at the memorial meeting, would he published in
Science or Scientific Monthly.
During the intervening ten months several of the other
addresses have appeared but thus far I have heard nothing
from mine. If Professor Cattell finds it too long or other-
wise unsuited for his publications I will endeevor to have
it printed elsewhere.
*?ith "best wishes end compliments of the seaFon,
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Mr. D. h. Wentz,
Land Title Building,
Philadelphia, Pe.
My deer Mr. tfentz:
Thanks for your kind invitation of the 26th instant
to. be present at the annual meeting of the Wilderness
Club on January 5th. I should greatly enjoy being present
to see Colonel ^aunthorpe's pictures of Indian big game,
but unfortunately shall not be able to leave home at that
time.
With regrets, and regards to the members,
Very truly yours.
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Mr. »*. 1- Adams,
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omithsonian Institution,
Wsstiington, ^. ^.
Deer ilr. Adams:
I shall be obliged if you will send a pay check
from the Harriman ?und,_t^i:iss Ellen Allston, ad-
dressed in my care, for services as stenographer.
December 17 to 31. at the rate of ^500 per annum.
Very t -^ily yours,
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Dear Doctor Stephens:
fiver since we came home I have be^n trvi»,r. f^
to Ml you of our various fortmol and miXSin^.f" ' *=""
th.ho^fS.y^'^„r^il\S«r*r„fUf-.^nd^nura^e.aia^ca™^for
juirij^ «atl»tx^°„%\l t'S^? 15 «r,"'J&?S:no"'.S?""' T
aon all Christinas un(i«rt«vfn«o o!^l ? °°iiged to defer or aban-
begin work on llst'Jea'son'f flteJial.^'"' "°* ^'' ^^^" '^^' ^°
My brother and his wife have come to Washington for the
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herd pull^of iJta^"* ^° "'^"^^ ®^ "^''*'^ ^'^* ^^'^ ^'^'^ ""^^^^^ «
We honp von^^r^" i?"" ^^f^iara fanily; now how about the Stephana?
E PoS! tT^ ^^? ^^^ '^^^^ ^'"^ <^'^»<= ^^o>i have had a fine Christmas
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3o^?«?uS'^ ^''^ October quarterly of the Ct-lifornia Historical
f^^lP ^''®"? ''?'' 1°'"'' ^^<^<^h in rentrd to the seoarates and
tney hHve only juat fcrnved. I em 'sending you one by this mail
With love to you all,
rtS ever ■/cur?.
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?.?i.'^":, Barclay Stephens,
UOKJ Bay Street,
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Dear
oir:
Your letter in regard to the establishment of e mencrial
grove to the memory of UUiam Brewster rea<5hed my California
home at Lagunites during my absence en a field trip, and later, •
with a batch of ether mail, wa? forv/arded to %Fhington by ex-
press,- hence the^elay in replying,. ^ . • .v
In case the necessary amount is raised "l shell be glad to
contribute *10-.00 and regret thr^t I am not in a position to send
e larger amount.
I visited Mr. Erewster et hi? father's heme in Cambridge
mere tlian fifty years agg^and have always regarded hie rot only
as occupying tne top of the ornithological ladder in Ar.erica. but
also as being one of the fairest and most honorable men cur
country has produced.
V'ery truly your?.
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2055 Center Street,
Berkeley, California.
Dear Sirs: ' .
Enclosed find ijy check on the Crocker Bank for
$15.00, pejmient of 'he accompanying bill for 50 separates
of my article on Jedediah omith in the October number
of the Historical society's quarterly.
"1 very much regret that you i;£"P®6®^ ^® article,
making it necessary for roe to wi te the correct pagination
with 8 pen, incurring the time and trouble necessary to
write 1650 numerals.
Kindly return receipted bill. ^
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My dear Miss Drumin:
My article on Jedediah Smith's route to California
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Quarterly of the California Historical Society (pages
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228 — 236). Beprints of it have just reached me and I
take pleasure in sending you a copy by this mail.
Your kindness in referring me to the Kansas Histori
cal Society was of much assistances^
With best wishes and greetings of the season, -
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Missouri Historical Society, N
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iir. E. L. Stott,
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Dear Sir:
-Your letter of November 20, 1923^ addressed to rae at my
su^-^er home at Lagunitas, Gnlifomia, was such cjfine illus-
tration cf how not to do it thct I preserved it as a sad
example •
You state: %n acccuflt oX the fact thtt^pil burning is
not universr?! throughaut the United States our Company has
not' yet seen fit to manufacture an .oil burner. V ^id it occur
to you that it would be difficult for oil burning to become
universal before satisfactory oil burners had been supplied
by the men who make the furnaces.'
: Why is it that certain business mf»n shy at the truth and
try tc maVe their customers swallow preposterous, if not silly,
statements c Wnet objection cdnld there be to the simple state-
ment of fact, that the American Radiator Company has not yet
succeeded in developing a satisfactory oil burner at a reasonable
price tnd that experiments will still continue? As an owner
of an Ideal i*urnace made by the ;\merican riadiator Company, I am
interested in the matter of oil burners.
Very truly yours, , ^
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My dear Miss Francis:
The California Historical Societv n..H .
;;--- not ...... p„.H.„. ;;'.:;-
to Washington, which I regret.
the t?h" V '''" '"" "^ '''' ''^ photostat 'copy of
the Jeded.ah S.ith letter on file in the Indian offi « ,
a^ sending it to you by this . il. elon, .ith a copy
article as printed. ' ^^ °^ "^ .
I 3h.ll be greatly obliged if >Ju^iin kir.l
the latter with the copy on fn • ' '°'"^'"' .
^-w if the. differ d If" ^ " '"^ ''''''' ''^' ''' ^
idea as to ;Lre ? ^"^ "'" ^' ^°^ ^^- -^
.vhere U.e original of Smith's letter is likely
to be preserved and by whom the In^i.n offio
- ' „ .;.''" °^^^°« copy w«s made.
Very truly ycurs,
Jji:
Topeka.1^n*las^''^^^«l Society.
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Dear 3ir: > v
1 ff«r'f>f iJeeenber 31 in reg&rd to my
Thanks for your letter ol ^eeero ^
« -.^n Six car which by the way is in such had condition
American-oix car, wuxv^i* j ^ c -^^ '-
that 1 am afraid to drive Lt. ^
I am very glad to .now th.t some one from your facto^^
^ll^he in this city on or before the lOth^instant and will
takrray car to Flainfield. , ^' , . „
fv,« rpr about 25 niles since returning
1 have driven the car aooai
Uo. Oaiifornia. .3e.eral tUe, d^ri., this short dri,e .J-
tMng ha. ^ppenad *ich I as.u.ed to h, a ..U.n,, o th
Pi.t!„ in th. scored cylinder. *ate,ar the cause, the reault
La violent shaKine of the car .hich^after a U. second,
disappears until next time.
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"ill yon Hndly send me ,Uh bill fl
'-- 1 Of t.e Hinorical .ociet; J Lr" ; ''' °^
"P«ate Of ^. ca.p., ,,,,„,, „„ xit^ 1 V'" =
'^'^ ^^^^on m California.'
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Deer Mr. \^agner: ■ ^ , / _ -^.
on lookln, o,e. =o». translations of Oalifor^xa Indian
^tarial fro. Spanish ^nuscripts in the Bancroft Library
^ ^ V »fnor Rodripuez Germenho describing his
find one by Sebnstian Koarigue^
i. ^ o-^iw-r^rnifl ThiP is Written in the
voyage tc the coa-t of CaUiornia.
! ..A .oDear- to be an entirely distirftt account
first oerfon and appearw
1- J -,n whiph L believe was vrritten by
from the one you shoised me. which l oei
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The copy in the Bancroft Library is dated April ^.
. '• ^A <^i>h^0tiHn Ro. Germenho — name spelled as
1595, and signed Sebastian .n_:„::i
here given.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. H. i^. .Japner, K^^\r^c
Boom 503 Wells tfargo Building
Sen /ranciaco, Jtiiiornia.
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402 Milla Building,
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Mj dear Miss LeConte:
Your letter of December 28 has just reached me.
The accompanying report of the Sierra Club Committee
on Nomenclature of place nanes in the Sierra will be brought
before the Executive Committee of the Government Geographic
Board at its next meeting. on January 8.
Very truly yours ,
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Potomac Electric Power Company.
Uth and C. Streets, ^ ^
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Dear Sirs:
Herewith I am enclosing under protest check for $16.00
in payment of accompanying' bill for current to December 20,
1923, minus the dOfi for nonpayment of alleged ^pril bill.
No ilpril bill was received until after my return from
California about a month ago, at which tine I received a bill
dated December 1. charging $3.00 for current, without any
inform«tion as to dates of reading, plus dO^ for nonpajment.
I 'phoned jou imciedietely asking for date of alleged April
reading and after ecne tine received a reply mentioning a date
^after I had left for California when the house' was closed and
locked up, proving thct no reading had been made.
furthermore the charge of $6.00 for April is out of all
proportion to the amount of current consumed at that season of
the yecr, and was obviously an imaginary figure.
Hespect fully.
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Dear fciss Eastwood:
We were very far behind hand this year in everything re-
lating to Christmas and also in many other things, as a result
of w&ich much pressing work has not yet received attention and
our usual Christines mendings to Gelifomie Indians have not even
been purchased.
Your beautiful greens, especially the m^nzsnitas and redwood
sprays, came in perfect condition and are still a joy to us all.
The beautiful flowers of A. oanescens are remarkably persistant
and as lovely as ,vhen they first came— for all of :flhich we thank
vou.
^ You may have heard that on attempting to build a fire in the
furnace on our arrival we found the water system cracked and empty
so that a delay of several days was necessary before we could have
any heat in the house. Then Slizabeth sttrted house cleaning and
bumped her head with much vigor against the exposed flange 0} a
register box in the basement, splitting open her scalp from about
an inch above the hair line to the middle of the forehead. This
was iiTimedie-tcly sewed up by a competent surgeon, but the shock
and concussion kept her q^bed most of the tine for three weeksj
and, while she is now about the house half of each day, she is
still hardly herself again but is gaining.
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Dorothy and her children csme a week or so ago and will
be with us for a couple of weeks more. Her husband Henry
Abbot came day before yesterday for a short stay. He is
very busy with his engineering work in New "England.
With kindest regf^rds to your sister and others at the
Academy,
As ever yours,
Miss Alice Eastwood,
Academy of Sciences,
dan ?rancisco, California.
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Dear ILiss Eastwood:
were very far behind hand this year in everything re-
lating to Christmas and also in many other things, as a result
of which much pressing work has not yet received attention and
our usual Onristmes syendings to Gslifomia Indians have not even
been purchased.
Your beautiful greens, especially the mtnzenitas and redwood
sprays, came in perfect condition and are still a joy to us all.
The beautiful flowers of A. oanescena are remarkably persistant
and as lovely as when they first came— for all of which we thank
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^ You may have heard that on attempting to build a fire in the
furnace on our arrival we found the water system cracked and empty
so that a delay of several days was necessary before we could have
any heat in the house. Then 31izabeth sterted house cleaning and
bumped her head with much vigor against the exposed flange o| a
register box in the besement, splitting open her scalp from about
an inch above the hair line to the middle of the forehead. This
was iiTiinedi&tely sewed up by a competent surgeon, but the shock
and concussion kept her a^bed most of the time for three weekS|
and, while she is now about the house half of each day. she is
still hardly herself again but is gaining.
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Abbot came day before yesterday for a short stay. He is
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Mr. George W. Stewart
Visalia, Oslifornia.
Dear Mr. Stewart:
You have every reason to wonder at my delay in replying to
your letter -.vhich came before our departure from Legunitas. You
inquired as to the truth or falsity of a rumor to the effect that
the Tule River Indians were in danger of being removed to ?ome
other place.
I wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, putting the ques-
tion squarely up to him, but the wheels of the Government sometimes
work slowly and I have only today received his reply^*ich is in
part as follows: -'There is no such action in contemplation ....
The Indians residing there need have no fear of being disturbed.^
The Commissioner states that the jurisdiction over the Tule
River reservation has been transferred to a new agency established
at Sacramento, which change I believp is likely to be beneficial
rather tli an harmful.
Since our return, early in December, we have had ell sorts
of troubles. The water boiler of our furnace split open, letting
out the water from the entire system. Then Lrs. Merriam, working
in the basement, butted her head against a protruding flange of a
galvanised iron register box, splitting open her scalp and fore-
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slowly disappearing. And last of all, my daughter Dorothy is
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this morning. "^
About a month ago I spent two days and an evening in at-
tendance at the Indian Conference — a meeting of the Advisory
Committee on Indian Affiars, appointed by Secretary Hubert
T/ork. The Committee was too large and there were too many parsons
and missionaries on it. Nevertheless, a number of excellent reso-
lutions were put through. The report of the secretary, with
copies of the resolutions^ are pending but not yet received.
After they come I may write you again.
With best wishes to you all,
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Mr. George W. Stewart
Visalia, California.
Dear Mr,. Stewart:
You have every reason to wonder at my delay in replying to
your letter v^iich came before our departure from Lagunites. You.
inquired as to the truth or falsity of a rumor to the effect that
the Tule River Indians were in danger of being removed to Pome
other place.
I wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, putting the ques-
tion squarely up to him, but tiie wheels of the Government sometimes
work slowly and I have only today received his reply^^ which is in
part as follows: "There is no such action in contemplation . . . •
The Indians residing there need have no fear of being disturbed."
The Commissioner states that the jurisdiction over the Tule'
River reservation has been transferred to a new agency established
at Sacramento, which change I believe is likely to be beneficial
rather than harmful.
Since our return, early in December, we have had all sorts
of troubles. The water boiler of our furnace split open, letting
out the water from the entire system. Then Mrs. Merriam, working
in the basement, butted her head against a protruding flange of a
galvanized iron register box. splitting open her scalp and fore-
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now in a hospital, having been operated on for appendicitis
this morning. ^
About a month ago I spent two days and an evening in at-
tendance at the Indian Conference — a meeting of the Advisory
Committee on Indian Affiars, appointed by Secretary Hubert
Work. The Committee was too large and there were too many parsons
and missionaries on it. Nevertheless, a number of excellent reso-
lutions were put through. The report of the Secretary, with
00 pies of the resolutions^ are pending but not yet received.
After they come I may write you again.
With best wishes to you all.
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iaahington, D. 0.
Dear Sir:
Thanks for your letter of the 7th instant. I an yery glad
to know that the Tule River Indians need have no fear of being
disturbed and tiiat the rumor that they were in danger" of being
removed to sone other place is without foundation.
' I am glad also to know that you have established an agency
'«^SS^'"*'- ^^" °^ ^^« g''*«* P^«"nt needs of the Indians
of,C8lifornia is the services of a competent and s:ympathetic
«an to visit the numerous and widely separated bends and ran-
cherias in order to ascertain first hand their actual condition
*nd to render such help as may be practicable.
Another advantage much to be desired might be a restoration
of confidence in the Indian Bureau-whi ch has been badly shat-
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itr. John o. tlcGroarty,
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fiiy dear Sir:
Your letter of October 19. 1923. addressed to the po-.tmaster et
San .Fernando, has just come to my attention in connection v»ith the
question now before the U. i. Geographic Board of the proper spel-
ling of the p'lece name commonly written Tuhun^a in Znglish and
Tujunga in Spanish.
I note you remark that "Tuji«g8 is an Aztec word meaning an
Indian mother', smile". Is this not « good deal like tt.e statement
that Sonoma mear.3Nall.ey of the moon? l^gination is a good thing
but hardly seems to fit the deriYi-tion of geographic names.
As a matter of fact Tah'onga or Tuhunga is tt.e nar-.e of an old
Tongva >. Gabrielenoj ranclieria mentioned in 1796 by Padre Santa
i^aria who. according to Bancroft, spelled it liiyungg. 1., the Tongva
language the terminal "syllable of this and other like names ig
really ']gnaV and in this particular case the native pronunciation
is Too,-hoon-gna. which we English speaking Americans render Tuhungj^
Is there any sufficient reason why we /unericans should spell
Indian names according to the usages of the Spanish language, rather
than the Znglish language? In the case of names of Spanish origin
I have elwciys stood up for the proper Spanish spelling, but in the
case of Indian names, such as Tuhunga, Mohave. Nevaho and several
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spellings. - ^
On the other hand^I admit thct an overwhelming volume of
local usage sometimes influences us to adopt the foreign spelling.
Viith best wishes ?nd great admiration for your splendid
Mission Play,
Very truly yours,
Chairman.U. S. Geographic Board.
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Mr. Tillman H. Trask,
Pasadena, California.
my dear 3ir; •
Your letter of Deceiriber L6, addressed to me at Lagunitas,
my summer home, has been forwarded to me here in Washington.
Unfortunately very little is known about the Indians of
Santa Catalina Island. There never was any tribe by the name
of Tcr-^ua. Holder's novels, to \*ich you refer, speak of a boy
by that name but I have no reason to believe that the name oc-
curred anywhere outside of his own imagination. At all events
there was no such tribe. .
The aboriginal nane cf Santa Catalina Island and of its
Indians is recorded as Pimugna. Cabrillo called 'the island San
Salvador. »
As you doubtless know, there are two principal original
sources cf information concerning this island: Cabrillo (voyage
of 1542) and Viscayno (voyage of 1602). The first English trans-
lation of Cabrillo, so far as, I am aware, was published by Henry
1. Henshaw in the Archaeology of the ^Vheeler ourvey (Vol. 7 of the
large (juarto Reports, pp. 293-314, 1879). A more recent and much
more careful translation was published by Bolton *in his book en-
titled 3j^:ni5h 3xplorfil:inr, ^j^ |.hP Southwest.. 1542^1576. pp. 13-39,
1916. Both of these works you can doubtless find in the Los Angeles
library if not in Pasadena.
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by Professor George Davidson in v*iich he quotes both Cabrillo
and Viscayno and identifies a very large proportion of "the locali
ties mentioned by these early explorers. (Report U. o. Coast end
Geodetic Survey for 1886, pp. 155-253, published in 1887)
In addition to these there is en interesting popular article
by Dr. (iustav Sisen, entitled An Account of the lnr\\f,ns of th^
9anta Barbsra Islgn<1fl. published in Preg in 1904, in \^ich the
accounts of the Indian? of Santa Catalina and .other Islands by
both Cabrillo and Viscayno. are quoted.
in article on the ArchfleBlogy pf Catalina Island byX R.
Mead, published in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of
Sciences, vol. 17. pp.215-E16, 1901, states that the town of
Avalon "is built on an ancient village site".
With best wishes,
Very truly yours.
Besides the works cited, there appeared in the San Francisco
Chronicle' of December 6, 1894, an article on the steatite quarry
of Santa Catalina Island where the Indians made their pots, ollas,
pipes and other articles of every day use.
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Dr. B. W. Evermann,
Academy of sciences,
San j^'rancisco,. Calif.
Dear 'Doctor Svermann:
Very many thanks -^r your courtesy in sending me a
duplicate copy of ^^ general account of the .academy's
1921 expedition to the Gulf of California.
Mth t-'-t wishes,
•^ Very truly yours.
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January 12, 1924
Dear Grinnell:
Pardon my delay in acknowledging your letter of December 20,
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and the valued present you sent me.
I had previously written you how much I admired your splendid
work on the Cheyenne. Few mm live long enough to undertake and
carry out such a comprehensive and thorough study of a single tribe,
and still fewer have the patience, the mental equipment, and the
confidence of the Indians necessary to the completion of such an
andertaking. You doubtless have myths and linguistic materialolM^
f^art from these^ the work appears to me < the most complete in
existence concerning any of our indians.
A f%w days after our return from California Elizabeth bumped
her head against the galvanized iron flange of a register box
iin the bef^ement, splitting open her scalp from an inch above the
hair line do^wi to the middle of the forehead. This was sewed up
within an hour and has healed nicely, but the shock of the concus-
sion lasted for fully three weeks and she is hardly yet in normal
condition, although very much better and improving daily.
Dorothy, who is visiting us with her two children, was opera-
ted on last week for appendecitis and is still in the hospital.
She is making a splendid recovery and we expect to have her with, us
again next week.
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With love from us ell to Mrs. urinnell and yourself,
AS ever yours.
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My desr Lir. Green:
Very many thanks for your letter of yesterday enclosing
a clipping from the London Times of December 27 in reg^^rd
to the Santa Barbara skulls. I rm particularly interested
in this as it is the first definite statement I have seen
concerning the strata in and adjacent to the find.
Zerly last season I visited the Santa Barbara excava-
tions with Harrington, but this was before the discovery
of the skulls in question.
It is nooA to hear from you again and to know where
you are located.
With best wishes and many thanks.
Very truly yours.
tr. tlorris M. Green,
39 South V/yoming Ave. ,
Ardmore, Penna.
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My dear iir. Law:
You end your good vvife have been on the minds of the
Merrier) family ever !?inoe we left your hospitable home in
the brush, but pressure of work, along with unfores«en
troubles must be my excuse for long delay in writing.
On reaching hone m found the boiler of our furnace
solit OTjen and the entire ivater system empty. The repair
required ."eversl day?, during which Mr?. Merriam bumped
her head -iith unnecessary vigor against the projecting
flange of a galvanized iron register box in the cellar.
TinoinR oncn her scalp and forehead for about three inches.
The '.vound wcs promptly s«^ed up and has healed nicely, but
the concussion to the brain kept her in bed most of the
time for three .veeks, and -.vhile she is noi;» going out every
day, 9he i? by no means fully recovered.
Lleanwhile our daughter Dorothy, Tiho csm.e with her tM
children for a little visit, developed appendicitis end
;,as op'ercted on. She is still in the hospital but is doing
nicely and we hope for her return in & few days.
Thus far we have had an open winter with only one
sno.v storm and that of not more ti»n an inch or so.
,Ve often speak of you end Mrs. laW in your snug little
home at the foot of the mountains. You were fortunate in
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We were very glsd to see the country you showed us,
and fully eopreciated 2/our kindness in giving us so
much time and attention, culminating in^meetmg'so many
fellow naturalists at your home in the evening.
ifith best wishes to you both.
Very tnily yours ,
Mr. iiugene J. Law,
Altedene, vJalifornia.
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Dear Mr. Dickey:
Thanks for yours of the Sth instant just received. I am
glad that the reports of the Geographic Board reached you, but
I am ?orry to kno^ that Prank Stephens was knocked off his bi-
cycle. However, if he is able to attend to the shipment of
pocket-gophers the inference is that he is still on board.
Mrs. Uerriam has nearly recovered from the severe in-
jury to her head, but to keep up the ercitewent my daughter
Dorothy, who was visitinr; us with hor two children, developed
appendicitis and was operated on a week ago* She is still
in the hospital bat doinp well and we expect th?:t she will
be able to return to up in a few days.
We are looking forward to an opportunity to see your
famous moving pictures of Laysan Birds, to be ^ho^wi at the
Ncticnal Aiuseum- on the Z3rd instant by -Alexander 'Vetraore,
*%ith kindest regards to your mother and your wife,
Very truly yours,
Mr. Jon aid R. Dickey,
514 Lester Avenue,
i'asadena, ^alif.
January 15, 1924
Mr. George B. Henkel,
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Deer Sir:
rour letter of December 28 has been forwarded to
me by the Biological Survey. In reply I would re-
iterate whet I said in my letter of December 20, 1916,
to the effect that I shall he glad to purchase skulls'
of Grizzly Bears carefully labelled with the name of
the place where killed. If you have any on hand or if
you shoidd secure any in the near future, please write
me and at the same time ship the specimens by express,
carefully pecked, addressed: U. 3. Biological Survey,
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. P. G. iiriith.
Service mlanag^r,
American Motors Corporation,
Plainfield, N. J.
De^ir Sir: * '
Your letter of the 12th instant evidently cro5!sed mine
to vou.
I very rruach regret that you are unable to send any of
your men to drive my car to Plainfield. I may start with it
myself in t'.70 or three days, but am fearful that it may break
down on the wav. I do not know the cause of the violent fits
of shaking it hap every little while, nor do I know anyone
in this city to viiJiom I would care to take it. If you have any
anents or service stations in Baltimore, Philadelohia, or other
points alonR the route I shall be obliged if you will give me
their addressee? at once so that I may know where to go if more
serious trouble developes.
Very truly yours.
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San jJ'ran Cisco, Celifornia.
Deer ilr. wegner:
I em greatly chagrined at the nece-sity for sending the
telegrerr I did thi^ morPire in reply to your? apkinp ^cr the
article on my talk.
In addition to the verifyinp of reference, and the look-
ing up of various rnatter.. it was obvious tkat fhe ^ole thing
needed rewriting. I have been engaged on thi. for some ti.e
p8f.t but h«ve been interrupted by several matter? and the
article will not be ready for some deys.. U seems to me much
better to delay publicatirn than to go «head with something
I should alvaya hate to see in print.
I shall look forward with interest to^the appearance of
the criticism from the man in lievada. of ^.om you speak.
Your prcmised^article or Oermeno'f expedition will be of
much interest to me and doubtless to many others also. I
earnestly hope that it may appear in the near future.
idth best wishes,
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January 15, 1S24
California Historical Society
Hells Pargc Building,
3an ?ranci3C0, Oalilornia.
Regret article not yet ready. Will submit for next
number.
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Dear kr. Lafonso:
B7 this m^il I am sendinp: you a 0007 of the minutes of the
i!\eet.i.np of the Advisory Council on Indier Affairs, appointed "by
Doctor Hubert v/ork, *iecretary of the Interior, lapt suTiinif^r.
The Ccmrattee we^ too "big for effective ••/crk and there were
toe manv missionariof^ ^nd oarsonf' arionp. its members. Nevertheless,
I feel thrt it accoripliphed much for the rood and is a step in the
ri^ht direction.
Mr:--^. Merriam, my dauphter "eraida, and myself were much disap-
oointed in not bernp, able to see '^tu at Ghico before our return, but
varicu? things happened to prevent. Toward the last, several Indians
crmie to Lagunitas to 3e? us, and then i had the riisfcrtune to wound
one of my le-s -vith a brush-hook so that a srrill operation was neces-
sarv. It is all ri/^ht now.
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up in vhe dark of cur bsserent, butting her head forcibly against the
?-\Brvi flanp^G of' a i;^alvani7.ed iron rerister ^ox, cutting open her scalp
from about an inch above the hair line to the nidile of the forehead.
Thia ^as se^ed uo at once and ha^ healed nicelv but the concussion
of the brain result inp, from the blow was much rore serious ar^d kept
her in bed most cf the time for three weeks. She is ndw nearly well^
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and had the herd luck to develope spoendicitis, ^o J^^^';^^^^^ |he^
was operated on 8 '^/eek'aco. She is no^ doing welUand hopes to
return to us in a day or t'flo.
Me were, glad to receive th.r nice little notes from ycur girls
acd hope to see ycu ell early next season.
There seem to be no neiv dev-lcpements in regard to The _
G^si, but if anything turns up I will let you Icnow.
rtith best wishes from us all to all of your family,
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Mr. ,4snes Vi. L'cGuire,
U. 3. Goest end Geodetic Survey,
Vla^lungton, D, G.
My dear Ur. LIcGuire: , *
Thanks for j^cur letter cf the 10th instent and for the ec-
company ing catalogue of cherts which has now arrived.
I shall be greatly obliged if you will cause to be sent to
me for use in ccnneoticn ^ith the Indian n^-ines of locations along
the coast cf G&lifornis the follcving charts:
5403, Uonterey Bay ^ ^
5476, Point )ur -r
5703, i;iendocinc City region <J
5773, Shelter Cove rej^on
5795, Gape i-Iendociro
5395, Point 3t. Gecrge,
Alsc £400, Northern Alaska.
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Chairman, U. 3. ^^eographic Board.
Kiridly mail thes^e to me at
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Janes H. Barry Conqpany
Publisher* ^ ,_
San Franeiseo, Calif.
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Ei^lehardt's 'Uissions and Missionaries of California',
poblished by you, 190ft- 16. I now find that Volume I
is iq>erf«0t. with pp* 162- W2 missing, and a second
set of pp« 461-S09 bonnd in their place.
I should be Teiy glad if you would exchange this
is^rfect copy for a perfect one, or if this is not
possible, letine know how I can securs a perfect copy.
Teiy truly yours.
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Mr. Jos. Codoni,
Chevrolet Agency,
3an Rafael, Calif.
jjy dear Sir:
Not having received a hill from you for the work
you were to do in overhauling my Chevrolet hahy-grand,
I am writing to inquire if the work has been done end
if the car is now stored with Duffy Brothers.
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Mr. Stenhen Knight ,
Ukiah, California.
My dear Mr. Knight: ^ .-r
M^ny thanks for your long letter of the 2nd instant which
I was very glad to have. I am obliged for the trouble you took
in answering my inquiry as to the .irr^thless land assigned to certain
Lake County Indians which you tell me are the Sulphur Bonk people.
But you did not. tell me just where the arid area in question is.
A few days ago Doctor Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior,
sent me the report of the Advisory Council on Indian Affairs, and
I take great pleasure in forwarding a copy to ycu by this mail.
By the '^ay, can you give mr Jiillis' ad(1ress? I want to write
him and do not know whether to send the letter to his former ad-
dress , Heroult.
i<rom some newspaper clippings received last evening, I learn
that you have brought a case against the county for refusing to
allow your young daighlTer tc enter the public school. I rrost
earnestly hope you will win out. This matter of denying Indian
•children school privileges in California is a disgrace to the
state.
With best wishes arid kind regards to your fanily from us all,
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Dear Sirs:
Are you taking care of my battery? I have not
heard fron the car since leaving California and want
to be ?are that the battery is receiving proper at-
tention as usual. I left the car with Mr. Ccdoni at
th« Chevrolet agency for some repairs, after '^ich
it wavS to be stored for the winter at Duffy Brothers.
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Dr. Thomas S. Axtuthnot
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Pittiburgh. Penna.
Tfy daar Sir:
Beplyiog to your letter of the 14th instant in
which you inquire as to the existenoe of literature relatii^
to the peculiar tissue at the base of the horn of the Rocky
Mountain Goat, would say that the only reference to this
whi^ I find tjuong ny pai>erB on the animal is the following:
Under date of P^roary 7, 1905, it is stated in the Abstract
of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London that
Frederick Gillett exhibited some mounted heads of the Rocky
Mountain Goat with the object of callir^ attention to a gland
lyiqg at the base of each horn, whitdi he beliered had not
been preriously described.
In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1905, Vol.1.
Pt. 1, dated June 19W, the following statement occurs:
"Mr. Frederick Gillett, F.Z.S., exhibited some mounted heads
Si 1 • "^*y Mwantain Goat (Haploceros montanus) , and made the
xollowing reaarks:—
n * ^lu ^r*^^ ^^ to-night, specimens of the Rocky Mountain
uoat, with the object of pointing out a gland which lies at the
oaae of each horn and acts, one might al«ost say, as a pad to it.
«rSL^ 2TiS"^-?^ *^®?® Slan??^con8i8t of a soft red tissue
saturated with a milky substance, like the udder of a cow. In the
specimen at our Qardem these glands are partially cotered up by
long hair at the present tine, but in October and .November they
are Sr uSds^^**"* ^* °^***^ *^ animal , the more pronounced
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tlrs. 5uth Fulton Benedict,
Bedford Hills, New York.
iiv dear Mr?'. Benedict:
On returning from eight months of field work among the
IndiPunc of 'Jslifcrnia I found r cony of your interestinp peper
entitled Goncejt of tho Gu^nrdiar; 3rtirit in North Annric;^. It
is 8 fine tVang to bring together the results of the study of
u'ch s large number of students.
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in this connection perhaps you :vill pardon r/j for celling
"^ro^^r attention to two or three of mv oublications which vou
seeT, to h8Vo overlooked. These are entitled:
Trterr'is^. in Orlifomis — iiFiHricar A': tfiropo legist .
Vol. A, ;40,4, 0,;t,-J^c-, 1508.
Transmigration in Oc'-lifornie— -Journal of Arerican
;?'olKlore, Oct. -Dec, 190^.
I)^.vn of t^e World, Weird Jiyth^^^cf the Hewf^n
Indians of 'Jc^lifornia , lb 10*
sVhile not all of tliese are in the direct line of your
inve^ti.-^ation, nevertheless you vwj find in each something that
beors en vour work.
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Mr. Nekton B, Drury, Secretary, •
Save-the-Eedwoods league,
Konadnock Building,
San ?rancisco, California.
My deer Mr. Drury:
Thanks for the reoort of the Le^pne iust reeeivedo
I note tht.t both in the text and on the map, instead of
Kettintelbe , the name adopted by the Government Eoerd and pub-.t»
lished on rric^os of the iiraerican Automobile Association, vou
have orinted Philliosville. *
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^ This raises the ouesticn: Dees the Pedwood Learue intend
to disregi-ard the decisions of the U, -^. Geographic Bcf^rd, or
•^ces it 'vish to file a protest a^^ainsT; the use of Indian nariHs?
In the lc-»tter case, what would the League do with the place
names Olpi^a, Sonoma, Napa, Olumof^li, F^'^taluma, and numerous
others of li-ce nature?
Kettintelbe Is the nanie of a former Indian villa{^e and
tract of land nc^ oc^^upier^. br r^rnh build inr,s, ore!>-rd, corn-
fisld and i^djscent redwood fo^^ef-l. The villripe itself stood
on the prcund- now covered bv the orchard. Tk^ restoraJion.hrs
vieeined to vrmnj be?ide myself particulr:irly appropriate, the more
^0 since it displaces the abominable ?^nd misleading; namo
FrilUpsville.
Very tn;ly vours,
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Editor American Forests,
1523 L Street. N. W. ,
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ILy i\fer 3ir:
\7hy is it that your publication continues to apply
8 wrong name to the Bigtreo or Giant Sequoia? In other
Tvords why should you transpose the name of the Coast
Hedwocd, so '^no';m throuphout the world, r.nd use it as a
headline for a totally different species with a totally
different distribution?
Ccn you tell r"e '.*cre the photograph on page 36 of
the January issue entitled "Good Tonnage" and said to re-
present a sixty-fire /ear old stand of second grov»th Red-
wood, was ti^ken. There is something very abrcrmel about
thG?e trees snd i cannot quite make it out.
I suppose thTi generic name lUdenarefi. . printed under
an orchid, is a typographical slip for telimifirlfi.*
Viith best wishes for the success of the jcrmal, under
its slightly different title,
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U- 3. Goent end Geodetic ourvey,
Waehircton, D. C.
My dear kr. ?ari?:*
Very nfiry thanks for your courtesy in sending me
the Coa^t 3urvey dicrts for '-^lich I apked a few days ago.
They arrived in rpcd c^onditicn thi? morning snd will be
useful in locetiitr! points for '.*iich I have native Indian
n£Tne<=, an.-l also I hope for additional names to le ?fcured
during the coming season.
Tharkinf' ^ou rnd Mr. LIcGuire for your attention in
the matter,
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Mr. W. Lee Chambers,
3af{le Rock,'
Los Angeles, Calif.
My dear tr. Chanbers:
In reply to your circular letter about the cost
of printing for the Cooper Ornithological Club, I take
pleasure in enclosing herewith my check for $5.oo as
8 very small contribution to be applied to the publi-
cation fund.
ilith best wishes,
Very truly yours.
P. 3. A short tine ago I wrote Joseph Grinnel that I
had not vet received the number of Avifaunr relating to
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3ev. ?. G. Collett,
Indirn Boc^rd of CcopprEticn,
3 City Hall Avenue/
San ?WnciPco, Or.lif,
l\y dear 3ir:
Replying tc your loiter of the ICth inetent I am at
present ?c cver'.vhelned .vith work that I cannot promise to
write an/ additional Lrticles thi? winter. I have not
yet been able to finish one entitled "A Regrettable Chap-
ter in the ilistcry cf California^, which I promised the
Historical oociety.
Herewith 1 am enclosing; check of $3.75 for three copies
of the Indian Herald for lfc24. Of the December number (Yol.l
No. 4) 1 hrvc received two copies, not three.
Very tnily yours,
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Ur, 1.:. ?. Skinner
Hoc?e5elt V;ild Lifb Sxooriment otetion
Syracuse, Hew York.
Replying to your intoresting letter of the 14th instant
would 3£y thct I hf:7e no per«or«l knowledge cf the fossil
£,r..i opmi -fossil hear skulls thrt heve been found in a number
, 1 ,.,. .„ T-..,-.-^d Ireland, rnd Scctlrnd. end which here been
vericusly identified by different authors.
i'.r'CPnlly I ^w'.ve ro respect for the ider.tifio.tior.s. 'or
the simol- rpJsor.f thrt the sknlls in qne-'ticn he^r. never been
oritio/lly studied by snycne cr-netent to identify the species
of ber.r-. And it r.ipht be .:dded thf t no one on either conti-
nent could identify this ^.rteriel without mrkinP .n exhaustive
qt'i'ly of the nrcuD*
' i am 7erv Rl.d to know thrt so much mrteri.l is preserved
ir tvo Pritish Muce^or. of r.'.tural Histor;. .nd am obliged to you
for civinc n:. '^ <^'^:7 of the labels. Thus far no competent
-. • • ^v. c»vfinr»l- hpF vet been made.
tudy of ^^uropean bears living cr extinct, na. yet
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lir. J. C. Dr'.vies, Director,
i'ield ku^eun of Ilatural History,
Chicego, Illinois.
My dear Sir:
I hf^ve jupt received two copie? efch cf ycur publicr'^ticnp
entitled (Mo. 214) :.oclogical Series, Ccntents and irdex to
Vclune 1] and (:;o.215) Volume XV, Pwrt 1. The pen nunbers
opposite the plsce for my nsne and address ere respectively
2547 find ^530. • '
I assun'^ thr. t one copy was intended for scneore else.
If for anyone in this city I might deliver it, ctherwic^e shall
I net return it to you?
I am gkd to see thtt the ?ield tuseum is oublishinp so
manv imoortant c: ntributions to Science.
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Wi^tar lTi55titute c:^ .wiatomy and i:iology,
Philadelohia, fenn^^ylvynis.
Desr 3irs:
Ercently 1 hav^ had the privilege of looking over
a co;7 of thfi Antcbiogreohy cf Isaac;. Jones Vdstar. pub-
lished >iy vour Inptit^jte in 1914. The bcok contains ■
so much importart miiterirl r-Uting to the onimels and
Indian? of the western United 3tf tes. observed by V;i?t8r
alonn the route traversed in 1849 and Uter in northern
CalifcrniH.t^^rt I should like very much to secure a copy
for frequent reference.
Can the beck be supplied by your Institute and if
so at 'ihst price?
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My dear Sir:
In tellixig you about the troubles vith ^y car yester-
day I foxgot to sentioii one rather important matter : the
transmission leaks oil into the clutch. This makes the
clutch stick so that the gears cannot be shifted without
raspii^. Just before starting on this trip I had the clutdi
mashed out with j^soline which temporarily cured the trouble
I still feel that the difficulty of adjustment of the
brakes is one of the most seriow troubles with the car^
for ithe reason that irtien one of the brakes drags the engine
heats. That the adjustment is exceedingly difficult iw
proved h$ the fact that your own factory man» iriim he was
here Isst spring t was unable to do more than make a partial
adjustment « He admitted frankly that he could not adjust
the brakes so that the two would apply with equal presmure.
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General Manager*
terican Automobile Associstion*
shington, D« C.
Uj dear Sir:
Replying to your cossninication of yesterday i^quest«*
ing that ttie signatures of the Adrisory Conmittflfe be ap-
pmded to the letter «of lixich you enclosed a <^py, soli-
citing new members for the Association, woul^jft say that Z
ha?e no dbjection to 'the use of my name in this connection
provided other sieidii^^krs of the Committee %gree.
Beferring to '4be paragraph of yoi^ letter relating
to the gasoline iM personal tax, I would suggest the trans*
position of the two clauses so that it will read: **and
preventiag the rotation of a personal tax on autos in ad-
dition to the prop|iraed two cent gasoline tax.*^
The reason li^r this transf^osition is that as the sen-
tence stands in ^4 he letter, the implication is that the
ibsociation is 'undeavoring to pre?ent the iiqposition of a
two cent gasoliocie tax whereas, unless I am greatly mistaken,
we are all stroagly in faror of this tax.
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January 28. 1924
_ '• Williaa S. -CoimelleT. Secretarr,
iuaas State Uiatorioal Society,
Mr.
^DpeiB
My dear Sir:
Tery aany thanks for your interesting letter of January
10. in relation to Jedediah Siuth.
I •■ particularly grateful for your courtesy in sending
■• a Cfipy of your copy of Sbdth's letter of July 12. 1827, which
differs aaterially in capitalisation and punctuation, and to a
less eztrat in wording, from the copy on file in the Indian
Office.
It is good to know that you have the additional aaterial of
which you speak relating to Skith, and I earnestly hope you will
be able to publish it in the not distant future.
I wonder if this asterial contains any inforaation relating
to aiith'8 BOTendnts after he returned to hie party in California
in 18SS7 and before he reached the northwest coast of the State.
Shortly after the receipt of your letter I sent you ay two
papers on Sbith for your personal collection*
With best wishes and renewed thanks for the trouble you
have tfiken in mj behalf,
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Dr. Owen C. Coy.
Bancroft Library*
Berkeley, California*
Dear Doctor Coy:
The arriral of the first nimber of the U^lifornia Eiatory
Nugget prompts me to express my pleasure to the editor end at
the sane time call attention to one or two matters which seem
to me hardly dignified in a publication of this Itind*
The case to which 1 take exception is the article entitled
'"Rie Indians Used to Say"*, in #iich an alleged Indian story is
copied from Mias Judson's Myths and L«geiids of California and
tb* aid Southwest « Nothing is said as to the tribe from lixom
the myth mas obtained or by whom it was obtained. On referring
to Miss Judson's book I find that she attributes it to the'^Sbaa-
tika* but omits to mention by whom it was obtained: and it might
be added that there is in California no tribe of this name»
though doubtless the SJiABifl. is the tribe meant. Predij
stories of this kind, based on a combination of an Indian »yth
with a normal imagination, ar^ likely to proTe interestiag to
children but in a historical magazine, iw one not juetifled
in expecting soDetfalng more authentic?
On page 9, in a rery interesting article on Bidwelli it is
said that ^the missionaries were on their way to the ?lathead
Indians in what is now Idaho.** la not ^Udaho** a alip of the pen?
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On $ag« 10, Bidwell is giran the dlstinotion of probably
being '*the first viiite aan to^ook upon the giant redwoods in
California.** Do joa not agree that in the interest of accuracy
it is better to restrict the name Eedwood to the Bedwood proper
of the coafft region and call its relative in the Sierra by
either one or the other of its two correct nanes. Big Tree or
Giant Sequoia?
Apart from these little matters .which I am sure you will
forgive me for mwitioning, I like the magasine rery much and
believe it will prove of distinct educational value and at the
same time pave the way for the more technical jmblioationtre-
lating to the history of the State.
A short time ago I was somewhat puzzled by a reference in
the fifties to some Indians attributed to Mariposa County— Indiana
clearly belonging to a desert tribe on the east side of the Sierra,
This led me to look the matter up in your most valuable Genesis
of California Counties, which you were kind enough to give me last
fall. Here, on the map facing page 15, showing conditions in
1855, I was delighted to find Hariposa County extendii^ all the
way to the Nevada line. This is merely one instance to show the
time-maving value of this book of yours.
iitb htto% wis&es. and oongratulations on the birth of your
ne» <diild.
Very truly yours,
tithi^Si!??iasgiStt»4H!;g|Stf!Jj?5.?%S*giUTioS^^^^^
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Mr. Grid M. Butler.
Washington, D. C,
P«ar Sir:
^our letter of the 26th instant in raplj to .ine protest-
ing agair^t the use of the tet. Bediood ih.n jou ..« Gi«t
Sequoia is at hand. I a« pained and at the n^ ti^ ^tcnishsd
that you should attempt Uui^o^ th. use of the wrong na«e of
a tree in preference to the correot naaie, l.ec.use "the arerage
person refers to both 3,,^ «|»ftiiirfli«i and afifflflU gicftntta
.8 Bedwoods." Why not on the sa«e gro««d defend the use of the
•ord tk^ for the ArfiiisJJarU^. ani^l. whose ranges are sepa,
rated by ^^ hundred .iles. because r^nj explorers hare confused
the names of these animals-.and so on without .nd.
It certainly is depressing to know that the editor of a
magazine professedly educational in character is willing to
defend what he knows to be the erroneous name of a speciea.
thereby confusing t»o widely different species tWt Ifihabit
widely separate ranges-in other words, preferring chaos to order.
Hoping that you will reform.
Very truly yours.
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January 29. 1924
Dr. WitMr Stons,
ioadsBy of Sciences,
fbiladelphia. Penna.
Dmt Doctor Stone:
Tory Manj thanks for the copj of the Aeadeny'p »#pa»t
of Operations for 1922 lAiich jdu tere good enough to send me
a short tiae ago.
On page 32 Behn, in speaking of the hilla abont Priest
Tallej, sajSa TPhe bnahy-tai led ground squirrels (iaacflifflfc
MghillBi) were excaedii^ly abundant ereryvhere within the
hills*** Does this not strike you as an extraordinary com-
bination of Ingliah bbA scientific nsMS? WhoeTer heard of
calling JMBoapurmophilpa the bushy-tailed ground squirrel.
In his thirst far grasshonpers nay he not ha?e re-
ferred to the coBBnon bushy- tailed ground squirrel of the
greater part of Calif ornie, Citellna beaohftvi ?
Tsry truly yours.
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January 31, 1924
Mr. N. M. Hinniz,
713- 13th Street.
Washington, i). P*
)fy dear Mr. J^innix;
Your letter of yesterday in regard to helping the
T. M« ^. A« in its effort to eeeure more funds has just
rea<^hed me*
Hhile fully appreciating the raluable work this Asso-
ciation is doing. I do not find myself in a position to
contribuCa. For nany years past I hare been spending
about Aalf of each year I the past year eight nontha) in
California at work anoqg the unfortunate Indians of that
s/ate. I hare been helping them so far as my limited means
would permit for the past twenty or tuenty-fire years, and
daring recent years have transferred my charities txrm the
District of Columbia to California.
Bbgretting that I am not financially able to assist
in both directions.
Very truly yours.
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fe- Henrj Ooddard Lead)
247 Park Arenue
M,w lork City.
My dear Mr. Leech:
BeplyiBg to your letter of yesterday askii« for an
•xpression of opinion as to our national duty toward
Indiana, would say that I a. deeply interaeted in the
■atter of the GoTemaent'a policies in regard to Indians,
particularly those of California and Nevada, with aany
tribes of which I hare been doing field work for .ore than
thirty years.
But just now I an so orerwhelmed with worit that I
doubt if it will be practicable to write the article you
desire for the March ?oruii. Howerer. as soon as present
pressure lets up a little. I will see what I can do.
Very troly yours.
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January 31, 1924
Mr. C. T. flonoTer,
408 Mfion 3tr«at,
Se«*(I«, ^8#iltgton.
My de^ tr. Conorar:
Thanks for jour letter of the 25th instaht in regai^
to a new attempt to change the nane of Mount liinier. I
hare read with ictereet your letter on the subjeet in the
Seattle Times.
The new attempt of #iioh you apeak has not yet com
to the attention of the U. 3. Geographic Board.
Veiy truly yours,,
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fha Bobixi8(m-*Ctidoni Company,
San iiafael, California*
Doar Sirs:
Tory Many thanks for your letter and bill jnat receirede
I am mnoh pleased to know that yon hare pnt mj car in
good shape and am pleased also with the fery moderate bill.
My check for |27«25 in payment ia herewith encloeed«
Before returning to Ualifomia I will gladly avail
myself of your kind order to get the car and hsTe it ready
for the road*
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February 1. 1924
lir. George Derby
Editor, National Cyclopedia
New York City. *^
Dear Sir;
of iaerioan Biography.
Replying to your letter of January 28, I am enclosing
data concerning my uncle, Augustus Chapnan Merriam.
The line of descent of our Merriam line, for which you
ask, I have given on Augustus C. Merriam's sheet, enclosed.
The same applies to' myself with the addition of my father,
Hon. Clinton L. Merriam, bom at Leyden, New York, March 25,
1824, died February 18, 1900. Augustus Chapman Merriam was
my father's youngest brother.
In your letter you speak of my great-grandfather as Hon.
21a Nathaniel Merriam. This is not correct. Ela Nathaniel
Merriam was my uncle (my father's elder brother). My great-
grandfather's name was Judge Nathaniel Merriam. M[y grand-
father was Gen. Sla Merriam.
Very truly yours.
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T iftft7-1888 he was •
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fh-snis Aiwng his mere important wri^ i«
thaspis. -on* « r 1880)- "The Greek and latin
Phoeacian. ef He.er.Ml880), t .„
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Inscriptions on ttie Obelise un. _,„.„. «
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Mr. i^. I. Mams
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Washington. D. C.
Dear Ur. Adams:
Herewith I an forwarding my belated expense account
for December, amounting to $106.31^and the January account
of $111.82, and also .moMhr vouchers for Miss Ellen
Allston. Stenographer. January salary. $125.00,and J. H.
Scollick for cleaning 37 bear skulls. $18.50. all of which
kindly pay frcin the Harriman fund.
Sub-70uch?5r 7 of the January account has not been re-
ceived from California but will be forwarded later.
Very truly yours,
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/: word of explanation as to the items for gas 5: electric *
;. of which I am charging one third to office account. A Wells-
bach gas burner is going most of the time over Hiss Clemence^s desk,
and an electric light over Mis?^ Allston's: also f 5-lamp ilectric fix-
ture on the ceiling. And incidentally it might be added that last
winter when the girls worked in ray house, it was necessary to keep the
oil furnace agoing most of the time at a cost for fuel of $290; and for
the two months JMt passed of this winter I have paid $132 for fuel-
not to mention |^*2D for a fireplace gas heater. No part of these
items have been^nor will they ever be^ charged to the Harriman Fund.
I am mentioning them only for your intormation.^,
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Sxpense Account for December 1923
Kouse'cleflrning office rooms
Am. Rwav Express charges on 2 boxes M3S, maps.
& vocabularies. San Eafael. Calif .^WashU B.C.
Nat. Window Cleaning Co., Office windows
Extra copy Sunset Magazine for April 1923
2 Desk bottles ?lo-Gum
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;:>o»».Zveare. New England Furniture Co. caning
5 office chairs & 2.50
Andrews Paper Co. , ^ doz pencils
Chas. (f. 3tott. office stationery
J. G. Gillick Co.', San Francisco. Seoarat
Jedediah Smith's r(oute Salt Lake tc^Caii
Nature Magazine for 1924
Postage eni stamped envelopes
Books S: other presents for Calif. Indians
Postage & insurance Xslbs packages to Indil iS
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Hon* George H. lioeee, r^ . 4..
Chainan Joint Comittee on Printi
U« S* Senate
laahington, i). 0*
Dear Sir:
Prom 1885 to 1910, when chief of the Biological Sux
Tey, I receiTed each year a copy of the Congressional
DlreotorjL but for several years past none has been sent
Be«
I am writing to enquire whether or not as Chairman
of the D. 3. Geographic Board (lAiich position I hare he!
for seteral years) I am entitled to a copy. I shall be
obliged if you will kindly inform me as to this*
Bespect fully.
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Dr. Paul Bartsch
U. 3. National Museum
Washington. D. C.
Dear Doctor Bartsch:
Replying to your letter of January 19 in regard to
the papers presented at the Baird Memorial, I shall be
obliged if you will kindly return my manuscript so that
if opportunity offers, I may publish it*
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Duvall & Company
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Washington, D. C. .
Dear Sirs:
Thanks for your courtesy in sending me a slip to attach
to «y insurance policy, pemitting the use of a No-Kol oil
heater in my house.
Inasmuch as you do not mention the large tank which the
No-Kol CoB^jany announced to its customers could be installed
in the basement under a new District regulation. I assume
that l*is is not approred by the underwriters.
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Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, Penna.
Dear Mr. Hehn:
Thanks for your interesting letter of the 3rd instant
correcting the reference to Ammogpermophilus for the Priest
Valley Groundsquirrel mentioned in your report on explorations
in the southwest, published in the Academy's report for 1923.
Your closing remark in regard to lercspermophjltta » AsamfiL-
^^pftrmophilus, and ^-nllo^r^T^Qphilus is hard to answer in a
single sentence, for the reesbn that the interrelations of
these groups are widely different, gfinpapemophilus and
f\TrTnnflpfirmQphilu8 are very distinct genera which no one nowa-
days -would think of combining with any other genera, while
yA|>ff«pflrTnQphilus and QtOffpfirmophilus are so closely related
to Gi tellus that most mammalogists regard them as merely sub-
genera.
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Mr. Newton B. iJrury
Secrete nr. Save The Redwoods League
University of California ^"g*^«
Berkeley, California.
My dear Mr. Drury:
Thanks for your letter of January 29. I am very glad
to know that in your next map of the Redwood region and in
future publications on the subject you will insert the
name Kettintelbe instead of Phillipsville; and I am pleased
to note that you mean to be in accord with the decisions of
the U. S. Geographic Board.
It is a matter of regret that I have not yet obtained any
detailed information or story in connection with the old vil-
lage of Kettintelbe. but I know one old Indian woman whose
grandmother was bom there and from whom I hope to obtain in-
teresting details the next time I visit her.
With best wishes.
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February 6, 1924
Dr. J". V. Coville
onai rmeo . Rssoaroh Commi ttee
Dear Doctor Corille:
Referripg to your latter of February 1, addressed
to the members of the Wolsin Adrisory CoHimittee. I
concur in Mr. ifelsin'e reconrondation that at present
no further steps on the pert of the Society be taken.
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Prof. J. McK. Cattell,
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Dear Professor Cattell:
A year ago at the request of the Baird Memorial Committee
I delivered an address entitledWr^ tie, Naturalist', and gave
the manuscript to Doctor Paul Ba«»sch. Chaiman of the Com-
mittee, who was supposed to send it with others to you for
publication, if you cared to print them.
From time to time the addresses of Doctor Jordan aM
others have appeared, either in Science or the Scientific
Monthly. Wondering what had become of mine. I wrote Doctor
Bartsch and found that he had not sent it to you. I withdrew
It therefore and «n enclosing it herewith. It is rather long
tut if you care to gublish it in either of your Journals you
•re at liberty to> omit at your discretion the matter beginniay
with the bottom paragraph of page 10 and ending just before
the last paragraph of page 12. this matter being peahaps too
personal to myeelf •
In case the article is not wanted, kindly return (return
postage enclosed).
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Hon. George H. Moses,
U. o. Senate
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Moses:
Very many thanks for your courtesy in sending me
two copies of the last issue of the Congressional
Directory. These have just arrived, and are much
appreciated. I shell take one copy to my California
headquarters, where I am engaged in field work for
about half of every year.
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Mr. Leslie L. Biffle.
Superintendent Folding Room,
U. 3. Senate.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Can you send me e copy of the joint resolution intro-
duced by Senator Dill aid Congressman Johnson, asking for
the change of name of Mount Rainier to Mount Takomai
Respectfully,
Chairman , U. 3. Geographic Board.
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American Motors o^rporation,
Plainfield, New Jersey.
Hy dear Mr. ^ith:
Thanks for your l«tter daied February 8, which arrived
yesterday. I was disappoinKd not to hare tie car during the
fine weather we are having, and note that you do not expect
to be able to drive it to Baltimore until Thursday, the 2l8t.
If I am not able to gc to Plainfield, and this is very doubt-
ful, I will meet you in Baltimore about noon on Thursday the
21st. if you will kindly tell me where to find you, as I di
not know the address of your Baltimore agency.
You will pardon me I am sure if I call your attention
again to the matter of the brakes , as this was one of the fun-
damental troubles with the oar. Your medianic, when he was hen
last spring spent about half a day struggling with the brakes
but was unable xks ©djust them properly. He agreed with a local
machirist v*iom I had previously consulted, that there was in-
sufficient margin between the brakes when in operation and when
released. In other words he was unable to adjust the brakes
not only so that they would draw evenly on the two sides, but
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Hon. Charles U. Burke,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:
Will you be good enough to tell me what criterion
in the way of blood kinship or otherwise the Indian
Bureau makes use of in determining whether or not a
person is an Indian.
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Prof. W. W. Campbell
President, University of California.
Berkeley, California.
Dear Professor Campbell:
' Amocg the Indian tales which I was fortunate enough
to gather last summer was one relating to the sun, moon,
and stars, given me by a very old Indian living on Pit
River in northeastern California. He spoke repeatedly
of the "South Star" whi.h he described as a little red
star that shows itself in the far south on or about Janu-
ary 20 every winter, and disappears on or about March 24.
Can you tell me the name of this star?
With best wishes to Mrs. Campbell and yourself.
Very tSL'ly yours.
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Dr. C. C. Abbot ,
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Washington, D. C*
Dear Doctor Abbot:
Last fall an old Indian in the Pit Hirer country
in northeastern California told me some interesting things
about 8 star which he called the^ South Sta/, and which he
described as a little red star which came into new in
the far south on or about January 20 each winter and dis-
appeared on or about March 24.
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is?
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Dear Sprague:
A short time ago your father made us a call on his way
home from California* He had on a previous visit here told
me that you had Natural History leanings and I had advised
him to have you call on Professor Loye Miller of the southern
division of the University of California. Loye Miller is a
naturalist of high standing end of a particularly pleasing
personality. He has two boys of his own, one of whom is a
re?narkably alert and enthusiastic field naturalist. Professor
Miller has published on the fossil birds from Rancho La Brea
and is the authority on the subject. He is, moreover, most
kindly disposed toward youthful naturalists and would, I em
sure, be a real help to you. His advice is worth heeding.
lour father had a sort of general idea that you had been
interested in bugs, but that your present interests are more
in the line of fossils or the succession of life in the recks.
If you could arrange to hear Professor Miller's lectures on
Biology I am sure you would gain much therefrom.
Your father told me that he had sent, or was about to send
you a number of publications from the American Museum of
Natural History in New York, and that you were interested to
see a number from the Smithsonian Institution. I asked as to
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that he was Jiot clear on this point; and since the publica-
tions of the Smithsonian cover practically the whole field of
science in Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics. Zoology, Botany,
Paleontology, Anthropology, and so on, it is of course out of tie
question to attempt to furnish what you want without knowing
just what your needs are.
When I first visited the Smithsonian, about 54 years ago,
I was an ambitious youth and imagined that I needed all the
literature of Science, and succeeded in obtaining from Profes-
sor Henry end Professor Baird a whole lot of publications
which i have never y^t looked at farther than the title pages.
As a result of a personal experience of more than half
a century as a naturalis^t and ethnologist I feel rather strong-
ly that in the early stages of one's career it is better to
over4p than to overread. In other wordS; that it is far better
to study Natural History in the field than in the library.
using books for the identification of the animals and plants
observed and collected. For a beginner, qoll^ecting is the
most importert of all, the trapping of small mammals, the
collecting of birds, and the preparation of skins of both,
giving a young man the first steps in fitting him for the life
of a naturalist. When he has made himself thoroughly competent
along these lines, the more advanced steps will naturally fol-
low.
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of th. H. A r, "^='""= "»' I "as appointed «aturalist
"as the turning point in n,y life. . "
^ parson .ho has aspirationa to booo« a natnraliat ™at
'ag.n at the bottom or he .in ne,er attain the Jh '
on books rfithA>. fv,« ^ nature
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- 3 t,^ afiezd ,i„s one a ,„iet e„;o^ent thro^ho:. fe
tbat ia unattainable in an^ other «y. 7
During the 25 years while chief of the Government Bio-
lt)giG«l Survey. I had rsthAr- « i
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nen who imagined - or whose n«r.onf« • •
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anxious to become naturalists. As « m«ff . .
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really wanted was to see the'wii^ a '^
•-" see ine wild and woolly wp*?*" /^f
good many aad experiences I arrived at Jl ,- °
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»an .til he had si tt^d ::;; ! :tr"- -^ - --
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or plants ds'his interests had prompted him to make.
If it is practicable I hope you will plan to make me
a little visit at Lagunitas after my return in the early
spring. 80 that we may have an opportunity to talk matters
over in the field. Meanwhile I hope you will not fail to
have a good talk with Professor Tx>je Miller, and tell him
that 1 sent you to him.
With hest wishes and kind regards to your mother.
Very truly yours.
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Hon. John P. Miller
House of RepresentatiTes
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Miller:
Your letter of the 9th instant is at hand, together with
copies of the Joint Resolution offered in the House and Senate
on January. 17» aiming to charge the name of Ifount Rainier to
Mount Tacoma, for which I am obliged.
In the event that hearings are scheduled on this hill I
shall be very glad to comply with your request to appear before
the Committee as representative and Chairman of the D* S. Geo-
graphic Board.
As you are doubtless aware, the Geographic Board was esta-
blished^by executire order of President Harrison,as the authority
in the determination of Geographic names in the United States and
Alaska.
Seventeen years ago, by order of President Theodore Roose-
velt, dated January 23. 1906. the functions of the Board were
amplified and it was charged with, "the duty of determining,
changing, and fixing place names within the United States and
insular possessions.'*
On several occasions delegations from the city of Tacoma
in the state of Washington have come to the National Capital
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for the purpose of persuading the Board to change the name
of Mount Rainier to that of their city. Tacoma. The Board
has uniformly declined to do this. At the last hearing,
after listening to the statements and arguments of the
delegates, the Geographic Board, by unanimous vote of
its 14 members, representatives of a like number of bureaus
and departments of the Government, declined to consider the
matter further.
Very truly yours.
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February 13, 1924
Washington Rapid Transit Companv
Jlo3 -I4th Street. Washington. D. C.
Dear Sirs:
I wish to file a protest against the non-stop habit of
some of your drivers. Nearly every day I take one of your
busses 6t the comer of 16th and U Streets.
Every few days one of these busses passes without stop-
ping. T^.ree times within the past week this has happened, and
in each case the buss was less than half full. Yesterday mom-
ing about 9:40 a Potomac Park buss Jssed. I had ^^^^^^^^^B
for this buss for some time, along with several other^ standing
on the Corner of 16th and U. When the bus came I stepped out
into the^'street and signaled the driver, but it continued on
without stopping and I was obliged to i«it 18 minutes more
for another, making me late at a meeting in the Department of
the Interior.
Last evening about 7 o'clock my nife and I waited a long
time on the comer of T and 16th Street fQr a Pennsylvania
Avenue buss. Finally one came and jassed without stopping,
although it contained few passengers and four or five people
were standing at the buss stop. waiting for it.
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Dura 11 & Company
722 • 11th Street
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Since writing you a few days ago I have been infonrfed by
the No-Kol people, and also by the agents of the Ray Oil Burner
Furnaces that a new regulation of the District of Columbia,
approved by the Fire Underwriters^ permits the installation
of a 220 gallon tank in addition to the small 50 gallon tank
in the basement of houses in this city-^ ^^ "^. -^ a Kav^^a^^
If this is correct will you kindly send me a slip per-
mitting the use of such tank, to be attached to my Continental
policy.
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Drawer 123
Bagle Rock, California.
Dear Mr. Chambers:
The January- February nuiAer of The Condor just receired
contains a number of notes of interest, in addition to the
autobiography of Joseph Mailliard, for irfiich reason I am
enclosing herewith 50 oents for a duplicate copy.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Hon. B. C. Little.
House of Representatives,
Washington, D« C.
My dear Mr. Little:
The big volume entitled 'to consolidate, codify, revise
and reenact the general and permanent laws of the United States',
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which you were good enough to send m€^ arrived today, for which
I am greatly obliged. It is a most important addition to' my
works of reference and will save me a lot of time, obviating
the necessity of going to distant libraries*
You may like to know that the document was veryjpoorly
wrapped with only a single thickness of papw^^so that when it
arrived in the wagon thet brought it direct from the Post Office
to wj house, the wrapping had been completely town off. If it
had been mixed in the mails there would have been no way to
find out whom it was for. This may account for the failure of
the first copy to show up.
Again thanking you for your courtesy.
Very truly yours.
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February 16, 1924
Mr. Newton M. Minnix,
712 - 13th Street
Weshington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Minnix:
Very many thanks for your letter of the 13th instant.
I appreciate your kindness in offering to help in the
way of obtaining assistance for California Indians, and
may be glad to avail myself of your aid later on. It is
a difficult problem beciause of the large ntimber of Indians,
particularly women and children, who need better nourish-
ment during the winter season.
Again thanking you for your kindness.
Very truly yours,
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Dear Doctor Abbot:
^ Hany thanks for your letter of the 13th instant sug-
gesting that the star called 'South Star* by a Pit River
Indian may be Canopus. I am glad to have this information
wd am obliged for your promptness.
Very truly yours ,^
Dr. C. U. Abbot,
anithsonian Institution,
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Mr. P. u. 3mith
Service Manager,
American Motors Corporation.
Plainfield. New Jersey.
My dear Sir:
In compliance with your request of the 15th instant
I am enclosing herewith the key to the spare tire rack
on the back of my car^ which I forgot to give you.
I am glad thr.t you will let me know in time where to
meet you in Baltimore next Thursday.
I note that you seem to have overlooked the inquiry
in my last letter concerning the scored cylinder and the
brakes.
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Mutual Service, Inc% ,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Jncloaed herewith is my order for a 220 gallon tank
with outside fill pipe and rent line connected to my
present 50 gallon tank, equipped with pneumercator
mercury gauge, to be installed on or before March 10
(preferably before March 1) in compliance with Pire
Underwriters' rulings and District of Columbia Regu- ^
latiQns.
My check for $25 is enclosed herewith^ the remaining
$100 to be paid oh completion of job.
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Cashier, , „ ,
Crocker National Bank, .
San Francisco, California.
Dear Sir:
Herewith I am enclosing check on the National Metro-
politen Bank of this city for $100 which please place to
credit of my account*
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Mr. J. A. Hsnna,
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Dear Sir:
Your letter of January 31st addressed to the Smithsonian
Institution has been referred to me for reply.
Your remarks about two species of Mountain Goats in your
region are of interest. The best known species is the one
which inhabits the Cascade Range and thence westerly to the
coast. Another one described as a species inhEbit? the Rocky
Mountain region, but we do not know very much about it. Do
the two forms you mention occur together, or are they on sepa-
rate mountain ranges?
As to the bears: The so called Glacier Bear, which usually
is of a bluish color, is a form or phase of the Black Bear and
seems to be commonest in the Glacier Bay region.
The Black Gri7.55ly of which you speak is probably a species
described by me some years ago under the name UrgUS Ch9lan»
The type specimen came from the Chelan region in northwestern
iieshington. I should be very glad to purchase skulls of this
Grizzly, especially skulls of adult males. J?ully adult skulls
in good condition with information as to the locality where
killed would be worth 15 to 20 dollars each. Those of females
8 to 10 dollars. If you can get hold of any of these please
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have them carefully packed, and ship by express, charges
collect, addressed: Ik-l..,BlolOgiOfll 3\arTeY» ^ '•--""
U^. A tag should be attached to each skull bearing your
own name and post office, ar^ the name of the locality where
the bear was killed; also approximate date of killing if
known.
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iu8eum ComDarctive 2oo1cfv
ierkeley, California. ^^
I>ear Doctor Grinnell:
i^esterdey in examining your exc^TUnf • ■ ■
o j^ui yxceiient revision nf i-u^
-ynx, recently recei»«^ T • e'^ision of the genus
* ly received, I was impressed by what appeared tc .« f
be t-\'n iinfnyf i„^„+ • . °ijpcarea ic me tc
"'^^ortunate omissions. The fir-^t i« fv,. v
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or instance, und«r iypj^iaaciaiiia Rrvant ,•«
of 1893 ,-nHi .• ^^^-^'•'^^^"^ IS quoted under date
"^ -i-^yi,. indicatinrr that hp -vaQ fi.c . • • ,
speciec i". . r -' ''"^ ^^^-i^Iigin£l.describer.>f the
^Peoies, instead cf Hafiresque. 1817^
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ooio^afats, deemed important.
><itr. best wishes,
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Mr. W. de C. Ravenel.
AdminivStrati 78 'Assistant,
U. S. National Museum,
Washington, D. 0.
Dear Mr, Ravenel:
Thanks for your letter cf the 15th instant transmitting
' 8 letter from J. A. Hanna of Sandon, British Columbia, in »
relation to bears and goats.
In compliance with your request I am writing him by
same mail\
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February 23, 1924
Mr. W. H. Thorn
Hedlends, California.
Ky deer Sir;
A clipping from the Lc« Angeles Times of February 6,
recently sent me. contains a notice of an 'uprising' among
the Mohave Desert Indians, from information said to have
come from you.
I am very much interested in this matter and shall be
greatly obliged if you will kindly write me as to just where
the incident occurred and what Indians were concerned in it.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. J. R. Swan ton,
Smithsonian Inf'titution,
'Nsbington, D* Ct
Dea:! Doctor Svranton:
Of August 27, in response to inquiries in regard to
separates cf notes pu^blished in the Anthropologist^ you ^
wrote me thu; 30 or 35 copies of the pages containing such
n0tes were fumic-hed authors. ""
On oepteniber 3 i wrote you from Gelifornia stating that
this arrangement was perfectly satisfactory to me, and later
on I received such separctes of my note on the Nongahhl.
Eat>.I have never received any separates of my criticism-
of the article on Copper Effigies. I wrote you ahout this
en Dtfr' cumber 18 but have had no reply. I m anxious to secure
these for distribution and for my files.
Very truly yours.
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February 23. 1924
Mr. James McCormick
Secretary U. 3. ^Geographic Board,
Washington, D. ^.
Dear Mr. McCormick:
In regard to the matter of changing the name of the
lighthouse in Newport harbor, mentioned in your pencil
memorandum of the 16th instant, I can only say that I regret
what I considered premature action on the part of the Board.
As I suggested at the time, I felt that the courteous
thing to do was to refer the proposition to the head of
the Lighthouse Board before taking action, particularly
in view of the information fror: his office thet a report
on the matter from the District Superintendent had been
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The carbon of Mr. Putnam's letter is returned her%with.
Verjf truly yours.
Chairman.
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-Mr. Janes McCormick,
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Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. McCormick:
Replying to your letter of the 16th instant, my recollection
of the motion in question might he foimulated ahout asv follows:
a l?i?^2^»in \L^Ti ® geographic feature in honor of .
LiJIi L ^"•^'^^■^^ ^® accompanied hy a brief biographic
Sni2^«^°?l'''^'°S ® summary of the principal achfeve-
ments of the person whose name it is desired to honor.
If you remember who made the motion proposing this reso-
lution it might be well to submit it to him for approval. I do
not remember who offered it. .
I agree with you that the proper place for it in the final
report is following the third full paragraph on pege 18 of the
5th report.
But as to its publication in the monthly leaflet I am not
clear. Still I see no harm in so publishing it under the in-
tiDductory line you suggest, namely, "The following regulation
wte adopted".
Very truly yours.
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Mr. H. H. Pittnan
Vilauchope, „ 3
Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dear Kr. Pittman:
Thank' for ,our letter of the 13th instant enclosing your
intorosting note on the feeding h.Mt, of the little kat MMi^
^,,^^. I a. particularly glad ttet you ha« sent this to
the Journal of Mammalogy. .
The Shre, stall arrived this noon. It is 2srsi.*sriQMiUi
the cc^onest eastern species. Th. t» stall photographs you
enclosed are of no value for purposes of Identification the
•L • fV/i ^^l^r\tiT qpries of teeth* It you
imoortant characters being thejifiperx^rieg^S
V, .f fhp ^iie view of the skull as a whole
had sent a photograph of the sii® vie«
or the front part of the skull, showing the upper teeth the
identification could have heen^made without reference to. the
specimen itself.
I a. ret.mir.g the 5hre. stall »d all of the photographs
hut shall he glad to purchase prints of your three negatives
of the live are. on the sno,. »os.l6"6. 16r-6. and 1677 I
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»ould retain these prints hut for
once ,rote .. that you «shed ph'o.ographs returned. should
like also to purchase a ^od print of your Zapu, negative
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In case you ever get the specimen of the large Pocket
Gopher to which you refer, tine skull alone is emply sufficient
for identification and it is usually much easier to persuade
farmers to send the skull than it is to get them to take
the trouble to skin the animal.
So far as I am aware the Smithsonian Institution does
not buy negatives.
Replying to your question as to motion picture men in-
terested in Natural History films, I would refer you to Mr.
Donald E. Dickey as the person most likely to know about
this. His address is 514 Lester Avenue, Pasadena. California.
It is possible that Dr. Prank Chapman, American Mu^^eum of
Natural Hi?tory, New York, might know in regard to bird photo-
graphs.
I earnestly hope that you will not give up your intention
of publishing a work on the wild life of the western provinces
iSfith best wishes.
Very truly yours,
P.S-: Kindly send prints with bill before the end of March,
as I may be packing for California at that time.
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Fel)ru8ry 27, 1924
Dr. John ?.. SwEtiton,
Snithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Doctor Swanton; 4tUf^tI>-> %"-^* —
Thanks for the five copies ofX^e July-September Anthro-
pologist containing my note on Copper ^figies*
tly second class mail addressed to Lagunitas, California,
is held in bulk until my return in the spring, so I still
have hopes
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Dear Mr. Herrington:
The photostat of a manuscript entitled Sespe Indian
History "by George Henley,^ ich you left here last evening
and which I am returning herewith, I have read with in-
terest.
It certainly contains a lot of valuable material re-
lating to the region and will undoubtedly be of much service
to you in your work with the so called Chumashan tribes.
Very truly yours »
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Smithsonian Institution
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Dear Sprague:
Your letters of Pebruary 14 and 21 are before me, the
former having crossed mir*e to you.
My former letter to you (dated February 12) covered the
ground quite fully fron my point of view, so instead of re-
peating here I would suggest that you read that letter over
again and a little more carefully than you did the first time.
If you do. you will see that you are far off the track in ap-
plying to yourself remarks that I made concerning applicants
for positions on the Biological Survey. I think you will
realize al$o that I said nothing to justify the view that
I. am trying to discourage you — quite the contrary bein(^ my
desire, what I wanted to say wa?? — and I cannot emphasize it
too strongly — that there is no such thing as a 'book naturalist*
Natural History must be learned from nature, with books as ac-
cessories. I never heard of a^ook naturalist becoming any-
thing more than a parlor ornament. Collecting, preparing, and
labeling specimens of animals and plants is the foundation
for Natural History work. This brings one in contact with
nature itf^elf instead of with picture? and phrases. The
local details of how to go about this preliminary, but most
necessary training, must be worked out by each per3cn for
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city aifl with Dcnsld Dickey and A. Brazier Howell of Pasadena.
I suspect you will cone to the conclusion that where there Is
a will, there's a way?
When I was in Yale. 50 years ago. I made a collection of ^
several hundred bird skins. I did this by starting at day-
light for the co'jntry. shooting my birds, and returning in time
for breakfast; after which I did my daily college worfc and
skinned tie birds in the late evening.
If you really feel the aversion your words would indicate
in regard to Indians, reptiles, and wild country. I would
suggest that you abandon Natural History and study for the
ministry. But I take it that you were merely indulging in a
little sarcastic rhetoric and that your inclinations are^ other-
wise—at all events I hope so.
With best wishes,
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Mr. Sorague de Camp,
6617 Island V/ay.
Hollywood, California
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Mr. Lyon de Camp,
Thendara, New Yoric.
Dear Ijon:
Tharks for yours of the 21st instant. By the usual
coircidence my letter to your son Spregue crossed one from
him to me. However, no harm was done and I hare now received
a second letter which I am ahout to answer today.
As I told ycu ^hen you were here^ I shall be glad to take
him on s short field trip during the coming season if his en-
gagements fit in with mine— altho^jgh from a statement in his
last letter i infer thet he is strongly averse to field work
except in areas of polite civilization.
V/e don't envy your thermometer readings, and are very
thankful that ours remain in the neighborhood of the freezing
point and that our snows thus far have covered the ground for
orly two or three days at a time.
Dorothy is practically well, thou^^h not very strong yet.
With love from us all.
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Hon. Charles II. Burke,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Llr. Burke:
I am very glad to learn from your letter of yesterday
that you have ordered the discontinuance o^ the name 'Digf^er',
previously applied by your office to the Mewuk Indians of
California.
The news of this will be received with joy by practically
all the California Indians.
I have not yet heard from you in answer to my inquiry of
the i2th instant in regard to the criterion in the way of
blood kinship accepted by your Bureau in determining whether
or not a person shall be enrolled as an Indian.
Very truly yours.
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February 29, 1924
Chief v;illiam Puller
Soulsbyville, Cslifornia.
My dear Mr. duller:
At last the Indian Office has agreed to give up the use
of the ohnoxious term 'Digger', as applied to your tribe.
This mcrninj I received a letter frcF. the Cornmissioner
of Indian Affairs (Charles !i. Burke) enclosing a copy of an
order addressed to L. i^. Dcrrington, ouperintendent 3acrar.ento
Agency, stating:
^'Hereafter the term 'Digger', as repres^^nt inp the name of
a tribe of In^lians in the Sacramento jurisdiction, end so ap-
pearing in the records of this Bureau, will be discontinued,
objection havir^;;; ccne frcm sc-ne of the Indians thus designated
ard frcn others, that this terrr is one of contempt ard regarded
by the In:1ians as humiliati ng and opprobrious. It will there-
fore be replaced by the name ' ^ev/uk ' #iich, upon accepted
ethnological authority, is the true tribal desirnation of these
Indians.''
Trusting thtt you are having a good -.vinter and that you
and your family are well; and hopir^] to see you next summer.
Very truly yours,
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Mr. Stephen Knight,
Ukiah, uelifcmia.
My dear Lir. Knight:
At last we have won out in the matter of the name 'Die^per.
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I have today received a letter from Charles H. Burke, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, enclosing a copy of an order to L. ^. Dcrring-
ton, Superintendent Sacramento Agency, dated February 28, 1924,
stating:
^Hereafter the term 'Digger', as representing the name of a
tribe of Indians in the Sacramento jurisdiction, ^nd so appearing
in the records of this Bureau, will be discontinued, objection
-having come from some of the Indians thus designated end from others,
that this term is one of contempt and regarded by the Indians as
humiliating and opprobrious. It will therefore he replaced by the
name ^Uewuk' which, upon accepted ethnological authority, is the
true tribal designaticn of these Indians."^
About six weeks ago I '.vrote you,enclosing a copy of the report
of the Advisory Council on Indian Affairs, but have not heard from
you as to whether or not you received it and' "v^ether or not you
received the book I sent, about Christmas time.
V/e are still having a very open winter here.
Have you had any rain recently? At last accounts California
was suffering from drought.
With best wishes to you all.
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Mr. J. J. Underwood,
621 Goloredo Building,
Washington, D. C.
tiy dear Mr. Underwood:
Than :3 for your note of the 25th instant. I am glad
to IcnoTT that you were frvorably impressed with my remarks
on the nrme of Mount P^inier before the Senate Coimnittee
a few day? ago. I was afraid I had made a rather poor
showing.
I should not have known about this meeting except for
your thouf^ht^^ulnesf in phoninr, me. In case there is to be
a hearing before the full committee I shall be obliged if
you will kindly let me know.
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'Dr* Herbert I. Priestly,
Bancroft Library,
Berkeley, California.
My dear Doctor Priestly:
Thanks for ycur letter of the 9th instant expressing your
interest in my article on Jedediah S. 3mith, If your friend
Professor Meade of whom you speak would care for a copy I
shall be glad to send one to hira if you or he will give me
his ie**lress.
During the past two years I have been so continuously
busy in field work among California Indians that I have not
been able to visit the University or even the Zoological
Museum, but hope for better" luch next year. -
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Dr. Joseph J. iiill, ^'
Bancroft Library,
Berkeley, California.
My dear Doctor Hill:
In checking the list of persons to whon sept^rates of
my article on Jedediah Snith's crossing from Utah to Cali-
were sent,
fornia,^ I am somewhat shocked at not finding your name.
If you did not receive a separate of the article I shall
he very glad to send you one at once^with apologies for the
emission.
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Prof. 1!. E. Slosson,
1739 Lanier Place.
Washington, D. C. •
Dear Professor Slosson:
Your tcience liotes published every week as * Science Supple-
ment' must interest a great many people. But many of than are
aggravating in falling just short of the info una t ion one would
like to have, i^or instance, in the issue of .February 29. is
published ♦with out any headingla most interesting note on color
preferences cf In^^ians^ But in order to make the note of any
reel value one needs the^nane of _tbe tribe (which is not given)
and, the locelity, which is here vaguely stated as the 'south-
west'—a rather exasperating location to anyone interested' in
exact knowledge. ^
Another thing, the habiUi and preferences cf Indiens differ
so greatly according to tribes thht one would be safe in assuming
that in the 'southwest' one wouli find widely different prefer-
ences among the different linguistic stocky, if not among the
individual tribes.
It is sad to see the word 'squaws' applied to Indian women
in a dignified journal like 'Science'. But probably you have not
had occasion to know how distasteful this term is to practically
all Indians in the western part of tiie United States. They
regard it as a degrading term of reproach and I have heard an
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of hrs wife as a 'squaw', he would knock him down. 'Squaw'
and 'Digger^ are two terms that in decency to Indiens should
be eliminated from our vocabulary.
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■ Dear Spfague:
^ In writin,. you yesterday I forgot to mention a popular
Natural History journal ir which I think you will find a
great deal of interest. apart from its beautiful illustrations.
It IS called 'Nature Kagazine' .and costs $2.00 a year. The
address is: imerican Nature Association. 1214 - 16th Street
Washington. .. C. A subscription .^lip is enclosed herewith.'
This IS the second year. arxi I imagine that you will want
la«t year's nunbers as well as those for the current year.
I am gl.d you are practicing photogrephy-an important
adjunct to the work of any naturalist. The print you en-
closed of the Indian Buffalo (EiLt_bilialua) is very clear
and will stard enlargement admirably.
Very truly yours.
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ool7 Lolani Way ^
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Mr. W. 1. Adams,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington. D. C.
Dear Ur. Adams.r . ^
Herewith I am enclosing my expense account for Feb-
ruary amounting to $31.98,and also voucher for Miss Ellen
Allston, stenographer, for $125.00. which I shall be -
obliged if you will pay as usual from the Harriman Fund.
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American Forests aSl Wild Life for 1924
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Bob Smith, 3sq. i
79 Federal Street,
Boston, Mass.'
Dear Sir;
A fe« daytjl sent you $1.10 for one of your small single
telescopes, as adTertised in the Sportsman's Journals. It
has arrived and is the most ^rthlessjjj I have ever seen.
The eyepiece comes off whenever you try to pull the l>arrel
out and it is impossible to set it in focus, as you will
see if you take the trouble to look throush it. Further-
more, it does not seem to maenify at all. I can see far^
better with my naked eye. I an returning it by thi? mail.
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Mr. ?dward N. Munns,
i?orest Service,
Washington, D. G,
lij dear Sir:
Your excellent article in the last number of the
Scientific Monthly will, I hope, be widely reed, as it
is not only interestingly written but also states a number
of facts not known to the great majority of people. But
why did you call it Bictic Factors? - --
The title iF? certainly unattractive and to most p'^ople
misleading if not repulsive. I am well aware that the term
•Bictic', which to most of us means two -eared, is used by
some biologists in the sense in which you e^^plcy it — a sort
of blanket term to cover a multitude of "ins relating; to
animals and plants.
Can you explain why authors discourage would-be readers
by the use of outlcrdish terms which very few people know
the meaning of?
Did you not really mean (as a title): The part played
by Anim.als in Forestry, or the Relation of Small Mammals to
Forestry, or Forestry as affected by omall llammals?
rfith best wishes,
Tery truly yours.
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L>. George W. Stewart,
visalia, California.
Dear Mr. Stewart:
Very many thanks for your lctt<3r of the 28th instant
and for the ecconpanyin^ copy of a letter from L'rs. Wm.
Hilger of Strathmore.
T^ cr three days anp I received a letter from the Com-
missioner of Indian iiffairs stating that the Indian Office
had given up the use of the obnoxious tern 'Digger' as ap-
plied to a tribe of California Indians and that their superin-
tendant at Sacramento had been notified of the fact. This ig
another thing to be thankful for.
After ?ucceedir^ in abolishing the tern 'Digger', the
next bad word that many of us hope to eliminate from the white
man's vocabulary is'-Squaw'-a term which nearly all Indians
regard a? implying disrespect. Twenty or twenty-five years
ago I used thip term myself, but was corrected by Doctor George
Bird Grinnell. since ;*iich t ime I have carefully avoided it.
Glad to know about the incised rocks and ^.all be in- •
teres ted in your photographs.
The small Orcundsquirrek to which you refer as inhabiting
the west side of the southern part of San Joaquin valley are.
I suppose, the valley fom of the kohave Desert Antelope Squirrel
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It has two white stripes on the back and usually carries
the tail curled up 07er the back.
The matter of California Wolves is still troublesome.
Most of the records, when run down, prove to be the larj^e
Coyote of the mountains. I have not yet seen a specimen
of the big rfolf from 'Jalifcrnia, but have been told that -
Joseph Grinnell of Berkeley got hold of one from some part
of southern California last year.
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My dear Mr. Curtis:
Thanks for your letter of i^'ehruary 2'^ in regard to
the Eount Hainier matter. ^,
I agree «ith you that it is extraordinary that a
congressional Comittee of presur.ably intelligent and
disinterested men sho'old he willinp to recomend a change
in one of the most firmly established geographic names
in the v;hole v?crld. 4^
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Dr. GeoiTge niery Hale, '
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Dear Doctor Hale:
The Pit River Indians in northeastern Califc >••„;. v,
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a good deal to say about a red star which they call the
'South Star' and which, according to their accounts i«.
visible in the far south only fr> ^k^ f
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from January 24 to ?ebr"i»^ ->/ r.
^ ep.^ry 24. Can you tell me what this
star is?
Very truly yours,
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ilr. C. A.. Allen.
Sen Geroniiro, L-aiii.
Dear Mr. Allen: . • '
Ycur letter cane some time' ego end w all wre very eled
to hear from you. but we were scrrj to learn that you have had
so little rain end hope that much mor. has fallen before this;
if not, the outlook for next season is nther gloomy.
We ha7» had a very oper. winter here--v,ry little snow ahd
not much rain and less cold than usual.
We had hoped to get off for California the letter part of
this nonth.but I am so behindhand in my work that it is evident
that -.e canntt make it before some time in April.
jtrs. Uerriam and my daufihter Dorothy have recovered from
their troubles and we hope they will continue in good health
for a long tire to come.
Do you renenber the year when you mo^ed from Nicasio to
San (ieronimo 7alley?
With best wishes to I£rs- Allen and ycurfelf from us all.
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Dear Doctor Aitkin:
Very many thanlrs for your letter of Pebnxax^ 27 in regard
to the nane of the red star «hich the Pit River Indians call
'South Star' and *ich is said to be visible for only a short
period from about January 24 to February 24.
I .am glad to have your g^estion of Betelgeuse. I do
rot .think the observation relates to a.y particular year- I
understood the old Indian to say or imply that it was seen
every winter. - .
Very truly yours,
•-te: Pit :?iver was named from the pits dug by the Indians
•-c catch deer. It therefore has only one ^. ^.ile Mount .
^^tt xn Oregon was named after a man by that nam.e and there-
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Dear lir. Adams:
I am Anclo^irg a belated voucher fror, Kelson H* Kent
fcr photographic i;vorfc done in February, amounting to $^*40^
which uAfortunately did net reach me in time to transmit
with my iebruary account and which I shall be obliged if
you will kindly pay from the Herriman Fund.
I am enclosing also Subvcucher 3 of the February
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Mr. George Vaux, Jr.,
1421 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphie, Penna. '
Dear Kr. Taax:
Thenkf! for the trouble you have taken in v^riting me
so fully pbout the Autobiography of General Isaac J.
Wis tar.
I saw a copy a few weeks ago and in scanning it was
greatly surprised at the large amount of material it
contains relating to the aniir.als observed by him on his
early trip across the plains, and also and more particularly V^
his ir.pcrtant observations on several tribes of Indians
in northwestern California. I am anxious to quote a good
deal of this ncterial in my forthcoming work on the Indian
tribes of northern California.
Again thanking you for your courtesy in the matter,
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Kr, ?. G, Smith,
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Ly dear Kr. Smith;
After leaving you in Baltimore a few days? ago I found that
the car heated on attaining a speed of about 34 miles, so that
I had to stop twice to let it cool down. The oil gage did not
at any time read above 10 and usually kept at or below 5. The
same has been the case since my return. Hence I am still
wondering .vhether the oil feed opening in the engine should be
opened one peg to allow a freer flow. It is the same trouble
I h?^ve always had and :^ich I have written and ?poken about
several times.
On the way home 1 noticed a grind in the gears, and on reach-
ing home found that the bottom of the tr^-nsmission case was heavily
cc7ered with thick transmission grease. I refilled it and next
morning found it had leaked out on the floor of my garage. I then
took the car to what I believe to be one of the best shops in town-
the General ^uto Truck Company. They cleaned off the thick grease
en the outside of the transmission case and showed me that the
case was badly broken all the way around. They took it off ajid
found inside anpjhe r^ ip q ? e nut like the one I sent Mr. Page a
year ago last November. I an sending you this by same mail. The
job. including new oil and 12 hours labor, cost $E2.86. which I
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from transmission to clutch, nor the splattering of grease
from the universals.
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is what appears to be uisufficient^ oil „feed to the engine,
leaving mc in doubt as to whether or not the crank case should
be taken down and the feed opened up one notch. «»
Vftien you come to V/ashington to arrange for an agency here
I shall be i^rj pled to see you.
The VJashinptcn Automobile Show begins tomorrow, but I am
very much afraid that the 'American* will not be represented---
hcpe I may be mistaken.
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Plainfield, New Jersey.
My dear Mr. Smith:
After leaving you in Baltimore a few days ago I found that
the car heated on attaining a speed of about 34 miles/ so that
I had to stop twice to let it cool down* The oil gage did not
at any time read above 10 and usually kept at or below 5* The
same has been the case since my return. Hence I am still
wondering whether the oil feed opening in the engine should be
opened one peg to allow a freer flow. It is the sanne trouble
I have always had and i;*iich I have written and spoken about
several times.
On the way home 1 noticed a grind in the gears, and on reach-
ing home found that the bottom of the transmission case was heavily
coTered with thick transmission grease. I refilled it and next
morning found it had leaked out on the floor of my gar^e. I then
took the car to what I believe to be one of the best chops in town-
the General ^uto Truck Company. They cleaned off the thick grease
on the outside, of the transmission case and stowed me that th#
case was badly broken all the way around. They took it offapd -
found inside anotherJ.p^o^e^ i^^^ like the one I sent Mr. Page a
year ago last November. I an sending you this by same mail. Tht
job, including new oil and 12 hours labor, coat $22.86, whic* I
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Apparently you did not succeed in stopping the"' oil leak
from transmission to clutch, nor the splattering of grease
from the universals.
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?jal^iiJj!i$ to t^^ engine,
leaving roe in doubt as to whether or not the crank case should
be taken down and the feed opened up one notch. *
mien you come to Washington to arrange for an agency here
I sftiril be very glad to see you.
The TIashington /automobile Show begins tomorrow, but I am
very much afraid that the 'American* will not be represented—
hope I may be mistaken.
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The Science Press, Attention of R. ?. ,
Grand Centrsl Terminal,
New York. K. Y.
Dear Sirs: •
Eeplying to your letter of March 3 asking me to renew
my subscription to the Scientific Monthly would state that
oiT Jenusry 13 I sent you check No. 181 drawn on the National
tietroTjclitan Bank of Washington, for $5.00 in renewal of
subscription for 1924; and that three days later I sent another
check. No. 185. for $6.00 in payment for 'Science' for 1924--
the check in each case beins S'^^t the same day that the bill ,
was tecoived, -.vhich is ray usual custom. Both of these cheeks
have been pf-id and returned and are now in my possession. I
can sen^^ them to you if you so desire.
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Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey.
My dear Professor Russell:
Certain Indians in northeastern California speak of
a star ^hich they call the •South Star' which they say
appears in the far south about January 24 and is visible
for only a month. Can you tell me what this is likely
to be?
If this is not in your field of aptroncmy, can you
tell me who would be likely to know?
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Mr. H. 11. Pittraan,
Wsuchope, Saskatchevvan ,
Canada.
Dear Mr. Pittman :
Thanks for your prcmptnesj?. The four photographs
arrived thivS morning, for which I am enclosing herewith
my check for $8.00.
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Mr. Janes McGormick,
Secretary U. 3, Geographic Board,
vifashington, D. C.
Dear Mr. McCormick:
Yours with enclosed draft of letter tc ?. Douglas,
Secretary Geographic Board of Canada, is before me.
I see nothing cbjecticnahle in the letter. It seems to
me to cover the ground in the way intended.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. A. 0. Cspobell,
605^ .Vest lie in Street,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
My dear Sir:
Tery many thanks for your letter in regard to the skull
cf thf^ Grizzly Bear -.vhich yoti killed on Pish Creek in north-
western Wyoming.
I shall be very glad to see the s'rall, even if the crown
is shot away, as Grizzly skulls from th£t region ere extremely
rare.
Kindly have the skull carefully packed and shipped by
express, charges collect, addressed: U. S. Biological Survey,
Department of Agriculture, >ashington, D. C. Please put your
ovm name as sender on the box, and also please attach a tag
to the skull, giving the date and locality of killing and
your own name, so that there may be no possibility of mistake
when it arrives.
Thsrkinr you for your courtesy in the matter.
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Mr. P. G. Smith
Service Manager,
American Motors Corporation,
Plainfield, Ntw Jersey.
My dear Mr. Smith:
TJianks for yours of the 10th instant received last evening.
I wired you early this morning, asking you not to send the new
radiator of v»hich you spoke until you have heard from me:
I have never felt that the radiator was at fault; in fact
on the contrary it has always seemed to me an unusually compe-
tent and cool radiator. The only times when it has heated
have been -.vhen the oil gage registered very low. The oil flow
in the ennine has always struck me not only as insufficient
but as very irregular-by thi? I mean that when the car is
running at practically uniforr, speed the oil gage may read '10'
end then suddenly and without provocation drop to '5' and con-
tinue on the downwF.rd course until it hardly registers at all.
Then the engine heats. I don't see hew this can possibly be
the fault of the radiator. ' •
On arriving home from Bsltiirore the evening I left you
I waited about an hour for the engine to cool do\ffl a little and
then drained it, washed it cut with 2 quarts of 'Mobile Arctic',
drained again, and refilled -nth 8 quarts Mobile Arctic.
The universes— particularly the front one-were nearly
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special attention to the oil f^.A ,
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American Forestry Association,
Book Dei^rtraent ,
1523 L otreet,
Washington, D. 0. *.
Dear 3irs:
Enclosed is a list of tooks which I shall be obliged
if yew vvill kindly have sent to me with bill for same.
I will rerit at once on receipt of bill.
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1243 Hast Stark Street,
Portland, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
In a recent catalogue you advertised a publication
by B. P. Bonney entitled 'Across the Plains by Prairie
Schooner'in 1846, 25fi. If you still have a copy of this
I shall be obliged if you will kindly send it to me.
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liy dear Senator:
■ Your letter of *c ISth instent enclosine a
request from Sister liary Benite of the College of
St. nizabeth for certain 3cOumente published by
the U. 3. ^eologicBl Survey has been referred to
that Survey for sttenticn.
Very truly yours,
ChainTan". V. 3. Geographic Boerd.
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1»ashington^ D. C.
Dear 'Dt* Grosrenor:
Very many thanks for your beautiful book on the
Hawaiian Islands. Mrs. Merriam and 1 have read it from
cover tc cover with continued interest. You certainly
hare broieht together a remarkable array of facts and
have presented them in such attractive language that
when one starts to read, it is hard to stop.
-And the wealth of instructive illustrations is an
additional delight.
Thanks also for the bound copy of the magazine ^ich
as heretofore 1 shall take to Lagunitas.
With best wishes.
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H.R.V.agner. California Historical See. 508^Jens^?,f JfJ Bldg
to sending Special Delivery reply to Fletcher's criticism, covering
about 2500 words. Article on Abuses of California Indians again
postponed
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J2D2DIAH SMITH'S RuUTS ACROSS 1112 3IEHRA IJT 1827
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Oelifornia Historical Society {Vol.2. No.4. 344-349,
Jan. 1924) ^r. ?. iJ. Letcher criticizes my conclusions^
as to the route followed by Jedediah 3. Smith in cn)s>
sing the Sierra in the spring of 1327. on his way from '
the Interior Valley of California to Great Salt Leks.
The fflostirJ^^rt^^t^^iSr^Ti^S^ument relates
to the identification of the home of the Wini-ir:e1-r>^p
tribe of Indians. Mr. Fletcher srys: "Dr. Uerriam
claims that the ldm-mul-ch8.,Indian«» lired only on
Kings Piver. Po-^ribly further investigation may dis-
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definite tract of country, the boundaries of ^ich
are as fixed as those of the states of the Union and
vastly more permanent than those of our counties. The
members of one tribe did not roam at will over the
tlL^v^dla of other tribes, but spent their on tire lives
within their own domain.
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The Wim-mel^-che tribe lived on Kings ?dver in the
foothills adjoining the coml-k^t^ f the Wachakut»
Both triies belonp. to the Yokut stock. In order to '
have 'roamed' north to the Stanislaus thev would have
been obliged to pa?s throi:f;h the^©4at.v%UK.5 cf a number
of tribes spec;kir^; different dialects and to teve
pressed well into the territory of tribes belonging
to a wholly different linguistic stock (the mewan).
The fact _t^hi:t the ^Um-mel-che were a Kings River
tribe i? too well authenticated to admit of ques'tion.
They were discovered by at least three of the early
Spanish ej^ticns -irr fcjyin r hundred years'^ago^ as
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Library *iich, through the courtesy of Dr. H. E.
Bolton and -^r. H. I. Priestly, my assistant Miss
Stella Glemence has been permitted to trargilate.
One of these, the diary of Jos^ Dolores Pico, states
that in the course of an expedition sent out in
November ItlS^he visited, on or close to Kings River,
tw rancherias of the people cfdled Gumilchis —
obviously a Spanish spelling for Wemelche> Another,
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fall of 1819, by Lieut. Don Jos.o M. iistudillc. Com-
mander of the Royal Presidio of Uonterey, records
the intere^tin/< fact that at the rancheria of the
No ton to on lower Kirgs Hiver there were gathered, in
comnliance ^ith his orders the chiefs of a number
of tribes and villages, among whom was "Goytisa,
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an expedition to the Tulares end Kings River in the
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winter of 1825-1826. Ifc \feU6 that in January
1826 he traveled up Kings River toward the Sierra
Nevada to the rancheria of the Guimilches^-which
he mentions four times.
Only a year later came Jedediah Smith
who, not knowing that the Spaniards had already
named the river 'Rio de los Reyes ^ christened it
'Wimmelche^ ''after a tribe of • Indians who reside
en it of that name". His account was the earliest
to appear in print, havir^g been published in the Mis-
souri Republican of October 11, 1827 —nearly a centurv
ago.
e three vcmmissicners (McKee, Barbour, and
Wozencraft) sent to Oalirornia by our Government
V^i^ for the purpose of making treaties '.vith the
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(l^e-mal-ches, We-mil-ches , We-mol-ches . Ne-mil-ches)
as signing treaties at Camp Bent on Kings River May 13,
1651, and on the San Joaquin Hiver April 29, 1851.^
I References may be consulted in the Senate Document
known as the 3ighteen California Trftfiti#>^ of 1851-1852
(pp.3, 4, 10, 12, 47, 52); and also in several reports )
of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. ^
>^ the tribe was visited at its home on Kings River
by Lieut. N. H. McLean v!yn^Ju]j_12^_J8^ spelled
Wee-mil-chees. war Department Piles, 1853), aid^was
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Tfee-mil-che, House Doc. 76, 34th Congress, 3d Session,
p.31, 1357); and by M. B. Lewis, as a tribe on Kings
River (spelled \^e-melches, Eept. Commr. Indian Affairs
for 1857, p. 687, 1857). Bancroft gave ^Wemelches^
as a tribe near Kings River Farm in 1856, and later
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from Kings River placed on Fresno and Kings River
Reservations in 1851.
In addition to the numerous published records, I
was personally told more than twenty years ago by a
Yowlel-man^ne Indian on Tule River that the 'liadttal-
filLfiji'lived on Kings River in the lower foothills, just
above the Wachakut — a statement confirmed by members
of other tribes.
In view of the foregoing records by reliable men
who at intervals during a period of more than a hundred
years came in personal contact with the Wimmelche Indians,
it is hoped that no one will ever again attempt to locate
them elsewhere than on tL .r own ground on the river
named by the Spaniards ^Rio de loa Reyes y by Smith
'the Wimmelche', and by the Americans 'Kings River ^
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is Mr. j^letcher's attempt to cast doubt on the
evidence thp t Smith's base camp, from v*iich he set
out to cross the Sierra on tlaj 20, 1827, was at Polsom
on American RiTerT* repeating Dale's error t} placing
him on the Stanislaus. In my account of the crossing
I referred to a letter in the '3an Francisco Times'
of June 14, 18o7 written by an associate of Smith
Bid quoted hy Bancroft, for the purpose of correcting
errors in regard to Smith's movements. This letter
states thfit Snith left his pnrty on Air.?rioeiIJ^fiJ±.
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d i»ith twc men returned to the rendeavous [north
of Salt Lake J. 1 referred else to the statement of
J. U. (jwinn thr.t Smith, before returning to ialt
Lake, had established cenp near the place now known
as jj'olsom, and to the corroboration oi this location
by J. J. 'Varner in his 'Reminiscences of I^arly
California'. To these should be added the equally
^ J.J. Viarner in his Hominiscences of Early
California says iimerican xiiver was named in 1826
[IdEVj by a party of hunters under Jedediah S.
Smith, but this has been questioned.
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•*Phe party
trapped for beaver
and other animals from the Tulare
to the American Jork of the Sacramento, where there
was already a camp o
f American trappers. Smith es-
tablished his camp near the present site of Folsom.
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the reliability of his info imation, Cronise
he had been at considerable trouble to
Concerning
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unravel the variou. accounts of Smith's travels and
had gathered kU.-.-.-^ parti c-olars* from those
^ho kne^ Smith personally and shared his perils, and
from documents in the State archives." (Ibid)
Smith, after the failure of his first attempt to
ci^ss the Sierra, y«xVUs: "I ^as compelled therefore
t. ...nm to the vBUM-J^ifilLlJlfl^i-Lali. And then
leaving my party I started with two men". Mr. Fletcher
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interprets Smi^a referring to a ralley on the Wimaelche
*ere he had left his party and from #iich he set out again
on his successful crossing. My interpretation is quite dif-
ferent, for it seems clear thet his reference was to the
great San_Joa3uin_Vallei nrfiich he was following northward,
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not made till after he had established camp on America! Rirer.
Mr. Fletcher lays special stress oV>imith's letter to
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to cross the Sierra, and
that theee were only 10 or 15 days apart, and conse^ently
when he sayd he 'Vetumed to this place** he must have referred
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at that date Smith was camped on the lllramelche(#iich he er-
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farther north. ?letcher's argument is based on the assumption
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But what Smith
actuBlly said is this: '*I have made several efforts
to pass the mountains, but the snows being so deep,
I could not succeed in getting over.. I returned
to this place. to remain until such time as I can
cross the mountains with my horses — having lost
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gregt many in attempting to cross Voi or^^: days
since". (?rom Smithes letter to Padre Duran published ^,^,
by Cronise in his Natural Tfealth of California, pp.
44-45, 1868, and reprinted by various authors).
It will be remembered thet on his first at-
tempt, -A^hich was made from the Wimmelche (Kings
Biver) iiaa of his horse? starved to death, ffcile
in his letter to Father Duran he tells of^losi
i^g
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days since^, apparently from the same camp. If he
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had made only one attempt previous to the date of
the Duran letter why did he say ^I have made
efforts to pass the mountains"? Anu dct.b h*.^ k\s
Tov-cLvW^Ireturned to this place" implu that one
or more of these attempts were from the s^'^V^base
camp, which, as has beer, ^hown, was at the^'^tii^^
nc'^jj^lle^ •Y>l!^om,.t?!rijnericfii^ ?iv(^r,
Smith leit Ussion San Uabriel Jtmuary 19, 1827
nd, e^^-aftyaR6-^aR ^^ ..^i^^ securing supplies for the northward trip
wa^ camped three miles from ^cn Bernardino the letter
part of the month. l'}\e horseback trip from San Ber-
nardino to the Tulare region in the 5^outhern part
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of the San Joaquin Valley was naturally by way of
Gajon Pass and the Mchave Desert, with no beaver
streams to detain the party, and hence would take only
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vTas he doing during the intervening three and three
quarters months? Gronise sa/5 he was trapping beaver
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and other animals from the Tulare te the ^me
Pork of the Sacramento— a statement which there seems
to be no reason to doubt.
I heve already called attention* to the feet
that Gslletin's maps of 1336 and 1343, end >:il
Kes
map of 1841, h£;7e dotted lines showing Smith's route
from California to 3at Lake, trd to the additional
fact thrt both Gallatin ar:d wiikes had been given
the benefit of Smith's explorations. Gelletin
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pressly stttes thet he had received from
General
^shlpy (Jedediah Smith's
senior partner) a manuscript
map accompanied by numerous explanatory notes, and
n!^o'-W*.Jt- "^-^- '^°^ *^'* 2mith emerged on the eest
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River end also north of the then unknown Lake
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TaiiQft. In view of these obvious facts, how ere we
to account for Mr. j*'letcher's astounding statement
that "The Gallatin map contains striking and well-
nigh conclusive proof that Smith's route wa« from
the vicinity of the Stanislaus
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shojjs two ptrallel northerly flowing streams just
east of the Sierra, which he (Fletcher, not Gallatin)
sajs "can be no ether than the present Uarson and
Walker Ki vers", (overlooking the feet thet the Truckee,
formerly celled Salmon Trout Kiver. is the first
stream on the east side of the mountains along the.
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point '*ere it turns northward toward Pyramid l£ke.
The second strear. (which Fletcher identifies as the
first) appears to be the Carson. Wilkes' map of 1841
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which may possibly have been Carson Lake, then much
larger than at present — though i=wtfflit^:=tfeM the
maps are on too small a scale and contain too many
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errors to justify positive conclusions.
Mr. i?letcher takes pains to point out that
Smith did not follow the Humboldt Valley route, which,
had he crossed the mountains from /jnerican River,
would have been his natural course. But he omits
to add that at the time of Smith's journey Humboldt
River (regardless of nane) was unknown, and further-
more — and this is important — that when he left the
mountains he was many miles west of its Sink and
from the nature of the intervening country could
not possibly have 'mown of its existence.
It would seem therefore, after a careful perusal
of Kr. Fletcher's criticisms, that he is in error his-r
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My dear Miss Druitft:
Ycu were cood enough some ti»e ago to send me a cop.
of your excellent paper entitled 'More ibout Astorians'
but I have bee, und^ such pressure since retumit^ fn,«
California that 1 dlH nnf r^r^A <.,-
A«fc 1 aia not find time to read it until last
evening;.
it certainly is a fine thing to put onrecord these
addxtxonal fragments of infonnation about some of\he early
pioneers in western exploration.
Would not many of our present day young men regard the
physical accomplishments of some of these men as superhuman.'
^ou may be interested to Vnow th.t I hare recently
^ent the California Historical Quarterly a reply to Fletcher's
criticism of my paper on Jedediah Smith's crossing of the
Sierra. I will of course send you a separate *en the tf.ing
is cut.
*dtb best .vishes,
7eiy truly yours.
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^«fnf^f^".' ^if.?ouri Hi»Corieal Society
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% dea-r Mr. King.-
Beplying to your recent inquiry as to the largeBt
«dia*bear skull on record,would say that the larg^t
specimen ^^.^ed by .e (No. 134407. U. 3. Na ti onal lluseu» '
hea the foll.^^ dimensions:
^^« test lv,gth between upri.Phts, 18 inches.
Greatest breadth (zygomatic breadth). 12 inch..
^^Us of Ilraus^gj^ : from Alaska Peninsula) are
longer, but not so bro.d. I„ the December 1.21 n«ber of
Outdoor Life' I published an article entitled 'Cr largest
Benrs as show in aiiii. ■ j .k ..vi <
P-tog^ph, of b,„ ,,„!!,. J,, «„,„.»,„t t,H« She,
t.e relative ,i„ „f , „^i„ ^^ ,^,^.^^ ^^ ^.^ ^^^^_
'/ith be?t wishes,
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fir. Joseph iJailliard,
Academy of Sciences.
San /rencisco, Gelii.
My dear Mr. Mailliard:
Beplying to your recent inquiry as to my feelinc, in
regard to the habitat groups in the California -cademy
of Sciences, would say that I r^gerd these groups as of
very bi^ scientific and popular interest. Thfty are
eminently edosptional and appeal forcibly to the eye of
erery obserrer. Moreover, most of them illustrate the
highest derelopment of combined art and taxidermy to be
found in any museum in America, and probably in the world.
In my judgment they constitute one of the outstanding
features of the Academy's activities anti one of which all
Califomians may .veil be proud.
The er.tir^ Lagunita*" branch of the lierriam far-ily
has been interested and entertained by your Autobiogrephy
recently publisbod.
With "beat "si.^hes.
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*iy dear Sir:
^ny thanks f
or 7our promptness
in sending the
P^phlet Mercs, the fUin. b, ?r.lrU ^\.
"Mrt I ™ e.ol„i^ 50^ . " "='"°"'"-'- tor
^^ ou^ herewith*
Very truly yours.
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Mr, Clinton G. ibbott,
Director, Natural History Museum^
San Diego, California.
Dear Mr. Abbott:
Replying to your letter of the 18th instfar.t in
regard to the skull end antlers of an Elk in your iiuseum.
would say ttet while you do not give skull measurements,
neyerthelesB ttiere seems to be no doubt that the specimen
is ^^orYQg nannodna- not C, roogevelti. Hoosevelti has a
much broader muxzle than your photographs indicate, aai
the aafi tiers zre decidedly more massive* i'urthermore, as
you yourself suggest, the locality 'somei^iere in San Diego
County' is of cotirse far south of the range of C,' roosevelti>
Holsner states that Pox gave him full data. It would
be interest inp to obtain this infonnation in order to know
the particular pert of San Diego County in which this Elk
was killed*- ^
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Mr. Lewis Jemes
Sites, California.
Deer tir. Jenes:
It hes taken me 8 long time to have prints made of
the photofiraohs I promised you. They ere enclosed here-
with.
We have been having a mild winter f cr Washington,
with very little snow and about the usual anount of rain.
Vfe are sorry to learn thot 'Jalifornia has been shy of rain
and are hoping thet more will ccme before the spring is
over.
My wife and daughter join in kind regards to J«sse
Berryessa and oeorge BUlf ><e ^0P« ^^ ^®« ^^^ °^^ '^^'"'''^
the coming season.
V/ith b«st wishes.
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oan Prm Cisco, Califirnia! ^
ilarch 26, 1924
Dear Mr. V/agner:
^'- !=»" P^rt Of l„.t .„,, , ,,„j ^^„ ^^ ^^^^.^;
d,l.,ery .j „pl> to Ur. ..letcher'. criti.isM. I shall
" oM^ed if you Will kindly h.,e 60 „p„at,. of this
""' - "'h bill for Sana. .„d hop. y„„ .,„i be abl, to
•"r? r" ''"'" '° '"" °" ''' ""^'-1 P'Sination
l.lstsad of repaging it '1, z. 3'. ■
It is a pity that natcher-s oriti.i,™ .as published.
" U amounts to nothi,^ e.oapt to cast doubt on facts
concerning "'uch there is no doubt.
„ *'*" """""" '» '"« l-Wed article entitled ^A
B.6rettable Chapter in the History of California, .ould
"y that I ha.e no. brought tcgether enough material to
"■'^ " ^"^ ="" '' y^ "ill «ndly let ™ know about ho.
Many pages you ..ould like. I .in t^ to tri. it to the
desirexd size.
Very truly yours.
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Prof. Shermen D. Thacher,
Ojai, California*
My dear Professor Thacher:
Your special delivery letter of March 19, addressed
to me at Lagunitas, has just arrived.
1 appreciate your ecuftesj in tellinp, me about the
find of the cave baskets and should have been pled to
visit the cave T^ith ycur little expedition had 1 been
available.
Some years ago I saw a number of more or less simi-
lar baskets from certain caves in the mountains between
Los -angeles vnd the Tejon. The flat circular basket i*iich
you describe as about 20 inches in diameter is doubtless
a winnowing basket, for separating the fine from the coarse
newly pounded acorn meal. The bottle shaped basket with
large body is probably a water bottle.
Thanking you for your courtesy in writing, and with
best wishes.
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Hon. B. Lester Jones,
Coanissionsr,
International Boundary Conunission.
Washington, D. C. *
My dear Commissioner:
Tour letter of the £6th instant transmitting d
letter to the U. 3. Geographic Board and accompenying
correspondence reached me Saturday and will be pre-
sented to the Geographic Board at its coming meeting.
Very truly yours.
Chairman.
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i.ew YcTk City. '
D*ar 3ir»:
in jouY advert itement in the April number of the National
Oeognphic toeijaiine I am much pleased to note thc:t you mention
oU as , fuel for your Ideal Boilers. For some years I have been
hoping tl^-t you wuld produce an oilbuming boiler and have
several tii^s written yo^ concerning th^ gare. »-
l"or sone years I he,, had in my befe,„ent one o' ycur Ideal
Boilers connected with the hoi water «»vstein i.»- ™„ k«, « t
water system ^j-, yt\y noupe. TWO years
ape I gPYe up wheeling in coal a.d shovelinp i^t aphes and in-
etalled a'No-Kor Uimer. I..st sunm^r, .hile the hou.e wa. closed.
the furnace developed b s^rie^ of seriu^c, cracks on the floor of
the top plate under the cleening doors, v. attempt to close by
rears of '^rcth-on' failed. After th^t a ctupie of gallons of
Stop-leak' c waif was introduced into the boilet and closet: the
criicks fcr-obout tvi^c months, when the leak becare worse than ^ver
k couple more gallons of the 'Stop-leak' stuff Uld until a ie\
days age, when it gave way and is no.v leaking again. There appe&cs
to be no jemanent remedy, fcr which reason I suppose I shell have
to purchase a new Ideal Boiler next fall, in this case v shall
of course need one of your oil'Jburaers and shf.ll be obliged if you
will send me descriptive literature on the subject.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. Dall DeWeese _
Canon City, Colo.
My dear Llr. DeWeese:
It is a Icnp; time since I have heard from you, before
the arrival of your letter of the lath instant.
It is interesting to know that you have written a book
end I have no doubt thet the book itself will be interesting
readiiig*,and furthermore^ a truthful account of your vf.rious
hunts of the big gnme animals of America could hardly fail
to put on record a number of important facts of their life
history.
I have no doubt that when I know vrtiat is in the book
I shall be entirely willing to comply with your request*
for a few lines of fore^vord.
Shall be mighty glad to see ycu \7hen you come east,
provided you come by or before the 1st of May, as I am already
overdue in California end am delayed by pressure of unfinished
work. You may or you may not know that I am still spending
half or a little over half of each year in field work in
California.
With best wishes to yourself and family.
Very truly yours,
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Dr. Vi. Barclay Stephens
1250 Bay Street,
AlemeRa, California. ^_
Dear Doctor Stephens:
^ Thanks for your clipping of an ancient map from the
Gaecland Tribune; also and particularly for your letter of so
long ego/xhich has been on my desk ever since. The only reason
I have not written is that my desk is still appallingly stacked
up with unfinished business.
we had intended to be in California at this time but
from the present outlook it is obvious thrt we cannot get away
under another month. There still renainpthe writing up of the
results of my lest summer's field work and also the copying of
a number of vocabularies; and in addition I feel that I ouf:ht
to write an article on the government policy and practices in
regard to our Indians, in response to a request from the editor
of the ?arum who is publishing a symposium on the subject.
Dorothy has been with us more than three months tnd is
returhing to Cambridge tonight in a snow storm — about 3 inches
having fallen today with more still in the air. Elisabeth has
not been very brisk this 7vinter; ^^rliaps not t^onpletely recovered
from the injury to her head.
Your reqaest tor an article for the Boys Life Magazine
gives me a pain. I wouldalike to do it some time but it woul4
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hardly be right to tackle it before attending to last season's
field work, and theu I fear it will be far beyond the time we
should be in California.
Viith love to you all, in which Elizabeth ard I^enaida
join
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Mr. W. I. Adams,
Accountent,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washinpton, D. C.
i)ear lAr. Adams: •
Herevith I am enclosing voucher of Yawman i Erbe for on4
vertical steel file case H<5*Ji5, and Lias Ellen Allston.
services a<? stencnrepher month cf March $125.00, nhich I
shell be obliged if you will kindly pay from the Herrimen .
fund. • 1
My expense account for March will be sent in in a day
or t^/PoC
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Dear Urs. uii^nnett:
Reolyinf; to your letter of March 30, I regret to say
that i ht're not been very successful in locating a 'Gannett
Glacier' in North America, although I have inquired from
the Topographical Division of the Geological Survey and also
from Lfwr^nee Lartin. the authority on Ale?ka glaciers.
I am told, however, that Professor Hiram Binpham gave
the name Gannett Glacier to a glacier in the Peruvian Andes.
You doubtless kno^v that Grnrett Peak in the iiir.A Piver
tiOuntains cf doming wcs named after Henry, as was a moun-
tain in Alaska.
3o far ar I an aware the Harriman Expedition did not
name any glacier except Harriman after members cf the party.
Dorothy's return was delayed by the illness of her
little pirl. so that she did not leave us until day before
yesterday.
With love to you ard Alice from us all.
Very truly yours.
Mrs. Henry Gannett,
1420 2ast 31st St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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Mr. Charles Sheldon
1830 Phelps Place
Washington, D. C.
Deer Sheldon: ^^^
Knowing your thirst for ardent exercise in the way of
drizzly hunts I am enclosin,^ e letter ju.t received from
J. A. Htnna of Sandon. British Columbia. You see he ',vould
be glfid to have your ccmpany on or about the middle of May.
You will be interested alfo in whet he says about two
kinds of wild goats, one of which he calls 'abeck'. Please
retiim the letter.
As ever yours.
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April 3, IbU
ILt. ^. 0. Csmpbell
605^ West mein 3treet
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
My dear Sir:
The skull '*ich your son kindly shipped to me a
short time ego has arrived end I have just made a •
prelininary exrmin^-tiofi of it. It is an interesting
specimen ant^ must have been a very large bear. I will
examine it more critically in a fe;v days in comparison
.vith ether skulls in the ''useum and will then write you
apair
Thanking you for your courtesy in the matter,
Very truly yours ,
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ifr. C G. Campbell
Ky dear Sir;
Verj many thanks for your courtesy in shiooin.
father's (iri.zly skull dnrin k- v ^^ ^ ^ ''''
y sicuu during his ebsence. I have iust
examined it wi f k « j , •'"^'
«th a good deal of interest .rd shall „ake
» -" careful comparison in a f„ dej-
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^ery truly yours.
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April 4, 1924
Kr. rf. I. Adams
Icorountant
Smithpcnian Institution,
Washington, ]). C. .
Dear Ur. /idfar-s:
nerewith I am enclosing my expense account for the month
of March, amounting to $80.10,\*ich I shall be obliged if you
Tvill pay as usual from the Harriman fund.
You will observe three items for refitting a part of the
basement of ray house for the permanent accomodation of file
cases, map cases, and safes," the items charged covering half
the actual cost to me of plastering and whitewashing, electric
lighting, carpenter work and moving the heavy esses.
This seemed the best way out of a difficult situation, for,
as I think you knew, I hrvo been searching for an office aoert-
ment within the means of the fund for the past four cr fiv?
years without success, and have been using my own house and
garage for office purposes. Rents are nc-;v so hi^h and tre
likely to be so high in the future that I have civen un all
hope of renting office rooms encunrh to store mv file ct^es
map cases, and safes, ard have decided|;vhen I can obtain
reasonable rates^to rent only t^ rooms instead of five and to
retain in my own house most of the files, safes, and map cases.
Very truly yours.
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Dear iir. Alien:
Thanks for your letter of March 15. We were gliid to hear
from ycu but T«ry pcrry to learn thst there hnd been no rain
worth men ti orbing for a long tine. There is still P*»snce for
April rains, }.ut I for.r we ere in for *> 4ry summer which will be
mighty hard on stock and crops.
Thanks for the infcnnation that you moved from Nicasio to
Sen ueronimo October 1st. lc3a2-so yon have been in the Lagunitas-
San Geronimo country more than 40 years! Ycur*trip over in the
heavy rrin must have bern rather severe on ell of you.
3c ycu hrve had a visit from H. K. Coale of Chicago! But it
does seom stranpe t^.et after seeinp you he should heve sent you
thct little collecting gun.
Vernon Bailey is now in New kexico but expects to return
'in a few weeks.
We have had plenty of rain this winter and on the 1st dav of
April we had a snow storm liiich covered the city with 3 or 4 inches
of slushy snow, most of .^.ich has now disappeared.
I had expected to be in Califoinia before this but pressure
of unfinished -.vork .vill keep me here another month.
With best ,viches to Lirs. iillen and yourself, in which Mrs.
iSerriara and my daughter Zenaida join.
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Hon, 2. Lester Jones, Commissioner
International Boundary Contnission
iXashington, D. C.
My dear OoTnmisw.oner:
In compliance with your request of March 26, I brou/c ^ht
your ccminunication oT that date ^ith accompanying ancles: mres
to the attention of the U. *i. Geographic Board at its mf'n set-
ing on Aijril Z.
Your recommendation to reconsider ita pre\riou3 a^ttr^.tion
in regard to certain boundary features named after livi^-'ing
Americans was not approved. The proposition to name a a i
mountain 'llount Eoss' was previouply withidrawn by the C CJ&na-
dian Geographic Board.
The action of the Board on December 5 in adopti ig 3
names of six living; Canadians foi- houndsry features n n
tion of its well kncvn rule concerning such name?. w*.s s
as a corapliinent to Oanada—the Oanadian Ueographic Bcar^ "i^
having no rule against the use of naaf.es of living men.
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j%fr Mr. 1I( Cormick:
Thank, for the Lester Jones correspondence which
.rriyed chi- moming and which I have just answered.
* car"bon of my letter is enclosed.
You wi:i see that I omitted details.
If you have blank Board envelopes, about nine
inches (size of the one in which this is enclosed to
cu) I shoull he obliged for a small package, as the
nly hlanlrs ! have left are the smell uix inch size.
^ery truly yours.
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Mr. J. J. Underwood
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Washington, D. C.
My dear i.ir. Underwood:
Replying to your letter of the 5th instent asking
for an expression of my opinion a? to the desirability
of changing the name of Liount Rainier, in accordance with
the terms of a joint resolution of Congress proposed
January 1" by Senator G. 0. Dill and Representative Albert
Johnson. I enclose herewith a statement of the case which
you are at liberty to use in such manner as you see fit.
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Y/ILL C0NGE333 CHANGE THE NAME OF MOUNT RAINIER?
The Congress of the United States is confronted
by a recommendation to change the name of our most
majestic and magnificent mountain. On January 17,
1924, a joint resolution was introduced (by Senator
C. C. Dill of Spokanf* and Representative Albert
Johnson of Hoquiam) for the purpose of changing the
well established and time honored name of Mount
Rainier to Mount Tacoma. The matter was referred
to a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Public
Lands and a hearing was held on February 21* The
Government Geographic Board was not notified of this
hearing, although during the past 34 years it had,
by request of citizens of the city of Tacoma, granted
three hearings to Tacoma delegates and had made a
thorough and unprejudiced investigation of the merits
of the case, resulting in unanimous decisions against
the proposed change.
The evidence presented at the hearing of the
Senate Subcommittee on i^ebruary 21 was almost vi^iolly
in favor of retaining the name Rainier, but it was
not published and was ignored in the report of
Senator Dill (Report No. 268, dated March 14). This
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report contains— and apparently rests upon— several
errors of fact. It states: "Tacoma is the Indian
name. In the Indian language it means 'The mountain
that was God'." Neither of these statements is tnie.
Names more or less similar to Tacoma— as Takoha ,
Tah-ho-ma. Ts-gtio-ma. lekaii, Tah-ko-b#.t! , Tahch-ho-b<>t
^^g°^g<i end others— were applied by the tribes of
*^« region tg en IpftY snow-clad peaVs frnn. Un^^j^^,
Bakgr on the British Golnint^i^ ^ffuniJffTT ?Outb to fem]nt
ttood in Qrftsorii. ^nd far from meaning "The mountain
that was God", the word means whita— « generic or
blanket term applied to all snow-capped mountains.
Long ago Dr. Ueorge Otis 3mith, Director of the U. S.
Geological Sunrey, called attention to the fact that
an old international boundary map on file in the De-
partment of State shows the name Ta-ho-Tq^ on Mount
Baker, situate on the boundary between British Colum-
bia and Washington.
But P^inier has its own specific Indian name.
This, according to the dialect of the tribe speaking,
is Tiswaul> (others se written m^aaL and IiaiiiauiEj,
Ttt~9h-ki] . r-f ?ugItghous9. The people of Tacoma say
they want the original name restored— but they don't;
it is the last thing they want. By persistent and
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clever propoganda carried on over a period of years
they have spread before the people of the United
States the misinformation that Tacoma is tjie aboriginal
ncme of the mountain, and thus have acquired a certain
measure of support.
If they really desire the reinstatement of Indian
names, why do they not call their own fair city SllU=3jfiii-
Ijjft, its aboriginal and rightful nane? And why do they
not urge the changing of other prominent geographic
names in their own region— as Puget Sound, ^^hidby
Island, Hood Canal. Mount Adams. Mount Hood, and so on-
all bestowed by Vancouver at the same time as Uount
Eainierl
In the words of the late Professor George Davidson,
foremost geographer of the Pacific coast region: 'Van-
couver's names upon this western coast are part of the
history of geographic discovery and exploration", and
they have been accepted by the geographers of all
nations.
The nane hiount Rainier is one of the incst firmly
established geographic nanes on the face of the earth.
To change it would be a blow to the stability of geo-
graphic and historic^B««i« and a reflection on the
intelligence of the American people. The suggested
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similar oroposal
in regarS to the Andes ov the Himalaya. Is it not bad
enough to give new nemes to political divisions, as
has "been done so extensively since the Y/orld War,
without seeking to destroy the identity of the world's
most prominent geographic features^.
In the case of Mount Rainier, for more than a
hundred years the name has appeared on every important
map of western North America, regardless of where
issued, and during the sane period^in all the important
geographies, atlases, histories, and official documents
relating to the Pacific Coast Region, whether published
in the United States, Cera da, S^ngland, iVanca, Germany,
Italy, 3pain, Holland, Russia, or Arabia.
No geographic feature in any pert of the world
can claim a name more firmly fixed — fixed by ri^t of
discovery, by right of priority, by right of inter-
national usage, and by the conspicuous place it holds
in the literature, atlases, and official charts of the
civilized nations of the earth. And furthermore, the
records of science include hundreds if not thousands
of references to Lount Rainier, and our museums contain
thousands of specimens whose labels bear the name. For
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upwards of a century it has been the property of
the world. What right have we to change it? Can
anyone picture the chaos in geography, history, and
science that would inevitably result from giving
new names to this and others of the world's most
prominent landmarks?
Senator i)ill's report states: ''The city of Tacoma
was named after the mountain in 1868". This would
seem to be a slip of memory, for the date mentioned
antedates by 15 years the application of the name
Tacoma to the mountain — except, so far as I am aware,
by a man named Winthrop, who, in a book of travel
entitled 'Canoe and Saddle', says: "The Siwash call
it Tacoma, a generic term also applied to ell snow
peaks'*.
Up to the year 1383, when the Northern Pacific
railroad made the change, the people and newspapers
of ?£coma, like those of the rest of the world, con-
tinuously 'ised the name Rainier for the mountain, and
sometimes did so in 1884. Ellwood Evans, a Tacoma
lawyer and hivStorian, states in his 'History of the
Pacific Northwest' (1889), "The railroad company
renamed the mountain after the city." And C. G.
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1 (1893) remarks thet the name Rainier
"was generally accepted by early settlers up to the
time of the completion of the Horthem Pacific to
Tacoma; then, renaming the mountain after the city,
the company called it Mount Tacoma*'. But later, eren
the Northern Pacific Railroad abandoned its claim,
admitting: ''We have carried this farce as far as
ve are going to for advertising purposes^. The name
has been officially declared to be Rainier, and that
is what we shall call it.**
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Hon. Stephen T. Mather ^
Director National Park Service
Washington, D. 0.
iiy dear Doctor itether:
Beferring to your recent communication addressed to
the U. 3. Geographic Board, transmitting certain recommen-
dations from lir. Albright concoming proposed changes and
transpositions of nanes in Yellowstone I.'ational Park,
would say that while the matter has not yet come before
the Board for official action, there are certain principles
involved to which I would like to call your attention.
Changes of nanes of important features are always ob-
jecticnable, particularly if the nanes have been in use
long enough to become established, for the obvious reason
that such changes create confusion in historic and descrip-
tive matter and also in maps and photographs.
^ut the trenspnaitign of a name is far worse than a
mere change of name. It is open to all the objections of
change, and to the additional one that by moving a name
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from one place to another the confusion is indefinitely
multiplied, and the value of historical and scientific
accounts and also of botanical, zoological, geological,
and other specimens in museums is likely to be destroyed.
For instance, an author describes the distribution of trees
and smaller plants and animals at stated altitudes on stated
slopes of Mount Humpty Dumpty, with notes on the conditions
under which they occur, end backs up his observations with
specimens thet are pireserved in museums. Then someone moves
the name Mount Humpty Dumpty to another mountain and in
time the former use of the name is forgotten. Students
visiting this mountain fail to find the conditions as des-
cribed, and fail to find the record-* ey^i's a^ ^^^ ^1*^"
tudes mentioned. They naturally infer that the previous
author must have drawn on his imagination for his facts and
that the labels on ftuseum specimens are forgeries, or imagine
that vast changes havejccurred since his visit. This sort
of thing has actuaUy haH)ened more than once in our own
country^and. as I an .ure you will agree, is a calamity too
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serious to be repeated.
While not authorized to speak officially, I think the
Board will decline to shift from one place to another the
names Polscm Peak and Mount Hedges; that it will not con-
sent to the elimination of the names Dunraven Peak and
Dunraven Pass, but ttiat it will approve your recommendation
to change the name of Storm Peak to Mount Cook.
Very truly yours.
Chairman.
Mr. ?. M. Redman
801 Porter Building
Portland, Oregon.
My dear Sir:
— In lookipp, over the April niimbar of iiazemajust re-
ceived, my eye rests upon the name Ashoff. The mention
of 'Daddy Ashoff calls to mind pleasant monories of a
temporary camp, made by 7ernon Bailey and mysalf ^many years
ago. with hira and his family at hi« interesting home.
I remember Ashoff, his wife, and the daughter who
happened to be at horn,, g, ^^ple of unusual intelligence
an^enthusiasm. and also a, possessing what struck me as
a rather remarkable knowledge ot natural history for people
who were net professionals.
It is a pleasure to join in the sli,.?,t token cf eppre-
cintion m«-ntioned in your note, end I am encloeing herewith
for Vernon Bailey and myself our four bits apiece.
mth best wishes to you all.
Very truly yours.
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Mr.^Jemes kcCormick, Secretary,
U. o. Geographic Board,
•teshington, D. C.
Deer L'r. UcCormiok:
Beplying to your letter of the 7th instant with enclosures
relating to proposed names of glaciers on or near Gannett Peak
a few miles north of Fremont Peak in the iVind River range, would
say thHt I have not visited these glaciers.
Your letter of April 5th to Harold 0. Bosworth of the Kiwanis
Club of Denver seems to cover tHe case and I am returning the
map and correspondence herewith, tin the same envelope I am re-
turning a carbon of my letter of April 8 to Hon. Stephen T.
llather, Director National Park Service, in regard to recommen-
dations recently made by &. Albright. Superintendent Yellowstone'
National Park, urging certain chanpes and transpositions of names
within the park, accompanied by a carbon of Lr. Albright's letter
and the accorpanying map.
I am enclosing also a letter from iira. A. Vegedes. of Sutter.
Califcrr.ia. dated Larch 31. 1934. and enclosing eight copies of
a resolution, each endorsed by an orfranizaticn in the central part
of Sacramento Valley, reccmmendinr the change of the name liarys-
viUe Buttes to Sutter Buttes. all of which are transmitted here-
with for your edification.
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Mrs. A. Vagedes, Secretary,
Sutter Improvement Olub,
Sutter, Oslifornia.
My dear Mrs. Vagedes:
Your letter dated Larch 31 transmitting resolutions
from eight organizations in your part of California,
urging the adoption of the nane Sutter Buttes in the
place of Marysville Buttes, has just reached me and will
"be brought before the Government Geographic Board at its
next meeting.
Very truly yours,
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Mrs. J. k. Cunningham
620 ?ifth Avenue. W..
Seattle, Washington.
My dear Lrs. Cunningham:
Your ccmmuniceticn without date is^at hand^nctifying
me that the Seattle ij'ederation of Viomen^s Clubs is not in
favor of changing the name of tlount Rainier or of the
National Park bearing the same nar.e.
Congress, as you know, has taken the matter out of
the hands of the Government Geographic Board. Nevertheless,
some of us here are doing what we can to defeat the joint
resolution offered by Senator Dill and Congressman Johnson.
Very truly yours.
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Col. tl. i. McGuire,
Editor, Outdoor Life,
Denver, Colorado.
Ly dear Colonel McGuire:
Your letters of March 20 and April 1 arrived duly, along
with the tw photographs of the skull of a Polar Bear, on which
you have indicated hy a heavy line certain roeasurenents*
The one showing the ba^e of the skull indicates correctly
the measurement known as '^L^^y^-^^iS.f.^i* • ® ^^^^ important
measijurement.
The other photograph^with e line drawn over the outside
ctT[the "skull^ represents a measurement which I never heard of
and ;7hich would be worthies? from any point of view.
The measurement ccmmonly called 'greatest length of skull'
is of very little value, but is taken to gratify the wishes of
hunters who are eternally askinp: for the greatest length. This
aken on a table between rigid uprights,
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as indicated on the dieigram herewith enclosed. If the table is
solid, a very good way is to piece it against a wall and stand
the skull on it with the back pwrt against the well so that>^e
upright ^ill be needed. The^'gr^^^^^t length is the horizontal
distance between the two uprights.
Measurements taken along the top contour of the skull are
even more worthless, because of the different heights of skulls
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affords no more than a rough approximation, because of the fact
.that in very old skulls the sagittal crest my protrude back-
■arda an inch or more beyond the actual rear end cf the skull.
In the eese of certain spetles—notably the big Alaska
Peninsula llisus^^jMS. in comparison with the Kadiak Island
UrgUS aidflftnilorffi— the actual length of the skull (condylo-
baaal length) taken by itself is highly misleading. This is
4uB to the widely different sVape of the skull in the two
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relatively flat skull, while the Kadie>i Beer has a short, broad.
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and highly arched»kull. ?or this reason a «kull of en old male
Kadiak Bear measures less in length than many skulks of Alaska
Peninsula gyes.
You are esking for another article on Bears. I may send
•you one a little later.
A note is enclosed concerning the misuse of the jjpme Kadiek
Bear.
The photographs you sent are returned herewith by separate
enyelope, in -.^hich elso you will find the diagram I have mede
to illustrate the correct way of measuring the'greatest length'
of skulls.
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During the past year there has been a growing
tendency among sportsmen, judging from articles in
Outdoor T,ifft and other publications, to glorify the
name KfliiiikJSsac and spread it orer sererpl widely
different species. This is particularly true in the
cese of the great Alaska Peninsula Bear (Ursus ^vpO
whose skull differs so strikingly from that of the
Kadiak l.lend Bear (Uraug midjenr^orff j ) that the two
are e^pily told apart at a distance of upwards of
■100 feet.
If it is a good thing to confuse these species,
why not carry it further and call the V/hite-tail DeJr,
Mule Jeer: the Gray Squirrel. ?ox Squirrel, and so
on? In other words, if the name of one species is
to lo^^e its meaning by applying it to other species,
how is anybody to know what anybody is talkir^ about?
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Frof. ?Amr\ Llarkham,
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My dear 3ir:
Your entertaining book 'California the Wonderful',
contains among numerous illustrations one (facing pr:,,c*
52) entitled •^Viewj)f an Indian Ranch erj. a, Yuba Citv.
?roro an old print T Can you, mthout too much troubl-^,
give me the reference to the original ?
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National iacademy of Sciences
Smithsonian In.'atitution
\Kashington, D. C.
iiy dear 31r:
Replying tc the notice recently received of the
dedication of the building for the National Academy
of Sciences, April 28, and the reception to be held
at 9 o'clock on that evening, would say that I expect
to be present end shall be obliged if you will send
me the necessary card of admission and an additional
one for Mrs. Lerriam.
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Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
Colorado Build irg,
Vfeshington, D. C.
Dear Kr. Underwood:
Your letter of the 14th instant arrived yesterday.
Your introductory clause contains s slip which I have
ti^ken th^ liberty to correct, there being several meiintain?
higher than Mount Rainier in the continent of North America,
but net in the United States (Lount MqKinley, Mount 3t. ^lias,
Llount Logan, and others).
Your lest stetenpnt in this introductory clause, to the
effect th?t hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended
in advertising tlie name Rainier strikes me as of too local in-
terest in an important case like this.
In the opening sentence of the part contributed by me I
don't like to begin '.7i th the word '^an', ar.d therefore have
changed it to a more direct statement: "No geographic feature
in 'dTi-^ part of the world can claim a name mere permanently
fixed than that of tlount Rainier — fixed by right of discovery,
by right of priorityV and so on.
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ocK. Ontario, Canada.
Vil !£,. 1924
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Your joumal for July 1^2? loo
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northern Ontario. Do v., ^^ ^"^^^^^^^h I^ke.
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Thank ycu for your List. IIo. 755. of books and pamphlets
relating to the Indians. Kindly send ine No. 50, ^Ploughed
Under; the Story of an Indian Chief, told by Himself;'
New York, 1331, price $1.00.
I enclope check for $1.10, allowing lOj^ for postage.
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SS!riBUSi6St''p^ttoii School of Industry.
Imo. Ctlifonii*.
My tear Sir:
A rMont cupping fw>» tt« Jtctoon I«4g«r cells ^y
•ttcntion to ths grost nssi of tho lone Indian Bom. I
Yiaitcd this Bom a nvibar of ysars ago. aid at <m% tim
«as acfnaiBtad with Mst of the IndiaM of tho rsgioa.
I SB doaply intarastod in tho candition of Oalifar-
nia Indiana nd aish I aara in a position ta help won
than ia poaaiblo at praaant. laaoTor, I m aneloaing chock
for $10 #iich I ahall ho ohligod if yon will kindly tarn
in to ttko Indian Bom fund.
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Bacantl, I haro racoiTod) clippi,^ /,«. , ^^^y^^
Bay (Calif omia) naaapoper. «OM«ting favorably on .
bill introducad by you providing for Indian citi.«..hip.
I haro not .•«» this bill and shall bo grwitly
ojligad if y^ ^u ki^i, ,,^ ^ ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^
if yau hara plenty. I .hould bo glad to rocoiro also
' copioa of any bill, proposed by yo. ,^iati,« m ,holo
or ia part to aeat coaat Indians.
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Mr. ff. I. Adais. AocoQntant»
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Adams:
Herewith I am enclosing salary ▼oucher($l25.00)for Miss
lllen Allston for serrices as stenographer, month of
April. Miss Allston wishes to return to her home in
Nortb Carolina on or about the 1st of May, and would^^e
greatly obliged if her salary check may be sent in time
to reach her before she goes.
My April account will be sent in later.
▼ery truly yours .
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^n. Hoaer P. Snyder.
«a«liii|gt<m. D. C. *
My d«ar Sir:
■any thanks for your oonrtMir ^a
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"ork • IdTitory Committoe of''100»
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WilliM't^Trail tU illcamttr,
OnUrio, Canada.
Hj daar filr:
In Bod & Qan in Canada of July 1923. p. 123,
a reproduction of a photograph of the skull of iliat UfmM
to be a large blaek bear fastened to a oonple of palaa—
evidently the aork of Indians.
Baing intereated in both Bears and Indian. I sh^oli
like vary aneh to procure a good print of this photograph,
and if yon will kindly a#nd ae one vith bill I shall ba
greatly obliged and aill realt at once.
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41 last iStii Street.
Ma* Xork City.
Dear Sir:
Mot loic ago I raWlved from yon a catalogue adTer-
. tia^ for aale a copy of Philaot:3i»boli«a. the Sacred
Tree, or'tte Tree of Beligion in Mythology.' Lradon.
1897 (yeur catalogue Ho. 205).
If ypn still have this book for sale kindly send as
a e^^ with ^U for aaae and I will rwit at («ce.
Tory truly yours.
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April 26, 1924
Book Department,
American Forestry Association,
Washington, D* C*
Dear Sirs:
One of the books which I ordered from yon some time
ago has never arrived. Its title is 'Fifty Tears on the
Old Frontier', by James H. Cook (National Book Buyer's
Service, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York City) and since it
is a recent publication there mhould be no difficulty in
obtaining it.
I shall be obliged also if you will order for me a
book by Charles Francis Saunders entitled •Ufsful Wild
Plants of the United States^nd Canada/, published by
Bobert McBride 4 Company, Hew York, 1920.
Very truly yours.
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April 26, 1924
Mr. J. C. Rutenick,
Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Bear Sir:
For some time past I have been tryii^ to obtain a
copy of a book whose title has been given me as * A History
of the Indian Wars, 1861-1862' by Captain Butenick. Thus
fir I have failed, owing to my inability to learn the name
of the publisher. Can you help me in this matter?
If you could have a copy sent me, with bill for same^
I should be greatly obliged and will remit at once«
Very truly yours.
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Mr, ingastus High.
148 Central Stafion.
Portland-, Oregon.
1^ dear Sir:
i year or noro ago Mention ms aade in MasaM Ibgaiini
that you had presented to the oi^ganisation the head of a
Booky Mountain Sheep. Can you tell ae where this particu-
lar specinen ms killed and nhere it is now praserred.
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Thank, for jour Utt.r in reply to my in,ui„ ,bont tha .
tm kinds of Goat in your region. Do you know wh.thT tha
horns of both kinds are black and sharp?
In Idaho and other parta of the aest uny hunters speak of
an ani.al *ich they call Ihaj which ha. always turned out tor
be the female of the Mountain Sheep.
I aa parti<alarly intereated in your kind offer to (.t
the skull of a Grisaly. la. Tery anxious to ^et hold of a.
■any .kull. as possible of adult male Gri.alies from your region.^
I heliere there are at least two distinct species of (iriszly in
your country.
Your inritation to go on a hunt with you is >o.t tainting
tut unhappily I a. too old. I fired .y first shot at Griaalio.
52 years ago in the mountains of Idaho and in the Yellowstone
Paxic region.
Mo. I have no description of the black Griszly of the
Chalan-Siidlkameen region except the technical description of
the skull.
With heat wish., and hoping you hare a aucceaaful hunt.
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jbr. Henry B. lasnar.
90 11 CMino Sal.
Berkeley, Calif.
Bear Mr. Wagner:
im glad to aee the announcement of your iunotated
Bibliography of the Spaniah Southweat. 1542-1794. and
•hall be obliged if you will put me down for one of the
ordinary copies at $30 to be paid on receipt of book.
I had hoped to see the announcement of your aork
on i)rake's Toyage.
With best wishes.
▼•ry truly yours.
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April 29, 1924
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Mr, W, I. Adfcuai
Aocoontant
Smithsonian Inautution
Wadhirigton, L. C.
liy dear Mr, Aaajnia;
Will you kindly have
the 3alar/ checks of Miss Stella R. Clenienoe
nailed to her in future at her new address ^
220 Willow Ave. , T«Lkofiia Park^ ifci.?
Very truly 3'-our»,
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|r. Gilbert GrosTtnor.
tehi^tJi.'S^T^ G«,graphic Sodetsr,
Bear Doctor Orotronor:
I h«To jwt rwjeiTod f rai the Secretary a not ice of the
May Meting of ths Boart of Truateee. accoapanied by a
noidnating ballot and the infonwtion that the execuUre
ooHdttee has neiunated Doctor John Poote of this city to
fill the Tacancy eaased by the death of Doctor T. L. Mac-
donald.
Aa a aember of the Board I feel impelled to protest
against this aethod of nomination for the reason that it
practically nullifies the prorision of Article 4 Section 1
ef the By-laws. The obrions intent of this section was to
give the aenbers of the Board a free hand in noainationa.
thna affording the Society the distinct adTantage of a con-
siderable noaber of naaes to choose froa. The Sxecutira
CoMittee in presenting a cooked and dried noaination not
only deprires the Society of a larger field of choice, but
also as a aatter of fact places the noaination in the hands
of the Tsry saall ainority of the Board.
Verj truly yours.
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Captain Frederic B. Bassett,
Hydrographer. U. S. Nary, ^_
lashington, D. C.
Dear Captain Bassett:
Can you tell ne about what it would cost to change
the name of Mount Rainier to Mount Taoo«a on the charts
ef the Hydrographic Office and the Coast Surrey, said
cost to coTer the reengraving and reprinting.
Yery truly yours.
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Mr. James McCormick. ^. «
Secretary. U. S. Geographic Board,
Washington, B. C.
Bear Mr. MeCoraick:
Can you gire ae an approximate estinate of Aat
it would cost to change the name of Mount Bainier to
Mount Taooma on the Geological Surrey maps and publi-
cations, said cost to oorer reengraring and reprinting.
Very truly yours.
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Mr s:;"Dor3ey, Disbursing Officer
Saithsenisn Institntion
lasfaicgton, D.C.
My d««r Mr Dortsy:
Herewith I am enclosing my expense accoiuit for the
Bonth of April, amounting to $51,67 and Toucher for Zenaida
Marrisn.serrices as assistant $35 which I shall he obliged if
you will kindly pay from the Harriman Fund.
Congratulations and best wishes in your new office,
atoich I learned of only yesterday. .
Very truly yours.
Ce Uart Merriam
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iMarican Fcraatry Aasociation, Booki:
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Origin and Brolntion of Baligion* Anthro-
polog7t Dttiisana of tha Oaaart, Sanaca
Indian My tha)
Sunaat Hagaiina for 1924
Mounting oarda for photografha 230; jar
' ihita Mirking ink Z5p
Allan *8 Fraaa Clippiag Bnraau, clippinga
(Indiana and BaaraTfar March 1924
ft. A« Laaaa. Outfit for coloring Indian
phoJkographa
John Clark Co. 'Ploughad Undar* by Indian
Chiaf ^ ^
Tha lona California Indian Hona for Indian
Childran
Ihidamood Typawritar Co. ribbon coupon book
Stampad anralopas and poataga for aonth of
April
Gaa. March 24 to April 24 $8-80 (y^soc^^n^)
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American Forestry laaooiation
1523 L Street. Washington. D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Saunders • book entitled 'Useful
Wild Plants', ordered from you on April 26. arrited
this morning, for which I am obligied. Cook's
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•Fifty Years on the Old Frontier^ has not yet come
to hand, but doubtless will in a day or two.
In addition to these I shall be obliged if you
will order for me a copy of Carpenter *• *Pagm
and Christian Creeds' (R-V.ColemanJMtv'
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247 Park Arentie, New York
My dear Mr Laadh:
About throe Miatha ago you aaked bo to vrite aoaethlBf
on our National duty toward the Indiana. I replied that I oould
not just then but would try later* Sinoe then I have been very
iU.
I an new enoloeing an article on The Cruelty of the
iUotnent ayaten in Califfmia — a aubject that aeena to hare es-
caped the notice of your contributors*
If not wanted, kindly return the nanuaoript— poatage
enclosed*
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<^ lartlbiriM
m th« t^st of tho O»l«rado DMort in OUiforaU
••W thron into a state of •.j!fir9b»mlm and di*.
Mj by tlM auddm UMumooBoad i«p«annMo of
Soronaonft annrqrort sant by tho l2idi«a Qffioa
id mMirU* thoir eonmnal Tillago and faatoi*
iMda lata iadiTidnal allatMnto. lot only «ao
tWa a tarriblo ohO(*« btit ihtn tiw sarrflyors bid
•OB. tb. umUm ladioM vara kapt i. lospodia
for .ootlii ontll Sooiataiy I^ort toit, at laat
^^•nias th* troth* poaipowd ladoflaltoly tha
fiaal ordtr,
I* i» ~U to r«ii<>ar that l«g ogo th. I«u«.
>«i •Wortioo.d thair l««i ««„« th^olrw, i.
•»»NMim with thair oaa tribal 1m.. md that i«
ttoir eoiaoila bo aeUoa ia tihen noopt by
ladiano^ lik. our»olTOi , ojra in th* min
•ooia- frm Um iMnorial tho iioii.iKmdlo
triba. hava livod i. tilliis*.. planting and hoiw
▼••tiag in aooofdaneo with th* tribal 1ms aai
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•iBM tte •ftraai of b»n«i, mUI*, aad alMiy.
ni«ii« tlMlr sUok o«UMUv«ay. Ibi pnaUM «f
«te IMin OfflM to brMldag qp tribal laate viA
i9fforii«kii« mOl traoto to iaiividtaftl hdimm
Is ft Ti«l*UM «f ttitir iMTtditMy Msiow mA
WlUfi, tlM idM of InAlf Uoal luA mmxtidp
boiag oonirarr to tholr tiidlti«w mH uiidoi«>
•toadies. rarOwiaero. tho pxMtlMl ^pIImp*
tiM of tho aUodMot OTotoi U alMot iwnuriaMj
uijttot for tho rooiiMi that tfao iadividu&l allot-
Moto f mupolj of ^yml toloo. Ao a nalo tho
laAiHi io not oontultoA. Ho io azbitrarily
aooignojl * piooo of laid, oftoa withoat «ator aadl
vorthloao for oaltivatiQa*
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It i* only a fov montho oinoo the FaLi Springd
ladiaao voro oMuorod that for tho tlao boi^s at
loaot tholr hoaoo veold net bo bnkoa np.
nMgr aoA thoir frloado rojoiood, boXioriag ^
that tho Toidiot ia this oaoo i^pliod not only
to Pa]H Spriivi bat aloo to othor onall rMorv»-
tiioo la Soothom (kllforaia. Bat thiy voro doo-
tlnod to dlaappolaliiit^ for tho aoourood .
a
doolotaat 0«iBlool«Mr of ladlaa if falro . Mr. Von
*^^*^'** ^ "!^ Htr that laad with a tIov of vo-
iding f amp f or tho Iadln» bat for hoaoo oo thaT
ooold llvo la oafo^ la tho oownnltT ofaort thov
Jiod ooon llTliK for yoan and oo that th^ eoald go oni
OBMog tho nusobeo and fano and oani tholr IIvImu*
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work lo otlll going on. It lo no* aanoanoed that tho
ladiaa Off loo hao dooldoA— la oplto of protooto axid
potltloBO trm both Indiana and vfaltoo— to allot tho
w—lnliKj, Indian lando of Soathorn Oallf oralaJ
Looo than throo montho ago, aooordUi^ to tho Oalifomla
pnfa* • party of Indian Offloo onrrogrofs laa haltod
«hilo attainting to ^urfoy allotMonto on tho la
Jolla Indian noorvatlon In Ban Dlogo Ooooty. Ibo
faoto ao glToa U a aignod otafwnt by tho Iniiaai
*W.H.lhon, vhllo ongngod in oonrayii^ pnpara-
t cry to * forood allotaont of roaorwatlon land,
agalaat tho olahoo and ovor tho protoot of tho
Majority of tho Uoolon Indlaao, ontorod vlth hlo
party In aaay Inotaasoo apon tho oultlTatod land!
of Indian Uxmn^ Injuring and dootroyl^ grool^
dropt. Iho owQon of tho orops protootod and on>
dMiTorod to prtTont him. but In no initanoo that
aro ablo to aooortaln naa any Tlolonso attao^tod*
At any rata nono vaa Intondod.*
Thoy aoan tho praotloal oonflaoatlffi ai4 rooiibdl<
) Ion of Indian boMO. gardooi, and pastazv Xandi
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t%r stMrnUtttti. iai is aoM omm thwy mm thai
tlw boM aai lqp»f «Miite of om laUfea ara tna*-
f«mA it amthtr. Hmj ■••« «»>«• ^W ■•«* tha
dMtraatlMi af tribal ^yr— wt with ita aatttoliahai
aystM of laai aad aooial ootea— lam and oedaa tliat
for i^ta iMvo oenirollod tho ooateat and aaiivitioa
of tho pooplo. It ia a boari-bioakiqs afflairi oao
ffulffal^^^^ to (batroj tho laat rMoant of &ith
ia oar QovoraMut, aad to rob ttao laiiatt af ai*i-
tioa for tho yroaont and hopo for tho Ait«ro.
Ono of tho aemta ia ohaiso . «hon oonfirontod
with ooM of tho ini<|aitoaa foatoroo of tte pro-
poood allotaooto, ropliod that ipoh iAjuatiooa
*art noeooaaxy to tho oarxyiqg oat of tho allot-
■ont plaa*— aa if tho plaa ))|A to bo oarrioA out,
auffor n^ vilU
Xn**" IWT aaraaoatiat
Ihgr aiaoao tho aathoriiy of tho fluioriwaiii %o
foroibly allot tad rtdUirfbato laada bolaaslng to
tho ladiaoa, laada tbojF bavo bold ia oomuail
ooeupoaqy for gooontiom?
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aooatiy—pooplo vhoao laada wo bavo abaoxbod wit
oat protOBBo of oooponaatioa?
Wflr ahoald wo intorfor* with thoir oatabliahoi
■odo of llf o(t Wlqr »i lot thai ll?e ia poaea?
•*y aro wo in auoh « hurry to inpoao opoa thia
tho ihito aaa'a ai^ for otorythi^ Tho aaswor,
aa a rooaat wriUr pato ii, io: •In tho intoroat
•f otandardioaiioa, l«t xm foxwo thaa
liko
Buy do not aood to bo f oxood. Iho yom^ pooplo
aro yoarly adapting mro aad aera of oar myo; tho
•bansa ia ooaiag aataxmlly without aood of preaaaro<
Tho difficult io of quito aaotbar aort. anoly,
•t pomading tho yoongar ladiaaa to i^prteiato aal
pxwaorro tho boautiful aad worth whUo arU, indua-
♦riaa. oustooM.aad ooramonioa of thair forwfkthora.
Hotaming to tho Soathom Oaliforida allolaonU:
Iho fooli^gv of tho lUa fl^rii^^ Indiam are tfaua
•^praaaoi ^ ono of thoir onu naid>or: "io boliofo
in liTing in oar aisftlo way, oaoh working for tho
good of all with thinga in oonon. It aaa tho nay
of tally tribal liring and it biada oa tc^olhor
in aaqr oaya . • . lost of oa aro ttm aid €a
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land it U woxk agpiiast «ar baarto-^a f osy rt&l Ai«-
tiubaas*. llf« io us is aor* than 'bread and butter* »
•ad tbwlt lands are STsrythias to us** And in an
^psal ts the Sserstaiy •t the Interior the ohief ,
^peaking for the tribe. sa|»: *Oar tribe is i2|^£
•sains t aUotaent. We hare [aj patMt for our
laad. • . le want to keep it whole.*
Met only was it proposed to allot the bosw or
vill^e lands «f these ladiAns, but also the more
roBOte desert lands taluable only for pastungs.
The use of these as individual iz»tead of coanunity
**tH1'lE[r would necessitate the iaqpossible e^ense of
feasi^s and would lead at onoe to the inevitable
diffioulty of obtaining water for the stock.
fhv should the QoTeraasnt play falye?
Thp of fieers of the GoTenmeiit in ehaige of this
wofk not only operate against the tnpressed wishes
ef the Indians, but go through the pretense of
eoapLying with 4|d iasigigary request of the Indiaai.
For instanoe, the blaidcs used on the igua Oaliente
reservation at Pala Springs in 1923 ars entitled
*8eleetion for Alletoent* and go on to say:
*Ihis is to certify that ■
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Bom thU not oator of tho ■- •• -^ j-.i^-«^— •
wnxoQ Htm the tl^ctini of ti
It is /gfMxaSly adnittad-^aTon by the vhito
aoi^ors of Souther n Ccaifomia liidiam-**-that
OTory tar? oy of Izidian lands loads to ahrinkagae
Forty jasrs agOs ondar the diraotion of a goToriH
laant Indian agant» tha FfeOn Springs Ixxii&iMi wara
% urvqi^'ad oat* from a matarial part of thair most
val\iibria lands-** lands nos ooci^>iad by tha whita
sattlawsant of Fain Sprlig'' share snail lots bricg
trrm It^lSOO to $2000»-bat Uiis is another atory*
Attitoda of tha Indian Office
1 have no sympathy with many^f t^e attaoks
om the Indian Offioa-«such for instanoa as hold-^
ting it eulpabla for insuff ioiant ^schools and
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appalliqgly inadequate medioal attention, whan
aa a matter of faot Congrass^hasj^roTiTdad only a
fraction of Vbm funds naceaaary to properly par*
foxtt its datiaa in these dirootions. Tha poaition
of Conmissioner of Indian Affaire is one of the
most difficult and trying in the gOTercment sar«
▼icasaal no man can conduct the affsiz^ of that
offioa in such manner as to escape critioiam
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l«r«rtlMl«M I hikU th« Indian Of fUt rmp»mihlm
Ut Urn smmnX aUitote of OT«A«arii« diotatttnhif
mA iotliUdaUon Iqr v«il«d thnai that for ymn tea
ebM«otoris«d auBr of lit aetioBB— aa attitaAi «b»
aarvabla
oootiml
•ffioa at iMhiostoi. Ihia tpirit appliM to nail
at woU as Iasg» thlngp—M ■hoaa hgr •ooh aoadltaa
aataeoaiMi a« tfao nftuMtl until a oooplo of ponths
•0» to do aaajr «ith tbo obnorioao tam *1>isB»r* for
a Califoxnia triba— a torn knowi to bo nemiad bj
tbo ladiaaa at one of iaforioritj aal ooatoyt.
Iho rtjoieing of tbo ladioM oa boarii« of ita
abaadooMnt is tbno doooribod hj tbo Stoektat Ibooid
ff April 21: "Bonod at tbo stako aidd tho Joan
aal tamto «f hwdroda of aarrion in fall rtgilia,
and witb ttaair faooa ao?ai«d witb aar painl»» aa
off igjr ropraaonti^s tbo hatod oobo of Uffiar aaa
ooaaignod to oblivioa yoatorday aftoraooa at a
oarMMnial gitthori^s of tho tiitnoio trm a half
dosan ooontioa of lortbom Calif enla. *
fhilo rolatiToly thia ia a amll MtUr, it
aoTortholoaa illoatratoa tho i
ayapathotie aAitkmiy diotatorabip that px«ic»ta
tho poriiatont dotondnatiaa to foroo tho diabolioal
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ayaUB lane •«» woikad owt bf thoiMalTao.
Aa aditorial ia a OalifomU popor (tfaa.EMBiie
Hgoorf) aaka: *Ia it mot a eontoaptiblo prooodnra
for m aho talk about Ubarty ool individual zi^xta
to f or«a a aaall buadfta of Indiana to looo thoir
hoMo and be diaposa«a«»od of tfaair landa aeainat
tboir will, whon thoy hato a dear titlo trm tha
Qnitad States Gct^vamaant?*
It ia lax^y toa naofa to ssy that one of tha
gzaatast naada of our Indian sorrioo today M tha
raplae^taent oir official indifforanoa, ooldnaaa. and
azbitmiy dictatorship by an attitude of kindly
syoyatbaUo firiondahip> patient c ooporation and
balpfyalnoaa , txeather with tho recognition of tha
riebU of Indians to their own laala and to thoir
own oiodos of life.
Ihexa is rwason to beliero that the present
Seorataiy of Of Interior, Dr. Work, is in syiqpathy
witb this poiitt of tiew and that under his inf Inenoe
rofoxw have lalraady begun. Indications of thia
ly be seen fin the recent sbandonajent of the official
M o-dious tern SioSUt* A" **»• support given
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May tho good voxt continDO and nay it ngani until
It aoron tho vfaolo f lold of govomontal rolatioiv
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Miss Dorothy U Hoggios
Califorcia Sistcrical Sooi
508 Well8-?argo Building
San Francisco, California
My dear Miss Hoggins r
Thanks for yoor letter of April 30,
telling mo that the July Quarterly of the Historical
Society will go to press about June 15,
I regret to say that it will be out
of the question for me to ha^e ny article,"! BSgrettable
Chapter in the History of California" reedy by that tine.
I have been ill for the last six weeks, and am now trying
to finish writing" up the notes of last sunncer's field
work, so that I may return to California.
The material for the article in quest-
ion is all ready and quite to luminous, but the labor of
prepnring it for the press will take a good deal of time.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. Donald K. Dickey
514 Lester Avenue
Pasadena, California
My dear Mr. Dickey:
Thanks for your letter of April 29.
i ha?e been on the sick list for the last six weeks or
two months, end not able to accomplish much.
We are very anxious to return to
California, but cannot yet set a date, a? I have not
been able to finish writing up my last season's field
notes, and we are worried about the outcome of the hoof
and mouth disease, fearing it may interfere with our
field work of the coming seasont
With kindest regards to you all,
Tery truly yours,
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Ojai. California
My daar Prof««8or Thacher:
^•«"y MBy thanks for your let-
ter of April a. and for the three excellent print, yon
wre kind enough to enaloae, showing the entrance to the
basket caTo. and part of i^a contents.
I appreciate also your inrita-
tion to delirer your CemencsBent address on June 13.
and regret rery much that this will V impossible, i*
hare been ill for the past aix weeks or two wontha. and
am still on the sick list, end so not know ju^t ahen I
shall be able to return to California. HoweTer. I pro«-
i«e .yeelf the pleasure of celling on you at your school
some time, though it is impossible to say when.
With regreta,
Vary truly youra.
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May 6, 1924.
Tenon Bailey
Carlsbad » Nav Mazico
Daar Bailay:
Inm tine to tine Florence has glTen
me interesting fragnents of infomation as to what you
hare been doing« but thus far has been silent on the
subject of your work among the Mesoaleros*
I hope you hare secured from them their
names for ''caTe'' in general » and for a? many particular
indiTidual cares as they may happen to hare names for.
Also, of course, their nwerals one to ten* end their
mcrds for '^9un'\ "moon", '^tar•^t*•w8ter^"earth'^ "mcuntain*^.
•^person'^t '^an'^t ''moman'^t '^aby'*, and all the mammals, birds,
reptiles and plants you can show them«
What do they call tbemaelres? Their name
for their oim tribe?
Florence has kept you posted as to i^at
has been going on here, so I will not attempt to pase on
any news except that I am still a trifle under the weather*
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When are you coming home?
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I^ doar Sir;
Tory nany thanks for jour oowrtofj ia
repljing to mj inquiry abont tbt head of tho wmtaiii
ahoop aontionod in MasaM HagMiae.
I had hopad it aight hava baan killad
in Orogon, but loam from yoar lattor that it vm •
Wjoaing apoclaen* and tharafor»in all probability tha
Booky Mountain spacioa,
Tory truly yourt.
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ilL ^rch M. Gilbert
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Bl Paso, Texas
Dear Arch:
Outside it is a cloudy day but your letter of the
5th inst. has cheered us up inside Mteriaiiy. It is a
fearfully long while since we have heart fro. you. and
we hare uny tines thought and spoken of you and ingie.
and should hare written had I known your address.
It is good to know your work is expanding and that
you hare such a fine territory to cover with prospects of
reaching out into Arizona.
I wish we could accept your hint to drop off at El
Peso for a shake all around before going on to California
y>nt our return tickets read via Santa Pe.
We had planned to return to lagunitas the last week
of March but owing partly to pressure of work here, and partly
to Illness on «y part we are still here and expect to be till
the first week of June anyhow. We all .iss you and Angi. „uchly
and Shan live in the hope that future events Bay bring us near
together again.
With Ipve to jou both.
As ever.
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May IE, 1924
Mr. P.G.Smith « x-
Service Mgr. American Motors Corporatxon
Plainfielo, New Jersey
My dear Sir:
Pardon my long delay in writing and in returning
the radiator thst you sent me. It nas never been unpacked
and is returned to you by express prepaid just as it came.
I should have returned it long ago, but for the
fact that I have been rather seriously ill, at one time
having a temperature above 104^. This of course has de-
layed my return to California.
Is the Company turning out any new cars now-
adays?
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Miss Dorothy U. Huggins
95l^l°r?i««^i8torical Society
508 Wells Pargo Building
San Francisco, California
My dear Miss Huggins:
Writing you a day or two ago, I forgot to ask what
has become of the 50 separates of mj reply to Fletcher's
criticism in the last number of the Historical Qaarterly.
They have not yet been receired*. and I shall be greatly
obliged if you will kindly have the printer send thM at
once, with bill, as I am anxious to distribute them befort
leaving for California.
Very truly yours.
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May 12, 1924
Mr. James MoComick
Secretary U.S. Geographic Board
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. McConuck:
Tery many thanks for your letter of the 10th
inst. and the enclosed Land Office map of Horth Dakota,
showing ^he location of the Black and White Buttes in
Slope and Hettinger Counties. I will set out at once on
the hunt for the Indian name of H.T.Butte.
Very truly yours.
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May 12. 1924.
Mr* Henry B* Wagner
90 SI Camino Beal
Berkeley* California
Dear Mr. Wagner:
Tour letter of the 5th inst. arrived this noon and with-
in an hour was followed by the hook. It certainly contains a
wealth of information and is beautifully gotten up. I congrat-
ulate you on being its father. It is an important addition to
my library and cannot fail to be of service in ray research work.
My check for $30.00 is enclosed herewith. Kindly have a receipt
sent me.
The printer of your Historical Quarterly must be a very
deliberate man. Last year, you may remember, it was several
months before he sent me the separates of my article on Jadediah
Smith, and now, although the April number of the Quarterly came
out a month ago, my separates have not yet arrived. Can you not
stir him up? I am anxious to distribute them before leaving for
California.
Shall be glad to see you when you come to Washington on
cr about the 20th of the month, as I am not likely to get away
until early in June.
I regret that your article on the Drake voyage will not
appear this year, but am mighty glad to see your account of the
Cermeno voyage of 1595.
Tery truly yours.
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Mr. Vernon Bailey
Carlsbad, Rew liezico
Dear Bailey:
' In writing you a few days ago I forgot to speak of
so«ething that you would naturally look into anyhow, but leat
your Bind is too deeply imbedded in iats to think of the Ind-
ian lore that nay be connected with the caret , I a* writing to
call your attention to the inportanoe of that part of the inrest-
igation.
Don't fail to get from the Indians their old talea in
regard to the caves; how they were formed, ^o lired in then,
whether or not they were the abodes of giants or hob-goblina.
If you get solid with them and don't hurry them [put on brakew
for once] you are sure to learn a lot of most interesting things
This afternoon has ended a three days' rain. The
streams are flooded, and railroad coaiunicat i on with Pittsburgh
is cut off.
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Dr. C. D. laloott , .,. ^,
Secretary Smithsonian Institution
lashington, D.C.
Dear IDr. Valcott:
Inferring to your letter of the 8th instant, eolicem-
ing the proposed publication of two Annual Reports this year,
md requesting the submission of the title of an article. I
▼ery «uch regret to say that, owing to the pressure of unfin-
ished research work. I fear I shall not be able to submit an
article this year
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1 a. W.ri.« It it »>.ia ». pr.ctio.bl. for ,.u t.
•— -« that I Mf hare 2 in connection
.end »e 2 Mre copies. so that 1 -ay n ,.^,^i.
,ith .y office work here and one at lagunita-. California.
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Hollywood, California
Dear Sprague:
lour letters of March 5, Ifarch 7 and April 16 case
duly, but owing to great pressure of work and also to a
rather severe illness I have not been able to answer.
■■ It is hard to answer your question as to how Ales
HrdliSka pronounces his name. As nearly as I can express it
in our alphabet, it is pronounced ^Hardleska". The man re-,
sembles the name— extremely peculiar..
I am very gla'd you have seen Professor Loye Miller.
He is a good aod wise naturalist, and used to the ways and
needs of boys.
We had expected to arrive at lagunitas about six week,
ago, but for the reasons stated are still uncertain as to the
time we can get away, but we hope to be the^ early in June.
We had hoped to have you with us at Lagunitas from the
beginning of your April vacation, but fear now that you will
not be able to come until after your retum from Alaska. I
am not quite sure about this, but understood from one of your
letters that you would be in school until June 27.
With kindest regards to you all.
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Mr. J. Bugene Law
2370 Altadena Drive
Altadena, California
Dear Mr. Law: ^
Thanks for your letter of April 22. le are now at
least six weeks late in beginning the season's field work
in California, end fear we shall not be able to get away
until the early part of June. I have been delayed by the
necessity of writing several promised articles, and also be-
cause of a rather serious sickness from which I have not yet
entirely recovered.
' Tour kind offer of the use of your house while doing
field work in the. southern part of the State is most tempting,
and we should be very happy to accept at some time in the
future should matters shape themselves to make this practicable
With kindest regards to Mrs. law and yourself from all
three of us.
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Mr. P. Martinelli
Laguni tas
California
Dear Mr. Martinelli:
Doubt lees you are wondering what haa becoma of tha
ian fafflily, as we had intended to return to Lagunitaa
much earlier than this.
Two things have kept me hare; first, unfinished
work, and second, severe illnass. I now hope to gat away
early in June.
We hare been sorry to hear that the rainfall during
the winter and spring was far below nomal.
Trusting that you and your family are well, and with
kind regards to you all.
Very truly yours.
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Ir. Garrit 3. Miller
U.S. National Mnaaan
lashington, D.C.
Daar Miller:
Today's mail brings me a copy of the new edition
of your list of Morth Aiierioan Becent Mammali.
Tha previotts edition was one of the moat useful
pttblicatioBS so far as students of Mammals are conoeniad
that has ot^x appeared in America, and this new edition.
rayised and brought down to the end of 1923 and with the
addition of a classified list of type localities is some-
thing that all our naturalists must be thankful for. It
is a splendid piece of work end I am mighty glad to hare.
liTod long enough to'see it published in its present shape.
There is just one point that I do not understand. The
prefaca gives a table showing the representation of the rari-
oua groups in the National Muaeum. It omits to mention the
number of types represented in each group but has two columns,
one each for "Butypes- and "Hypotypes", which names to me are
utterly strange and meaningless. Whynot stick to the old
word "-type" which we all understand? . -
I cannot close without expressing my personal admira-
tion and gratitude for this every-dsy help in our work. It is
the biggest kind of a time-ssTer.
With best wishes, ^^^ truly yours.
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Dr. C. I* GroDsky
Mechaniofl Institute Buildinir
57 Post Street
San Francisco, California
Dear Dr* Grunsky:
Youlr letter of the 8th instant came this morning and
I am sorry to say that I am unable to help you out on the
names you mention. Unfortunately, I have nerer had any
Indian with me in Hetch-Hetohy Valley and therefore hara
no first hand infox*ation as to the geographic nmenclatura
of the Talley. The name of the Yalley as a whole, howerer,
is pronounced ^^Hetch-Hetch^nythe Voi ce falling with tha
last syllable. ?The word you give as the name of Lake Ileanor
means 'big*. The spelling you quote is ftfayannh. I find I
hare it Oi:jan-na and Oi:!jah.-na— clearly the same word.
I do not remember having seen the magazine article you refer
to recording, an Indian legend relating to Lake Kleanor.
If you were talking about Yosemite. I could help you
out with nearly all the geographic names. These I hope to
publish in the not distant future.
Bagretting tbttt I am not familiar with most of the names
you mention, and with kindest regards.
Very truly yours.
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Ubj 14, 1924
Mr. CF.Tmitt
Seoretsrj Casoadiani
Box 584
lakiMt, . Washington
Mj dear Sir:
Tour ooanmieation of May 7 addressed to the
U. 3. Geographic Board is before ae. In rery glad to
know of the action of your Club in the utter of the naae
Mount Bainier. We hare recently had a sieilsr eonoinica-.
tion transmitting resolutions passed at a aeeting of repre-
sentatire oitisens of South Prairie and Ticinity, Washington.
I trust that you hatre sent copies of this resolution,
especially the first clause, to MMbers of Congress, partic-
ularly to BepresentatiTos froa the State of Washington, and
also to the nenbers of the Comittee on Public lends.
Very truly yours.
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Jndgi or Clerk Superior Court
Bakers field t Caliiomia
Ify dear Sir:
A uewapaper clipping has just reached me mentionicg
the recent trial for mrder of Mariano Phil&pa charged with
killing ^Poo!^ Brown, Indian Medicine Man. ^
Rie clipping doaa not state where the Indiana in
question lire but speaks of then as *Piute'e As there are no
Piuteain the Tejon or elsewhere west of the Sierra, I an inter-
ested to know what tribe the Indians in question belong to.
!nie locality iftiere they live will indicate the tribe.
If the testinony in this case was printed I should
like to purchase a copy; if not printed, I should be glad to
know approziBetely what a transcription would cost. The part
I want refers to the old Indian belief in regard to the power
of the HkLicine Mui*
Trusting you will pardon me for troubling you in tbia
Batter,
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gi^lffnia fiistoriHl Sooi
508 Wells. Pargo Building
San PranoiscoT Califorafa
My dear Miss Huggins:
V«i7 truly yours.
May 19, 19S4
Dr* C^ D. Walcott
Secretary Smitheonian Institution
Washington. D.C.
Dear Dr. Walcott:
▼ery many thanks for your kindness in sending me tuo
copies of the new edition of Miller's List of Horth American
Becent Mammals so that I may hare one at my California base
as well as here in Washington. It is a most useful publication.
With best wishes,
?ery truly yours.
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Hudson Book Oonpany
25 W. 4End Street
New Tork City
Dear Sirs:
Thanks for your Catalogue No. 76. -vji-sj"-^^
Your item 16. Surreyor General's* Beport\f or 1856 calls
for 38 pages, which I assume to be an error as the jjeport
ftfr that yea» has 332 pages. If this is the full report I
shall be glad to purchase it at the price mentioned $4.50.
Very truly yours.
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Hay 20, 1924
Dr. X.^I« Nelson
Chief U.S. Biological Survey
Washington, D.C.
Dear Nelson:
Before leaving for Florida you asked for a photograph
of nyself to add to the Biological Surrey collection. At
the tiae, I was unable to find it but have recently succeeded
•0 I am sending it to you by this mail.
Congratulations on your safe return! '
Now that you are back and have nothing particular to do,
we shall all be very glad to see you at 1919.
As ever yours,
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May 20. 1924
Professor Edmond i>. Meany
University of Washington ' ;.
Seattle, Washington ^
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Dear Professor Meaoy:
Very many thanks for your letter of the 14th instant
and for the book you were good enough to send ne, entitled
*9^igin of Washington Geographic Names ' .
This is the kind of a book I like to see hut unfortuTiately
there are mighty few to be compared with it. I wish we had
something of the sort for California, and we ou^t to hare one
for erery state in the Union. For more than twenty years I
hare been piling up a card catalogue of place naaes in California
but shail never find time to finish it.
The obrious superiority of your book on Washington place
names is-that you have treated the names historically, thus
placing a fund of information at the disposal of historians
as well as geographers, naturalists and others interested in
matters of this sort. I congratulate you on being the parent
of so valufcble a work, and at the same time wish tc thank you
for your courtesy in sending me a copy.
Mount Hainier being somewhat in the atmosphere at present,
I naturally turned to your statement on the subject. lou say
among other tilings :'^he ".?. Geographic Board has rendered t'fo
decisions in the case, both 'in favor of Mount Rainier". You"
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should have said three, instead of two. The first decision
as you state was in 1890. the second in 1917. and the third
in May 1921. it the Ittter time a delegation from Tacoma
with a lawyer for spokesman talked to the Board for a long
time, in the course of which he said a number of things that
^ere not true. The result of the hearing was a unanimous vote
of the full Board against the proposed change of name. But
what Congress will do to us in the near future no man can
foretell.
With kind regards and best wishes,
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nohiagton, D.C.
Uj dear Sir:
Oan yon withoat toe ntioh trouble giro me the ntmber of
proaohen in the Ihiited States belonging to the Boaan Catholi
Ohardi,aiid also the nodbor of those belonging to Protestant
Chnrdies and Hebrew Ohorohes?
By 'preachers ' I Man to inelode all sorts of clergyaen.
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Dr. Owen C. Coy
Editor California Nugget ^
Berkeley. California
My dear Doctor Coy:
Number three of the Nugget arrired a few days ago and
like its predecessors proTes of interest and ralue*
You will pardon me I am sure if I call your attention
to one or two errors in the meanings giren for certain
Indian geographic names, ?or instance. Tamalpais is said to
mean '^Bay Mountain*'. As a natter of fact the name is com-
pounded of two words. IflBfll, the name of the country from
San Eafael to Point Beyes, and fiLil. mountain. It stands
in the middle of the country of the Hoo^koo-elko Indians and
"being by far the highest mountain in their country carriem
the name of the country plus the word for mountain, thus.
TamaLpi-ia.
The meaning (snow spirit) given for Yallo Bally Mount-
ains (which should read Yolla Bolly) is strong. The name is
from Xolla., snow, and ggLlly: or Bella ^ mountain, meaning
simply 'snow mountain'. There are at leapt a dozen other
Wintoon geographic names in which descriptive words art
combined with Bella or Bolly for mountain.
It is stretching things a little to say tiat the name
Yosemite is derived from the word for grizT^y bear, although
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in a roundabout way this might be true. Dr. L.H. Bunnell
named the valley, evidently after the rancherie of YQ*heffi^i-tg
which was situated on the south bank of Merced River on the
site of the present Sentinel Hotel and adjacent cottages • The
Indians of this village sometimes hunted the grizzly bear, the
Indian none for which is Oo>hoo>ma-te, sometimes pronounced
OrhftlB-i-tOt
The meaning given for Petaluma is ''flatback". It is hard
to put any such construction on it. The word for flat in the
language of the tribe of this region is ta>ellle. On the other
hand, the name of the California lilac in the same language is
pe-te-lah while loma is often used as a locative. Hence
Petaluma could easily mean 'the lilac plece^' although I am not
certain that this is the correct derive tion.
If I live long enough I hope to publish several thousand
place names ^ich I have obtained from different tribes of
California Indians, but of late years the number has grown so
rapidly that Ihave not been able to arrange them for publication.
The best way to bring than out might be by tribal areas, although
a dictionary arrangement for the State would else be useful.
I think you understand that in pointing out these little
errors in detail. I cm not aiming to criticise the Nugget. It
is an excellent and s useful publication and I am always glad
to see it.
ITith best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. Owen C. Coy "
Editor California Nttcsot ,
Borkoloy, California
My dear Doctor C07:
Number three of the Nugget arrired a few days ago and
like ita predecesaors proTea of interest and ralue.
lou will pardon aie I am sure if I call your attention
to one or two errors in the meaninga giren for certain
Indian geographic names, For instance, T'fir^lpfiit is aaid 1
mean "^y Mountain''. As a matter of fact the name is com-
pounded of two words, lanal^ the name of the countrr from
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in the middle of the country of the Hoo'-koo-ft'-Ttc Indians and
being by far the highest mountain in their country carriea.
the nams of the country plus the word for mountain, thus.
The meaning (snow spirit) given for Yallo Bally Mount-
ains (which should read Yolla Bolly) is wrong. The name la
from Ifiilla., snow, and Sollx or S&llaL, mountain, meaning
simply 'snow momitain'. There are at least a dozen other
Wintoon geographic namea in which deacriptive worda are
combined with Bella or Bolly for mountain.
It is stretching things a little to say tkat the name
Yosemite is derived from the word for grizTlJ bear, although
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in a roundabout way this night be true. Dr. L.U. Bunnell
naned the Talley, evidently after the rancherie of Io»haB»i-tg
was situated on the south bank of Merced Birer on the
sit* of the present Sentinel Hotel and adjacent cottages. The
Indians of this Tillage sonetiwes hunted the grizaly bear, the
Indian nme for whi<A is Oo.hoo'-Ba»te. some tines pronounced
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The Meaning given for Petaluaa is "flatback". It is hard
to put any such construction on it. The word for flat in the
language of the tribe of this region is iA=fil=lfi.* On the other
hand, the naie of the California lilac in the same language is
p«=te-JLah lAile lona is often used as a locatite. Uenca
Petaluma could easily mean Hhe lilac place' although I am not
certain that this is the correct derivation.
If I live long enough I hope to publish aeveral thousand
place names ihich I have obtained from different tribes of
California Indians, but of late years the number has grown so
rapidly that Thave not been able to arrange them for publication.
The best way to bring tham out might be by tribal areas, although
a dictionary arrangement for the State would also be useful.
I think you understand that in pointing out these little
errors in detail, I em not aiming to critici^.e the Nugget. It
is an excellent and 8 useful publication and I am always glad
to see it.
TTith best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Honorable N.J.Sinnott
Chairman Committee on Public Lands
House of Kepresentatives
Hashington, D.C.
My dear Sir: •*
Your letter of the 21^ instant is at hand, requesting a
report from the United Statee Geographic Board on the subject
of the proposed change of name of Mount Rainier to Mount
Tacoma.
The Geographic Board has in prerious years held several
hearings on this subject and has accumulated much information.
The matter will now be taken up again and in compliance with
your request a thorough investigation will be made and irtien
completed a report will be sent you«
Very truly yours.
Chairman U.S. Geographic Board
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Superintendent Preston School
lone, California
My dear Sir:
A month ago (April 22) I sent a check for $10.00
drawn on the Crocker Bank of San Francisco to O.H. Close,
Superintendent « as a contribution to the needed fund for
Indian children.
Hot baring receiyed any acknowledgement, I am anxious
to know leather or not the check was receired.
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Dr. Joseph Grinnell
Dear Doctor Grinnell:
Yesterday I received a bound copy of 'Ani»«l Uf» j^
.' by yourself and Tracy Storer. for which I •■
▼ery greatly obliged. -^
I am simply amazed at the size of the book and the inter-
est and value of its contents, and also at the wealth and
character of the illustrations.
While I have not had time to read it, I hare examined it
enough to see that it is by far the most comprehens ire and at
the same time the most detailed work that has erer appeared on
the animal life of any part of the world.
I admire your treatment of closely related forma which
appear to the ordinary observer as essentially the same, as in
the case of the Shrews and Pocket Gophers.
If you or your assistants had talked with some of the old
.Indians of the Valley on the subject of Griaaly Bears your re-
marks under that species would read differently.
It is to be regretted thart you use the unfortunate name
"Mountain Beaver" for ^jOfiilailiia: and I verj much dislike a
number of your Snglish names for species, and especially and
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most emphatically the printing of newly coined Bnglish names
without the scientific name, as in the legends under the
illustrations.
An added misfortune is the fact that the index does not
help one out, a number of your common names failing to appear
in it.
In the matter of illustrationa you surely have been
fortunate, the great majority of them being most satisfactory.
In fact, the only poor one 1 have noticed is that of the Chip-
munks. Most of the color plates by Allan Brooks are chaming
and add much to the value as well as the attractiveness of the
work.
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Your adaptation of the geologist's method of columnar
display for Zone Distribution is most graphic and satisfying
and the colors of the columns add enormously to the clearness
of the presentation. And furthemore, your diagrams and colored
map of the Life Zones are another great addition to the educa-
tional value of the work.
More than 20 years ago, as I think you know, I studied
this same section very carefully from the Meroed foothills
by way of Tuolumne Meadows to Mono lake, traversing it in
both directions a number of times; and during numerous visits
to Yosemite in the course of the past 35 years special atten-
tion was given to the details of distribution, but pressure
of other work defeated publication*
On Plate 58 figures b and i atrike me as hardly comparable.
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owing to the great difference in size of Lizard and size of
scales. In this connection you may be interested to know
that I once captured alive at Bl Portal a splendid adult
specimen of the species k in your plate. This particular '
specimen was identified by Van Uenburgh as 'Gerrfannn^n,
aaiafiiiiajida' and later the ssme specimen was identified by
Stejneger as'S^jialoari'. Obviously it is the same as your
figure k which I find named 'WflJiiU' in the footnote. page 630
This is the Big-headed Pire Lizard of the itedKt Indians,
called by them 1i=salt4a ' . This animal is distinctly warlike ~
and opens its mouth very wide showing a bright flaming throat
In closing. I want to congratulate you and Storer on the
thoroughness of your work, and to express my admiration for
the admirable way in which you have presented the results of
your studies.
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1523 L. Street
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Dear Sim:
Ihat is the trouWo about getting the books I ordered
through you som ti.e ago? I hate not yet receiTod Cook*,
rp^fty ^»»T, oTi Ijhft gi^ T>rr>ntiar' or Carpenter's 'SigULtti
2iuciaiiMLilCftadaL* . l>oth of *ioh were ordered sow time ago
and both of t*iich are adrertised on current lists by
B.Y.ColeBan, National Book Buyers' Service. Hew lork City.
7ery truly yours,
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Mr. Arthur B. Heat<m
Maryland Building
Washington, B.C.
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My dear Mr. Heaton:
Thanks for your kindness in ssnding a stone un to point
up My front steps. He did what looks like a good job, but in the
heary driving rain this afternoon gallons of water leaked through
into the basenent forming pools in the depressions and spreading
baok at least 25 feet.
I do not know enough about oeaent work to know lAether or
not this was beeauss the aaterial had not had tine to harden, but
thonght I had better let you know about it. '
Thanking you for your attention in the natter.
Tory truly yours.
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Mje MuseuB
New lork City
1919 16th Street
May 26, 1924
My deer Doctor Gilaore;
In the southwestern ooraer of North Dakota stands a
high butte that is the highest point in the State, for years
it has been calledJH UBuiU'and is soaetimes called rSX&sk
Butlft'. but there is another 'BlfifitJttttel in the adjoining
county on the east, ~
The people of the neighborhood hare requested the U.Sl Geo-
graphic Board to gire theJLX^nti^'a distinctiye na«e. Person-
ally. I a. anxious to perpetuate Indian naaes whenerer they are
reasonably short and easy to pronounce. It occur, to .e that you
may know the name of this Butte. If ,o. and if you will kindly
help «e in the aatter.I shall be greatly obliged.
Very truly yours.
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Dr* Philip King Broun
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Dear Doctor Brown:
Thanks for your letter of May 18 forwarded from Legonitaa.
Owing partly to illneea and partly to presaure of work, I am
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not yet readjr to return to California and see no prospects of
reaching Lagunitaa before the middle of June or poaaibly a few
days later. Some time when I am in San Francisco I shall be
Tory glad to see the Goldsmith collection of baskets.
I am interested in irtiat you tell me about Mrs. Ynes Mexia.
She seems to be an unusually capable woman, but you omitted
to state whether or not she is a stenographer. I am always
in sore need of a stenographer and during the years iriien I
do not take one with me from Washington I am in the habit of
obtaining one from time to time in San Francisco.
As soon as practicable after reaching California I shall
try to call on you at your office.
Very truly yours ,
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Mr. F.S.Smith
Bakersfield, California
My dear Sir:
lour letter of May 21 replying to my inquiry in connection
with the murder trial of Mariano Phillips has arrived, and I
am very grateful for the inforaation it contains. This is
just what I wanted. ^
Thanking you for the trouble you hare taken in the matter.
Very truly yours.
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May 29. 1924
Dr. Melrin R. Gilmore
Museum of the American Indian
New York City
Dear Doctor Gilmore:
Very many thanks for your promptness in replying to
my letter of inquiry about H T Butte. I hare written to
Mr. G. F. fill of Bismarck, ^and Doctor A.MoG. Beede of
Pt. Yates by same mail, in accordance with your suggestion.
I was delighted to learn not rery long ago that you
are now permanently located at the Heye Maeeum, where I
am sure you will be of senrice to anthropology and a help
to the Indians. --
With best wishes »
Yery truly yours »
Chairman U.S. Geographic Board
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Dr. A. UcG. Beede
Port lates. North Dakota
My dear Sir:
The Matter of a name for the H T Butte in the southwestern
comer of North Dakota is before l;he Government Geographic
^oard, and Doctor Melrin Gilmore, now of the Heye Museum in
New York, has written me that you are likely to know the name
in the Mancjygn and Dakota languages.
The Butte in question is reported to be the highest land
in North Dakota. Any information you may contribute will be
thankfully received.
7ery truly yours.
Chairman U.S. Geographic Board.
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May 29 » 1924
Mr. George F. Vfill
Bismarck, North Dakota
My dear Sir:
The matter of a name for the H T Butte in the southweetem
corner of North Dakota is before the Gorernment Geographic
Board, and Doctor Me^/in Gilmore^ now of the Heye Museum in
New York, has written me that you are likely to know the name
in the MqT)<^flTi and Sa]L&t& languages.
The Butte in question is reported to he the highest land
in North Dakota. Any inforaation you may contribute will be
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Very truly yours.
Chairman U.S. Geographic Board
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The Science Press
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Dear Sirs:
The receipt today of five copies of the Scientific
Monthly for June, containing my article on Baji^d^the
Naturalist , worries me. On the blank pasted to the top
of the proof which I returned I stated that a hundred sepa-
rates were desired. Possibly these ;vill follow in the
natural course, but in case of any misunderstanding I
wanted to make sure that I will receive the number of sep-
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Hay 30, 1924
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Dear Sir:
Will yoa kindly infom ■• ibether or not there is in
your torn any person hy the naae of S. H. HoKovn?
Teiy truly youra. - ^
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Dear Mr. Dorsey:
Herewith I am enclosing my expense sccount for the month of
May. amounting to 155.09. together with Touchers for Zenaida
Merriam. servicer a^' assistant. $38.50, and Paith Bonfoey, sten-
ographer and assistant. May 8 to 31 inclu.ire. at $130 per month
amounting to ?9S.67. which I ahall be obliged if you will pay
as usual from the Harriman ?und.
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Hon. N* J. Sinnott
Chairmen Committee on Public Lands
House of Representatives
Dear Sir:
In compliance with your request of May 21. I transmit here-
with a report from the United States Geographic Board on the
subject of the proposed change of name of Mount Rainier to
Uount Tacoma.
This report was adopted today by a unanimous vote against
the proposed change.
The Geographic Board consists of fourteen officers of the
Goverflment, appointed by the President of the United States,
and representing the following Bureaus end Departments:
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Department of Agriculture
Department of State
Forest Service
General Land Office
Geological Survey
Government Printing Office
Hydrogrephic Office, Navy Depart.ment
Lighthouse Bureau
Postoffice Department
Smithsonian Institution, Burea^-u of Ethnology
Treasury Department
War Department, General Staff .
I beg to call your attention to the fact that this is the
fourth time during the past 34 years in which the Ge^^aphio
Board has been called upon to decide whether or not there is any
justification in the proposition to change the establisht natoe of
Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma, jpd in each C8*'e has decided most
emphatically against any change.
Very truly yours.
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THB NMI OP MDUNT BAINIEE
Mount Rainier was diacoTered Mar-ch 8. 1792 by the eidnent
geographer and explorer. Captain Geonge 7ancouTer. and was
named by him in honor of Bear Admiral Peter Bainier of the
British Haty. For a century and a quarter the naae •Mflimt
H«inier' has been on srery important map of western America
regardless of i*ere issued, and during the sane period :appear6A
in all important geographies, atlases, histories, and enoyclopae-
dias. and all official documents relatln& to the Pacific Coast
region, whether published in the United States, Canada. Ingland,
Prance, Germany. Italy. Spain. Holland. Bussia, or Arabia.
In the words of the late Professor George Davidson, fore-
most geographer of the Pacific Coast region: Tancouver's names |
upon this western coast are part of the history of geographio
disco veiy and exploration", and thejr hare been accepted by tht
See Yovace of Discorery to the Horth Pacific Ocean, bv Capt.
GJJrgS^IScSirer.Vollpp 263^^68 let M. Ix)nd^ ^98.
Also^Prench Edition, Vol. 1 p ?-"77, Paris 1799. Name Mount
Bainier in text and on charts i.n atlas of both Inglitn and
French editions.
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by Yiotor Parrar, a student of histoiy: Vancourer's "right to
name the mountain is well attested by the fact that since 1792
Cthe year of its discoveiy] no geographer of any nationality
has erer challenged the name**.
- Ho geographic feature in any part of the world can claim a
name more firmly fixed-fixed by right of discovery, by right of
priority, by right of international usage, and by the conapiouoM
place it holds in the literature, atlases, and official charts of
the cirilized nations of the earth*
To change it would be a blow to the stability of geographic
and historical nomenclature, and a reflection*5)n the intelligence
of the American people. The name has become the property of the
world and is no more p local matter than the name of the Andes
of South America or tlvi Himalaya of India. Think of the chaos
in geography, history, mi science that would result if
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The records of soience in the field of geologj» and in
studies of glaciers, nammals, birds, reptiles, insects » forests
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and hmnhler plants, contain thousands of references to Mount
Hainier, and our museuBis include thousands of specimens whose
lahels bear the name. And such records and speciaens are by no
means confined to our om coatxy, for thej are to be found also
in the literature and the museums of most of the countries of
2urope« Imagine the confusion a change in the same of the
mountain would cause after the present oontroTersy has been
forgotten!
The demand fSr change of name.
Beginning with the year 1883 and continuing to the present
day, a majority of the people of Tacona hare been striring to
bring about a change in the name of the great mountain, wishing
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city. At first the movement lacked impetus, but in the course of a flvv
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years it became general and an association was formed for the
specific purpose of financing and directing an actiye aggres-
sire campaign. By means of personal appeal, newspaper and mag-
azine articles, and public lectures all parts of the United
States were reached and many people were led to beliere that
the proposed change should be made. Furthermore, during the
past 34 years thet««^Uof Tacoma ha\esent three delegatiam to
WashingtonC in 1890, 1917, and again in 1921) in the hope of
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influencing the United States Geographic Board to make ttie
change. Hating failed, they are now appealing to Congress.
Advocates of the name Tacoma are continually calling
attention to the number of patriotic and other orgOizations
favoring tho name 'XAfijDB&*« But no mention is made of the insid-
ious way in idiich these organizations have been misled to believe
that Tacoma is the aboriginal distinctive name of the mount&ih.
^ Some of the appeals, while misleading, are couched in
i^uA^T\a second edition of
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Jxaminstion of the eTidence presented at the hearings in
favor of the name Tacoma, together with a careful reading of
many published articles on the subject brings out the fact that
only two arguments have been Brought forward by supporters of
the change. These a^e^~ — — ~»-
(1) Thnt Tacoaa is the aboriginal Indr-ran name of the mountain;
(2) That the man Peter Eainier for lAom the mountain was
named wa? an enemy to our country.
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In reply to these statements the U.S. Geographic Board
presents the folli'w.ng:
1. The na»JaCCTtfl.— Names more or less similer to Tacoaa—
as
Takoha, Tpfa-bo-ma, Ta-gho-ma . Tjkob. Tah-ko-bed . Tahch>ho-b»t ,
Daoobed, end otht»-- were applied by the tribes of the
region
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Years ago Dr. George Otis Smith, Director of the U.S.
Geological Surrey » called attention to the fact that an old
international boundary map on file in the Department of State
shows the name Ta^»ho*»aa on Mount Baker a.^<^ the boundary
between British Columbia and Washington. And the same name
(or one of its variants) has been applied by the native Indians
not only to Mounts Baker and Eainier, but also to Mount Adams,
Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, and other high peaks — each tribe
calling the snow mountain in its neighborhood by the name which
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The Indian names applied to the several lofty snow peaks
of the Cascade Range from British Columbia south to Oregon
may be arranged in two categories according to the dialec-
tic differences in the languages of the tribes. Thus in one
series the last syllable has the |mflh' sound while in the
other it has the sound of *bet^ ( *pet * or 'tai*). as
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shown in the following lists:
Tacobah
Tahoba
T'choba
T'chakoba
Tacht-ho-ma
Tah"?-ho.mah
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Ta-gho-ma
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Dacobed
Tacobed
Tacobet
Ta-hp-bet
Tahc&.ho-bet
Tah-ko-bed
Ta-ko-bid
Tah-koh-bud
Tacob
T'kope
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There are one or two others — as Ta-koman or Tak-»hQ-man which
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Senator Dill in his report to the Senate (Report No. 268,
Calendar No. 283, i8th Congress 1st Session)) sl^teidhat the
name 'iJuiQIfi.* **means the nountain thet was God**. Nothing ooald
be farther from the truth, the name (in its &«.<pt:<jtiA '^otV*.)^ ]'
meaning 'implj ^ifei
2^ The matr Raini iir.~Piit#ir Rainier, whose grandfather was a
Frtnch Huguenot, was bom at Sandwich, Sngland, and «h«n a lad
of about 15 years fin 1756) entered the- British Hary. On May 26,
1768, he was proaoted to the rank of lieutenant, and on May 3, 1777,
was placed in command of the^ sloop ^Oatrioh^ On July 8 of the
following year, during the Revolutionary War, after a severe
struggle, he captured an American privateer. He was severely
wounded in the breast by a muskat ball but refused to be taken
below until he had captured the enemy's vessel, thus proving
himself a brave and valorous officer, deserving the honors that
were bestowed upon him. In 1795 he wi>s made Beat Admiral, and
in 1804 advanced to the highest rank— Admiral of the Blue. In
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tenth of his property toward the extinguishment of the national
debtr Is not this sufficient answer to the claim that he was
"an obscure person"?
It is charged that Rainier beliered in slaToiy, and that in
the far of the Rerolutlon he was an enemy of the United States.
Both of these charges appear to be true. Is it not true also
that maiy of our hi^iest officers and other prominent men of the
time were
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toJ da?; of thJ dSSiSion J1890) was 4 yjfTInf'TI'-^?!-*^ *^'
g*rst •PP««"»r.:Ui:s\TIdf thSt'«;^"?l «in.nt' .
And it may not ^« «"i*;,!L;J'*i; directel were Henty
men against ^o*.I5^» "iSDhl/Jf the Geological Surrey;
Gannelt. then o^^J^SfglicJi and Coast Surrey; Thomas
Marcus Baker, of J™ ,^?^?f ;°giagt and Geodetic §urvey;
Sf S5SJiAs5?Slo;fr,%VeS%MSl'hJSrographer of, the
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So far as knoim to us, the earliest written use of the
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name 'Zshfima'. 'T^hskfisltfld* or any related word IrreepeotiTe of
spelling, was its appearance already referred to» on an old tmpnb-
lished map showing the location of the International Boundary be«»
tween British Columbia and the State of Washington. The date of
this Bap has not been ascertained but it antedates most of the
settlement of the region* It was discoTered in the State Depart-
■ent and pkctographs were furnished to Dr. Q«oiTge Otis Sbnith, Direot
or of the U.S.Gflfological Surrey, liio in 1901 was in cfaatge of the
investigation of the northwestern boundary of the Ihiited States. In
examining the nap Dr. Smith was surprised to find the Indian name
'Ta"b9HBa*on Mt. Baker in addition to its Snglidi name.
The next written use of the name— and the first in tiie fom
lZa£filA' was in 1863 in a book by Theodore Winthrep. entitled
'Canoe and Saddla*. Winthrop stated that it was a generic te
applied to Mount ^ier and alao "to
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In 1866, three years after its publication by Winthrop,
the name was adopted as the title of a Good Templar Lodge at
Olympia^ and two years later was given the embryo town since known
as laooma ^-tenterea on the original surrey as ''Commencement Citj.
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In 1876 Gen. Hazard Stevens)^had-G€ocrtBincd that '^TsfehciBfl-
or lahfimfiL among the Takimas, Klickitats, Fuyallups, Nisquallys,
and allied tribes of Indians is the generic term for [snow]
mountain** • -'Atlantic Monthly Nov. ■16?6e
The movement to change the name of Mount Bainier originated,
as everybody knows, in the city of Tacoma, and in the year 1883*
In that year the officials of the Northern Pacific Railroad
announced that in their guide books and other publications the
name 'Mount Taooma' would be used in place of 'Mount Bainisr^
During the ensuing year the new name was generally adopted by
the people of Tacoma. In fact» the enthusiasm over it was so
marked that the people proposed its adoption in place of
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^Washington* as the name of their state, then about to be
admitted into the Union.
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In 1889 a Tacoma lawyer and historian. Ellirood Brana.
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8»a4i:vd in his 'History of tho P«r.4fi^ ^^Ttjtiffftftr; "Tho
railroad company renamed the mountain, after the city". And
in 1893 C. G. Brewerton in hia 'Hiatorv of Woo^jpp^^^, ^^
• •^.-ft^X-iinuidthat the name Rainier "was generally
accepted by early settlers up to the time of the completion
of the northern Pacific to Tacoma; then, renaming the mount-
ain after the city, the company called it Mount Tacoma". But
later, even the Northern Pacific Eailroad abandoned its claim.
anr.uj^.;v X'l^t have carried this farce as far as we are
going
to for advertisi
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declared to be Hainier. and that is what we shall call it".
When Senator Dill presented hi^ report from the Comittee
on Public Lands, recommending the passage of the Joint Basolu-
tion to change the name of the mountain, he was asked if such
change was desired by the people of the State of Washington. iKV.tvi
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The action of the Legislature referred to was a Eesolntion
adopted in the early spring of 1917 concerning irtiich a few words
of explanation seeo proper. William Bishop, for ten years a
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time of the passage of the Resolution, stated)" The real senti-
ment of both houses was opposed to the passage of the memorial
asking for the change of name... its passage was secured through
the powerful influence of the Speaker of the House, iho was from
Tacoma . and the President of the Senate, who was from Tacoma,
Their influence, through the chairmen of the various committees
irtiom they had appointed, absolutely controlled". And it may be
added that the then Governor of the State was a resident of '•-«^,
Tacoma and had been for pany J^srs. ^. ,, -j + ^^ 4.w^ q.,v«f*
In addition to the fact tliat both the President of the benate
and the Speaker of the Housejiwere from Tacoma, a Tacoma lobbyist
(3. W. Wall) after visiting mai^ of the members of the legislature
at their homes, went to the Capitol and remained during a con-
aidarable part of the session, working for the Resolution, itoich
after heing once defeated, was finally passed.
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One of the leaiing newspapers of the West, the Seattle
P03t- Intelligencer . under date of April 21. 1917, said in
a leading editorial: "It is of course possible to decree that
henceforth the name of the mountain shall be 'Mount Tacoma'
or 'Mount Somethingelse ' . But no decree can make people use
the name. It will still be 'Mount Bainier' in speech and in
the written wrd". The same is true today.
^ The specific name of Mount Rainier
Each of the several tribes of Indians living in the adjacent
region has a definite specific name for the great mountain. This,
according to the dialect of the trib© speaking, is PlaJtrMuta
(usuhlly written 'Puskehouse ' ) , 'Tu~ah-ku*> or 'Tiswauk' (other-
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Wise written 'Chis-^auk; ^jtiquak^ and 'Twahweuk^. These are dis-
jUncti^ names, applied to Rainier and no other mountain* ^^^ 4l\\-^k
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in printed works.
An examination of the literature relating to the Northwest Coast
region in general and to the State of Washington in partioular, was
made several years ago under the direction of the U.S. Geographic
Board, forJthe purpose of ascertaining the relative frequency of
eeourrence of the names Mount Rainier and Mount Tacoma in histories,
guides, books on travel and exploration, scientific publications,
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and magazine articles; amd also.^the standard dietionaries, ency-
clopedias, gazetteers, and atlases of the world. This inquiry
developed the following facts:
(l) Apart fron documents end folders treating of or emanating
from the city of Tacoma more than 90 pcrcert use the name 'Mount
Rainier' exclusively.
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To th« foregoing list of titles the following should be added:
Gazetteers
Baipifr Oder Tachfluaa.— Ritter'8 'Geograohisch-!
Milken.', Sth edition, Vienna, l$lB.
^inier fBanier. Taci
t»aletjeer_cf ihe World; London, 1$20.
Atlases
"^ioJdon^^li^F® "^^"^^^ ^^'^^^ ^^^ Gazetteer of the World',
iit. Bainier. — 'Atlas Universel de Ge'ographie', Paris 1923
^*No?a?a!''i922^''^''^*' Atlante Geografico' (Ba'ratta-Visintin).
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It has been pointed out by Dr« George Otis Smith and others.
that no protest from the people of Tacoma has been diacoyered
against any of the other nenes bestowed by Vancouver at the
time he named Mount Rainier, altho seyeral of these*— as Puget
Sound, Mount Baker, Port Orchard and Whidbey Island— were '
named for British officers on his own ship. Among the * UU
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Bay, Penn Cove, Vashon Island, and Port Towns end.
And if our sense of patriotism %^ac^^ lead us to cancel
English place names because we were once at war with England,
would not the map of the United States look like a skinned
cat? And irtio would undertake the task of renaming the hundreds
of cities, towns, and geographic features thus bereft of their
titles from Cambridge and Mount Vernon in the east to Belling-
ham and Puget Sound in the west?
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Has the cost of the proposed ohange been oonsi dered— the
cost to the Goirernmat of reengraring and reprinting the maps
and official dociments on which the name occurs, as published
by the United States (ieological Surrey, the United States Coast
and Geodetic Surtey. the War Departinent, the Hydrographic Office
of the Navy, the Forest SerTice. the Biological Survey, the
National Parks Serviee. the General land Office of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, the Post Office Department, and the Depart-
ment of ApricultiirA'? An^ -J ®*P^iise of phanges in
agriculture. And aside from thex '^^^'e i*ment maps and doc-
uments, whst justification could be offered for the alterations that
would be required in the multitude of maps, guide books, histories,
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gate cost of which would reech appalling figuresT
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1# That the naae Taooaa in this form is not strictly an Indian
woyd of the northwest » hut seems to he derived from a nutt^
ber of more or leas similar words used by the Indians of the
region as a generic term, meaning ^ j^it ejapuntain * ^ and ap-
plied to all snow peaks of the Cascade Bangs from British
Columbia to Oregon. It is not, in any of its formSt the
distinctive name of any mountain^
2. That Peter Bainier for irtiom the mountain was named, instead
of being ••an obscure person**, was a yaliant officer irtio
attained the hi^est rank in the British Nary.
3. That the clamor for substituting Tacoma for Bainier as the
name of the mountain arose in and is continually fomented -
by a group of citizens of the city of Tacoma*
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That by means of propaganda oaanating from Tacoma and carried
on over a series of years, consisting of personal argument
and correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, lectures,
and appeals to 'patriotic and historical societies and women's
clubs, hundreds of people have been misled to believe that
the change ou^t to be made.
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1919 16th Street
June 6. 1924
Mr. E. 0. Kloeber,
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Washington, i).G.
Dear Sir:
Replying to your letter of May 22, inquiring as to econ-
omies in the conduct of the U.S. (xeographic Board, would state
that all the memhers of the Board serve without pay, that no
money has ever been appropriated for the employment of a sec-
retary, stenographer, or clerk, nor for traveling expenses, and
that the only appropriation the Board has ever had is for pub-
lication and is paid direct to the Public Printer.
Respectfully,
Chairman U.3. Geographic Board.
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June 7, 1924
Mr. P. De Range
Secretary Pioneer Association
Seattle, Washir^ton
My dear Sir:
Very many thanks for your ccixtesy in supplying me under
date of May 23 with additional information concerning the names
'Rai,nier ' and 'Tacoma \ as applied to the magnificent mountain in
your region*
While it is risky business forecasting what Congress will
do, I do not believe that the established neme of the mountain
will ever be changed.
7ery truly yours.
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Many thanks for your long letter in regard tc the proposed
change of name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacona. Most of the
facts you mention have been familiar to ne for many years.
You do not need to present any aiigunents to the U.S. Geo-
graphic Board, but might be able to enlighten several Mmbers
of Congress.
Very truly yours.
Chairaan U.S. Geographic Board
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June 7, 1924
Mr. George jf. Will
Bismsrck, North Dakota
My dear Sir:
Thanks for your letter of the third instant in regard to
the Indian name of the U T Butte. You say that you belieye it
to be the same as Black Butte. That naae has been applied to
it, but is unfortunate for the reason that there is another
and better known Butte of the same name in Hettinger County »
which is the adjoining county on the east. The U T Butte,
reported to be the highest land in North Dakota » is in Slope
County.
I shall be greatly obliged if you can ascertain its
Indian name in the language of one or more of the neighboring
tribes.
Very truly yours.
Chairman U.S* Geographic Board.
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June 17, 1924
Mrs. PrederidtH. Colburn
President, Mt. Lassen Geographical Kesearch Society
75f butter otreet, San Francisco, California .
My dear Mrs. Colburn:
Your letter transmitting a quantity of material concern-
ing Mt. Lassen reached me some time ago, for 77hich I am
obliged. I began a letter to you but hel'i it pending search
for a detailed modern map of the Lapsen region. There appears
to be no such map. I have also waited to talk the matter orer
with Kt. /arqiihar, who told me he -^^as coming to see me but has
not shown up.
You have supplied or sup^ested a lot of names but hare not
a^aignatg^ the particular points or features ta which they ara
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to be applied. The Government Board does not operate in the
way this implies, but considers a name (or rival names) in
connection with. its application to a definite designated featui*
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as a mountain or a river. ?or this rerson the Board is unable '
to act. However, I have turned over to our Secretary (Mr. James
McCom:ick of the Geological Survey) your letters rnd the five
petitions requesting thct the name 'Fairfield Buttrff komit^
or Peak 'be applied to the highest unnamed peak in the Lassen
National Park, .but you fail to tell us what and where. this
point is.
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Personally. I agree with you that the Board would be justi-
fied in using the names filler and Fairfield, in spite of the
fact that both men are unfortunate enough to be still among the
living, but I am only one fcsrte^ of the Board, and many of the
members are dead against naming features for living men.
You have been misinfomed as to the meaning of certain Indian
names mentioned in your letter. For instance, you say that
»Nome-lak-ee' means 'Mo^liiEJi^P-'- ^^« 'Mount^ainJioji' in this
case is like the famous mongoose, and also like the popular trans-
lation of ' Sonoma ' as the • MountairL^l_theJ^ figment of an
overwrought imagination. As . matter of fact the n.me '«on-lak-ke'
means 'la^tfixiLlfili^' and i. the name of a tribe in the Paskenta
region.
You mention 'EfillOflfic^' as a Sha.sta name. It is not Shasta
but is a Wintoon name er^ is the well kno-^ designation of a mountain
not in the Lassen region but i:=inediately east of McCloud River and
south of Chatterdown Creek.
.Regretting thnt I cannot help you in bestowirxg names on mo'ontains
or other features until the features in question are located and
designated,
Very truly yours,
Chairman U.3. Geographic Board.
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June 17, 1924
Mr. James UcCormick
Secretary, U.S. Geographic Board
Washington, D.C.
Dear iir. kcCormick:
A letter has just come from I)r. A. McG. Beede of Port Yates,
North Dakota, telling me that the proper ni.me for H T Butte in
soufhrestem North Dakota is'Pahazezepalal He tells me that the
word is essentially the same in both the Sioux and Mandan languages,
and that it means lthin_» - -the Butte being thin through. Unfortun-
ately the Indian name is rather long. We might adopt its transla-
tion, "fhin Butte*.
I talked with Sioux Indians here in Washington about this name,
end they suggested thrt I write Dr. (iilmore and Mr. G. P. Will of'
Bismarck and Dr. Beede of Port Yates. The others ;roU that they
did not know the name. Dr. Beede knows it in both languages (Man-
dan and Dakota).
Very truly yours.
Chairman.
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June 17. 1924
Mr. James tecCormick
Secretary. U.3« Geographic board
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. McOormick: -._
Herewith I am handing you the material received from
Mrs. Frederick ri. Colburn some time ago. propos^ names for
undesignated features in the kt. Lassen region. I am enclosing
also carbon of my letter to l^er.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. A. iilcG. Beede
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Dear Doctor Beede:
Very many thanks for your cointesy in replying to my inquiry
in regard to Indian name or names of the H T Butte. You ar«
the only person written to who knows the names, and I am rery
glad indeed to have them.
With many thanks for your trouble in the matter,
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Mr. P. V. Williams
Williams Trail
via Allenwater, Ontario
My deer Sir:
Very many thanks for your letter of May 31 enclosing photograph
of the Bear Fetish. I am very gled to have this fine photograph,
and am enclosing here^sith my check for $2.00 in accordance with
your memorandum.
In writing you before, I forgot to ask where you took the
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photograph. Was it on or near the lake on which Jack Pine Lodge
is situated? And do you know the name of the tribe?
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Fort lates. North Dakota
Dear Doctor Beede:
Very many thanks for your couikesy in replying to my inquiry
in regard to Indian name or names of the fl T Butte. lou ar»
the only person written to who knows the names, and I am rery
glad indeed to have them.
With many thanks for your trouble in the matter,
Veiy truly yours.
Chairman U.S. Geographic Board.
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Mr. P. V. IJilliams
Williams Trail
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By dear Sir:
Very many thanks for your letter of May 31 enclosing photograph
of the Bear Fetish. I am very glad to have this fine photograph.
and am enclaang herewith my check for $2.00 in accordance with
your memorandum.
In writing you before. I forgot to ask where you took the
photograph. Was it on or near the lake on which Jack Pine I/)dge
is situated? And do you know the name of the trihe?
With bast wishes.
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Mr. 6. L, Hoffman
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3anta Barbara, California
Dear Mr. Hoffman:
Your letter of June 10 in reganl t'^o^the woric of the Indian^
Defense Association arrived today from I^gunitas. California.
As you see. I am still in Washington, but hope to reach my summer
place St Ifigunites about the first of July.
I am glad that the organisation is making a fight for religious
liberty for the Pueblo and other Indians.
You mention the stoppage of the allotment of Indian lands at
Palm Springs, but say nothing as to the allotment of lands on
other Indian Keservationa in southern California. Do you know
whether this is still going on? In my judgment it is a most
iniquitous thing. I hare written an article on the subject, but
it has not yet been published.
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Dr. Owen C. Coy
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Berkeley, C^llifomia
Dear Doctor Coy: . ^
The May 'Nugget' arrived a few moments ago. In glancing
through it I confess to a sinking feeling when I struck the
story of n Capitan, entitled 'The Rock of the Measuring Worm'.
It certainly is a pity to perpetuate and disseminate such utter
nonsense s? this yam of old Hutchinga.
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The neme of 21 Capitan in the language of the Yosemite Indians
is not 'Tultokana', but is'To-to'-kon oo-l8'. from 'To-to'-kan-no'*,
the Sandhill Crane. Instead of meaning 'Measuring worm', it is
named for the Sandhill Crane, one of the greet Chief? of the First
People, who, after he had been tr«nsformed into a bird, built his
nest on top of 3?1 Gj:!pit8n. , —
In your letter of June 3 you mention thct you are unable to
find the publication 'Out-of-Door?'. It is published by the
Taraalpais Club and has been issued irregularly for a number of
ye rs. If I find a duplicate of the number containing my article
on natiTe Indian names in the Tamalpais region. I will send it to
you
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Mr. Arthur B. Heatoa
Maryland Building
Kesnington. D.C.
Dear Mr. Heaton:
After writing you a month ago about the serious leak in the
pointing of the stone front steps of my house, the man who had
charge of the job came to look at it. I took him into the
basement and showed him where the w&ter had come through and
where it had flowed back at least 25 feet on the floor of the
basement, passing under a number of steel file cases containing
Taluable records. He said he would send a man to fix it. but
thus far no one has appeared, and with each rain—and rains have
been as you know of almost daily occurrence—the water has con-
tinued to come in and flo^ under my file casea, keeping the pan-^rs
dan^.
We are going to California in the near future, end I am wonder-
ing if you cannot put on sufficient pressure to have the steps
made waterproof before we go.
I regret to bother a veiy busy man, but in this case the matter
BtmB urgent.
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Dr. Owen C. Ooy :-
Doe Library
Berkeley, California
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The May 'Nugget' arriTed a few moments ago. In glancing
through it I confess to a sinking feeling when I struck the
story of 21 Capitan, entitled 'The Rock of the Measuring Worm'.
It certainly is a pity to perpetuate and disseminate such utter
nonsense es this yam of old Hutchinga.
The name of 21 Capitan in the language of the Yosemite Indians
is not 'Tultokana', but is'To-to-kon oo-l8'. from 'To-to-kan-no*
the Sandhill Crane. Instead of meaning •Measuring wora\ it it
named for the Sandhill Crane, one of the greet Chief? of the ?ir«t
People, who. after he had been transformed into a bird, built hit
nest on top of El Capitan. . —
In your letter of June 3 you mention that you are unable to
find the publication •Qut-of-Doors*. It is published by the
Teraalpais Club and has been itsued irregularly for a number of
ye rs. If I find a duplicate of the number containing my article
on natire Indian names in the Tamalpais region, I will send it to
you.
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Mr. Arthur B. Heatoa
Maryland Building
Vasnington. B.C.
Btar Mr. Haaton:
After writing you a month ago about the serious leak in the
pointing of the stone front steps of my house, the man who had
ofaaxga of the job came to look at It. I took him into the
basement and showed him where the itoter had come through and
where it had flowed back at least 25 feet on the floor of the
basement » passing under a number of steel file cases containing
valuable records. He said he would sand a aan to fix it, but
thua far no one has appaared^and with each rain—and rains have
bean as you know of almost daily occurrence— the water has con-
tlBTiad to come in and flQS under my file casta, keeping the pan-^rt
la are going to California in the near future, end I am wonder-
ing if you cannot put on sufficient pressure to have the atept
made waterproof before we go.
I regret to bother a veiy busy man, but in this case the matter
ttttttt urgent ;^-*^^ " p^*-^ v^.^p^ ^v.^.^-^^^ va.^ ^r^j*....-^ ^ --^ .^
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The Science Prers,
Lancaster, Fa*
Dear Sirs:
Yery uisny thanks for the separctes you were kind enough
to send me of my article entitled 'Baird the Naturalist^ in
th^ June number of the Scientific Monthly. A most unexpected
derric'^nd for this article leads me tc enquire whether the type
is still set up. If so, i should be greatly obliged if you
will print and mail me at my expense 150 more copies.
If the type h^s boen distributed, chuck this in the
wsste b.'.sket.
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June E6, 1924
Honorable Robert N. Stanfield
United States Senrte
My dear Sir;
In compliance with your request of the 20 instant I
am mailing iinder your frank to Miss Annr. &• Hall, Pendleton,
Oregon, the Ifist published list of decisions of the U.S. Geo-
graphic Board. . .
The decisions for thn current incompleted year 1924
will be sent when isrued some "time later.
Very truly yours.
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June Z6, 1924
'Mr. Pompeo Martinelli
Lagunitas, California
Dear Mr. Martinelli:
it is now 30 late in the season that you may think that
the Merrian, family has given up going to California this year,
but this is not the case. We expect to leave about the fourth
of July and to reach Ifigunitas before the middle of the month.
We have had a very rainy season, including numerous vio-
lent thunder storms the la.t of which happened yesterday after-
noon.
Trusting that you and your family are well, with best
wij'hes to you all from all of us,
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Dear oir:
Kindly change my mailing address for the sumner, begin
ning in July, from 'I91g__3ixteenth St.. Viashington. D.C. ' to
'Lagunitas. Ksrin County, California', returning to the old
address with the November number.
Very truly yours.
w.imilar letter sent to:
Arpv^rican i-orests, 15E? L 3t. Washir.gtcn, J.G.
Lronr^ville riereld, Bocn.^ville, Nei? icrt.
34th St.. New York C
;v Hall, San PranciFco, v^exxi. ._
Journarof Hifeditv, 1918 Hartford Ave. Bj^ltmore ka.
literary Digest, 3^4 fourth Ave.. New York City
fiJtor End, 1628 Van Ness A-e. , 3»;n Francisco, ^aji^- ,
Nation^ SeoprEDhic Magazine. Sixteenth 3t. , \.ashington, D..
Kture iaea^ine 1918 Hartford Ave., Baltimore, Md.
Outdoor^fe 1824 Curtis St., >nver Colorado.
Suook 381 Fourth Ave. New York City
Sd and Gun in Canada. .Woodstock, Ontario.
Science Lancaster, rn.
Scientific Monthly, .Lancaster, xa. ., • ^ y^^^
Sunset klagezine, 4b0 ?ourth jt., San irancxsco, ^am.
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Postmaster
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Dear Sir:
After receipt of this please do not forward any more
of the Merriem family's mail tc Washington as we expect to
get away on or before the fourth of July and hope to see you
in the near future*
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. W. B. Stephens
1250 Bay Street
Alameda, California
Dear Doctor Stephens:
ZJoubtless the Stephens family ha? been indulging in specu-
lations as to the whereabouts md iihjabouts of the lagunitas
branch of the Merriara family. Well, we are still here and
still ha7e R.-^pss of going to California for an all-too-short
field season.
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Owing to nifflisrous and st?riou3 interruptions, including the
writing of several articles t'nd one or two spells of sickness,
I have not yet been able to entirely finish writing up the
results of last season's field work. Checking up, I find that
during the 1923 field sesson 1 worked with and obtaint^d vocabulf,ry
material from 21 tribes— the largest number worked, in any" single
year. I succeeded in obtaining addition* and corrections to i^um-
erous intertribal boundary lines, end added thousands of words
to my vocabularies, including two or three tribes not previous]/
visited.
Just as I was beginning to think I saw daylight ahead.'l re-
ceived an order from Congress to prepare a report on the pro-
posed change of name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma (for the
U. 3. Geographic Bcsrd). This took some ti^ne, md :vhen I finally
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me that it would not be published until the reconvening oT
Congress in the late^fall. and must remain until thea as an
"''confidential docuwenfl
At ,pref3entvariting, we hope to get away soon aftar JiilyJ"
^ and to reach LpgunitfiS as scon as possible thesnafter*
Our rains have centiraiedrWith many severe :thunder and
lightning storms/^ji fact there have been very i^w days ii^Xt^
Qutrain and it^has been one of the wettest if rot tbeivette^t
season or ref^ord.
We often speak of you all and wonder how you'are and whether
you hf:ve been to Clear Lake or away or any other 'trips.
Roping to see you in the near future, and with love *Yroir.ui3
.j(ll to all of you.
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Miss Barksdele
forest Service
Washington, B.C.
% dear Miss Barfcsdale:
Can you send me two copies of f),- i .
forest Service Mao of ^. ''' ^^''^^^ °^ *^«
ice Map of ohasta Ifational PorMt"? »r r v
greatly obliged. forest? ffao.i ghall u
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My derr Misp Bir.g:
Your letter cf the 21 instrnt is at hard.
30 you are the girl ^.ose tracks I ha.e crossed in the
Hu..holdt Bay and Lower Klmath regions a nu.her of times
during the pr.t t.o or three years, hut .hose identity has
till nov? /remained 8 mystery.'
I rm el.d to hcrr frc»-, ,ou and to kno, th.t ,ou tr. not
on-, intererted in «orki«g anong the Indian, tut thct you
have succeeded in obt.irang a oonsidaraUe nunber of inter-
» . T f..i h»l-lea3 in the wsy of sugges.ions
esting phctografhs. But 1 feel helpless . ,. ^
ae to the pUoir^ of y=ur reealte -here they would bring » fi-
nmciBl return.
,ou h,.e. heen fortun^te^seouring the privilege of photograph-
ing Indians ir. cere^nial drese. 3u<*- phot ogre ph» hrve reel
"^rii. not ,uite clear frc jour letter *.ether or not you
are doing any lir.gui.tio «rk. .nd if so *.ether you are ahle
to .rite net of the „ords of the Efi^litlS or t*. !«- KlaMatv^V.
ardf the ',7e'-yot or lo,er !^el BiV?$^Vth of .hich have sever.!
distressing sounds and arc hard to ,rite. I have worked «th
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years, and hope to continue working with them.
You cannot reach the Hoo-pah by boat, rnd in the low water
of summer are not likely to get far in the Karols;. territory, to
say nothing of the 3haste which are much hipher up, end who I
regret to say are now reprepented by very few individuals.
Just how you expect to go down Smith River is mere than 1
can figure out, unless you go by the road from Grants Pass over
the Siskiyous to G<'.squet. If you *?ucceed in locating any Indians
at Gasquet or anywhere along the upper reaches of the several
branches of Smith River, you will do well. But there are plenty
of them at the mouth of the river which are easily reached. They
belong to the Hah^«wun-kwut tribe# *
It is encouraging to note from your article in the February
number of Camera Craft? that you are able to write interestingly.
In this conn^cficn, I have only one suggestion to offer, namely:
that in writing -you stick absolutely to the facts. Unhappily
our literature relating to Indians is overburdened with products
of the imagination which many writers find it difficult to ab-
stain from using to supplement their scanty facts.
It might be that you could place an article in the National
Geographic iiaga-dne if accompanied by a sufficient number of
sufficiently excellent photographs. I think the 'Geographic'
pays better than mo?t publications.
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her alT.cpt passed for securing reliable information about the
old things— which cf course are the things of greatest real
value.
■ 1 am 76 ry late ir. taking the field this year, but hope to
repch ir.y sua-ner ba-r^ a4 Laganitas. Merin Cour-ty, before this
letter reaches you. Shall be glad to hear from you at tny time,
but expect to be a??a7 en field trips much of the time. If 1
kre-.v your nover^ents, r-.ight neet yoa at sor.e Ume durirj' the
season.
'Vith bortt wif-hes,
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My dear Mr. Conover:
Your letter of June 25, received this morning reminds me
that owing to gre^it pressure of work I have not acknowledged
your previous letter dated May 28.
I am very glad to know that the Clympia people are about
to publish a booklet on the Mount Rainier controversy, and
shall await its apDerrance with much interest. Mav I ask
the favor of two copies, one to be addressed to my office,
1919 Sixteenth St., Vtashington, D.C. , the other to me at F.y
summer base, Lagunitns, Mirin County, California?
It is good to know^such a grert nunber of orgarizaticrs
and towns have t^ken enough interest in the matter to ^.t^.vA
Congress protests against the suggested change cf name.
I wish to thank you also for your meaty pamphlet on the
subject.
Very truly yours,
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IJr- H- H. Pittman
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, 3£iski;tc;i9wf.n, Ciinade.
3ear 3ir;
lou,. l.tter Of the 13 inn.nt a«r.=s», to .e a. I.o„„u..
^^*£p ^^ust arrived hn^ fv^ . -^L^n uas
"e-d at I^Eumtn,, „,,til r„.c.h there in fhc„t t.^ 1
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future, .hen sending .p.cinens -for identification it
-£ht be -.veil Jo addre^^ the. to the U 3 ^i^.
Department of Ip.ieul^u>.e ^o t. f "'^-^^.^^^^^^^^ ^-^^y.
^^ul.u.e. 30 th«t they would be identif^'ed
^ni ycu :.culd be notified of the res.lf •
u. tne result irrespective of mv
pre<^ence cr sb^enr^ ir, w u- , ^
sb.en.e xn Washington. When in California t ,„
e->»sy m the field to«' ,>'- *i, .- ^+"rnia i am
there ^cr c- " ""' ""^ "° collections
''^^^^^ icr comparison.
^' t... the photcgrnphs you enalc'.ed were 'or .«V
£s usual .nd .t the usual nrice r . ^cr sa.e
sho'nr^ « . ^' retained No. 1707
sho.nrg a young of the Kortherr Jack -^hhlf >. • .
i-uc.eswxng picture fr^- -j>n\>v. r
'lers^ith. T'^. f,„, ' ''^ ^ ""^'^^^^ ^2.00
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'^erp.ints I am returning herewith,
^ery truly yours
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St. Louis. Missouri
My dear kiss Drumn:
Your letter of the 23 instsrt grieves me. You ere not
half so disappointed as I am at not meeting. Tec bad you
were misinformed as to my dopnrture for California. I hope,
ho^eTer.'to get away in e few days and to continue «i» field
^crk among the Galifornia Indians ui-.til sone time in the fall
If you ever cone to ^Yt^shingtcn again. 1 hope you ^ill not
fail to let me know.
It is good to knovf thot you T*ere successful in finding so
many letters of .Ulliam Olark. I suppose you did net get any
clew to the -v^hereabouts of the original of Jedidiah Snith's
letter to General Clark.
With best -.ushes,
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Vr. U* L. Hoard,
Port Atkinson, Wisconsin
Depr Sir:
Your letter of the 20th instant, like many others I receive,
is much easier to write than to answer.
?or instance, we know next to nothing about the Big Boar of
the Northern Japan Islands, althq the fact that a Big Bear inhab-
its .the Island of Yeso has been known for a long time. It was
formerly confused with the Bear of the adjacent Asiatic jnainl^nd»
but in 1897 was named by Lydekker Uraus jesoensis. I have nevor
seen a specimen end hrve no theory as to its relationships, ex-
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ceptir" thrt Island Beers are g«ner8lly distinct from mainland
species. There is no rerr?cn to believe th.-t it could possibly
• be ne.-rly related to our North American Grizzlies. •
You ask "is the Lion king of beasts, or is our Rocky Mountain
Grizzly entitled to that honor^? I fail to picture just whet you
mean by the figure of speech 'king of bee«^ts'. but if size and
power ere to be the criteria, both the Lion and the Gri^-^ly must
give place to the Big Brown Beats of Alaska, which are the largest
and most powerful of living Carnivores.
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June 30, 1924
Hjdrographer, Navy Dept*
Dear Captain Bassett:
Herewith I am enclosing copy of a letter to
the Geographic Board of Canada, Kindly let me
know by phone if you have suggestions for improre-
ment, Wii; hold the letter till I hear from you.
Very truly yours.
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Dear Mr McCormick:
Herewith I an enclosing copy of a letter I hare just written
to the Geographic Beard of Canada, end shall be obliged if you will
kindly let me know by phone what you think of it. Suggestions
thankfully recieved. Will not mail the letter till I hear from you.
Senator Robert Stanfield of Pendleton, Oregon, requests that
the report of the Board's decisions for "1S24" be sent to Miss
Anna G. Hall, Librarian Umatilla County Library, Pendleton, Oregon.
I hare mailed her a copy cf the 192? decisions. Beyond a doubt
she would be delighted to recieve a copy of your excellent Index to
the Fifth Heport, recently issued. This is bound to prore a most
useful document. And can you not also send copies to Prof. O.C. Coy,
Bancroft Ubrary, Berkeley; Dr Joseph Grinnell, Museum Vertebrate
Zoology, Berkeley; and Prof. B.W.Srermenn. Calif. Academy Sciences.
San Francisco.
I expect to be here for another week; after that kr Bond will
be able to sign the Board's vouchers for printing. - .
Very truly yours,
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June 30, 1924
Mr. R. Douglas, Secretary
Geographic Board of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
Dear Sir;
Referring to your letter of the 17th instant, addressed to
Mr. Jame^ McCormick, Secretary U.S. Geographic Board, I beg to
call attention to certain facts in regard to the personal
names proposed "by the International Boundary Coinaission:
(1) The names submitted were about equally divided between
Canadians and Americans.
(2) Out of courtesy to Canada, which has no rule against
names of living men, all the names of Canadians were adopted.
(3) Most of the names of Americans submitted were of living
persons still or recently employed by the Grovemment, and not
of marked national or scientific preeminence. Therefore, in
obedience to the rule of the Board, they were not adopted.
(4) The Commission, instead of submitting a new list, reiterat-
ed with some vigor its request for the adoption of the names
previously proposed. This forced the Board either to recon-
sider and adopt the discarded names, thereby violating its
own rule, or to substitute other names. It chose the latter
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eminent men who had been prominently connected with Alaska
affairs. These names were formally adopted by the U.S.
Board, subject to approYal by the^Canadian Board.
It seems obvious from your letter that the Canadian Board
labors under a misapprehension as to the function and authority
of the U.S. Geographic Board. The function of the Board as defined
by the President of the United Stetes is: " the duty of deterr
inning changing, and fixing place names within the United States
and insular possessions, and it is hereby directed that all names
hereafter suggested for any place by any officer or employee of
the GoTemment shall be referred to said Board for its consider-
ation and approval before publication".
Referring to your suggestion that our Board "consider an
arrangement in the nature of a compromise", would call attention
to the circumstance that the U.S. Geographic Board is the only
office of the Government charged witir changing and fixing geo-
graphic names, and that it has no authority to delegate its powers
or duties ib the matter.
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Dear Mr. Dcrsey:
Herewith is my expense ncccunt for June amounting to $21.03
and vouchers for Lies Bcnfc-y, f tenogrspher. S130.Q0 and for
Senaida Merrian. assistant, $56.00. which I shall be obliged
if you will kindly pay as usual fron the Harriman Fund. • '
^ I shall be still further obliged if you will send me an
advance check of $.500,00 for field expenses in California as
usual
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Very truly yours.
Dr. C. Hart Herriam
1919 Sixteenth Stref=it, Washingtcn. D.C.
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1000 \fhite Index Cards ajcs-
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Photograph of Beer SkuU Fetish in tree
Indian Defense Aspocietion, Sante Eerbare
•Camera Craft* (Article en Cslif. Indians)
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Photogreoh of Plains Jack P^abbit
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July 2, 1924
Dr. Herbert Putnam ■
LxDrarian
Library of Congrcs?
Mjr deer Doctor Putnera:'
,. Herewith I'an, enclosing the letter we talked about a
short ti.^e ago, requesting the appoinfaent of Colonel
Lawrence Martin c. Repre.entrtive of the Library on the
U.3. Geographic Bcrrd. If I rer.enber correctly, you were
to transmit this le+-tpr fn f^^ t)- -j ^
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from yourself.
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My dear Mr. President: ,
Colonel Liawrence Fartin, a member of the Executive Committee
of the U.S. G-eograph-c Board, appointed from the Department of
State, has r/asigned from thet Department and has been appointed
Chief of DiTision of lisps. Library of Congress, where he will
have charge of one of the largest collections of meps in America.
Colonel Martin is one of the best informed and most useful
members of the Govemment Geographic Bofrd, end hi? loss would
be severely felt. T take the liberty to suggest, therefore, that
he be reappointed. as'Representative of the Library of Congress.
I have talked the matter over with Dr. Herbert Putnam. Librarian.
who fully concurs vath me in this recomir.endation.
Eespect fully,
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ILt. J. Bosenburg
Carnacks, . ,
^uxon Territory. Canada
Dear 3ir:
The 2 Bear skulls which you shipped la.t fell have been
recevred. The lerge one ha. the base of the skull injured
by a big hole, apparently made for digging out the brains.
Beth rkulls ere labeled •CarE?^'- ^^^^ ^^^« "'^''^ ^''^^'^'
Ho* far from Cf-macks and in -shat direction?
•rhe=e .kulls rre valued at $2C. for the two. a check for
.hich will be sent you in a few days fron th^ Smithsonian
Instituticn.
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Mr. William Vi. 4 "
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Dear Sir:
The Bear skv^-^uljou sent on April 5th,nc'rked
'keier's Ho8dF/'iou3* , ha? been received and I ar. gird to
heve it. 1 h/r>7e7alu^d it st $15. which ir more than I
usually pay forced male ?Tculls of Alaska Bears,
A check for te amount will be se^nt you from my account
in the Smithson. in Instituticn in a few days.
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Dear Sir:
1 have ^u^t examined the Bear ?kulls shipped to 'the Biclogical
Survey by you last fall (11 in nunher, includir.g cuts and iramature
females). The lot is valued at $85. and check for this amcurt
nvill be sent ycu from the Smithsonian Institution in the near
futurf^.
No letter relatijog to these skulls has been "eceived from
you either by the Biological Survey or myself, ..n fact the last
letter we had wa«= dated 3 or 4 years ago. A '.etter should al-
ways accompany each shipment, p.iving the data for the skulls. -
Owing to shortage of funds, I shrll not be able to pay so
much for skulls hereafter ?:s in the past.
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.. July 3. 1&J34
Mr. W. ?.. Duryea
Dutton
Iliamna Bay, Alaska
Deer Jir:
The skull of a young-adult Brown Bear from Little Bear
Bay, shipped by you in April, has arrived. Three other skulls
from you arrived i i August and September, 1923.
These 4 skulls lave been valued at $38. a check for which
will be sent you ^i a few days from the Smithsonian Institution
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Deer 3ir;
During the year 1923 two hatches of Be3r dculls were
received frcm you, one contEining two f emf^l sr skulls , the
other five, all but one jcxf which were youngi si females and
8 cub.
Your skulls give us a greet deal of trouble, and as you
do not put your name on the tags, the persons- who unpacked
some of the shipments did not know who they we-e frcm. I
have just spent some time in the Museum tryirr to straighten
the matter out. I found 5 skulls set aside is frcm an un-
known sender. These were received in August., 1923, and appear
to be skulls shipped by you by freight in Ap.^il, 1922.
In pecking skulls for shipment it is of th utmost importance
to label epch one distinctly, giving the locality where killed,
the sex when known, rnd your own name.
The 7 skulls received in^l923 are valued at $40. rnd check
for this amount will be sent you in c few dcy? from the Smith-
sonian Institution.
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Mr. Joe Hendricks
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Deer Sir: -
The 3 Beer skulle you shipped to the Biological Survey
last No-/ember have ho.en received, not in very good condition.
as you say. The Grl^:-:z> is not full grown end is Irbeled
'Squirrel Keado^ . iJIv^glllL^^ "o" ^^^ ^^ ' ^^^^ ^^^"^^ ^^°°
Ashton? I cannot finid any such place cs Squirrel lieadow on
our maps .
The 3 skulls hcve heen valued at $10, x check for ^ich
will he sent you fronn the Smithsonian Institution in a few
days. I do not purcFiese any skulls except thosp of Grizzly
Beers.
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Dear Sir:
0;viGg to my late return from Crlif
greet prersure of work since, I
Kuseum until ye?terdny to exam
9ec?cnV=! cctch.
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was not £ble to go to the
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My deer'Miss Barksdolet
Very inany th. nks for the two
of the-3h£'^ta Map vu^t received* I an delighted to see thet
the main highways sn-e indicated in red on this Mr;p. This
i?all he a resl helo in field worl^.shcivinn the best routes
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Cclcnel Lar^Tsnce Mcrtin
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Aic^r.s, Ma^s'achu'r^tt?
Dear Cclcnel Mertin:
Rnclcsed herewith 13 a ccpy of rcy letter to the Canadu^^x
Geographic Borj'f»d.-
T hPTP written bui. -mailed to "l^cctor Futnairi the letters
tc the Prerident ani Doctor Putrf.m concernirg your transfer
eriil triiPt that everything mil aoue out ell rif^ht.
We ere rapidly ole:::nirg up the final odds and ends
prcparetcry to Irayinr for Cnlifcrnia. nnd hope tc c^t aray
>y the mi Idle- of next ^oek at the latest.
Trusting thnt you ond Mrs, Martin had a plersant over-
land trip to Mosfechusetts, and with best ';vishes to you hoth.
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Mr. A. 0, Campbell
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Oklahoma City, -Oklahome.
My deer Sir: • * **
The skull of the Grizzly you killed 'in the Pish Creek
-region of INyomin&^e^tember 21st, 1922, and ^hich you were
kind ^^nough to send me for exatnination, proves of consider-
able interest. But unfortunately, I have not been able to
determine it satisfactorily.
The Biological Suroey collection of Beer skulls in the
National Uuseum, compri^.g more than two thousand skulls,
was transferred from cno set of cases to another durirg my
absence in California, end has not yet been arranged. I have
been to the Museum three days for the purpose of comparing this
skull with certain others in our collectich» but af^ .yet hsvo
not been able to locate those with whiah it is necessary to
make T;he comparison.
I expect to go tc California in a few days and am writing
to ask if you will allow me tc retain the ?kull until my return
in the fall. If you do not care particularly for it, and are
willing to present it to the National colleclion, the authori-
ties of thn National Museum and those of the Biological Survey
would be gx^atly obliged, rnd the specimen would take its place
in wh^t if: by far the largest and most valuablt collection of
Bear skulls in the world.
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Thenks for jour letter of the 2C'th infitant -vith 8
?hotcgraphs . Of these I am ret,.imnF 4 of the BEt. and
em return in,- th^ ether 4,
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:ince siting ycu, the Bst you ?ent to ir.e ^:t Lagunites
h^^-^ been fcnvarded snd ha? just rrri-d. It is the Silver-
haired Bet fl^sjonycteri^sjioaWhgans).
i ar. enclosing check- for ^,. for ^g B^t i-rints.i^nd
-El^c 3 voucher for these nrd the photosr^::h of . jc-oiig J^ck
Rabbit for v7hich I sent .you g check a fe^. deye ago. making
tiO. in all. Kindly si^n end -pturr <5£r:c so thrt I -ay tuni
it in to ry Srithsonien account a« a vouchcrC* ^*^tc v^.t^U ..wJfe^
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Crocker National Bank
Sen ?ranei=?co, C^^lifcrnif^
Dear Sir:
Here\vith [ .?m tr;clcfin£ tj check for $400. on the
Ncti:iial tetropolitsn Bank cf this city, -.vhich kindlv credit
to my account.
1 expect to reach my sinTner hone ^t lagunitas. ilarin County,
in ^ f6-;v days. Loruuit^? will be ry address? until ncms time in
Noverfoer, :^s usualc
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Lr?. Frederick H. CollDurn
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San J?'rancisco, California
My dear Mrs. Colbum:
Tour letter of June 27th is before me.
I quite c[;ree with you as to the pressing desiralility of
naming points in the Mount Lassen region as early as possible,
hut I do not see how any progress can he made in this direction
until -^e have a reasonably accurate inap of the area.
3c fsr D3 I personrlly am concerned, I should be vrry glad
to comply with your requert to attach the Midoo ntme i?^r mountain,
I^-mah-ne, to some prominent unnamed butte or peak. Among the
different divisions or sub-tribes of the Midoo theK tre several
variants, the coTmorest of ';vhich is Y^h-nahn, another, "iK^ah-nah-nim.
But I. must confes*^ to 5r?tonishir.ent at your ^tct^nent that ItT
seems ridiculous to you to speak of -hidi^n tribes in California,
for e7er ^t the or'^^rent time there are in the Stete remnants of
at least a h^^dred and fifty tribes speaking different dialects;
and if st overlook the matter of dialects it is ?:ell known to
ethnclof;ists that there are at lenst two docen entirely distinct
lar^uages differing from one cnoth^r m-ore than English zliffers
fror Serman. In oth'^r ^crds, the remnants of Indian tri^bes still
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living in California represent more linguistic stocks than exist
among the various nations of the civilized ;yorld.
If your Society can per?^ude the pcv^ers that be to make a
reasonibly accurate survey and map of the Lassen region, you could
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My dear Sir;
When I visited you last fall I promippd tc write you
ebout the Case cf the Inr|isn Boerd of Coopereticr. in behelf
of Crdifcrnia Indian?.
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A short time ego I called or. the Is^vyers whc hrve the
Ce?e in ohsrge (here in WR?hirFton) i;nd they told me that the
Ca?e would r.ot ccme up before fall.
I am now lesTine for my sunrfr piece rt Lagunites, Karin
County, Gslifornifi. :7hich will be my hsadquf-rters until Novembr.
Regretting thst I cannot ?end you a niorp frvorrMe report,
ind with best Tithes tc 7ourc«l^ •"'■'^ -vi-Pp • ■
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Mr?. Judscn G. TJsburn
915 N. Lee Avenue -«r .
Hoswell, Ne^ Mexico
My deer krs. Osburn:
We ^ere very plp.d tc herr from you ?nd to know thrt you
had hed e good re5?t and vir?it with your kinfoll: in Virginia.
We certainly enjoyed your visit "vith us and hope it mey
be repeated. He sliould be very glad to have Mr. Osburn cell at
Eny time when he chcnces tc be in Washinrton.
At some time when my field work in Cclifcrric is ne&ring
completion we ?hall be rrost happy to t::ke rdvant^ge of your kind
invitation to see-you rt Ros^ell.
Vernon Beiley i? le.-ving this evening for Glacier Park to
be gone I think about r. month.
Vf'e hrve been so delayed that v:e are still in Wfshinpton,
but hope to set out for California in about four days.
V/ith kindest regards frcr • rs. lierrian and my daughter rnd
with my best wishes.
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July 5, 1924
Ccl. J. A, MaGuire
Mitcr, Outdoor Life
Denver, ColorEdo.
I'y ^eer Colonel McGuire:
Oiung pertly to rerere illnccc rn'^ nrr^v f
^■'"''- -nd pcrtxy to grest pres-
sure of.acoumuleted rorlc I hsvp V<»«r, .v- ^
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W =c...po.,e„ee. ., ,„,, „„, ,,^,,,, .„ ^^^^ ^^^^_^^ ^^^_
^teM.. ..pru. 15-.,, i„ .3e.rt to the .oa...™„t, of s..Us o,
of tne points rn .ue.tion. although I .ay not he.e .ade it .uf-
--en ly Clear that ^ .ea.ure.ente of ...n^ .,,e by natural "
i»ts give the distance in a otraiph-^row "^ ""^"^^^l-
-^raiR^i^ ^ine between the points
mentioncd-.ne7er ever a ou-ve i,>.. .
;,. ^ ''■''^- ^e2-ure,nont<' taken around the"-
s... „ 0.. the top c. the ,,„n are aVolutel, „onhl.„.
T ere does not .ppe-r to be .„;, goo. „c.o„ for oh.„,i„e
^^ -J ^ ft^uiis tor the douhle rp-cnn fv,e>4.
ore a^pe;' . "Z" ^ ^' '"^^ '^'^ ^ -"^-^' "^ ^hat no
a,pec.r. to ha.e de.i.ei any hotter method.
i «•■" jurt lerving for ny ..u^.ner ol^ce r- v. -^ „
where i exn«r>* t. . * * ' ""^ -Sunitas. Gaiifornia.
expec. to remain until l.te in the fall.
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Robinson-Codoni Company
Sen Rafeel, Crli forma
Dear Sirs:
At lest, after ?e?ersl mcnthf! ' (ieley, I sn about to set
out for Lagunitas avA expect. to reach San Hafsel en or abcut
the 14th inf^tnnt.
I shall be greatly obliged therefore if you vdll kindly .
put my car (GheTrolet Baby Grand) in shape for the road- Please
fill the tank with gas and ask Sparrow Bros, to replace the
battery.
levy truly yours.
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Mr. Hcr,er E. ofrgent
£Ii£ Arroyo Terrace
Pasadena, Ofilifornis
iiy dear Mr. Sargent:
Ycur letter of June 27th, forwarded from Lagunitas,
reached nc about ten minutes rgo. Me are now penking for
Lagunitas (three months late) and hope to reach there on the ""
14th instant.
I regret that we ^ere e\\6y when you cnlled la^t jeer.
It is gccd news to knew that you ere going on another
hunt in the 'iiTiite River and Donjeck country. This happens to
be a very important region so fer as Griszlies are concerned,
both large and small species occurring there. It goes without
sayir.g, therefore, that I shall he mighty glad to see any Beer
skullc.you are able tc secure during the trip.
^ith kindest regerdp to Mrs. 3rrgent and yourself,
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Mr. Srnest Thompson Seton
Greenwich, Connecticut
Dear Seton:
Per a long tirae you have been on ttj wind. I vjented to
explain why I did not comply with your rec^uept to file a
subscription for the $100 edition of your 'Game /.ninaT<.'
The reason is very obvious— at ler?t at this end of the line-
as my financial condition do^F not justify any -such expenditure
.However, when your book oomes out, I ?hrll of course purchrse
the ordinary edition.
Should you happen to be in California during the sunmer or
early fall, wc should be glad to see you at Lagunitas, which we
ejtpect to reach in'^thc nenr futjre.
With best wishes, _ X
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NewYorkCity
Deer Dcctor Hodge:
Your letter of the fir5?t instant reeched me only a few
minutes ego, ju5?t cs we ere pecking for Celifomiat where I
expect to continue field work until late in the fall. •
I fear I cennot help you in regard to the edible larvae
eaten hy several of the Piute trihes of southeastern California
end western NeTadc. -
The larvae ere those of a small flat fly and are called
Koo-tsab-be ( often pronounced Koo-zah-be) by the Mono lake
Piutes.
I heve visited the south and southeastern shores of Mono
Lake at the time when the Indians were laying in great stores of
these lervae -"^hich the northwest winds had blown to the opposite
side of the Lake^ where they hed accumuleted in amazing quantity,
forming acftial windrows. Here I have watched the Indians drying
the larvae, ycll^them bet^^een the hands to crack off the skin, and
agiteti them in the broad snowshoe-shaped winnowing baskets to
remove the chaff^-.hich the wind deposited In r haycock-like mound
£S high cr higher than my heed and very broad at the bottom.
The Koo-tseb-be is carefully preserved and is used to en-
rich and season the usual thick pine nut soup, eaten from bowl-
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visiting Piutes who come to gather the Koo-tsab-be.
Because of their fondnes? for this food, the Mono Lake
Piutes are often celled Koo-tsalf-be dik-ka kud-dy neu-ma,
meaning 'Koo-tsab-be eating people ••
I hrve a jar of the material aaii- should be glad to
send you some next fall if you care for it. It is very rich
and oily and if tcken straight affects the roof of the mouth
as greasy doughnuts sometimes do. 3o fer as I know, it is never
taken by itself except when a pinch or so is put into the mouth for
the flavor, which, by the way, is excellent.
I have teken-a series of photographs showing the windrows
of larvae and>swinnowing process and baskets, and the enormous
heaps of chaff of the dry skin, and have written a full account
of the thing, bat so far as I remember have net published anything
on the subject. Still, I may have said something about it in an
article on California Indian baskets illustrated by photographa,
which I wrote by request for ^gverybodv^s iiaga7.ine* a number of
years ago but which so fer as I am aware was never published.
If you ever come to ^lashingtcn again at the time of year
(usually winter) when I am here. I am sure you would be interested
in my detailed maps of the distribution of California tribe« and
also in my colored photographs of some very remarkable ceremonial
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My address until liovember will be legunitas, Marin Co., Calif.
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Oaptain Oliver Applegate '
A.lgasth Fails, Oregon
My deer Gaptain Applegate:
Some time ago,, ;*en ir. California, Ij»as told that a book
had been published by a Captain Hutenic . entitled 'A History
9f the Indian Wars 186J.^m2*. Not being able to locate such
a publication. I wrote to Mr. J. C. Hutenic at Klamath Palls,
and in reply he tells me that he does not know of any such book,
and suggest, that I write to you. Apparently my informant gave
me the^rcng name for the author. Do you knew of any book he
could have meant? I have Bledsoe's 'Indian vfers of the. Korthw^Pt >
published in 1385. but the title hardly seems to fit.
:^?t season I had the good luck to run across Elmer when casiped'
for the night in the Bichardson Redwood Grove on the Redwood High- j
way. - ^ *
Trusting that you and your family vre well end with kindest i
re-g-rd' and bes^. wi^hrs. I
very truly yours, . j
Kindly address reply to '^♦'W<^'=V ''^-•'''^■'^-^^— . ^ - |
- -^C'^'ites. ^arin Sounty. G.-liforrift, r/here I exoect to '
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Chico, California
Dear Mr. lafonso: ''
As you will see from t'^is. th^ l!firri»^ ^ .^ . ^
lof. • . ■^-. we Lerriam family is fearfully
late m going to California this year We had ' t d
in March, but severe sickness and pressure of JrVhale kip tie
^ere until now. But we are beginning to pack and hooe t 1
lagunitas before the middle cf the present month. *
Of the' TV^' ^'° ' "''^' " ''' '^^''^ ^^° '^-- ^^^r,e
of the Case brought by the Indi.n Poar-' of -nn .• •
of r«i?*>. • T .. cooperation in behalf
of California Indians. They tcl-' r,A fK ♦ *u .
u , V ^^ ® *^^* *^« herrinr of the Cn^P
had been deferred and that it woul-^ ...
fall ,hi.>, . , °°"'' ^P '"^ ^^-^ Court before
fall-which delay we all greatly regret.
'•e expect to drive ud Sacra-ento Y«M.v .
i^ ,.^. ' ''''^'- -^""-o /a^iey on cur way to nointo
m northeastern Californifl -r,^ ;* . ^
Biiiornia. and if so, shell surely ston Pt rK,-.«
to see you anr* L'y-o •^ * "ajt stop at Ohico
yo»i 8n<l trs. ^fonsc and the dear girls.
Very truly yours.
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Gcod intentions are all right, but don't go far with girls,
therefore I have decided to knock off for a minute end a half in
order to acknovyledge your seve^rel oonmuni cat ions and to let you
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kno^ that you are often ini^.ind.
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I qaite agree with you that boarding schools are not the
most eniovablo olaces in the world for either boys or girls, but
like castr>- oil and a few other things they seem to be a necessary
part oi ones ringing up. -
As you see, we have beeil horribly delayed in getting off for
California, but hope now to leave Washington not l^ter than the
10th of this month* I wish you were going with us so that you could
not only chop and saw our firewood for next winter but also help drive
the car through the Hedwcods and other interesting^places. 1 would
like to test your efficiency as a canp cook in order to judge whether '
or not your schooling has done you any good!
Your de/cted Uncle Temon sets ou": today for Glacier National
Park to be gone about a month, and late ^ I think he intends to do
some Beaver work in the Adirondacks, in vhich case you may be able
to get even with hirr.
V;ith love to you all, . . -
As ever yours ,
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My .leer dr. Dorsey:
Herewith I em encloping vouchor for Miss Bonfoey's services
s. stenogrspher and assictant 5 deys in July at the rate of $130.
per raonth. $21.67. which i shell he obliged if you will pay as
usml fron the Horrirnan ?und, pending check to her rdr^ress. Sill
Cottage. Cornell University. Ithaca. IJrw York.
I trr enclosing also ? vouchors for skulls of Grizzly and Big
Brc^vn Be.rs received since the Ust Bear vouchers were turned in.
End ^hich I shall be obliged if you will kindly pay as usual, as
follows:
J. Hoj^enburg. Cannacks, Yukon Territory. Canada, 2 Skulls
TJm. 17. Tibbs. Chitina. iSlaska. 1 Skull
i'red Phillips. Iliamna. Alaska. 7 Skulls
Joe Hendricks, Ashton, Prencnt Ccunty. Idaho, 3 Skulls
C. H. McNeil. Kamishak Bay, via Soldovia. Alaska. 11 Skulls
■•'. 2. Duryea. Duttcn, Iliamna Bay. Alaska. 4 Skulls
A. a. Twitchell, Plat, /laska. 2 Skulls
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Dear Sirs:
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TTe are closing our houfc, 191S Sixternth Street, today,
end do not expect it to be reoccupied hefcre November. I
shall be obliged therefore if you will di5?cortinue the
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I have tcday closed my house, 1S19 Sixteenth Street,
for the remainder of the suruner, and have turned off the
water where it enters the house. No water should be used
in the hou?e until rry return in November.
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Dear Sirs:
Today I am closine my house. 191S Sixteenth Street, for
the season, and do not expect to return until November. I
have turned off the gas ^here it comes in from the street
just before reaching the meter. Nc gar should he used in
my house until my return.
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the season, rnd do not expect to return until No^enler. I
heve turnrd off the electric current at the main Fwitch in
the basenent under the stone steps at the front of the house,
end no current should be i;sed until my return.
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Dear Sir:
Today I am closing my house, li^lS Sixteenth Street, for
the season, end do not expect to return until some tine in
November. I shall be obliged if you will kindly have your
patroliren keep an eye on the house from time to time as they
pass.
Should anything occur to require attention, please notify
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llrs. iiarien Baker. 1905 Sixteenth Street, or ?.. W. Nelson or
Dr. A. K. Piaher, Biological Survey, Depertmer>t of Agriculture
My address until some time in November will be Lagunitas,
Marin County, California.
Respectfully,
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Dear Doctor Grinneli: . Tfiminitas
Your leUar of the 6th inst^r.. w. pa dead up l^
■ oi a^v before voaterdp.y aftornoon. loulA
poBtof fioa on oxvr arrival day before ^^^^^
•♦♦o vnu veaterdav "bw^^ had to go .>o the ciT.y oi
have wntta. you yester ^^ ^^^.,^
Mrs Werrian and I aro ^ery gx«« ««irf Julv
. TimBdav or WedneBday of next ireeklJuiy
S6^ r.3 and nope ,ou cai Grjnnell
a. or 33) before .e .et <.t on a^^ -P- J -_ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^
:,nd as raany of the boys as are free to co«e. ana
in tine for hmch, *v, «v ••./and i« expected
Our ZenaidH ^ent to Texas on the ^y west and 1 «pe«
here today or toaorrow.
It will be good to see you all agaan.
^ery .truly yoiirs.
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Hart Mfg (To.
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July 18, 1Q24
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Toiir'siof thft 12th instant got hera ahead of me.
The transportation charges are pretty steep and it is a
pity you have no agency in San Francisco. However, you may send
me 3 of your steel foldii^g camp chairs with backs, for whic>? ^j
check for $8.85 is enclosede
If you ship parcels post, lagiunitas is the correct address,
but if by express, address San (Jerinirao and mail notification to
me at lAgiunitas*
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Pear Sirs:
July 18,1924
Thanks for the 35 postal photos of Yellowstone Gene &c
just reciefad. Of these , I am retainir^g 27 and returning 8 here-
with.
iyn enclosir^g dieck for $3»05 in payt for theso and for
five 5x7 prints lAiich please send me. as follows:
Ihitetail Daer No 15
liule Dear 7. 403^ & one like 7 but head low
Buffalo side view with weed in front of foreleg.
A number of the cards have no numbers or other means of
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this the Tetons from Jadcson Hole, orer Jenny Leke? It lodes as I
rttoamber thmn froa 52 years ago.
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Mr daar Mrn Trot tar:
I an disappointed that you cannot copw. From what I
hav« b««n told of your work I am sure you would be a gre«^t help
to He, and I feel also that you would find the work interestii^.
In case you are ever free to cone, do not hesitate to
let oe know, as I am almost always in position to take advantage
of an opportimity to secure a competent stenoerapher-asgistant.
Very truly yours,
Mrs Helen Otis Trotter "^'^ ^~ """^^
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Daar (Toville:
Sheldon's siraaer address is Charles Sheldon. Kedgemakooge,
Nova Scotia.
last evening I caU^ on Htb T across the Bay. She wanted
to come, but that big husky man of hers said NOi R. .aid it with
pronptness and decision, so that ended the matter.
We all wish you were here. In spite of the drou^t the
country looks well, and Zenaida's little orchard and berry patch are
m good condition-except for one apple tree which the gophers'ate
o^f •t the hotton.
Bli«ibeth has just made a small jar of luscious goosberry
J»lly froo berries Z picked from one of «u- ^mli-leaf species.'
E and Z join in love to you and your family.
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Dear J6r McCorraick:
Your letter of the 18th instant caoe today. I feel juet as you do
about those nataes. but see no help for It. Their places will have
to be left blank, as you and Col Ikrtin agree.
Just before lea? ir^ Washir^on I had a Tery curt
from Douglas, merely acknowledging receipt of my letter-nothtng
more; no conment of any kind. I meant to send you the letter,
but in the rush of closfr^ the house forgot it.
Please send me half a dozen copies of the last batch of
decisions.
▼ery truly yours, -.
Ur James IfcConoick
Se<a-etary, U . S .Geographi c Board
Washii^on, D.C.
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July 26,1924
Not knowing how to reach you I am »o«ii„g this to your
Hollywood address. (^ Uf gatti^ away fro« Washir^on grow Utar
and later, and we did not reach CWifomia till ten day. ago.
We are now packing our car for a trip up Sacra«anto Valley
^ henc acroBB the northern Sierr, by way of Mount lassen to the
IWelaine Plains country and Pit RiTer. and expect to return here
about the time you arri.e from Alaska- -n^nely on or about August 16.
We .hall be glad to see you a. soon as you can come. aM
trust we may take a trip together.
I wish I kn«. where your ship i. going to port, and ,*eth«r
your mother and all of you will be in San Francisco for a few days
before going south. If practicably, let me know about this, and
in aiy STent plan to come here as soon as practicable after your
return.
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Hollywood. CWif.
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Dear Ifir Hulsey:
OwiT^ to sidcnesB and pressure of work, I nas not able
to leaYe Washir^on till July 10, and did not reach our place till
the 16th. We have been havir^ some work done on the car and are
hoping to get off on Monday the 28th. Mrs Merriam and my dau^ter
Zenaida will be with me.
le eaQ)ect to drive across the mountains to Susanf ilia, and
then northerly and westerly to Dixie Talley, Hat Creek, and Modess.
Just when we shall arrive at your place I cannot say . but
think we ou^t to be there about August 6.
Ve hope that you and your wife are well, and are glad that
we HBy see you soon.
Tory truly yours, .
Mr William Rulsey
Big Bend. Henderson
Shasta County, Calif
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Dee Librari^ Berkolej^ California
Dear Miss Davies:
Your letter of the 14th instant has been forwarded to me
at my siuimer has e'»-Iagiiriitas- -where we arrived on the 15tho
I am glad tliai you and Dr Coy were interested in the Index
to ttie Fifth Report of tiie Goverrireent Greo^^raphic Board, which I had
sent to Dr Coy before leavingo I assiuned that you had the full
report, but as ycu have not, I will write at once to our Secretarjr •
asking him to mail you a copyo
I ar? just setting out on a field trip across the northern
Sierra to Susanviile and the Pit River country, expecting to return
about the middle of AugTisto
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Dr Owen C. Coy, Director Calif. State Historical Assoc,
Doe Librae/, Berkeley, Calif o, asks for a copy of the Fifth Report
of the U.S.Geographic Board, aM I shall be obliged if you will
kindly send him a copy. '^
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Gen.Passengor Agent
The Pullman Co.,Ciiicago
Dear Sir:
July 28,1924
Referring to your letter of the 23d inatant (Pile 47391)
would state that I showed the Coinpartnent stub in question to the
Chief Clerk at the Pullman Office in San Francisco and explained to
him that it was necessary for me to send the stub with ay July Oort,
account in order to be reinbursed for half its cost. He then wrot
down the data on the stub to forward to you with ay letter and the
cash reciept, Los Angeles to SanPrancisco.
I purchased this Compartment of Mr Dutal at his Office in
the B.& 0. main office. Washington, D.C. on July 10, for $66.75.
The printing on the left side of the stub reads: Office 11-7 Form
100-li on the right side(margin) 1266. The stub calls for Comp. f
&r 36, Oiicaeo-Los Angeles; Line No. xl9.
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Doar ttr Hulaay:
W# arrived how last ofenir^, all well, after a tery hot
trip do«m Sacranento Yalley.
At Redding I went to the CouxH;. House and saw the Sheriff.
He said that if Orant would Bene^ he would appoint him. I
think he said Qrant litee near Bumey. And he eaid that he
might tend froohBeddix^ a man named George ffiller, but he would
not promiee anythir^ poeititely. So you see I was not very bug*
oeeeftil.
We had a fine time at your place and got lota of inf or*
BHition. We are obliged to you and Mrs Hulaey for the way you
treated as. Tou will hear from ua again later.
We hope your Big Ifeeting will be a great Bucceee and wish
we could be there.
It is cold here.
Urn Merriam and Zenaida Join in kindest r«(gards to you
and Ibra Rulsey and Tntaan.
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Dear Mr. law:
Tour interesting letter anaited our return to
California, is soon as possible after opening tlie liouse
we set out on a field trip in Hunas. Lassen, Modoo and
Shasta Counties, from which we hare just returned with a
big stack of much needed information from five tribes of
Indians.
Slad you like wj address on »Baird . the laturalist » .
(H>Tiously you are doing splendid work in making
detailed studies of neglected events both in the life histories
and^umages of the birds of your region. Sooner or later
many of our students will have to do this and it is alw«^
good to be at the head of the trail. Tou express surprise
that many of our ornithologists are not doing this same kind
of detailed work that you are engaged in, but you of course
recognize that the field is so large that there is plenty of
need for work along other channels and that in the long run it
is well that we are not all acutely interested in exactly
tho^ same lines,
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August 15, 1924.
Dr. Cbiar A. Turnejr
Phoenix, Arizona
Dear Sir:
Very many thanks for your courtesy in
sending me a copy of your interesting pamphlet
entitled 'The Land of the Stone Hoe'. It reached
me in Washington just before my departure for
California and I read it with much interest.
Should I be in your region during the
next few years it will give me much pleasure to
accept your invitation to call and see your collect
ion of archaeological remains.
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Mr. R. I. S'??^?^®'
315 Flood. Buxlding
San Francisco, Caiii.
Ey dear Mr. O'Rourke:
Havo you in your stock any extra
copies of ftBt-^^-P«'*r8 for April, 1916.
this number contained a short article
t, me on Indian names in the Tamalpais region.
I have no extra copies and have sev-
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he glad to pay for them.
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Miss Stella Clemenoe
220 Wlilow Ayenue
fakoma Park, Md.
Uy dear Hiss Glemence:
Thanks for your letter of August 1, which we found
on our return day before yesterday.
Glad that you had your vacation and that you were
able to have the needed cement work done at your new mansion;
also that you have been assigned a table in the Congressional
Library, but sorry that you fell a victim to another cold.
On the last trip we drove about 900 miles and were
more than ordinarily successful, visiting, five different tribes
and securing the much needed information as to boundary loca-
tions. You may also be interested to know that I had the great
good fortune to find my old man still alive and vigorous and
in the right mood to give me the ronaining chapters of History
of the Universe, so that I now have the complete story — one
of the most interesting and important, I believe, of any ever
obtained.
I expect to set out again as soon as the notes from
this trip are written up. this, however, will take some little
time.
^llrs. '*M'* and Zenaida join in kind regards and in re«
membrances to your mother.
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ass Rllan Allston
Flat Rock, N. C.
Ify dear Miss Allston:
Don^t conclude that my long silence is due to
forgetfulness. You are often in mind amor^ the Marrians
and we often speak of the little girl who was too poor to
buy rubbers to protect her slippers from the rain and slush
hut was able to buy an automobile coupe to drive home inl
Wa have just returned from an auto trip of about
900 miles in Northaastem California in the course of which
we worked with five tribes of Indians and obtained an inter-
est ipg lot of material.
Before wd left Washington, yoiur chum ran up to
the house in great excitement, anno unci r^ that you had be-
cccie engaged to somebody in your native state. We trust
you are both to be congratulated.
We are glad that you have enjoyed one of the priv-
ilagoa. of life in the countiy—the joy of havirg \7ild birds
nestirg close to yoiu- house, but, as you have discovered,
cats and birds make poor chums. When a cat catches a cat-
bird, the only proper remedy is to amputate her tail im-
mediately behind the ears.
With kindest regards from the threa Merrianjs of
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visit us. developed appendicitis and had U h* . v
to the hosuital t« k^ . *® °® **k«n
ospiiai to be operated on. if tar pa«4- v
ha<J an attack of ^i . ^^^ *^*"» she
««acjc of pleurisy and was aiftV -*
time. 1- « , ,^ r "^ ** '»'*'• ^ouse a long
^^^' Is a result of all this my ezDens«« w.
^-vy and I had to borrow |500 irorZ t """"'"
to help you. ^ ''"'y- *« i ^««1^ like
We are pained to learn that your lifn v
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Oapt. 0. C. Ipplegate
B-amath Palls, Oregon.
Dear Captain Applegate:
On returning from a field trip among
the Indians I find your letter of July 11 awaiting
attention. ^
Hany thanks for your reference to
Arancis Puller Victor's History of the Early Indian
Wars of Oregon. I have not s^en it but will look it
up.
We were very late in reaching California
this year and I shall be in the field most of the rer
mainder of the season trying to complete my large scale
maps of the distribution of California Indian tribes.
It is good to hear from you again and
to note that your hand is so steady^ more than I can
say of my own.
With kindest regards from Irs. M and
myself.
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Uol. J. 1. HoGuire
1824 Curtis Street
Deiwer, Colorado.
My dear Colonel Moffuire:
lour letter of July 15 reached me
on my recent return from a field trip among the
Indians of northeastern California.
the note I sent you ahout the
jttsose of the name Kadiak Bear^is enclosed here-
with. I have not sent it to any other magazine.
With best wishes.
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Dear Sheldon:
We arrived here on July 15 and aet out as
soon as possible for a field trip in the Northeastern
corner of the state, from which we have just returned.
It was a most successful trip, in the course of which
I obtained not only the lacking information on the
boundaries of the several Indian tribes but also the
missing parts of the wonderful historj^ ofcreation,
including the placir^ of the sun and moon in the skjr,
and so on, the greater part of which I secured last
year. On this trip we ran the car about nine hundred
miles and crossed the Northern Sierra twice.
How are you all? We trust you are having a
fins season and t}»t Mrs. Sheldon and the children are
havir^ a good time and laying in a store of health for
next winter.
With love from us all to all of you, as ever
Mr. Charles Sheldon,
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Ify dear Sir:
On returniig from a field trip in Northeast-
em California, I find your lettei- of JUly 8, in which
you generously agree to present your lyoming Grizaly
Bear ekull to the natioml collection. We appreciate
your courtesy and are very glad to add this specimen
to the largest and most complete collection of bear
skulls in the world.
I do not expect to return to Washii^on
much before the end of the year >ut after that hope
to be able to make the necessary conparisons with
your skull,
Very truly yours.
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AiigtiBt 15, 1924.
Hr. Frai* Bond
General Lancl Offioa
Waahington, D. T!.
Dear Ur. Bond:
You have bean in ndnd wter since we left
laiihingtmi, hut the pressure of work in go^ting
reacly for the field ajod a field trip of about 980
railes by auto in northeastern California have kept
me from writir^g.
I hope you have fully recovered and are now
in better health than for laany morjths past.
We found our place looking well in spite
of the diynesB of the season and have an abtuidant local
water supply.
Our recent trip was most successful. I obtained
probably at least a couple of hundred Iccal geographic
naiaes and filled gaps on ray luap ahowir^ the boundaries cf
a nuiaber of ^tribes in the northeastern corner of the state.
Incidentally, we crossed the Sierra on the «outh side of
Mt.Iasaen and returned by way of Pit River and Sacramento
Valley.
nth kindest regards and best wishes to Mrs.
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Dear Mr. llcConoick:
SncloBBd are a few ietters relating to new
appointment, on the Geographic Board which you will
doubtlesB want to presort e in your fxlee.
ThankB for the copies of recent Decisions,
which I find on rettu-nix« from an interesting and
profitable field trip in Northeastern California.
With best wishes.
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Dear Colonel Martin:
The B»tter of your appointment turned out as
we wished with no hitch argnrtiere along the line. For
some reason unknown to me it was forwarded Vo me here
at lAgunitas. I an endlosing it herewith.
I have just returned from an interesting field
trip aiQong the Indians of Northeastern California, in
the course of which I obtained pages of- local geograpMc
names and much other valuable material.
Tnisting that you and Mrs. Martin had a pleas-
ant vacation and with best wishes to you both,
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i'j dear Colonel LcGuire:
Your letter of July 15 reachoi me
on Ti,y recent ret-irn iror;^ a field trip aaong the
Indians of northeastcim California.
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IHT MISUSE THE NAME KIDIAK BBAE?
During the past year there has been a growing
tendency among sportsmen, judging from articles in
and other publications, to glorify the
name Kadi at Bear and spread it oyer seyeral widely
different species* .^^ *«*« ^^^^.^
in the case of the great Alaska Peninsula Bear (Ursus gyas)
notwithstanding the fact that its skull differs so strikingly
from that of the Kadiak Bear fUrsus middendorffil that the
two are easily told apart at a distance of upwards of 100
feet«
If it is a good thing to confuse these species,
wly not carry it further and call the ihite-tail Deer,
Mule Deer; the Gray Squirrel, i*ox Squirrel, and so on?
In other words, if the name of one species is to lose
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to know what anybody is talking about?
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ty cear Colonel LoGuire:
Your letter of July 15 reachoi me
on Ti.y recent return iron a field trip acaong the
Indians of northeastern California.
The note 1 sent you about the
Jtisuse oi' the name jiadiak .fear is enclosed here-
.uth. I have not sent it ^o any other magazine.
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IHI MISOSE THE SAME KADIAK BEAB?
Riring the past year there has heen a growing
tendeaey aiong spftrtsmon, judging frm articles in
Oataoor Lifa and other publications, to glorify the
Bxu ^liia^ ffftnr and spread it OTer several videlr
differ ant sj^ies.
ia tbe oase of the great ilaska
a«twith»tanding the fact that its skull differs so strikingly
from that of the ladiak Bear fPrsas mi ddendorf f i > that the
two are easily told apart at a distance of upwards of 100
feet.
If it is a good thing to confuse these species,
why not carry it further and call the Khite-tail Deer,
Jtale Detr; the Gray Squirrel, J?ox Jiquirrel, and so on?
In other words, if the name of one speciee is to lose
ite meaning by applying it to other speoies, how is anybody
to know what anybody is talking about?
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August 18, 1924
Miss 3. P. Barksdale
Forest Sexrlce
Washington, D* C.
My dear Kiss Barksdale:
Very many thanks for your thought -
fulness in sending me a copy of your new xoap show-
ing the location of the National Forests, national
Parks and Indian Plesenrations throughout the United
States.
It will be helpful to me in mj work.
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Mr. N. B. Hart,
Hart Manufacturing Co. '
Danville, Illinois.
Dear Sir:
The folding camp chairs for which I
sent payment on July 18 had not reached Lagunitas
at the end of the month, when I set out on an auto-
mobile field trip of some 900^ miles and from which
I have now returned.
The chairs are here but I must oon-
fesa are a great disappointment. The backs tilt
so far backward that neither I nor anyone in my ^
family can lean back far enough to touch them. This
seems an extraordinary defect. Is there any way by
which it can be remedied?
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408 Marion Street
Seattle, Washington
My dear Mr* Conover:
Thanks for the Olympia Booklet on
the name of Mt. Banier which you were kind enough
to send me. It is interesting and very much to
the point. ^
I am forwarding your letter to the
Secretary of the U. S. Geographic Board with the
request that he send you the address asked for.
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August 18, 1924.
My dear Miss Bonfoey:
Thanks for the clipping you were
kind enough to send*
I have just returned from an auto
camping trip of about 900 miles in the course of
which I worked with five tribes of California
Indians, securing a large amount of important
material*
-^^ Trusting that your summer school
work at Cornell is proving all that you desire
and with best wishes from all of us.
Very truly yours^,^
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Sill Cottage
Ithaca, New lork.
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Dear Grinnell:
^ On returning from a field camping trip of about
900 miles among the Indians of northeastern California, I
find your letter of July 31. It is good to hear from
you again and know that you are safely back in the United
States. And I am glad also that you liked mj address on
•Baird, the Naturalist.'
V lou may possibly remember that on my map showing
the distribution of Indian tribes from the Oregon line to
a little South of San Francisco Bay there was a gap in and
a little north of the Bagle Lake region. This was the
biggest gap on the map and one I have long hoped to fill.
During the present trip I worked this region in detail
camping with five different tribes and succeeded in securing
the needed information.
And furthermore, we camped five days with the old
Indian who gave me the account of the origin of the world
and the moving of the moon and sun which I told you about
last winter, but which lacked certain chapters. This time
the old man filled the gaps thus ccanpleting the History of
the Universe.
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It is a wonderful tale— in my judgment the most
eating and important yet obtained from any of our aborig*-
inal peoples.
He still have several field tripe ahead of us and
hope to acoomplish a good deal more before the rains set in.
I hope you succeeded in digging up some old American
material while in Spain and trust that Mrs. Grinnell enjoyed
the trip.
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August 18, 1924.
Dear Doctor Stephens:
We were greatly disappointed that you all could not
come to Lagunitas hefore your impending departure for Kentucl^,
but we shall try to see the rest of your family while you and
Bruce are gone and hope to see you all here soon after your
return.
Our recent trip to northeastern Ualifornia proved
more successful than I had anticipated. I worked with Indians
in Flumas, Lassen^ Modoc and Shasta Counties and obtained a
large quantity of additional material.
The special object of the trip, in addition to the
ordinary corrections and additions to vocabularies, was the
exact determination of tribal boundaries in the Sagle Lake
region and thence north and northwest. In this we were par-
ticularly successful. We followed the eastern shore of
Sagle Lake northward and incidentally collected a few small
shells of several genera for Dr. Dall of the Smithsonian. A
few miles north of Sagle Lake we came to Grrasshopper Valley— »
an extensive desert flat about 12 miles in length. Thence
we continued northward to Hayden Hill and followed Willow
Creek northward to Big Valley — an extensive sagebrush plain
in different parts of which we camped, working three or four
tribes.
We visited Adin, Bieber, Lookout, Pittville, McArthur,
Pall Biver Mills, Burney, Hot Springs at Big Bend of Ht Biver^
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Furthermore, and you will be interested to know this:
We camped for fire days with the wonderful old man I told you
ahout last year, from whom we had obtained the remarkable story
of the moving of the moon and sun from the western ocean to
the eastern arctic, but lacked certain chapters to complete
the History of the Dniyerse, This we obtained during the
present trip. It is I think the most interesting and re-
markable story ever obtained from any of our''original people.
The.only trouble we had was with the car, which is
either showing the effects of age or of mistreatment during
our absence. On level ground and Moderate grades it runs
like a deer, but on stiff grades boils and has to be put in
second at once—very different from her fomer behavior on
similar roads. I have taken her to four garage men but thus
far have failed to diagnose the source of the trouble.
Hease give our affectionate regards to your mother,
and with best wishes for a successful journey and "idth love
to you all from all of us,
is ever yours.
^UJa ^' Stephens,
1250 Bay Street.
Alameda, Calif,
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■August 13, 1924.
Since my. hasty note writ-ten after our return I har^
been too busy to write. I didn't forget Florence's birt:.
but at that time was working with Indians on the Big Valley
Desert.
Sig Valley surely is a windy place and we saw more
dust-whirls there than all I have ever seen in Arizona and
elsewhere put together.
We made a few camps in the Ponderosa Pines but most
of them were in the open sagebrush desert; and when we reached
Sacramento Valley we quit camping, as the temperature ran from
103 to 107 and we were heading south,losing no time by the
wayside. I forgot to say that on the way north we saw a big
white heron in the rice fields near YJilliams.
Tou asked about investment of funds coming in from
the Potomac Electric. I would advise consulting George I.
White. President of the National Metropolitan Bank. He is
always in a position to obtain 6% mortgages and you might
put half or two thirds in mortgage and the remaining third
in one good bond, possibly the Washington Hailway and mectrio.
fflad to see your article on »Duck Eclipses '-clearly
and interestingly written. You put the reference on this
but forgot to enter it on the other ^[rticles you enclosed.
Vernon's letter from Belton about the Sierra Club's
outing is most interesting, but he was a bad boy to do so much
walking in a day. I hope it did him no hana.
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It was great that he saw so miany species of mammals
and birds at such close quarters; and it must have been a fine
thing for the Sierra Club people to have such a guide and inter
preter.
Am still working on notes from the last trip and
shall be for some days to come, as I made a big catch.
We are expecting Sprague de Gamp most any time now,
and if he can stay long enough I will take him on the field
trip.
We are expecting also a visit from Pred Hitchell
who is coming from Texas to losemite and other places in the
coast region.
Dr. Stephens and Bruce are just setting out lor
Kentucky to spend a few weeks with the Doctor's mother.
^th love to you both.
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Dear Coll and Flo:
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On returning from our field trip in northeastern
California a few days ago, we were glad to find your inter-
esting letters, but sorry to know that Simon Krank is having
such a hard time in raising money to pay for the Collins
farm. I supposed that he had laid up a fair fortune from
the milk checks and other crops of the Collins farm. Maybe
he has been investing in oil stocks— with the usual results.
Sad news ahout Clint you have given us. It breaks
rae all up.
. It is good that Lyman was able to spend so much
time up there^the more particularly since he oould work at
surveying in the out-of-doors. I suppose he has returned
to Ossining before this.
We are rejoiced to know that Flo is home again
and that her knee is so much better and that she is able to
navigate; even at a no over-rapid pace.
You speak as if there is a Moose iiiver Power Company
which "^ay purchase Lyman's holdings. What a splendid thing
this would be if they are able and willing to pay what his
power sites are worthl ^ .
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Sierra immediately south of Mt. Lassen (volcano now quiet)
and visiting the Indians in Honey Lake Valley near Susanville
and thence northward by way of Eagle Lake to Big Valley,ldin,
Bieber, Fall Hiver Mills, Big Bend, Pit Biver, and so on down
to the northern end of the Sacramento Valley at Hedding. Worked
in five different tribes and secured an immense quantity of
information; among other things obtained the missing chapters
of the listory of Creation, which I think I read to yDU and
Flo last winter.
Just as soon as my notes are written from this trip
we expect to start north again, but. to other parts.
-->^. With love to you all from all of us^
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Dr. H, H. T. Jackson
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Washington, D* C. x "
Dear Doctor Jackson:
A letter ]us,t received from J. Rosenberg of
Carmacks, Yukon Territory, gives tjie missing data for
the two grizzly skulls received frosi him some time last
year.
The larger of tbe two, stated to be a male,
was killed on or about December 1, 1920, half a mile
south of Oarmacks.
The small one, entered as a female, was killed
October 10, 1918, two miles south of Oarmacks ; both
killed by J. Rosenberg. ^
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British Oolunibia
My dear Sir:
Please pardon mj long delay in acknowl
edging receipt of the bear skulls sent since our last
settlement. I was very sick last winter and spring
and mhen I went to the Museuai to attend to the bear
skulls found that some 2000 of them had been peeked
tightly in trays with no key to the whereabouts of
those from any particular locality, so it was a big
job to locate the skulls. Sinae then I have been
working in the field in northeastern California and
have just returned to my sunmer headquarters at Lagun-
itas.
The three grizzly skulls received this
year are valued at 120.00 to which has been added the
$2^61 yott paid in transportation charges. A Voucher
for this amount has been prepared and the check in
payment should reach you early in September.
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1 letter juat received from J. Bosenberg of
Cannaoks, Yukon Territory, gires t}ie missing data for
the two grizBly akoLls receiyed fr<» hia some time last
yaar.
The larger of tbe two, stated to be a malo,
was killed on or about Oeoeaber 1, 1S», half a mile
south of CarmaobB.
The small one, enterad as a ftmalo, was killed
October 10; 1918. two Mies south of Cansaoks; both
killed by J. Rosenberg.
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Mr. J. 9. Oechran
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My dear Sir:
Please pardon i^ long deli^ in aoknowl
edging reoelpt of the bear skulls sent since our last
sattlement. I was Tory sick last winter and spring
and vhea I went 'ce the Moseoi to attend to the bear
skulls found that some 2900 of then had been patked
tightly in trays with no key to the whereabouts of
those from any partioular locality, so it was a big
job to looate the staais. Sinae then I hare bean
working in the field in northeastern California and
have just returned to 17 sunmer headquarters at Lagun-
itas.
The three grizd-y skulls received this
year are valued at 120.00 to which has been added the
$Sf61 yam paid in transportation charges, A voucher
for this amount ha9 been prepared and the check in
payment should reaoh you early in September.
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August 18. 1924.
Dear Clint:
On returning from an auto camping trip among the
Indians of northeastern California. I find letters from
Coll and norence tellii^ me that your legs have given out.
It is needless to say how badly we all feel about
this. I suppose it is an outcome from the fearful tnjuiy
to your neck when your oar bumped into a ditch in Hew Tork
several years ago. I have always wondered that you came
out so apparently well after such a terrible accident.
And now as we are both getting toward the shady
end of life various things happen and must be expected. I
have had the luck to come out from my several operations
and troubles in pretty fair shape and am still hoping for
a few more years of active field work, though I cannot walk
far or climb mountains, or ride horseback, but I can drive a
car and do good work with the Indians.
We have just returned from a most interesting and
profitable bit of field work in the northeastern part of the
state in the course of which I worked with five different
tribes and drove the car about 900 miles. I was able to
locate several intertribal boundaries that previously formed
gaps on my map of California tribes.
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And after finishing the map work and vocabulary
work with the trihes in question, we drove over a horrible
mountain road to the home of an old Indian, whom I first
visited 17 years ago and with whom I have done a lot of work
since, I had obtained from him more than half of the History
of Creation and of the Iftiiverse, as told by the old chie£ of
his tribe, of which he is the last. This time he told me the
missing parts so that I now have the complete history, the
most interesting and wonderful tale I know anything about.
In counting up the time spent in writing down this
story at different periods, I find that it has taken just 13
days. It certainly is worth it.
On the way, we visited Burney Falls, one of the most
beautiful falls in the world, and from there went to the Big
Bend of Ht River, where people were catching large trout. I
never stop to fish, but have no objection to the fish when they
come on the table properly cooked.
During the whole trip the nights were cold — some
very cold; but the days varied from warm to hot. On the
sagebrush plain deserts the wind was something to be remembered,
and sand -whirls moving in various directions and extending up-
ward 1000 feet or more, were so numerous and frequent that we
often saw half a dozen at one time and sometimes greater num-
bers. On the way home we had to drive down the Sacramento
Talley for about 300 miles with the temperature from 103* to
107^ from which we plunged into the Bay climate in which we
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Or,st,d Mu,j^,. Odifornla woodpecker, and coast
hxoUSee, are in the „d«,d, ^„n« and 6th,r tre.. close
ij ; : '''' '"' °° °" "^ °" ''^^' '«' «^»^ it'
^ nd a^d looked back, taming its head .^ar. hack over It.
shoulders,aiid Stood stiU for a sQrT»ri,i« 1 •,
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ing at us, as we stood in the door.
Jor years I hare hoped that you and Hetta mi.ht
spend 3o.e ti.e with us here, although I have always feared
that .t would be monotonous as there is not much hunting or
fishing in the neighborhood.
As soon as I finish writing up the result, of the
last trip I expect to set out on another. «e were very late
- coming this year and consequently are likely to be driven
m by the r^ns before my field work is finished.
with love to you both.
As ever.
Dr. Clinton L.
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JDfeax Doctor Ooy:
Some time ago you asked me for a copy
of the 'Ualifornia Out of Doors' for April, 1916,
which contains a short article by me on Indian names
in the Tamalpais region, I have just secured a copy
from the Secretary of the Tamalpais Club and am enclos-
ing it to you herewith.
We have just returned from an automobile
field trip of some 900 miles in the northeastern part
of the state, in the course of which I worked with five
different tribes and obtained pages and pages of
Geographic names, and also the information needed to
• fill certain gaps on mj map of tribal distribution.
With beet wishes.
Very truly yours.
Dr. Owen C. Coy
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California
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Professor A. S. Hitchcock
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D* u.
Dear Professor Hitchcock:
Herewith I am enclosing a specimen x
of grass which the Pit River Indians csIIa 'Grain
Grass* and which they say they have always used
for food. Will you be good enough to give me its
name.
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Dr. W, Baroley Stephens
Paris, Kentuol^
Dear Dr. Stephens:
We were glad to have your letter of
August 20, mailed at Sacraciento.
As to the Walter Keed Hospital, I
fear I caniiot help you. The Penior Doctor Borden,'
fy/illiam Uline Bojcien] who drew up the original plans
for the hospital, but viho is now retired, is probably
out of the city on his sa-mr.er vacation. The sane may
be true of his son, surgeon Daniel iiorden, v/hose office
is In the _iocharflbeau iipart -ents on uonnecticul Avenue
just north of H Street. I do not think he is connected
with that hospital, but if in the city, ho could
doubtless put you on the right track. I do not think
of anyone directly connected with the hospital at the
present tiae.
It is good to Icnow that your contract
^or the .Uar.eda Hospital wa. actually signed before you
loft. ThiP ,aust be a load off your mind, although I
suspect that yoa .viU feel it necensary to keep an '
eagle eye on innumerable details as the building progresses.
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August 29, 1924
We are glad to know that you have made the
Eagle Lake trip and are familiar with that part of
the state.
The trouble with our car proved to be in the
timing of the ignition. As soon as that was properly
adjusted, we came home over Whites Hill on high.
I expect to start north on another field trip
in three or four days, but have not yet made final
choice of two or three much needed pieces of work.
Doubtless you and Bruce are putting in the
time to excellent advantage, and we hope that you
are having a rest that will do you both good, but
we regret exceedingly that your visit in Washington
comes at a time when we cannot be there to welcome
you
With kind remembrances from us all to your
mother.
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August 29, 1924
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Dear Mr. IfcOormiokr
I'lany thanks for your
letter of August 23 which I found on ny
return last erening.
Acting on your suggestion, I hare
today written to the Director of the Gen.
sus suggesting that he request the
President to appoint a representative
of the Census on the Geographic Board
in place of the late Kr. Sloane. I did
not know until receipt of your letter
that a geographer had been appointed
in the Census Office.
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Mr. William k. Steuart
i;irector of the Census
Washington, U. U.
Dear bir:
liay 1 call your attention to the vacancy
on the Onited States Geographic iJoard caused by
the death of Mr. Charles S. Sloane, who for a
long period of years was Secretary of the Board?
If his successor as (ieographer of the Census has
heen appointed, 1 would suggest that you ask the
fresident to appoint him as a member of the
Ueographic Board,
Respectfully,
(Jhairman • ;,
United states ueographic iioard
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Kr. P. N. Newbert, President
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Sacramento, California
Dear Sir;
The July number of "Fish and aame^lon-
tains so many articles of interest in connection
wath ^ work that I should be greatly obliged '
^^ you will kindly send me another copy.
^■or frhe same reason I would appreciate
an additional copjr of the preceding issues as
I like to keep a perfect co^y of each number on
file aiid have one to cut up to file under
special article headings.
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Mr. 3c I# Daering
U. So Forest Service
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Dear Mr. Deering:
Do you happen to know the location of a mountain
once called tlie Kentucky Mountain in the Mount Lassen
region? There is another Kentucky Mountain at the junc
tion of Salmon Hiver with the ELamath, hut that is not
the one to which I refer.
V/hat is the na^e of the Kanger at Adin in the
northeastern corner of i3ig Valley? I did not see him
personally, hut during a recent trip he was very kind
to my daughter and sent ms a much needed map of the
Kodoc National H'orest, for which I had neglected to
ask before starting.
Gan you send me two copies of the Modoc riiap?
Has the Forest Service such a thing as a contour
map of the eastern part of the Modoc j^'orest and the
northeastern part of the Lassen Forest?
Tours truly.
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Director Ualii'^omia citate Eistorical Ass'n.
Doe Library
Berkeley, California
Dear Dro Coy:
Thanks %'ery muoh for your letter of
August 25.
You are entirely right aDout the
slip in my article on Indian names in the Tamalpias
region. The article was written as a chapter in
a much r-iore comprehensive article (not yet pub-
lished) on Indian names in Morthern Ualifornia^
in consequence of which I stupidly omtted the
word '^northern" before California.
Thanking you for calling ny atten-
tion to the inatter, and with best wishes.
Very truly yours,
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Greenwich, Uonn.
Dear Seton:
Your statement that there will l^e no
ordinary edition of the Big Mamal Book amazes .
me g-reatly. 1 liad supposed that the expensive
edition was a small one with extra hroad margins
such as many kranks toave for their book shelves,
but which are always a nuisance to the user of
books; but inasnacb as the ordinary man is to
receive no sympathy from you or your publisher.
I appear to be up against it, and fear you will
have to put me down for the rich man'^^tion.
although I look witt horror on the expenditure
of so much money for a necessary book.
With best wishes.
As ever yours,
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Tamalpias Uonsenration Ulub
317 nood Building
ban Francisco, (Jalif,
Dear Mr. O'Rourke:
Very many thanks f«r your
^curtesy in sending me additional copies
of the April, 1916, number of "California
Out of Doors" containing an article of mine
on Indian names in the Tamalpias region.
These copies will be very useful, as I have
had a number of requests for the article.
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Miss Mildred xting
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iJear Miss i^ing:
On returning trom a most interesting and
profitable field trip in northeastern Gaiifornia a few
aays ago. i found your Utur of .^^st 1 awaiting
attention, lou doubtless have had a splendid trip up
the Klamath Wiver, and 1 am wondering if bj this time '
you are at Hoopa or Oi-leans. in any case you are of
course finding plenty of work along the way.
I hope you will succeed in witnessing the juiop
dance at fek-wan. i should like mightily to see it.
iiut as a rule the more important ceremonial dances .
on the Klamath and in Hoopa /alley are not given
until after the rainy season is well ander-^ay, and
I m likely to back in Washington.
. You are most fortunate in having an Indian
friend who has taken records of corerionial songs,
xour generosity in ofiering to give ne one for the
oTathsonian Institution is hig^uy appreciated, ,^d
I shall, of course, be vory glad to -ee that it
is delivered to the person in charge of the
musical records in the bureau of Ethnology.
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1 was so late in arriving this year (middle of
July) and have so many places to visit, that it is
impossible to say at this time when i will be able
to reach Klamath Kiver. If 1 am able to make the
trip, 1 will write you as long in advance as possible.
*f hanking you for your letter,
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Mr*. Jj'rank Bond
3127 Newark btreet
iliashington, D. G#
Dear Mr. iJond:
Your letter of August 22 oame yesterday,
and it goes without saying that i was mighty glad to
hear from you and to Icnow that you are getting on so
satisfactorily. It is fine that your strength has
already returned so that you are able to put in full
time at the office, even if you do find the home
couch pretty comfortable evenicgs.
As to ijoard ma ters: Oolonel Marten*s appoint-
ment from the J:^esident was forwarded to me out here,
and I returned it to Uolonel ikiarten, who has just
acknovdedged its receipt, so that matter seems to be
satisfactorily disposed of.
Nhat you tell me in regard to the friction
between the l5oard of Survey and a certain individual
vdth whom oar i5oard has had experiences, is most
interest ingl
1 am just finishing the writing up of materials
from my last field trip and hope to get off on
another in a day or two*
^iith kind regards to Mrs. Jbond and yourself,
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Dear Jjlorenc^ and Vernon:
Dr. a. Barclay Stephens and his son Bruce
are now visiting tt.elL mother at Paris, Aentao.7.
whic^ is their address. I'Tiey are going to
Washington in the near fature and then to Hew lork
for a few days before returning.
If you are to be at home, you had better
write the Jbctor at Paris.
Vernon will he interested in the enclosed
note regarding :3uffalo in the Sagle Lake region.
If 1 em ever in that region again, i will try to
verify it by other Indians. If not. someone else
will have to undertake the job.
If practicable, let me know before^hand
when you expect to go to Lyons ^'alls. I would
like to send the car.^ons of a few Indian ta].e3
and other matters^and possibly a roap or two, for
safekeeping as early as possible.
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c/o uawson iJook ijhop
6ij7 i3oath 'jrand Avenue
Los iingeles, ualif.
Dear dir:
Thanks for your letter of Au^ast
13 transmitting your interesting catalogue
of Californiana. In it I find many titles
of interest, some of wMcli I already have,
others, too costly for my purse.
1 should be obliged if you will
kindly send me iNo.31. Caballeria(xtev.
if'ather Juan:^ "History of oan Jiernardino
Valley from the l>adres to the i-ioneers."
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Prof. A. S. Hitohcook
iiureau of nant Industry
Depaxtinent of Agriculture
V^asTiington, !)• Go
Bear Prof. Hitohcook:
Very many thanks
for your kindness and promptness in
giving me the name of the specimen
of grass (Bromus orcuttianus) sent
you a few days ago.
Viith "best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Berkeley, (jalif.
Dear Sirs: -^
I shall be obliged if you will
send me with bill for same at the above
address "The Game Birds of Ualifomia"
by Joseph (irinnel and others; and by
the same authors, a recent work on the
natural History of Yosemite valley, the
exact title of which 1 have not at hand.
Very truly yours.
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ladson Book Company
25 West 4^ atreet
Mew lork, N. I.
Dear Sirs:
Thanks for your catalogue Mo, 76.
iironi it I shall be glad to purchase, if not
already sold. Mo. 125, Speeches on the
Passage of the Bill for the Kemoval of
Indians, delivered in congress in 1830.
uoston: 1830. |2.50. Kindly send with'
bill to the above address. ^
Very truly yours.
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Washington, U.C.
Sept. 1,1924
Dear Mr Dorsey:
Herewith 1 am handing you my expense account for August,
amounting to ^2i2.78. It includes, you will see, the purchase
"of an Underwood Typewriter (my old f7 Remington being worn out),
and the employment of two stenographers for five days each at $5
per day. With it I m sending two other vouchers; one for Zenaida
lierriam, assistant, of ,;84; the other for J.D. Cochran, iJarkerville,
iiritish Uolumbia,for y22.61 for (iriy.zly Bear skulls.
My last auto field trip of some 900 c iles proved as expected
a rather severe one, much of it being over terrible roads, but it
resulted in clearing up several cloudy spots in ay work and in fil-
ling the largest blank spaces in my map of the tribal boundaries of
California Indians, and also in securing vocabularies o| 3 dialects
not previously obtained.
xLindly send salary and expense account checks froDi Harriman
fund to me at Lagunitas until further notice.
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ISxpense Account for August 1924
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Susanville^Ualif • i^d indiansiS.iiivans
busanville: Lassen (jarage bill •
Adin: 6 gals gas ^.Su
Big Valley: i^red iidlson (Indian] Vocab. services
Big Valley: nobert Kivis »• " '» 2 days
Big Valley: Mlly Quinn " « *•
ijail River Mills: 8 gals gas ^
Big Bend:Hot Spgs Hotel Kooms,self & asst(Z.M.)
Big Bend:Steplis & wifeflndiansj Vocab work,4 day?
Bedding: 10 gals gas (2:23.2.30; Uil & grease 75
Tire mending 75; Phone 30; present Indians 1.3()
Arbuckle Hotel, itooms self & asst (Zenaida kerriam) 2
Arbuclde Parage, car over night 50;grease 25;10 gas 2.131
San Rafael : 12 gals gas 'w 20
Gamp & Hotel meals self cfc asst 12 days Aug l-12incl.
i doz, Stenographer's Notebooks 3
i<'are, Samiafael-banFran 6: ret 60; Street cars 35
Underwood Typewriter 4
i?'are of Stenographer b?-SanRafael 42; meals 2.80
Marsh & Biddie : Photo work & Fountain ii'en
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jorciiuyu iiaiie, services as oiienograpiier 0 Qi
l{R fare of Stenographer Lagunitas-banFranoisi
ianRafael : Sparrow Bros: Ad justing ignition of
RR lare 01 Di;enograpner ijagunitas-ban]?'ranoisco
SanRafael : Sparrow Bros: Ad justing ignition of car
Fairfax (Parage: Changing engine oil,alemiting,laborj9
Fare.San Anselmo-oanFrancisco 42; Street cars 30
Sjin Francisco: Meals
" Beads for Indians 10
* Street car fares 40;meals 2.50
9 Uartwright Hotel , Hoom 11
i?'are S.F.-Sausalito,self & stenographer
Sausalito tiarage, car over night <»
Ualif. State Auto Assoc, iniea & maps to Sept .192513}
Uaballeria, History San Bernardino County
Postage & stampt envelopes in August
Sept 1 Barbara (ireene. Stenographic services 5 days '25 12
Board of stenographers ax Lagunitas 10 days
(August 14-19 and Aug 28-Sept l,incl)S 1.50
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OaLifomia
is soon as practicable after my return from my recent
trip in Laasen ani Modoc Counties, i went to ban ij^rancisoo and
tried to find your daughter Viola. ^
I vsmt to th^ address you gave me , Apt. 8, 1760 Pacifio
ATKltte, »d saw the young woman where Viola had worked before she
went away. She want to Oattand to see the other girls from ausan-
Tille, and decided to stay at Oakland or Berkeley^
The woman at l^acific Avenue did not know her Oakland address,
Doubtless you have hoard frcm "her long before this.
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712 Market Street
ban i<rancisco,ualif.
i^y dear kr Marsh:
the end of the .onth. so I could pay it before settiL .7
field trip. It has not arrived \ut rT '^ """*'*'
low: ^""^ ^ "^P^i^ bills as fol-
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The photographs 1 took of you and Urn iUvis came out
good, but the one of your son was light struck. Ho will re.e..
ber that the fil. stuck so i could not wind it. i had a hard
txme getting it out. and when it came out it was spoiled.
^ sending the prints to you by this mail, but suppose
you are at or near Anderson now i f«^„«* *
^^' ^ "rgot to ask your Anderson
address.
fcrs Merrian and my daughter join in kind regards to
you all, and we hope to see you again sometiBie.
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Uapt. Oliver U. Applegate
Klamath i?'alls, Oregon
Dear Gaptain Applegate:
Can you tell me whether or not the Uodoc Indians
ranged easterly as far .as the west side of izoose Lake?
A Piute from the rort Bidwell region told me that his
people held a narrow strip on the west side of lioose Lake, but
1 hardly believed him.
1 am trying hard to complete my map of the distribution
of Indian tribes in Ualifomia and every now and then run across
a snag.
ifith kind resrards
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Adin, Ualifomia
My dear Sir:
Your kindness in sending me (by my daughter) the ' -
Modoc maps was greatly appreciated, and 1 should hare called
on you in person but for the pressure 1 was under to finish
work in Big Valley in time to meet another engagement.
Have, you ever heard the name K.entucky mountain applied
to any mountaii^.Lassen or iluinas county? i think it is an old
name, long since abandoned. At one time i thought it applied
to j.cGee or Uastle ut.
Very truly yours,
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Mr H. L.'Deering
U.S. Forest Service
San Jj'rancisco, Oalif.
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Dear Mr Deering:
Thanks for your letter of yesterday and accompanying
two copies of the quarter inch Modoc map.
I am delighted to know. that you have nearly ready for
distribution a large scale contour map of the eastern Modoc and
Hamer Mountain region, and shall be greatly obliged if you will
kindly send me two copies as soon as issued. I have just done
a lot of work in that region and have secured a large number o£
Indian geographic names in several dialects, so that I am badly
in need of a large scale map for platting results.
I have the (Geological Survey sheets of which you speak,
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Mr William Hulsey
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Dear kr Hulsey:
Here are the photographs of Mrs Hulsey and yourself*
Those 1 took at our camp in the evening are poor— not enough
light; but those taken in the morning are fine* .
lesterday Mrs Merriaa sent a parcels post package of
odds and ends to krs Hulsey. -Anything of no use she cSi chuck
in the ditch.
We hope your Big Time was a great success.
could have been there.
\i^ have just finished packing our car and start in
about a minute for Hound Valley and upper Russian iliver*
He are greatly obliged to you and Mrs Hulsey for making
our stay at your place so pleasant. We hope to see you here next
month when you come to cianb'rancisco.
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University l^ess
uerkeley.uaLif .
Dear airs:
in compliance with ity request of Sept .1 , yoa promptly
sent me the liame iiirds of (California and Animal Life in iosemite,
but omitted to send bill.
i sball be obliged if you will kindly send bill , and
also two copies of a rather recent paper by Dr iliny (ioddard" on
the 'Wailakke' Indians, adding these of course to the bill.
Very truly yours.
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fdss ii.M. Kline
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San Francisco
My dear Miss Kline:
On returning from a field trip I found your letter
of September 8. I went to the city next day but did not know
how to find you, as yoa gave no phone address and I was not therd
t,
over night. i may go again in a few days and could see you at
the time you mention (between 1 and 2) if I knew how to call you a
up, I rarely know beforehand when I am going to town, and verv
rarely stay over night o
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Dear Kiss Eastwood:
Many thanks for your promptness in giving
me the name of that Umbellifer^-Garuiri kelloggi-
ind, by the way. Pit Siver has only one t,
the name having been given because of the pits
dug by the Indians to catch deer.
1 was very glad also to know that the plant
used as an antidote for poison is a Sidalcea,
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% dear ..xiss Ulemence:
lour interesting letter of August 29 arrived
w>>ile 1 w^s aosent in t^e field.
i am very glad to know thnt von. hnve had un-
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ions of interest to us— sach for instance as ahot^^er
letter of JedediaV oiaith,an.d t^-e ■ on-^ soarft Jrinart
btudieF of Jalifornia indians, etc.
It is a lonrr journey iroia the aort'f^iate
coantry to Te oitter .:ool iver, but Jebmet A-Tald
.hai-uly h2ve applied t^e tera 'fa-oats' to f e north-
ern .j^ OS' ones;, pMrtic.a-'rl'r cinwe ^^e -cnticns the
ons' 63, *
wince v/vitin;^ yoa lost i h /- j^cn at v/ork
in t'-e :o..nu Valley region and have obtain -.a a nuai- '
ber of additicraJ ranc'-eria naves frori t^e so-called
Kviakke. i xiTote i^e jniversitv freE$ at ..erkeley
asi in^ lor two copies of iojdard's recent paperffrom
wi-ich yoj. extracted v>o n!an7 n'^mes) but Ihey replied
t^-Jt t'is '.7rs not a Jniversitv puoliu^tion. do my
'HQEory seems to be at fault and 1 don't know '^ow to
-et '^old of t>'e paper ^ere.
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ii'nclosed is a list of books w^ich may be
worth looking up. Am also enclosing c'^eck for the
'J)1.40 w'Hich yoa paid for carbon paper.
Trusting that your success may continue and
wit'- best v/is^es from us all,
Very truly yours.
iuiss Stella Jlemence
220 willow *ivenue
'i'akoina ir'ark
Maryland
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Mr. Jaraes ^icGornick
Secretary, United otates ieographic jjoard
.Oear aIt. McOormick:
heturning recently from another field trip,
1 find year letters oi jepternber 13 and 15 enclos-
ing coiresDondence from r^o Doas^las, oecretary of Ve
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jeo.^rap'^ic ^O'^rd oi oanada.
They are s trifle late bat "better late tl:an
Txcver'^, and 1 f'^ink all niembers ci t'^e Executive uom-
rnittse •.7ill JQ gild to know that the Canadian Joard
has at last approved our lio.indary nanes.
With best wis'^^s. •
very trulv yours .
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bepte::ioer 21 , 1524
The T'onoralile 'ii* "fl. iiteuart
Director of t^ie uensiis
Vfashin^^ton, D- G. '
liy dear .iir:
Your letter oi oepten-oer 5 cane v/^nle i \7as
absent in t^-e field; hence ny delay in replying.
i a;'! very .7.1?c to know w>-^t you tell me aooizt
t^e qiaiificati-ns of Clarence 2. Batsc^^elet for t^^e-
T^osition of reo-^rap'-^er oi t'^.e oensas and have no ""-^es-
itancT in renewing &y cag.'-eBtiori t^-'t yea as I; t^-.e rl'cs-
ident to apnoint Hi^ as representaiive oi t^ e iJepart-
iient of uoimerce on l^e united ::)tates (xe0:^rap^/ic ^>oard.
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beptemoer 21, 1924
• Honor2Dle c3amuel ji. (Jook
House of i-iepresent-'tives
ii'ashington, L), u.
Ify dear iir. ;Jook:
lour letter of Aagast 27 lorwnrded from r.ashington
reac^^ed my sumer base in Ualiiornia during ny absence on
a field trip, -hence please pardon delay in replying.
lour constituent, n-ofessor a. S. xhocas 7f rem,
Indiana, is in errdr in his stateir.ent t^at t^e National
ireograpvdc nagazinej^^ews jiulletins are publish, ed by t^e
iovernir.ent. x^ej are puoiisVed by t^e National ^ieographic
oociety(jn no way connected witT^ t'^e government) and t^ere
fore not avaii/ii^le for free distribution.
very truly yours,
uhairnan J. a. Geograp>^ic ijoard
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Captain U. U. Applegate
Klajnath H'alls, Oregon
Dear uaptain Applegate:
Very nany thanks for year kindness in reply-
in^j', to my inquiry abo it the i^iodoc south of the
Ualifornia-Uregon boandary.
There are two other qaestions i would like to
ask yoa: One is, how iar east t^e :.iodoc extended
on the Oregon side of the line? The ot^er , w^-^ere
was the aboriginal bomdary between i'^e .:Odoc and
^.lamat^ tribes, and how far east did t^e Kla^iath
Indians extend? -~
1 am assaming t>^at t^ere are still old Indians
living in your neighborhood w>o could give you t^is
infoririation.
With best wishes.
very truly yours,
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Mr. Alfred 0. Gillis
Indian -^oard of Oo-operation
3 Oity Hall Avenue
San Francisco
Dear Mr. ^illis:
•Ihanks for your letter of the 17t^ instant. 1
thoag^^t t>^at yoa woald be pleased to know t^.at we TiPd
changed- t'-e name of Mack liutte west of .ioant ohasta
to liintoon i^atte.
1 am obliged for your information aboat the
coming Indian festival at ban i^^rancisco oept ember 30
to Uc^o^^er 5. 1 an jart nov/ setting out on another
field trip bat ^ope to be back in time to give at
least a couple of days to t^is affair which^ it goes
without saying, will oe of much interest to ne.
idth best wis' es,
very truly yours.
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bepteraber 21, 1924
Mr. ieorge £. Johnson
Kansas btate -agricultural college
Manhattan, Itansas
My dear Mr. Johnson:
Replying to your letter of the l2th instant
forwarded from Washington, would say that on my
return to tms^ington m r^iovember or uecenbei'' 1
shall be very ^glad to send you duplicate copi
of a considerable number of my T)UDliGati">nB o
mammal s .
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With best wishes for success in your new
field. "^
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J^ear Dr. Brown:
Thanks for vn ir i ^^-i
^^ joar letter of t^^ i7fv • . .
•'e were late in arriving t^u ^^^tant.
„„, ^ '^ ^^^^0^ (mid July)
^<J are very busy in field work ,« . ,
--PlisHd a ,ood .eal in ;l V^" ^^^^^^^
and s>,aof ^iumas, Lassen, Modoo
•<2i9* •"Uej and .,„a„.i„. „
«vo ^« ^ • '^^^y. Just now we
1 ; "'■' " '^' '-'Hus ,„t of .«.
ran^ento Valley, °
^ little later 1 t,ot5p "f. v
ban .^rancisco and shall be very aU, ,
joar invitation to'see .. . ''''"-''' '^ -ooe.t
baskets. ^'"'° ^olds.ith.s Indian
Very truly yours,
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% dear JProfessor xiitter-
Keplying to your letter of the 19th instant, which
arrived this morning, would say that practically all Ind-
ians have names for the great majority .f species of ani-
mals and plants inhabiting the regions in wHc^ they live.
They also know a great deal aoout the uses of food plants
and medicinsl plants and h ve mucv to say in t^^e way of
heriditary lore,whicV often passes from observed fact to
mytMcal tradition in such manner t^at it is oiUn hard
to draw the line between iact and fiction. 1 ^^ave col-
lected a vast a-'ount of material of tvis kind, ruost of
which is stored away nt .Washington, but so far as 1 re-
member, have as yet published very little, if i live to
complete tMs part of my ;vork, i hope to publish a vol-
ume on t^e Jit>^nobotany of California.
1 have recently returned from some interesting
field work in northeastern Jalifornia and 1 a-n just let-
ting out on another trip. Later on, when we are ,A Kome,
we should be very glad to see you at Lagunitas.
With best wis'--es.
Very truly yours,
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Dear J^'lorence and Vernon:
(ilad you saw Dr. Steflens and iJruce and had
t^em for dinner* Dr. and Mrs. ote^ens spent t>^e
day with as here yesterday.
It is good that you are finally up in the
Adirondack country and that Julia is there also.
The newsaboat Glint is certainly depressing
and 1 fear the outlook is dark.
Our last trip was over the moantains to iio-ind
Valley in ..lendocino Uoanty . Our next, on w"'uch we
start day aft^r to^norrow, is in t^e Jr'onderosa lielt
of t^e bierra ?ast of Oroville — i?'eat>^er riiver country.
On t^e way back, if not caught by rain, 1 expect to
do a little work on bacranentn/dver and also in the
foo'tvdlls west ol t>^e bacramento.
With love to ^ou all. as ever.
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Captain Lyon DeUamp
Thendara, New lork
Dear Lyon:
What has become ol your family? The last i
heard from Sprague was a long time ago. He was go-
ing with his mother to Alaska to be gone until Aug-
ust 16. We did not reac^ Ualifornia until two or
three weeks after they had gone. On July 26 i wrote
^ Sprague a letter, of whic^ a co-py is enclosed^ but
have had no reply. 1 had hoped t"^at he coald make
one or two field trips with us before returning to
sc'^ool. ii(hat has happened to the family? Are they
no longer at Hollywood or at the old a'ddressV
We have had two very interesting and fruitful
field trips ariong t^e Indians in th^ northern part of
t^e btate^and are just now on the point of setting out
on another trip. Our fall rains have not yet begun
and we hope they will hold off until our return.
Doubtless you are sts busy as ever and we trust
that you are having excellent success.
lou, of course, have "Heard the sad news aoout
Ulint. His outlook seers mighty glooirgr.
As ever,
laiirs
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September 21, 1924
Ifip* F. Kemode
Director Provincial Museum
victoria, ijritish Colombia
Dear lir. Kermode:
Your letter of Aagast 29, f onvarded from ,.ash-
ingt on, reached me on my retarn from a field trip in
California.
i an interested in w-»iat you tell me about your
creamy w^-ite bear, but t^e photographs you were kind
enough to send were not forwarded and will be waiting
my return to nasVington. 1 s>^all be glad to see t>iem.
It is interest in,^ to know t>iat you h-ve actually obtained
a live specimen and t^.at it Tias dark brown eyes and no
black ^airs.
Wit^ best wis' es
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Dear Doctor ISryant:
Many flanks for your courtesy in sending me extra
copies of Galifornia Fish and lia^e, a publication' abound-
Ing in information of interest in connection witli my work
very truly yours.
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My dear Miss Bing;
WlieBi I wrtte y»u last I hoped to see you in -the IQajiiatTi
country before heading east, but hare had s« much te do among
Indians of other parts of the state that it is now certain that
1 cannot make it this year.
jtra Merriam, mj daughter 2enaida and i expect to leave
Lagmdt&s for Washington about the end of uctober. Should you
by any chance risit the Bay region before then, we should be
very glad to see you; and if you will drop me a line I would
try to meet you in aan Prancisco.
Doubtless you have had a most interesting season.
rfith best wishes.
very truly yours.
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Eequa, Ualifomia
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Dear E.W.:
On driving home in t>,e rain from a trip
. north yesterday, x found your letter of the prer.-
ous day. ,e all are glad to know th.t you ar. on
the proper side of the continent, and tru.t that
the rain did you no harm.
iVe expect to start east about the end of
t^e month and want to see you here first.
i^ever mind about th^ grapes; they must be
wet anyhow, and we cant see why you should supply
the juerriam family with luxuries.
^ and Z join in 'Very best- and have set
thear minds on pointing out several things to you
before we go.
As 'ever yours.
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Mr Edward uenny
674 Sacramento bt.
San Francisco, ualif.
My dear dir:
Hease send me, with bill for same, one copy each ef
y^ur maps of ..endocino and bonoma counties, same scale.
Very truly yours.
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My dear Mr Deering:
The latest large scale (i- inc'V,! Wn^^r,*- ^
5 j-o V8 Am»nj JJorest oervice map i have
of t^ie Ualifomia i<'orest is dated 1^17 ,f „^„ ,^
avou i^^i^, j^i yQ^ ij^^g ^ later edition
1 should be glad of 2 copies.
Has the contour m^ of eastern Modok been issued yet Y I am
eagerly awaiting its appearance.
Very truly yours.
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Oear Uapt. Applegate:
Very many thanks for your letter of
cieptember 26 which I find on returning from a recent field
trip. I am very glad % the information you give me con-
cerning the division of territory between the Klamath and
Modoc tribes. I infer from what you say that the Klamath
tribe had no place among the tribes of California. In other
words, that they did not extend south of the Oregon line.
As to the bears: While I have published
a number of papers on bears,all of them have been technical,
ngr popular work being n<rt yet ready for the press. However,'
l^ take pleasure in sending you by this mail a copy of my
Tleview of the ^izzly and^big Lrown luears^ of North America,
although you will hardly find much of interest in so technical
a treatise.
Several years ago I set aside work on '
my popular books in order to finish work on which I had been
engaged incidentally for many years, namely, ^-«;x.-ob a hook
on the tribes of California, illustrated with colored maps
showing the actual boundaries of the various tribes. 1 began
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Klamatli falla , Oregoa
Dear Uapt. Ipplegat*:
Very many thanks for your letter of
Sapteinber 26 Which I find <m returning from a recent field
trip. I m reiy glad of the i«f ormation you give me con-
cerning the diTision of territory between the Klamath and
Modoc tribes. I infer from «hat you 317 that the Klamath
tribe had no place aang the tribes of Calif omia. In other
words, that they did net extend soatj of the Oregon line.
At to the bears: While I hare published
a number of papers on bears,all of thm hare been technical,
^ popular work bein^ .^ yet ready for the press. Howerer/
^ I take pleasure in sending jou by this mail a copy of ay
"Bariew oC the ^izsly and^ig Brwm dears' .f forth America,
although you will hardly find much of interest in so technical
a treatise.
^^^T^^ years ago I set aside work on '
my popular books in order to finish work on which 1 had bean
•ngaged incidentally for >«iy years, namely, ^^^t^^ a book
on the tribes of California, illustrated with colored napa
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fhis work thirty or more years ago, and owing to the rapid
decrease of the Indian population, came to realize that \l e
outstanding data must be gathered at once or not at all.
This work is now nearly complete and 1 hope to publish, during
the coming year, a large scale general map showing the
distribution of California tribes.
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Mr. S. L. Hoffman
aanta Barbara, Ualifornia
Dear Kr. Hoffman.-
Tour letter of July 7 was forwarded
from Washington and reached me duly.
My article to Which you refer
,.antitled "The cruelty of .orced Allotments in California-
was sent to rhe .orum by request of the editor, and so far
as I am aware, has not yet been published. I have written "
the editor. Mr. Leach, to return the article in case he
ooe. not pabllsii it,
Mother Mtter: som of the nwspapers
h»e recently mentioned . meeting i„ ^^ ^^,^„ „, ^^^
...» to be « northen.. ai.islon of the i„ai„ ^f„„
Aesocl.tion. I have .„t rec.i„a an, notice of auoh meeting
T " ""^'"- ' '•"»" """ i •» • «»ber Of good
3t"«ng, and therefore, entitled t, r..ei„ notice, of
Bieetingg,
"uriog the present season 1 ian
aooo»pliah.d a good deal of ^oh needed field ,ork among
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Ixldiaiis in tte northern part of the btate, as a result of
ihich the map on which 1 have been engaged for more than
thirty years on the distribution of Indian tribes in
California, is nearly ready for publication.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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October 19, 19S4,
Honorable John W. Weeks
Secretary of War
Washington, D. C,
% dear air:
Tour oonannnioation of August 5
(G-2A0566-17J announcing the designation of
IieutenantH;olonel airard L. McEntee as representatiy.
of the War Department on the (Geographic iioard has been
forwarded to me from Washington.
The manner of this appointment is
s«n«^at irregular, since appointments to the iioard
from the fourteen (iovemment departments and offices
^e made by the President, i beg to suggest therefore
that you ask the President to appoint Lieutenant-
Colonel McJSntee a. representative of the far Departmaut
on the iioard. , ' *-- *•
Very truly yours.
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October 19, 1924.
Mr. Jas. MoCon&ick becretairy
0, S. Geographic Board
Washington, D. 0.
Sear Mr. McCormick:
Betuming from a recent field trip I
find your letters of October 2 and 3, and also a copy of a
letter from the Secretary of War announcing the designation
of Lieutenant-Colonel (lirard L. Mc£ntee as representatiye
of the department on the Board. I have written the Secretary
of far calling his attention to the irregularity and suggest-
ing that he ask the President to designate the representative
of the War Department, copy of which is enclosed? and I am
enclosing also a letter from Major J.B.D. katheson. Office
of Chief of Engineers, suggesting the name Biscayne iiiver
for a water way connecting Dumfoundling Bay with Biscayne
Bay , and copy of mj reply, no far as 1 am aware the
suggestion seems to be a good one.
I expect to return to Washington
early in November and 'to be there in time for the fiovember
meeting of the Board.
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Dear Sir:
lour letter of October 4 soggest-
log that a water ^y connecting J3iscayne Bey
With Dumfoundling Baj be named Biscayne Hiver ^
will be referred to the Bxecutire Oomniittee _
of the U. S. Geographic Board at its next meet-
^^, Which will take place early in November.
The matter will then be brought before the full
Board for ac^tion and you will ^^ notified of
the decision.
Very truly yours.
Chairman, U. S. (Jeographio Board
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P. D. Hanson. President
Jforestry Club
1918 Sapa Avenue /
Berkeley, California
Dear Mr. Hanson:
Beplying to your letter of the IVtl^
instant, I regret to say that it will be impracticable
for me to give a talk before your association. I am
engaged in field work and have just returned from a
trip north and expect to go again in a couple of days.
After returning from the next trip I expect to go
back to Washington at once.
If I were younger I shoald be glad
to comply with your request, but now I feel it •
necessary to complete my field work at the earliest
possible moment and to spend the remainder of the
time in preparing the results for publication.
Very truly yours.
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My dear Mr. Johnson:
Beplying to your letter
of the 4th instant forwarded from Washington
would say that I have made no observation,
concerning the lower dead branches of cedars
in the Idirondacks since 1 published my
•^imals of the Adirondacks" in 1884. i do
not remember what 1 said about this but 1
^st have had what I believed to be
sufficient evidence,
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Professor 'fl. S. ^tter
Hotel Whitecotton
Berkeley, JJalifomia
My dear Professor tdtter:
I am just back from a trip
in the north, driving home in the welcome raiu.
Tbanis for the tempting
invitation from yourself and Mrs. idtter to eat with
you at the hotel aome time. ^<e should be very glad
to do this if it proves practicable. But 1 still
tare one or two field trips ahead and must retim to
Washington on or about the end of the month, so you
will see we have a pretty full schedule ahead.
With kindest regards to you
both.
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Dear Spraguer
Your letter of the Uth instant has
just arrived . I regret very much that you were not
able to cone here before your school work began as I
was counting on a field trip with you.
Tou asked my advice as to What college
you should go to but did not say whether you intend to
stick to California or go fest. Personally I have a
very high opinion of both Stanford and the University
of Ualifornia, although both have grown so large in
recent years that the important element of personal
touch with the professors must be largely a thing of
the past. If you are aiming to become a naturalist 1
think you would find -the biological course at Stanford
better adapted to your needs thm similar courses in
other universities. Most of the colleges now a days
teach microscopic work on tissues rather than practical
natural history.
rte expect to return to Washington in
about two weeks.
Very truly yours.
l/!r. Sprague de Damp
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Dear Lyon:
Thanks for yours of the 8th instant
which 1 found on returning in the rain from a recent
field trip. 1 also received yesterday a letter from
Spragae wbich 1 am answering by this mail, it is too
bad he did not come liere, as 1 had hoped to take him
on a field trip.
fhe omission of the letter referred to
was the result <of a temporary and very green stenographer.
1 had not known that the virgin hardwood
of the Adirondacks is dying -out. iour explanation may
be the correct one but 1 should want to study the
problem first hand before arriving at a conclusion.
He e3q)ect to return to Washington in a
couple of weeks and hope to see you there at some time
during the winter.
With kindest regards in which Mrs. Merriam
and Zenaida join.
Very truly yours.
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Ky dear Kr. Sodaard:
lour letter of lagaat 15
fonmrdea fr« .ashi,«to» reached .. „„ ^ „tu„,
"■" ' "'" *'*^ *° ">• »-".'» part of the Stat..
-T^.o. ,. , '""••«"« i» »7 article entitled
The Orttlty of J^oroea illotments i. u^iforni."
ay hat «„ce the article .aa written the .ecr.tar.
Of the interior has p.t a atop to^ allotment of
Indian land in southern California, in oaae jon
P<.Wish the article this fact should be stated, other.
«so 1 think no Change mi he necessa.,. ,f y„„ ^o
not print the article kindly return it to „e at „
Washington address, lag. uth street.
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ior B. A. (joiaman,
U. S. Biological Survey,
Washington, D. 0.
Dear Major (loldman:
Thanks for your letter of
October 9 about the skull of a black bear sent to th9
Biological Purvey by S, J. Hamacher, IShite Horse, Yukon.
I do not know anything about this
skull and am not in the habit of pcirchasing skulls of
blaok bears, leaving these with other animals to be
attwaded to by the Biological Survey. ITie only skulls
I remember to have ever ordered from hunters and trappers
are those of grizily bears and big brown bears of llaska.
The rains have set in cut here and 1
have nearly finished the field wrk for the season so
that i expect to return in early November,
With best wishes to you all.
Very truly youra.
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0. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Dear Dr. Coville:
Returning in the rain from a
recent field trip in northern (ialifon^ia I find your
letter of beptember 7Q awaiting attentfon.
It would give me much pleasure
to comply with your request to slice into the biggest
of Ualifomia gooseberries^ but the season is too
^late and I have nearly completed field work for the
present year, the size you iaention.7/8 of an inch
in diameter .will be hard to beat even in California ~
and none of this size grow in our i^ediate region. '
(Jlad to hear the good news of
your boys.
^' ^°^« ^"Id trip will probably
^nd up my field work for the season and we hope to
return to Washington about the first of Movember.
With best wishes to you both
in which Jilizabeth and Zenaida join.
As ever yours
October 19, 1924.
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Mr. Billy Logan
Mooretown, California
J)6ar Mr. Logan:
The photographs 1 promised to send
you are enclosed herewith. 1 think they are very good
and 1 hope they will please you and your wife.
I was very glad to know you and am
obliged for the infemation you gave me. I hope to
see you again some of tTiese djys.
With kind regards t^ yourself and
wife,
very truly yours.
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Mr. Lewis James
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My dear Lewis;
The prints of the photographs 1 took
of you just before you left have arrived and 1 think
they are very good. One set is enclosed herewith, the
other set 1 am keeping for nyself .
1 have examined the camera carefully
and did not find that it has suffered from the ordeal.
We were all very glad to have you
with us. we enjoyed your visit very much and miss you
every day. If all goes well i hope to see you again
nezt year. Meanwhile i wish to thank you for the
information you gave me.
i have made one trip north since you
left and drove back in the rain, i hope to set out
on another trip tomorrow or the next day.
Mrs. Merriam and my daughter Zenaida
join in kindest regards and best wishes.
very truly yours,
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liy dear Uiss irdng:
Tour pranptness and the rapidi^ of
the mail service surprise me, your letter of October 17
halving ajrived today.
Tou certainly have done a good season's
work and your account of it is most interesting. But I regret
that we shall not hare the pleasure of seeing you here before
we return to Washington, Which is likely to be about the end
of the month.
lou ask about worth while regions for
your next trip. Personally, 1 should not think of either
Alaska or Canada but of some place nearer home. Have you
thought of the Pit idver country where many Indians still exist,
although not living exactly in primative conditions; and there
are still nany things worth while finding out about the Piute
tribes in Nevada and southern Utah.
*• Girls are notorious for asking questions
difficult of answer and I see you are no exception to fhe rule.
I sTiould be glad of an opportunity to talk freely to you in
regard to fhe matter of which you speak concernitig the Board
of Cooperation^ but it is difficult to say much on paper,
this much however may be said, the Board .in question, under
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the leadership of Kev. iJ". (1. Oollett, took a delegation of
Indians^^'a couple of years ago, in the hope of influencing
Congress to permit the Indians to bring suit in the Oourt
of Claims. This permission was not granted, but it is possible
that the next Uongress, with new chairmen in the House and
Senate Committees on Indian Affairs, will view the matter
differently.
The other effort, which is wholly different,
is a suit brought against certain officers of the 'iovernment
in connection with the occupancy of certain Indian lands; said
occui-nncy (as in the Klamath Karuk case) being without visible
title tufi ownership on the part of the (iovernment. I'his method
of atteripting to obtain compensation to the Indians originated
with lawyers -Col. Wise and capt. Bonnin in Washington, they
have prepared a formal document for presentation to the Court.
in t>ie District of Colunibia.'i'he Judge who was to try the case
died early last spring and his successor had not been appointed
when 1 left Washington, it was expected however that the case
would come up for trial in October (the present monfh). On my
return to Washington in the near future 1 shall find out
whether or not the case has come up, and if not, when it is
likely to be tried.
The cost of this case, as 1 understand it,
is $0.0,000, of Which 1 have been told $2,000 had been paid t^e
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The Board of Cooperation has visited
various parts of the atate for the purpose of collecting
funds and one hears all sorts of rumors as to the amount
collected. Of this 1 have no personal kno?rledge.
Like yourself, 1 am continually questioned
in regard to this matter and find it a very difficult one to
answer. The outlook seem to be that we shall soon know the
result of the Karuk land case. The matter of the Court of
Claims bill is still in abeyance, but I fully believe that
public sentiment in favor of the Indians is growinj^ so that
in thejiear future it will be possible to obtain ';he pemissicn
of Congress to bring the case in the Court of Claims,
Very many thanks for the two interesting
photographs enclosed in your letter •
Wishing you the best of success in your
work and hoping to see you next season,
very truly yours.
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Dear Miss Langlois:-
On returning in the rain from a field trip among Indians
of Lake and Mendocino counties 1 found your letter of the 22P ^^*
it is raining steadily here now but i expect to go to the
City in two or three days on^ ^il^L call you up to arrange an
interview. It is impracticable to write in advance as to the
ezset day for the reason that i shall not know long enough ahead
to reach you by mail before 117 arrival in ban Francisco.
»ery truly yours
Miss Bdna Langlois
Uolonial Hotel
651 Bush Street
San Francisco, Calif.
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Mov.l , 1924
My dear Ux Dorsey:
Herewith i am enolosing (in two envelopes j mj expense
acGOunts for September andl October, as follows: Sept. $219 .50; Oct.
|162.15^ and Zenaida Merriam^ aasistamt, $70.
Heaae bold checks until nj return to Washington, which
I hope will be in the near future*
Until the rains began a short time ago i have been too
naoh rushed to make out the accounts. During the last trips 1 was
caught by the rains and in both cases had to drire home in drenching
storms—and one in the night. But 1 had great good luck, discoyer-
ing old women of two tribes believed to be extinct, and obtaining
vocabularies and geographic and natural history material from both.
ind furthermore, 1 persuaded the Indian Lewis James («f .
a tribe unknown t* the ethnologists} to let me bring him to Lagunitas
where 1 worked him for 12 days under unusually /ffvorable conditions.
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4 Aliens Press Clippings for August ^* -— '
5 San3afael:6 gals gas 1.20;lgal oil 1.20jbattery 55
" •• New tabe for tire 3.70; mend old tube 75
Beads for Indians 50; eraser 10
^ ^oadhouse meals, self and asst @ $2
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Hylakke Tip 3.00: his old sister 1.50
nights S25
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t»w»-u -la fe^P "®,^? ^ ^®ys ^Sept 6-9 incl) © 1.35 each
Vk.ieWie Palace Hotel :Rooms .self and Asstfz.Merriamr
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Dear Mrs Harriman:
It is a long time since i wrote yoa last. J. Lave felt
t>iat you did not s>iare my Taelief as to the relative im-oortance of
the several lines of investigation on which i ani engar^ed, and for
this reason have been exerting myself .to .the utmost to complete the
more urgent parts of my work with the California Indians so that it
mig^t be published during the coming winter, thus liberating more
time for t>e natural History work.
i?*or a number of years i have felt t^^at the most valuable
contribution i am able to make to the sum of human knowledge is the
publication of a large scale map of California and wevada, with ap-
propriate text, showing the boundaries of the areas possessed by our
native peoples prior to the confiscation of their lands by t>>e Whitea.
In vTew of t>e vast amount of research work that has been
done in studying the aboriginal inhabitants of jiurope and Asia, it
seems strange that so little has been accomplished in ascertaining the
names and boundaries of the tribes of the western parts of America.
i?'or it is a fact that there is not in existence today anything approch-
ing an accurate detailed map of the tribes, subtribes and principal
towns of these people •
in other words, the knowledge that shovli form the ground-
work of American history is not yet on record.
Much good work in etlinology has been published, but very
little of it relates to the problems i have been studying.
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ously established the Harriman ^*und for my investigations I havegiven
increasing attention to the subject.
imong the difficulties ^arly encountered were those relat-
ing to the number, names, and home regions of the various tribes, and
the still greater difficulty of actually finding living members of each.
And only t^e old people possess the necessary knowledge of the old things
Owing to the circumstance that the Indian population of Uali-
fomia since the coming of the <<hites has decreased by about two hun-
dred thousand, and that a number of tribes have become extinct, it has
been necessary for me to visit the remotest and most inaccesible parts
of the state to search for survivors. In doing this i have traveled
by team, "oj auto, and on horseback upwards of a hundred thousand miles,
this has been hard work for a man of my age, but I have been rewarded
by the discovery of several tribes previously unknown.
During the present season I have made a special effort to
clean up the outstanding areas and have succeeded in filling practically
every gap of any siae on my map—in doing which i have driven 4 thousand
miles over all sorts of roads and came near losing the car in a forest
fire at night. However, "All's well that ends well'', and this season *8
work has so nearly completed the field work that 1 expect to publish
during the winter a colored map of northern California, from Monterey
Bay to the Oregon line, showing the tribal boundaries.
Last winter 1 was greatly handicapped in work on the iiears
for the reason that the Museum is so overcrowded that I was unable to
find a place where such large specimens could be arranged for study.
Am expecting to return to Washington in a few days. •
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My dear Mr. V/eeks:
?h£.nk? for ycur comnunicEtion cf the 20th
instant stating that you hare re^^uested the •
President to designate Colonel Lc^^ntee as a
member of the Unite'd 3tater Geographic Boird,
vice Lieutenant-Colonel Bruce Palmer, General
Staff, relieved, I have also received from the"
f»hite House under date of Ncvetriber 21, notice
, that Colonel McEntee has been so designated by
the President.
Thanking you for your attention in the
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Peturning tc V;ashir.gton frcir. the season's
wcrk in C-aifomiE, i find on my desk u copy of
the Report of United 3t£te? Geographic Bc^rd on
3. J. -Re-?. u4, /. Joint Hesclation Tc Zhtme The
Name of "i^cunt E^unier^' to "kcunt Tciccme" And
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Replying tc your letter of the 24th in-
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8 copy of the report of the United Stf.te- 3eo-
gr^-phic Board in regj^rd to the preposed chenge
of nEioe of Kt. Rainier; rnd am returninr sl^o
t^ie letter end circulcr which you enclcned.
Very truly ycurs,
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Dear i::r. ?leming:
ThonkF ^or your lettrr cf thr^ 6th
instsnt, ^hich e^nited my return frcif ^x
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Sorry I '.vep net pfcln tc be pref'ent t:t
the Philrdelphie neetirr, rv,^. hope it w
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ThrrJcf^ for the clippins. Ir. viev; of
thiP re'.7 inhabitant cf th*- /.dirondbcks , a
revision will surely be neccssrry.
v^ith best v'ishes.
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Crlifcrnir i fi'd ycur letter cf the- 13th
inptert. -kirs fcr eertd n -hiceraphicti in-
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Enclosed find my chec> cf $".50 fcr mtscripticn to
?ield and 'itreaia for 1SL5.
Please note : Address lioveL^tor to Lli:^, 151^ lotr: jtrret,
^Eshington.D.C; Uey tc potober inclusive, Liif3uhitj.s,Li.rii. Cc.Ctlif,
Heretofore you h&ve not followed directicr.s vr tc miiiling
address*
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,'^aii you fser.i me fcr cfficial use i complete set of
t:ie Htctici^l mep <?heetc^ cf the "tt-te of Cclifcrnit, so far os issued.
If so, ^lei-'e sdAresf! me at ISIS 16th r'treet , Wa hingtcn.
3?e2^eotfuli/» ,• * . .
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Kiss iU'bertine 3£ndail
Care 3t&r Office
Washirijitcn, D..C.
iJy. dear Hiss ric^ndali:
For seme mouths past 1 hfcve been irrach interested in ycur
admirable .cartoons of the people of Piihbitocrc.
Your succeps in expression tnd attitude leads ne to feel
that ^^cu might be equally preeminent in creating the Animal People
of .our California myths — beings that preceded the Indians as inhala-
tants of the ebrth.
I do not knew 7,ti.ere you live, but would be glad of an op-
portunity to sho?^ you some of the stories and talk the matter C7er
with you.
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?£?adena, Gaiifcmie.
Iv.y iorr ilr. 3arg?5nt:
Thi? is tc ec'-rcvyl^dge ycur letter of October 14th, from
';:hite Hor<?e, YuVon, vrritten '-vher. I v/ss ?till ir Ih^ field in
r.ortliem Colifcrnie. i cuntlnued field v;crk '.Tith Indi.^.ps until
ner.r the niddle of November, r.ni hrve only recently returned to
Vfephington. whi-h i': r:y cpolugy for th^ long deely ir acknowledg-
ing ycur Iftt-r. rnd in thankirg you for the specjnens of grizzly
berrs which, I f;P?iunr, arc awaiting my fcttonticn in the !:aticnal
.Jupe^oin. I hor.e to see them in a very few dr.ys vrs^- will th^n '^rite
you mere fully. ,
Yoa certainly are to be corgr-r^tul^ted on your success v;ith
th*^ berr?, c^rd 1 tm delighted to kno:.' thxt both of the s^^ecirens
sent ere aiult males ^ there being the most difficult to get.
It rw very good of you tc send me the Ic.rge m^p with the
legalities plr inly mr.rked. This is rl^ys b help.
L'-ter on I'shdl, of course, send th^ hiie of one~cf the
cccrs to J. D. Allen, Lendnn. Ilorth Drkots. r.n? the skull tc you
ct Pasudena, i* ccccrdcnce vvith your instructions.
Thr hem vou '-ertion. I will write vou rbo.it v;hen I see
it, but from ycur description it seems tc be certein thvt it
belongs tc me of the extinct sprcies of buffalo, of which a
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number have been discovered in Alaska.
In reply to your inquiry F-bcut thr proper wry to measure bear
skulls, would ^h'j thrt the only field m.etsurements of vrlue Pre the
total length ^nr^ the extreme breadth. ^?hf length is gererrlly trken
IK. -SI*
by hunters along the upward cr.rveA top-line of the skull, w<;ich re-
sults in a faulty measurement. In the case ofXvery large skulls, the
total length, as^published by hunters, is f.illy two inches longer
than the greatest length of skull as measured by re after it has
come to the Iv!useum. The proper vfuj tc make this mee^urcment is by
placing the skull on u board or log and standing a peg vertically
against the- front teeth, and rricther at th^ extreme hird end of the
?kull. The distance in a straight (hcri-rortal) lire between these
tw uprights is th^ ^i^J^J'_-£I*£,^i^ ^^ ^^^- ?kull. This measurement
seems tc afford much sr tisfficticn tc the kiUers of big beers, but
J.t is really of very little scientific interest for the rea<=^cn that
the crest along the tcp of the back part of the skull projects
backward increasingly' for a dor'.en or fifteen yrrr? ^ without bearing
any definite relation to the length of the base of the skull. The
mea-ur*^ mf^nt nr turalists take for purpose^ of comparison is a straight
line between the front teeth and the plane of the occipitrl .icnliiles.
jOfiei'nEmmalogists ignore the c(ndules ^.nd stop at the notch at the crse
of thr- foramen ragnum. But the^e are technical measurements used
only in museums, not in the field.
iou were fortunate to secure such fine rrm heads. Viere all the
sheep you saw whi te , or did some of them have saddle becks?
With many thanks for ycur interesting letter and for your con-
tinued interest iiv inj -vork,
Very truly y"ui\s.
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>^r Shelion:
Hor^r 3rrc,„t. ,hc hunted l,.t fell Ir, l,,e Bonjrt . ^lu,,,
country fr.„ Jul, tc .c-ob,,. Hlled t.c nri = .l, bc.rs .nd
Concern ire the sheep, he ?^:ys;
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- a^/.dra. Q^-^xOO she-^, cf vhich iX le^st 90
. . eve. .al ..nlF. He war net rucce.?ful ir. bfm,'.,
^fter rcne three .e^v. of ..lid h^rtir^g gr.e th.t u,.^ 1 '
thought jcu Ticht le intererted ir, this. •
7ery trjlj jcurr.
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hn? ju^t ro9ched me. nlthtjugli -.vron^^ly i:.idre?red. It .vrs rddrrs'^od
tc rne at Interior Dep^rtr^nt Building, lij perrxn^rt sddrc?*^ i?
1919 - 16th street, washirigton. Lly Furnner address, uFur.lly frcm
i^prii to liovcriber, is Ltgunitrr, Hcrin County, Gt-.lif c*rr. it.
I i.m nuch irter^^pted in the suhi'ect ^tter of t^is pubiice'-
ticn, tind shall le obliged if ycu will enter my nLme a? £ pe mo-
ment subscriber and z^wi. nie a complete set of i^reviou? is: sues, ss
well as these tt) cone, with bill fcr sane.
It see^s unfortunate t!irt ycu have adopted such a lrr£-e size%
for your publicaticn. it i? very disagreeable to handle, arj
7?ill net go 'Tithout folding ir. either octavo or quarto files. Why
not reduce it tc ordinary, letter sheet ri-^e?
\<hilc the^e is n^uch tc critici::e in t-^e workings of the
Indian Bureau, it r»ust be admitted thrt thev are not rerpcnsible
fcr nmy cf the things charged against them.
Very truly yours.
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Brrkfley, Gi-iifcnur.
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In 3f^ptf='nber Irs^t^ wrote you (from I^rrnnit'-c, -.. -^ • .
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■a-^<ir.e ^^^ two coier of r. nrn^r bv > ^lin^r r-^^^ ^
^ii^i^i^iiiini- Ycu returned my l-t^^r i^^'iV- .n^
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net our .uV.ic.tion." .vhi ch grieved me greUly.
^n retan-.inc to Ife. ir^tcn I find that ycu .ere' .vrc.^
Tor t:„„ ., ,, i, .^,,i,,^t> fuu title of .vi,j, j^ „^^^ '
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af iicr ccntrcct end bill cf ever, ir.te.
Tne r,.prr.tur thus frr ir er.tirrly sai^f.clcry r.r.d
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?ay thft 1 cjr. clli^ed fcr ycur pronptness in filllre my
tfnk \nt!. fuel oil, er/l ; .tj enclcFiri^ chock fcr ccu^cn
-took i;. the r.r.ount of ;j.5£.5C. frori -.vhich pletre tear cut
coupons rrcunting tc $L.70. -'^cr enclc-ed stateapnt ju?t
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Dear Mr DorseT:
aereviit>i I am enclosinR mv cheek on the Netiona]
MetronoUtan Bnlik of this cit? for $500 in repayment of advance
for field work in California recieved eerlv Icet .:uly.
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say th/.t 1 an obliged for ycur pronptness in filling my
tenk with fuel oil, and Em enclosing check for coupon
-book in the rmount of ;^52.5C, frcm '.vhich please tear cut
coupons .TTCuntin^ to $^.70, s? per enclosed statement just
received.
Plftcse pend coupon book at ycur corvrnience.
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Mr H. W. Dorsw , .
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Dear Mr D«r«eT:
Herewith I am enclosing hit dbeek on the National
Metronolitan Bufck of this cit? for $500 in repayment of ad
for field tpork in California recieved earlv last July.
4- Verv truly yours.
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Mr N. W» Dorsey, Acoountant
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Dear Mr Dorsey:
Herewith I am enoloeing my expense aooount for NoTefflber»
amounting to $331.04, and also for Zenaida Herriam,as8i8tant»|17«59,
and J.H. Scollick for cleaning 10 Bear skulls. $5.00. which please
pay from the Harriman fund, and oblige.
Very truly yours. U
G. Hart Merriam
1919 16th Street. Washington. D.C.
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Band baggage 20: Street oara 20; aeala 1.50
3 M»ala |3; Street oars .40; 2 dos pencils 1.20
4 Mrala |3; Street oars 35 ^
s yH??**!"!! Cllp.Bttreau:230 Indian Clips in Oot.
o Maals S2; Street cars 35: baggage 20
Cartwri^t Hotel.roo. 2 lays
5 eals ens 90;garage & greese 75
Bejum fare .?airfax-SanFranoi SCO 60; Street
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atreet cars 30; ret fare Alaaeda 36: aeals 1.50
Street cars 25; Return fare S.P.-Palo Alto 2.28
Street cap 30; ■eals 1.50; Hotel porter 25
Oirtwright Hotel, roo«
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StaiqBt enrelopes and postage
Sabacriptiona for 1925:
The Aiu: 4.00
Internat. Journal AM.Iinguistics '.'.'.'. 5^00
Proo lational Aoadeay 5.00
field « Stream 2.50
Bird Lore .............. .1*50
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Honorable I. J. Sinnott. . . , .
Chairnan, OoBiittM on Public lends,
Uonse of Bepresenta tires,
fa^iqgton, D. C* .
My dear Mr. Sinnott:
Hai9 thanks for yonr conrtesy in smding ae 150
copies of the report of the U. S. Geographic Board on
It.Bainier. The package sas aissent to Conneil Bluffs,
low, as yott sill see by the enclosed frank, bnt has now
arrived, for which I am properly thankfal*
The preTioQS batch of 50 copies, irtiich you wention,
noTcr arriTod*
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The ffhita Uonaa.
My daar Mr* Slaap:
Many thanka for your courtaaj in notify iz^ n that tte
Fraaidant has daaignatad Sanaal 1. Bogga, Chiaf of tha 6ao->
graphio Saction of tha JHriaion of Fblitical ani loonoaic
Infomation. Oapartmant of Stata, aa rapraaantati^a of tha
Stata Daparteant on tha U* S« Gacgraphic Boards
Tary tmly youra,
Chairsaa. U. S« Geographic Boards
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lly d«ar Mr. Siaaott;
Haiqr thnks for joar courtesy in flcnding ■• 150
copies of the report of the Q. S* Geogrflphio Board on
It.Baiaior. The package mn aissent to_ConBeil Bluffs,
low, as joa sill seo >]r the enclosed frtnk. hat has now
arritred. for «hi<di I aa properly ttaahkfalt
The preTiow hatch of SO copies, i^ieh you Mntiea.
noTcr arritred*
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Honorable 0* Boscon Slaap,
Storetary to tha Pvaaidant,
The White Uowa*
II7 dear Mr* 31e«p:
Many thanka for year courteay in notifying w that tha
Freaidrat has designated Saanel !• Bogga^ Chief of the Geo*
graphio Section of the BlTiaion of Politleal anl loononic
Inforaation, Sipartnent of State* aa rspreeentatiTe of the
State SepartBent on the U. 3« Gecgraphie Boards
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Mr« 9. f. ishley.
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Washington » D. C«
My dear Sir:
lour letter of the 2nd instant is at hand, stating
that By assistant t Miss Clenencet has kept OTertine three
books borrowed from the Library on October 13«
Miss Clemence teUs ne that ate went to the desk
and extended the time on these three books.
It would be a matter of regret if any of my assistants
at aiy time OTerstepped the Libraxy rales in regard to the
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use of books. I greatly appreciate the privilege that we
enjoy in the use of the Library.
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Dear Mr. Seollick:
I have juat sent in a voucliar in payment of the bear
•kull. cleaned bj jon during last s«»er. as j>er your memo-
randu. rtiich has just been sept in from the Mus.eum.
I haye just read your inquiry concerning your grand-
daughter. I do not know anything a bo.ut the details of •«-
Ployent in the National Geographic Society, except that I
kno. they do employ a nuAer of ^irls. I would. suggest that
your granddaughter make inquiqr at the, Hubbard. Hall.
Very truly yours.
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December 5, 1924,
Mr. Louis James.
Ladoga, California*
My dear Mr. Janes:
Thanks for your letter and the two photographs of
yourself, ihich have just arrired. They are excellent
pic tures .
I am glad you reached homo all right, and am w)nder-
ing *ether or not you went ta San Francisco after you left
us*
We arriwd in Washington about ten days ago and have
just finished putting in a new furnace with oil burner. It
works fine. So far we hate had only a little snow and it
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Please giT6 my regards to George Bill and family.
and Jessf
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Miae K. Boae,
Principal, The Modern School, Delhi,
No« 24, Darya Ganj^
Delhi, India t
Vj dear Miss Boae:
Returning from a season •s field work in northwestern
California, I find your letter of September 9 and acccnpBDy-
ing panphleta relating to your school*
lou have made a strong case in favor of Mr. D. Baja
So far as I am amart, the National Geographic Society
has Dtrer considered the matter of scolarships* HoweTer,
since you have written the President, Mn Grosyemor, it may
come up at the December meting, at irtiich I expect to be
present* It would be a splendid thing if we had sufficient
funds to enable us to help ambitious and capable young men*
ith best wishes.
Very truly youfs*
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far DtMrtaant,
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Dear Sir:
Yory wusj thanks for 70 ar pronptnass in sending me,
in eoaplianoe with «y request of Noreaiber 28. a set of
tactioal asp sheets of the State of California (55 in
moihar), as per inroice in your letter of Decwl>er 3,
just rassired.
In looking over the quadrangles hurriedly I notice
a aoabar of errors . oooeeming which I shal 1 he glad to
sand you a natorandufe a little later. There seens to ha^re
hsen difficulty in aaking Lower I«ks fit the main hody of
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Clear laks.
Ihase Haps are of special interest and Tslne to ne
aa corering gMwad not oorered hy the Geological Surrey
aheets. ind you way he interested to know that I hare ob-
tained fn>« yarious tribes of Indiana in northern Califor-
nia hundreds of naies of rirers, creeks, and aoun tains in
the arvar ooyered by your aapa.
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1250 Bay Street
Alameda, California.
Dear Doctor Stephens:
This is to announce that the Lagunitas branch of the
Merriam tribe arrived in Washington duly and put up with Yernon
and Florence Bailey for the first eight days. During the5?e try-
ing days our house was exceedingly cold, but was the seat of
much activity. The old furnace was dug out and removed and a
magnificent American Badiator Con pony's Heating Machine "Type A**
installed. While this was going on I succeeded in selling my
old No-Kol furnace for $200, and purchased a Gill oil burning
outfit ^ich was set up alongside the furnace and is giving im-
mense satisfaction. The Gill burns a heavier and correspondingly
less expensive oil than the No*Kol and is a vastly superior
machine in numerous respects. The flame instead of rising ver-
tically to the top of the furnace iirpinges against a circular
disc of fire brick which deflects it all around to the lower
part of the sides of the furnace, so that it runs all the way
from bottom to top and then all the way dow» again through
flues in the sides of the furnace before it escapes into the
the
smoke pipe at^level of the cellar floor. There is no fan and
the only noise is that of the flame itself inside the furnace.
The oil burning apparatus is contained in a met^l case alcng-
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in the neighborhood of the furnace. There is no pipe or other
part projecting out from the front of the furnace, as in all
the other kinds of oil burners which I have thus far seen. It,
like the others, is governed by a thermostat located upstairs
in our library, handy to the bedroom door. So we see© to be well
fixed for the winter so far as inside temperature is concerned.
Slizabeth and Zenaida have not succumbed to the prevalent
influenza and are as well as usual.
Last evening Florence and Vernon and one of my nieces, who
is spending the winter with Florence, dined with us.
Thus far we hare had very little rain and we are wondering
how it has been in the Bay region— whether or not you are having
the usual plentiful rains.
1 have not yet been to the Museum, but am informed that
some bear skulls are awaiting my attention there.
We have not forgotten the farewell dinner you and Mrs. Stepheu
gave us just before leaving.
With love to you all from all of us.
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Dear Sir:
* A 4.x*-,. 9S last is an article accon-
In your issue of Octoter 22 lasx
peoied V . reproduction o, a P'">'<«"'* •"'"^•, ^'^,
Lur-Mil, Boad Through Bru-h to Bury I»^" •»7; \^^
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Doctor Charles H. Towns end
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Dear Doator Townsend:
Veiy many thanks for your separate on the Northern
Jlephant Seal just receired. Publications of first-hand
obserrations of this kind, accompanied by such admirable
iU^ttstrations as yours, are among the most raluable contri- ~-
but ions to mammal ogy*
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Chiefs Biological Survey
fifsshington. D. C.
Deer Nelson:
In compliance with your request of the 4th instant,
I have read the manuscript by Sdison Marshall left with
you by Stefansson and hav© written StefanRSon by this mail.
A carbon of my letter to him is enclosed herewith for your
information.
Hoping to see you soon.
Very truly yours.
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Doctor V. Stefansson
American Geographical Society
New York CiV.
Dear Doctor Stefanason:
Dr. Nelson, Chief of the Biological Surrey, has sent m
the enclosed manuscript by Bdison Marshall which you left with
hia a few days ago with the request that I look it over and
write you.
Concerning the statements indicating either an increase or
little if any decrease in several kinds of big game in various
parts of Canada and Alaska, I have no comment to make, the
author's observations agreeing in the main with my views on the
subject. In other words, I have no sympathy with the present-
day outcry against the alleged disq)pear8nce of big game in
areas distant from civilization^
But other parts of the manuscript suggest comment • Per
instance, when on page 3 the author tells uc that a reputable
local druggist (apparently at Medford, Oregon) '^reported seeing
a full grown grizzly bear in this same imnediate area,** why
should he abstain from giving the name of the observer and the
locality where the grizzly is said to have been seen? Such a
record made at any time duripg the past five years would be well
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Near the bottom of page 7 the author speaks of ^the Alaska
bear — the greatest of all grizzlies*" This is a rery loose
statement, for the reason that a number of rery different species
of bears inhabit Alaska • Presumably the species referred to was
one of the big brown bears, but they are not grizzlies* The two
largest grizzlies known inhabit regions widely ranote from one
another, namely, the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska and certain moun-
tains in extreme southern California.
In the same paragraph attention is called to the circumstance
that inhabitants of Alaska ha?e branded the big bears "a menace to
human life.** This he eeemB to regard as a great joke, notwith-
standing the fact that later on he cites a nuidber of instances in
which men hare been killed by Alaska bears. Most of these he be-
lieTes to hsTe been wounded* although he mentions one or two cases
in which the attacks were unprovoked. If he had looked up the
record of unprovoked attacks upon hunters, prospectors, and others,
it would not have been necessaxy to quote the **opinion8** of various
people on the subject. Facts speak plainer than opinions, and
plenty of facts are available.
An error of identification occurs on page 15 (5th line from
the bottom) iriiere the Alaska Peninsula Bear (IZxBJiCLgZSaL) it called
Kadiak Bear (the scientific name of ^ich is Ursus middendoyf f i ) .
About timber wolves:
Personally I have had very little experience with the big
wolves. But for more than 40 years I have attempted to run down
all the reports I have seen of the killing of men by wolves, lAether
in the United 3tates, Canada, or Alaska* The result is that qp to
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authentic case. The great majority of alleged instances are pure
fakes, invented by newspaper reporters. A few years ago ^Bsil SDSL
Qan 2IL Canada** said SO much about the killing of Canadians by wolvf ^
that I wrote a strong protest to the editor, telling him in effect
that if he-knew of any authentic case of this kind it was his duty
to record it with the necessary data, stating when and where the
alleged killing had taken place, and nbo the victim was. He repli
that cases were so numerous he would have no trouble in giving the
exact details of a number. It i? hardly necessary to add that thesv
details never arrived, for up tc the present time, so far as I am
aware, the editor has not made good in a siqgle instance.
A good many authors familiar from childhood with the dangerous
character of the big wolves of lurasia have failed to appreciate tb<
fact, known to all naturalists, that American wolves rarely if ever
attack human beings. I do not go so far as to assert that in Amer«-
ica men have never been killed by wolves, but merely to emphasize
the fact that sudi killings are of exceeding rarity and that the eri
dence is usually defective* We are told tibat Mr. Talbot, Manager cl
Norway House, knows of **one instance of a man being killed.** Why
are we not given the details of so unusual an event?
The manuscript received from Dr. Nelson is herewith enclosed*
With best wishes.
Tory truly yours.
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Poctor 1. V. Kidder
Phillips Andover icademy
Andovor, Massachusetts,
My dear Doctor Kidder:
rn looking over the July-September "Anthropoligist"
I find an interesting article by Miss Ruth Pulton Benedict
on Serrano,,fiyit^:e (pages 366-392). I am anxious to ob-
tain separates 05 this article and shall be glad to purchase
two copies if you will kindly send them to me with bill.
, mc is editor of -Memoirs of the American Anthropolog-
ical Association"?
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Dr. S. W. Nelson
Chief, Biological Surrey
Washington, D. C,
i)ear Nelson:
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A press bulletin from the National Parte Service. "
dated Norenfcer 6. 1924, states that a huge grizzly "bigger
than a cow" has been seen several times in or near Kaweah
Canyon below More Rock. About the end of October a well-
known cattle man of Three Hirers na^ned Alfred Hengst re-
ported seeing this grizzly at close quarters. He said^it
i»a bigger than any cow and looked as though sprinkled with
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Can you not have one of your Survey hunters gather in
this precious specimen ft^r the Museum? You doubtless know
that in spite of the hundreds of grizzlies killed in the
Sierra not a single skull is known tc exist in any collec-
tion from any locality between Walker Basin at the extreme
south end of^ the Sierra and the McCloud River ne^r the north
end. It is^alamity that no one knows the species of the
once abundant Sierra grizzly.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. ff* B. OolbT
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11^ dear Mn Colby:
Tory many thnka for your thDughtfuXness in sanding
M the press bulletin of the National Parks' Serrice,
telling about- the big grizzly seen near Moro Bock. I had
not preTiously seen this item and am Tery glad to hare it
A few days ego I sent you ay report (approved unani-
mously by the Government Geographic Board) on the name of
Mt« Bainier#
With best wishes and ccDpliments of the season.
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Miss Buth Pnlton Benedict
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My deer Miss Benedict:
'"^ The last number of the Americen Anthropologist con-
tains. your sketch of ^Serrano Culture ^ a paper of very great
interest to me. i
On receiving the number I immediately wrote Dr* Kidder,
asking for t^o sepejate copies of your article with bill for
- same. I have this, morn ir;^ received a reply, ptating that
the only separates published were sent you. I am therefore
'"Writing you direct i/i the hope that you may be able to fever
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With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Frank Wcrore
96. St. Peter^s &tre«t
Der^, Snglandr.
De^r Sir:
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thanks for your *I)erby Catalogue No. 23' just
received*
On the back of the front cover I note that you
are advertising three books by Doctor 3. Wallis Budge, at
4a 6d each, namely,, ^Legecds of the Goda,' 'Annals of
Kubian Kings. • 'Hieroglyphic Vocabulary.' ^
1 shall be very glad if you will kindly send me one
c*py of eaiih; of those. A postal note for the amount
(|3^,2iy is encl€f?ed herewith.
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House of Represents tiyes.
My dear Mr. Sinnott:
Thanks for the additional 50 copies of the
Report of the U. 3. Geographic Bojrd on the Proposed
Change of Name of lit. Rainier. I have distributed
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Hon, John ?• Miller
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr, Miller:
Vet-y many thanks for the goodly batch of the
Report of the Geogrtphic Board on the Prorposed Change
of Name of Mt. Rainier* I had exhausted my forrrier
supply and am greatly obliged fcr these. 1 ^iil put
them to good use.
With best wishes,
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Dear Doctor Mather:
Very many thanks for your courtesy in sending me
the Out-O-Door Section of the Stockton Record of December
6, containing a surprising amount of interesting infor-
mation about losemite National Park* I had no idea that
the Stockton paper was giy'iiig so much space to the National
Parks ♦
The article 'Save the Grizzly* by waiter J?ry, appealed
to me and I had just arrived at the intaresting part when
confronted by the words '2iyiti^'^^<L5?_pfige .B* ' Turning to
page 8. 1 'failed to find the rest of the article and a
search of other peges has not brought it to light. . So I am
still left in tantalising uncertainty es to the meat of the
story. ■
With kind regards end best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Miss H. Addicott
Secretary. University Press
Berkeley, California.
My dear Miss Mdicott:
Thanks for your letter of the 10th instant in
regard to the place of publication of Doctor Gcddad's
paper on 'The Habitat of the Wailaki.'
It seems a matter of regret th&t no reprints of
the several articles in Volume XL have been provided.
I shall be glad however if you will send me the whole
Volume, for which my check for $5 is enclosed, in ac-
cordance with your memorandum.
Please have it strongly wrapped and addressed to
me at 1919 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. Go
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Dr. P. A. Lucas, Honorary Director
American Museum Natural Historr
_ New York City. . '
Dear Doctor Lucas:
It is good to see your signature again, even though
you are silent as to the subject ^f my article on the
Proposed Change of Name of Mt. Bonier, a copy of which
I sent you some days ago.
I quite agree with ycu as to the high desirability
of correcting the present official name. Muscle Shoals,
but unfortunately this, along with several other very
objectionable names, has been fixed by Congress and is
beyond the power of the Geographic Board to change.
Hiith beat wishes to you all,
Very truly yours,
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Dear Chapman:
Too bad I missed you after you had taken the
trouble to come up to the house. Zenaida and I had
just gone to McMillan's lecture before the Geographic
Society, but Elizabeth was very glad to see you and
much interested in what you told her.
Hoping for better luck next time.
As ever yours.
Dr. Frank M. Chapman
American Museum Natural History
Kew York City
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Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President
National Geogrgphic Society
Washington , D.C.
Dear Doctor Grosvencr:
Herewith I am enclcping the list of uddresses to
which 1 shall be very glad if you will kindly send copies
of the Society's books, as specified in your letter of
the 5th instant and accompanying: blank.
These will make meet acceptable Chris tms? presents
and I regret that extreme pressure of work has prevented
me from attending to the matter earlier.
With best wishes,
Very truly years.
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Deceeiber 17, 1924.
Chi«if Clark
Library of Cotgress
Waahingtoi, D.C,
Dear Sir: -
Will you kindly have photo-dupiioatea
made for me of the foilowir^ material . sending me both
positiTes and n«^gati▼eB:t-M--lL''^■^ i^^'hI
in article by AlphonBe P^p^r^ entit
Calif omiena: Sur }^ TchQlovenes de Chepr^a. published
in Reyue de Liiagui.tpqya et d. PhiJ^ologjfl Qg^^j^^^
Yol, 27. Dt).7?-ay..Pari». 1894.
In accordance with instruction* in Uecioranduni from your
office. I am enclosing my check for $2.70 in payment
(9 pages, negative and pooitire at 16 cents each), ai^
shall be obliged if you wi]l send me a receipted bill for
the same.
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Col. Lawrence Martin, Chief
Map Division, Library Congress
'fVashington, D. C.
Dear Colonel Martin:
Please pardon my delay in sending you the title of
Gibbs Map of Northern California of 1851 (of which I have
a photostat copj^ 1 have been exceedingly busy and have
only just looked up the map. It is entitled ^Sketch of
the Northwestern part of California, accompanying a Jour-
nal of the expedition of Col. Redick McKee, U. S. Indian
Agent, during the sunmer and fall of 1851, by George Gibbs.'
The original is on file in the Indian Office. Written
on it in pencil is the following location: Map 47, Tube
123.
So far as I am aware, no map of northern California of
corresponding date (1851) approachea it in accuracy of loca-
tion of Klamath, Smith, Trinity, and numerona other rivers;
of Clear Lake, the largest lake in the State, and of some
of the mountains. And furthermore, it shows the locations
of a number of the old trails in use in the early mining
days, and of four very large Indian reservationf rou^ly
surveyed by Colonel McKee and Geoiige Gibbs, but not confi
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To those of 08 who hare to do with geographic names
it is worthy of note that the nain South Pork of Kel Riyer
(now trarersed by the Bedwood Highway) is called'Kelsey's.
BiTer; Treka/Shasta Butt. Cit/; Stony Creek. 'Stone Creek';
Littl. Lake (Willits) 7alley.*BetuBki Valle/; Long Valley.
•B.-ti«Hia-kia'7alley: Ten Mil, Birer.'Marons Hirer'; Ukiah.
•Parker's': Hopland.*F«lix'; Healdsburg.'Pitch's'; CobbMt..
•Putos )Ll, Mt. St. Helena/Mt. St. Helens'; Mt. Konokt i . «'Mt .
McKee'Cafter Redick McKee, leader of the expedition).
It is of both geographic and zoological ioterest to
note that the mountain called Sheep Rock in the gold mining
days was in Soott Valley on the west side of the mountains
that separate Scott Valley from Shasta Valley; whereas, the
Sheep Rock of more recent years is iaenediately north of Mt.
Shasta, «»hL.*Ju- A, ^*^ Vv<CivA.(>*-^, •
Taken all in all, the map is of more than ordinary
hflftoric interest.
With best wishes,
Vory truly yours.
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Dear Sir:
Your article on the Burial of an Old Indian
Woman, published in the San Diego Union of October
22 Hst. gives the naae Sfifiita as th«t of the tribe
to which the wonan belonged.
The editor, on inouirv han oi-«*«
. iuquiry nas given me your name
"d Mdr..,. oa. jon tell .e *.re ;^„ ,„g „p t^.
n.« Sagiu? It 1, „^ .„ ^ ij,j „^ ^^ ^_^^
™«.. of OaHfc^i. Indian triba, and r»ch.rl...
I thought that poaaibi, it „ight ha,, bean a .ia-
print for BseUj. , ,„„ ,^j.^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^,^^^^^
Very truly yours.
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National Park Service
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. McClain:
Very meny thanks for your courtesy in sending me
a copy of the Stockton Record of December 6, containing
Judge Pry's article on 'The Last Grizzly.' On receiv-
ing it I was interested to know how I could have over-
looked the continued part of the article, on page 8, and
on looking up the papers sent me by Mr. Mather find that
the page 8 sent ne belonged to a later issue of the same
paper.
I am very glad to have the completed article, and
also the article on General Beale. -
Very truly yours.
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Chief flying Eagle
Kxecutive Secretary
imeriean Indian Association
Denver, Oolorada
Bear Sir:
lour letter without date reached me thia morning
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U Bai„.er I think y„u .ui adnit that you ha,e been i„poaed
upon by eome of th. mieleading and untruthful circular, dis-
tributed bv aome of the adrocat.a of Tacoma.
P.-cna familiar »ith .y attitude on Indian affair,, partic-
larly .„ rcgani to Indian geographic namea,. ,ouZd n„,er accua.
M. of favoring any other name in caae, *er, en ab.riginal
Indian name could mth ju!.tice be adopted.
I>uring the 20 year, in *ich 1 have been a member of th.
•...emment Geographic Board I have ,„ifo™i, „,,, ,„, ,^.„
n.™, in all ca.e, .here an honeat argument could be ,.d. for
their adoption. Md in a number of caae, I have aucceeded in
>.a«ci„g the Board to ,ub,titute an Indian nam. for-the current
Kn, l,h name, ,., for instance. Xettint.lbe for Phillioavill..
Kenteachobe for llyer,. «ntoo„ Butte for Black Butte, and a. on
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change de not ask for a resteretion of any of the real
Indian names of the mountain (such as Tiswauk and P'ak-
hou-ka), -but demand that the name of the City tf Tacoma
be attached to it in place of the name it has borne on
maoa and in geographies for the pest 130 years.
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December 22, 1924.
0»ar Grinnell:
Thanks for your letter of the 16th instant r .•
appointed in not seeinp you -vhn; ' '"''^"*- I was dis-
better luck dur.n ''" '''' '^^•' '"^ h°P« f-
•-er iucit during your next visit.
^lad you reganJ my Let article on iit t,,.,,,
wincing. J hear th«f « i^amier as con-
e i near that many New Yorkers ars ir, ^
Taooma. by the way is still . '' °' ^''=°"'^-
, Of misrepresentation. -'-^peign
% season's work in CoHf^
worjc m Oalifornxa was most fruitful Pn^ „• .
i?factor7— as i« oi * ^ruxitul and sst-
^ as IS almost certain to be the cace in t« • ,
work tBViflr, «« 1 ^® ^" terminal
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«niong other things I wao oki» *
distribution Of tribo. I'T' """'"^ "^ "=^ "^ ">«
-a in th. 00 Jt ' b ''""--'^™ part of the State,
ine country between Russian River ^nri fK ..
CMod in finding in s.p,„,. ^,,,,^ " '"^ °°"" '-
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pxetion 0. the Modesse History of th« n«;
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first chapters of which I obtained 18 years ago. In 1&23
I worked with the aged historian of the tribe for nearly
two weeks "snd nearly completed the history, but still
- lacked the fir.t chapter-that dealing with the creation.
This year I camped et the eld man's place and in about
a week secured the missinp; parts, so that now the story is
complete. There is enough of it I think to make a comforta-
ble little volume by itself.
With kindest regards and greetings of the season to
yourself and Mrs. Grinnell, in which krs. Kerriam and Zenaida
• join.
As ever yours,
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Professor J. Russell Smith
Swarthnore, Penngyl7ania
% dear Professor Smith:
Please pardon my delay in replying tc your letter of
November 29. which arrived about the time of my return from
the season's field work in California. Since then I have
had to put a new furnace in my house and have been over-
whelmed with all sorts of work so that it has been impossible'
to find the negative of the photograph you asked for. namely, i
a grcnite boulder containing a number of mortar holes in ^
which th^Kewuk Indians of California pound their acoms in- '
to flour.
lou are more than welcome to the use of this photograph
and I will send it on if I am lucky enough to find the neg-
ative within a few days. But possibly you could obtain a ,
duplicate electr. by writing direct to Dr. Gilbert Grosvanor. ^
Editor of the National Geographic Magazine.
Begretting that I have not been able to attend to the
matter more promptly,
Very truly yours.
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Mr. Stephen Knight
Ukiah, Gplifornia
Dear i^r. Knight: ^ ^
Day-bef ore-yesterday I went to the office of Colonel
Wise to inquire about the Karuk case. Colonel Wiw was not
in, but his atifFistant, Captain Bonnin (husband of our friend
kra. Bonnin) told me that the case had been argued before
the Court of Appeals but that no decision had yet been ren-
dered and might not be rendered for some time to come.
Captain Bonnin said that Colonel Wise had made a fine argu-
ment and he thought the Court was much impressed. But owing
to the Isrge ?um of money involved and the precedent that
would be established it is feared that the "Court will try to
find some legal reason for refusing the claim. However,
until the decision comes we will h^ope fcr the best.
Since returning home I have had to put a new furnace
in ly house, which was a big job and also a very expensive
jobo I am now at work on the results of last season's field
work and hope to finish in time to go back to California in
the early spring.
With kindest regards and greetings of the season to
yourself and familj^iji which Mrs. Merriam and Zenaida join,
V«ry truly yours.
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Mr. P. A. Barrett
Forest Serrice
San Franciatfo, California
My dear Mr. Barrett:
Many thanks for your letter of the Sth instant
in regard to the delay in completing the contour maps
of the Modoc and California Forests. I shall be very
glad to profit by thera i*en they are ready and can
readily appreciate the many difficulties in the way of
their completion^
in case the Forest Serrice should issue eny new
editions of any of your maps during the present winter.
I should appreciate copies* _
With test wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. Charles i. Allen,
San Geromimo, California
Mf dear Mr. illen:
Thanks fer your letter which came yestenlay. We
•re sorry to learn that you hare had such miserable
leather and that you hare taken cold. You.did not
"y anything about rain and we are wondering whether
or not you have had rains since we left.
Thui far, we hare had a very fair open winter, but
hare had plenty of trouble as we had to take out our
old furnace and put in a new one. New out house is
warm again and we are hoping it will continue so duriiig
the rest of the winter.
Our elder daugJiter. Dorothy, has just come with
her two children to spend the holidays with us and we '
are mighty glad to see them.
With best wishwi^to Mrs.^AlUB^anrt yourself.
Very truly yours.
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December 22. 1924.
Publisher. Outdoor Life
1824 Curtis Street
Denver, Colorado
Deer Sir:
On June 26 last I mrote you askingUo^change
my summer mailing address from 1919-.16th StreetTwash-
ington, to Lagunitas. California, and to .ch^ge back
to the old addre88~1919-16th Street-^with the November
number. Not having received the magazine since I left
California, I am wondering whether or not you forgot
to change the address.
Very truly yours.
Publisher, Scientific Monthly
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Dear Sir:
On June 26 last I wrote you asking you to change
my summer mailing address from 1919-16th Street, Washington,
to Lagunitas, California, and tojchgjnge bac^ to the old
address — 1919-16th Stre-et — with the November number. Not
having received Scientific Monthly since I left California,
I am wondering whether or not you forgot to change the
address.
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Dear Sir:
On June 26 last I wrete you asking you to change «y
summer mailing address from 19IMdth Street, las-hington,
to Lagunitas, California, and to change ba^ to the old '
address.-lS19-16th Street-in Norember. Not having receired
Science since Heft California. 1 «, wondering ,*ether or
not you forgot to change the address.
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herewith I em handing you my expense account for the
month of December amounting to ?57,71» ^ith accompanying
^ubvcuchers, and voucher for Buth G. Hall for services
as' stenographer December 8 to 31, ^inclusive, ^100, which
kindly pay from the Kerriman i?*^and.
Am also enclo'sing bill from N, K# Minnix Company of
this city for a large steel seal- joint safe and 2 steel
filing cabinets with accompanying fittings, airounting in
all to $466.34, which I v=?hall be obliged if you will pay
direct to the Minnix Company.
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Dr, Witmer Stone
Ph^Snif-^^^^^^l Sciences
^ftaadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dear Doctor Stone:
"'Sny thanks for your address on "^v,= n ■ ..^ .
•' ouuress on ihe Omitholcpv of
Today end To.orrow^ end your interesting paper on Jtanical
-t. the.. ,he paragraph referred to you will p^bably ^ess
- advance is th. one .nifying if not actually decrvi .t
^.portance of eoUectin, specimens. I «. .ost e^phaUca^ly
^f tne oppos.te opinion. I do not .elie.e that a naturalist
wa,» ever made without the actual field .^^nc.-j
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ing specimens. The idsR thnf .. -»
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<ient t. »h.-o-,„',„, ; " ""'laration «« thrills inci-
to become morp fhor»^^® ^
ome more .har ^ mere vaoont shadow of ah ^..ot o
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indeed painful to me to ser you efUr . .
«^^,i ^ ' • ^^^ ''^"^ '<^n^ and succesy^ul
achie^ment as a aoUor'-ry „-♦ ^V'«'Sv-ui
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Rno"^h of this, but my system rebels sgsunst the point of
view ycu hare allowed yourself to be inveigled into.
'••he only other point in your address tc' which I do not sub-
scribe is Iour^_f8jjyi_Jn_tJhe„ny;^rn8U^
Apart from these, I agree with practically everything you
haTe «aid-and you have said a good deal end said it most admir-
ably ani interestingly. And I enjoyed also your article on Leidy.
'(Si th best wishes.
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Dr. P. W. Hodge
kuseum of the American Indj an
New iQvk Uity
Dear Doctor Hodge:
Doubtless the big snowstorm kept you fron coining to
the Anthropological meeting. I whs greatly disappointed
end still hope, that you will cor>e here ai some tijr.e during
the winter. I am arxicua to show you the ethnological
v'^sults of my field wo'rk in California during the past 30
odd years.
Thaiiks for your courtesy in sending ire a carbon of
your reply to GongressTnan Albert Jc'inscn»s letter on the
proposed change of name of Mt. Spinier. It ,^^0*^8 without
saying that I am highly gn^tified with your reply and am
grateful to you for sending me the corresTJondenee.
Vtith best wishes.
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Hon. Stephen T. liather
Director, Nationel Park Service
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr» Mather:
Again I em obligeS to yon. for another copy of
the Stockton Record ccntp.iring interesting matter ebout
the animal life of some of the lictional Perks..
1 am no^ in touch with iLv. Reynolds end hope to
Drcfn by futurB noten along the Fame lines.
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Thanking you for brirp.ing the mEtter tc rny attention
and Tvith be^ft wishes.
Very irulv ycurs.
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Mr. G. S. Reynolds
^^§J5S ^ij«r, Stoclcton Recoril
Stockton, California
My dear Mr. Raynolda:
Thanks for your letter of December 27. with accompany-
ing copies of the Recorf. The trouble with the paper 8ent
«• by Mr. Mather containing Jud^e j<rye»s article was that he
sent parts of papers of two different dates and the page
called for belonged to a later i.sue than the one containing
the first part of the article. Howerer the matter is now
«11 straightened cut and I here conplete copies of the sereral
hear articles, and also of the historical artici; on General
Beele. which I am very glad to hare.
In respect to the article you sup^est on California
grizzlies, would say that I am now so overwhelmed with accnmu-
leted work that I cannot do anything in this line at present,
but later may be able to send you something.
I must confess to a feeling of amazement at the size
and character of the Record. It seem, hardly credible that
Stockton can support such a large and excellent paper.
I should be glad to subscribe for the Out-0-Door Section
of the Record, containing natural history and historical matter
relating to our national forests and national parks.
'^ery truly yours.
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TO THS UNITED STATSS GBOGRAHIC BO/.RD
I'ellow Members:
I hereby tender my resignation as a member of the Board.
During the past 15 years, owing to pressure of other work,
I have again and again felt impelled to resign, but for the
past decade this feeling has been in a measure offset by the
unfortunate circumstance that I was the only^m^r of the
Board who had served among the long line of explorers in re-
mote parts of the far West, where for more than a quarter of
a century I had conducted field explorations, chiefly by
means of pack outfits and saddle horses.
Now, advancing age, in connection with the rather appalling
realization that there is no hope of living long enough to com-
plete and publish more than a fraction of the volumes on which
I am engaged, makes it imperative to cut out as much outside
work as possible. The increasing pressure of my more important
lines of work is my only reason for re^■igning.
The Bccrd during the 35 years of its existence has done a
very large amount of useful work, and beyond question will con-
tinue the good work far into the future. I leave you with many
regrets and with best wishes for the future.
ci.'w-. ';
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^our letter of the 5th instant n«f ^ •
tv,« . instant, notifying me that at
the recent meeting of th- a»« • o
I ™» . . American Society of Naturalists
I was elected President for the year 1925 •
tinot shock. ^* ^^^"^ ™« « ^^^-
I em an old man with pn im«^
■'or th>, , ^"* ■"' '" ''°^« f" Publication.
■ or this rotson I h^re b,e„ ^^-^^^^ .
; '"'■ ''^ "°" -""' --Pl» Of ...hich i. „, re,i...
Of S " '"" " "°" ' ""' "^•^' '•PP--'»l7 half
„V ^^^-^ '" «'" ->-^ '" ='="fo.ia, and d„H„g t^a
volumes, and vou ,>?« «« --i ^^ ou
you oan easily see that a man of 70 n?no4 * .
nf Kio *.- . . ' "■' ''^ wast put all
Oi nis tiine into his work- if h^ u y^^ an
T u . ■^'^ ^°P®^ ^0 see much of it n,:b
lished over his own name. P"^^"
^our letter implies that tho PresiH«nf k ..
.. *^"'' -resident should sttpn^
meetings of the Sxecutive Com™,-f.
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ueeting^ These responsibilities would make it impracticalDlo
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^n California until Deceinber. rience, wit'-- appreciation of
the hcficr intended and mth genuine regret, I feel obliged to
daolin*i?«
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Mr, Vilhjalinur Stefanspon
American Geographical Society
New York City
Dear Mr. Stefansson:
Re;;lying to your inquiry in regard to the difference
in habits between the big wolves of Kurasia and those of
North America, would say that there is no doubt whetsver
that Eurasian wolves from earliest times hay^ been in the
habit of killing people. The literature on this subject
if so extensive and the recorded cases so numerous that
the matter is not open to question. At the present time,
owing to the long-continued use of firearms, it would be
natural to suppose that such cases are much less iVequent
than formerly. Lydekker in his 'Royal Natural History,'
(Vol.l, oege 498, published in 1894) states: "In the year
1875 no less than 161 persons fell victims to theise animals
in Russia.''
In 'the first part of my 'llsmmnls of the Adirondacks*
(published in 1882 in the Tranf'actions of the Lirnaeen
Society of New York), I said, amorig other things: **Comp8ra-
tively few wolves are now to be found in the Adirnndeckg,
though twelve years ago they were quite abundant, and
used to hunt in packs of half a dozen or rnore^ • . • Th-
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««ou«t Of ncis. that-* single Wolf is capable of .
i- simply astonishing and .anv • '"'"^''^
lore ow« t. • . "^''"^ '^''^'' «f camp
-Lure owe their onoin ^r^ ^\^' ^ ^'^-ly
•v-** *^iigin to this fp^f 11^ ^ ,
thA inv,^- -i V,' ' ®"° remained in
T;ne inhospitable shelter n' -ifo
«nf • • . scrawny branches for an
least fifty fierce and hunprv VVolvp, v,
fv,« , ^-^ »<0i7es, when, in realitxr
there was but one. and (as its tracks aft 1
it wa*. «n fK * ^ its cracks afterwards oroved)
It was on^the farther side of a laW « -, "
away,- * ''''"P^* ^^ '"^l^s
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t« f», TV literature on Sura5?ion Wolves
' - »ur, you .ill „„, , ^„,, ,,^^ ^„ ^^^ ^^^,^^^_ '■
ng to., expe„,„o.. the .olf i, ,3th,r solitary. * .i„,i,
one or a oair wm k-. .p ^ ^ - ingj^
pair will be found' bv themc^^lvM ^
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prentiful than they sre."
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B.plyin6 to your Utt. ^^^^^^ ^.^^^_ ^_^^^„„„h „
,ouU 33, t..t ,o» =.™ t» • ,„,,,,,, .... .„at
,ou ac.no,l,de. th. oonj ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^_ ^„, ,„ .
,,th-toant TBC0,a . ' .hyoO- --^_ ^_ ,_ ^^^^^^,. „ B„„a on
nothing -bout the r.jort of -^ ^ ^^^ ^^_^^ ^^^_ ,
th. nan» of Uount Ra.nxor, - ' — .^^ Association. .
,o„ announce that J-- " ^^, ,,,,, of truth.
„Ue,. in truth and con=>d.r fac ^^^^^^^
■ ThTs leada ona to aak .h, ,cur lotter
. ,tat.».nta that ar. not true. ^^ ^^^^^^ „„.
Bafarrlng to Uount Kair.ar ycu ,^ ^^^ ^^^^
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,„e=tiona.l, had a na.e for t ^^^^^^^ _. ^,
„j ,WiU.ation it has been lo-t. ^^^
«^t nn the name ol ti'«
you h8d read my report on - mountain by
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^ould have seen on peg neiphborhood.
,o,eral trihea of Indian. !.'>"«- '^ ^^^^^ ^^ ,,,
-— ^'^"t"i:r!:oJn.inethatth.na™
State of ■.Va.hington .n ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^„, „, 3n
g^i^ be changed. ^ ^^^^ „{ «,»
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senJt you (and of which another copy is enclosed herewith)
you majr ^ejbetter able to understand why the request of the
Alftf^hington legislature was not granted by the Government
Geographic Board*
In your letter you say^ "If your organization went ahead
your
with its opposition to Indian names, you would haveAWork cut
out to change 1/3 of the names of states, cities, Mountains
and rivers in this country.** Do you think this quite a fair
statement in view of the fact that during the 20 yeersjn
which I have been a member of the Geographic Board^ Indian
names have many times been adopted -in place of English names,
and that no member of the Board has ever recoirr.ended the dis-
placement of 8 definite Indian name by an English name?
Your final statement, written on the margin of your
letter, that ''Rainier is not even known in English history''
shows a pitiful ignorance of British history and of the encly-
clcpedias ar^ biographies treatimg of the eminent men of trie
world.
Do vou khink it beccir.e?- a man to announce in the bepfinning
of a letter that he is a believer in truth and then go on
to. make statements which are wholly contrary to truth?
Hoping that ycu will do better next time,
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Adin, Celiforni^
My dear Friend:
Your letter about the re94;rictions put ^Indians by
the Oalifomia game laws is very distressing, but I do
not know of any jvay in which I can help you.
In ray opinion, Indians are entitled to the right to
hunt and fish for food wheufijer necessary, but, unfortu-
nately, our state laws do now recognize this right. In
California and many other states Indians are arrested
the same as white men if they kill game or catch fish
contrary to the game laws of the state in which they
live. I wish it were in my power to help you in this
matter, but it is not.
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Ycu and your friends will be glad to know that it
now looks as if Congress vculd give Indians the right to
bring suit in the Court of Claims for damages for loss
of their lands. This may not be done during the present
short session, which ends i^iarch 4, but I am told that -
if it fails this winter it is pretty sure to go through
next winter. This is good news.
Mith kindest regards to your Tamily end friends,,
Very truly yours.
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Mr. Howard i^Wuet
PM rf ^T^ '**^5''"^-«ss Club
^Hiledelphie, Pennsylvania
Dear Mr. i<\iguet:
Beplying tc ycur kind invitaticn to attend the
Annual Dinner of the Wilderness Club. Saturday, the
17th instent. I regret very much to be oblif-ed to
decline. Owing tc my age and the condition of my
health. I have had tc cut out diversions of this
sort.
I should preatly enjoy listening to Mayor Collins'
account of his rec»»,f f>.^„ *« »* • ^ ,
*'-t trip to Africa, end also the
pleasure of again meetinp » „„„v«^ ^^
^ '' number of your members.
With best wishes for a finb
regards ,
"eeting and kindest
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My dear Mr. Colby..,
Again I a. ™,„ „tii^„„„, ,„ _^^^__^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
letter of December 13. What vou tell .e about the kmir.of
a -Prosed Grizzly Bear at Hor,e Corral i„ ta^.t, jj^^. ■.,
r' -i»«-t and I hopa it i, net too late to .ubatantiate
the recor . A glance at the akull ,c.ld tell the tal. beyond
the eaghteat posaibility of doubt. Md furthermore, t.a
. value Of this Skull ia beyond .rda to e^preaa. Tou »y not
-U.e the aad faot that of the hundred, of Gri..liea Hlled
t a .,„„, „„, „,„ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^
e«st :n an, ™aau» or private collection f,.. the entire
-erra region between Walker Baain on the south and McCoud
H-er on the north, .nd since the norths™ and southern '
ZT: ."" *"^^' *'"^-* f- one another, no one kno„
w.^at species inhflhifn/i fK« ,• *. .
r « innaDited the intervening region. -
bear, ha,s succeeded i, bringing together in the National
Museum more than 2.000 skulls nf r- • -, •
Bear. n. n v ^".^lies end the Big Brown
i^ears of Alaska, aanv of f>,«o- k„ v
'^any of these have been presented by snorts
2 - other,, but the „a.ority ha,e been purchased' frl
hu^te. and trappera. In the pu^.aae of these you .ay ba
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surprised to know that I have expended more than $20,000
of the i?und kindly placed at my disposal by Mrs. B. 11.
Harriman.
As a result of all this, our Keticnal tiuseum contains
.more bear skulls than all the other museums of the world
put together, so that for ell time to come naturalists
wishing to study th'^ species of American bears will be
obliged of course to make their studies in the National
Museum. And it goes without saying, that every specimen is
carefully labeled with the exact locality where killed,
the sex, when known, and the name of the collector and donor*
In view of all this, you may realize how earnestly I
am hoping that iir, Jesse B. Agnew will secure and present to
the Museum the skull of his big bear from Horse Corral*
Glad to know that you agree with the Government Geograph-
ic Board in regard to the name of Mount Rainier, Less than
c week apo we had a hearing on the subject before the House
Committee on Public Lands, but they have not yet voted.
Yes, 1 have already read parts of Dr. Bade's 'Life and
Letters of John Muir,* and hope. to read more in the near
future. It is a fine contribution and shows what a or eminent
part Muir had in conserving our most magnificent forests.
As ever yours,
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iJr. William Edward 3olby
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% dear Mr. Colby:,
^galn I ™ ™,„ Obligation, to yo„-f„. ,our tho^tm
Ltter Of fleoenb^r 18. Wh.t you toll „o ab„„t tho kiUi~of
a sup.»„d Grizzly Soar at Hor,, Corral i„ i^,,, ,^. .,
"" '"*"■"*'"' '"^ ' ""^ » " -t too lat. to .ubatantiat.
tho recor^. . ,uno, at the akuU w^ld tall th. t.l. b.yo.d
the aaghtaat poaaibility of doubt. And furthe^oro. th.
. r.U, Of thi, atoll ia beyond „rda to axpra... Tou „y „ot
-U.. the a.d fact that of th. hundred, of Griz.lia, lined
» t . S.erra. not e™ the fraa.,nt of a atoll i. too™ to
«.3t ^n any .uaeu. or private ooUaction f„. the enti™
'Sierra region between WaUer Ba.in on the aouth and MoOUud
"•"r on th. north. .„d ,i„e. the northen, and aouthem -
.pec.., are *olly di.tinot fro. one another, no on. too„
wnat species inhflhifaH fK- • 4. — *r-
i- «3 innabited th« intervening region. ^
bear, , ha,e auco.ed.d i, bribing together in the Rational
Bear, of *la,to. ^ny of the,, te.. b.en pr.ae„t.d by .port,
- and other.. ,„t the ^a.ority ha„ been puroha.ed U
bunt.™ and trapper.. 1„ the pun*aae of the.. yo„ .., ,.
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of the Fund kindly placed at my disposal by Mrs. B. H.
Harriman.
is a result of all this, our National Museum contains
more bear skulls than ell the other museums of the world
put together, so that for all time to come naturalists
wishing to study the species of American bears will be
obliged of course to make their studies in the National
Museum. And it goes without saying, that every specimen is
carefully labeled with the exact locality where killed,
the sex, when known, and the name of the collector and donor*
In view of all this, you may realize how earnestly I
-am hoping that Hr. Jesse B. Agnew will secure and present to
the MTiseum the skull of his big bear from Horse Corrals
Glad to know that you agree with the Government Geograph-
ic Board in regard to the name of Mount Rainier. Less than
0 week apo we had a hearing on the subject before the House
Committee on Public Lands, but they have not yet voted.
Yes, I have already read parts of Dr. Bade*s 'Life and
Letters of John Muir, • and hope. to read more in the near
future. It is a fine contribution and shows ?*iat a orominent
part Muir had in conserving our most magnificent forests.
As ever yours.
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Washington , D. Ce
Deer Mr. Dorsey:
I ha.e just gone over your account of expenditures
under the Harri.an ^d during the past year and ha.e
cheolced it up with .y account, .fter .aking a couple of
mnor corrections kindly pointed out by you, the two
accounts agree exactly to thn penny.
I am very much obliged for your statement and apo^e-
c:ate your courtesy in attending to it so promptly.
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iiiy dear iiiss Eastwood:
Glad you liked the Book of i?'lowers, although there
is not much in it relating to the Westcoast flora.
V/e were all delighted with the flowering mau^ajaitas
you took the trouble to send at Christmastime. They are
always a joy and have the advantage of lasting a long
time.
Some of the huckleberry and redwood Zenaida brought
back with us, and which have been kept in water ever since,
are still fresh and attractive, and the huckleberrv has
actually put out new buds.
rt seems incredible that you have found close to a
hundred species of flowers in bloom on Tamalpais in December.
What a contrast to conditions here, where our whole city
and surrounding country are enveloped in snow. Yesterday
th« snow turned into sleet, resulting in dangerously icy
sidewalks end streets^
With best wishes and greetings of the season to ycu
and your associates,
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Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, California
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Publisher, Outdoor Life
Denver, Colorado
Many thanks for your courtesy in sending me
duplicate copies of Outdoor Life, beginning with the
November number.
Herewith I am enclosing check of $4 in payment
of subscription for the usual two copies of Outdoor
Life for the year 1925.
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Mr. Laurence M. Huey
Natural History Museum
3an Diego, California
My dear Mr. Huey:
Very many thanks for your papers on the Elephant
Seal just recei^^ed.
Contributions of this kind, illustrated with such
excellent photographs, are anong the great needs of those
of us who are interested in the chfiracters and life his-
tories of our mararaels. And your ccntributions are the
more valuable because dealing with a species likely to
become extinct in the not distant future.
Your account of the Elephant Seal's proboscis reminds
me of the somewhat similar but more inflatable hood of the
Hooded 3esl (Cjstophora cristate), of which I dissected a
number of heads vrtien surgeon of the PBOTTOS at the Seal
Fishery in February end ilarch^l883. You evidently have
rot seen my account of the so-called 'Hoed' with its immense
nasal cartilages, published in Science. Vol.4, i;o.96.
December 5. 1884.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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JWy dear tor. Knight: ^
Among some Indian clipoinps recently vo. .. .
B,_ . . . • ^^ ^ ^^^®"^iy ^sceired from 38r
irancisco is one Ptetinp th-t »f .
,. . ^ ^ ^* ^ raeet^ng of the Board of "-.n
eration it had been decided to send aru n.. , ^ ■ "'^ ^' ■^'
. „. . ,, another de^eRation to V/a^^h
mgton m the near future. This ctruck n>« «c
t™« ^ ... -^ruck me a? e greet jnipt^ke
Two or three days ago I epoke to Congressman RaW^rtV"^^
He thought it would be the wo... kni .f • ^'''*
14- ^"'^ '^^ ^ mistake for OeHf-v^-;.
Indians to send a delepaMor h.y. ^u- ■ ^ejif.rri.^
V4cxr7^d ,ior, Here thip wi if «>• rf ^ - •»
be decidedly hamfuljo^tf^,^^^ " ^■'■^^ -^-a
J^r. Kaker ha. the caseVTend m re.er. .0 r^.. .
mission for Indians to file . .,it ^n .J ^ ""'' ^^^^
■^^ s - jU m the Court of n-,^,- „.
apparently he believes th^t ^he C^^ ■ ^^'^ ^* '''^■'
at th ^^^^-nnan nf the Comritt«., ;. ,..,
at the present ti-ne av.r.ce to r>-.rfinc f v- ■
«fu , " g'an.mg this Dermi^Hion 5-,
other words, my innrecoi^^ ^. ^ ' "^
. '-'J xnpres-sirn from v.-hnt he P^ii i- *i,„* .
it po..ibU that the C.„,t c- nu<-.,. . ''"' '" ''"'"'-'.
Ai_ h^ •■■ ' A SI? i. en WAV -^ia V. r,,J J?
the present Cor.gres.. .It.,.,,;, .,, ,^^^_ "" ;'' ^-" •^--
cor... ,= a. e.i o„ Ear- 4. .„ „ ," " "T ' '"'' '""■' '«'
fi'^riQi^ov. 4-u . •••''-•.^,1 l„,r \j,^ ti.Tf- t-(
<-vn55id.er the cape at f-Kia n_,. , — - '• ■*
sure that he can out it -. u "^ ^^^"^^^i'^'lv
^an put It through aurinx' thr next -.
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•^as 76ry decided iri'fexpres.irg the view tjia^ Jai i^o mja
iGdiim8_c ught no t. to |eopardi ze ^ thei r. c_ase j^Jen_di;^^
enfftHer delegation to •tVa^hinpton.
In trj'ing to -clean up accfumulated papers on my desk,
I here cPine across the photographs I took of you and Gillis
St ,r;y place two or three years ago.. Ihad intended to have
enlargements inade and sent you but the negatives were^o
poor that it did not seen, worth while, so I am enclosing
the snail prints in order that you may see for yourself.
If you cere to-lia-^e any of the^. enlarged I will, of course,
attend to the natter.
I am enclosing a memorendm concerning certain small
'^eiUys on Rursian River ?outh of your p]£ce. Can you give
me their names in your language?
Uth bcsl wishes to ycurself. Mrs. Knight and the children,
in i;?hich k!rs. ilerriam and r-y daughter Zenaida join, and with
kind- r-membrancos to Lr, Benson and Mr. Boseton,
Very truly yours.
you probably have heard of the adverse decision in the
Karok case. This is sad. though not entirely unexpected.
Captain Bonnin told me over the phone that they would probably
appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
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5^^s- i-svinia VerriH Howe
4Uy Mgewocd Averwxe
New Havan, Connecticut
My dear Mrs. Howe:
iour long and interesting letter came this mcminp
end I hfl.e just turned it o.er tc my sister. Mrs. Verncn
Bailey, who. unlike myself, taows some of the people v^ho
are interesting themselves slang the line of .vcrk «hich
you^are doing. If she succeeds she will write you.
With best wishes,
^ery truly yours,
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enuary 14, 1925
T > Herbert Lee
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our 'letter of December-28 has been forwarded to me from
iolofjical Survey, in reply would say that owincr to the
sily of economizing on expenditures for specimens, I
not been purchasing any beer skulls for a long time and
able, to pay the high prices I used to pay. "At the same -
I ghould be glad to obtain the two skulls of male bears
3ntion from near Long Bay on Ohichagof Island and if you
CO sell them for this price would pay $12 each, assuming
hey tre in fairly pood conditio!^ • . -^
itr beet wishes ,
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Guatsy, "California
• % dear ilrs. Miller:
"hanks for ycur lett«r of tb« Pfw • .
regard to the name liapito I «». i .
. , iit£€-U£. I am glad to knew H^
Very truly yours,
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Bev. P. G. Collett
Indian Board of Cooperaticn
3 City Hall Arenue
oen Francisco, California
My dear Mr. Collett:
Your circular letter in regarxi to The Indian Herald
ha. just arrived and i hasten to enclose my check of $2.50
for two. copies of the paper or magazine for the ensuing
year. ^ -
& ^hort tii^e «go I'saw in a newspf.per clipping the
statement that the Board of Cooperation was planning to
send another delegation of Indians to .Washington during
the present session.
I was sorry to see this, believing that such a delegP-
ticn would necessarily cost a good deal of mon.y without
prospect of doing good to th. cause. A few days ago I
happened to meet Mr. Raker and he expressed in very posi-
tive tenns his feeling th.tjhe cause would be injured
instead of helped by the presence here of a delep.tion of
California.Indian.. He tho-ught : t might be possible to
put the Court of Claims bill through during the present
,short session, and seem.ed to feel that if it did not go
through at this time it would likely be passed next winter.
I was pained to leern of the adverse decisirn in the
xi.flr<}){^
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Mr. Lewis Jaraes
Ladoga, California ^ :
Deer Mr. James:
We are now in the midst of winter and the ground
is covered with snow and ice, all of which makes .me
wish myself hack in California. ^
In the course of a few weeks you will be having
spring and I am wondering if you will he ahle to get
me a specimen of the Choc-he X plant. I want very much
to see it. Perhaps you could fold it up and send it
in the enclosed envelope. Do you remember vitiat tirr>e
of year it usually comes up?
with best wishes to you all,
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Mr. Lindslev W. Ross
ii'ditor, Liazama
Portland, Oregon
^y dear ilr. Boss:
The January number of 'Uazaine' reached me e few
minutes ago. In looking it crer I find under the title
•/. Note of Warning' a statement of much interest to me.
Authentic records of cougars attacking people are
so extremely rare thfit mturalists are anxious to obtain
exact informatiop on each case.
For 45 years I have been collecting date on this sub-
ject, and have ran down prTbably ro fewer than s hundred
published accounts with the re^^ult thct only one has proved
authentic. Therefore, if ycu can give m ary detailed
reference as to the case you refer to. I shpll be preatlv
obliged. It is important tc hpv^ the name of the per?^on
attacked or killed end the exact locality: also any accom-
oflrying details that may be available.
You doubtless have heard that the name of Mount
Hainier is not to be changed.
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Mr. Williem ?. Colby
Mills Building
^Bn Francisco, Calfcrnia
Dear Mr. Colby:
Can you spare rae two copies of the Decenber-Nov ember
Sierra Club Circular containing Doctor Bunnell *s most
interesting account of his airplane trip to Yosemite?
You will be glad to know, if you heve not already
heard the Rood news, that we have won out in retaining
the name 2iount Rainier, the Committee on Public Lands hav-
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change.
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before the Goremment Geogreohic Board, end now again in
their appeal to Congress, I trust the matter will net come
up again during mj lifetime.
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Miss Ruth Benedict
nolumbie University
New York City '
My dear Kiss Benedict:
Thanks for your letter of the 15th instent. I em surprised
that the separates of your Serrano article have been so long
delfjyed and shall be exceedingly pjod to have 3 or 4 copies if
you have so many to spare; otherwise two copies will be useful*
During the recent meeting of the Anthropological Associa-
ticn I spent two half days at the Museum, hooinp tr meet you.
but was not successful.
Am glad to know that your Serrano myths will appear in
Folklore. I have a very large number of myths which i have col-
lected from various California tribes during the past 30 or more
years, and should be glad to have you look them over at eny
time when you happen to be in Washington. I had hoped to pub-
lish several volumes of these before this, but have been pre-
vented by the pressure of other work— chiefly putting in shape
for permanent preservation the result of each sea^'on's field
work in California. You may not know that I am still spending
half of each year in active field work in CalifornrB, although
now in my 70th year.
^iith best wishes »
Vory traly yours,
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Stockton, California ^
My dear Mr. Reynolds:
Thanks ^or yours of the 12th instant and for your
courtep/ in putting me on your mailing list for the
Saturday Record for the next six months.
If I ever catch up with the accumulated work, I
will send you a little article on California Gri's^ies
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Dear Seton:
Yours without date from Queen Anne's Manpions,
London, has arrived and, ir compliance with your request,
I ha^e ju«?t written the Hcnorfble W. W. Hu?bend. Con-
mispioner General, making affidavit to certain fscts in
connection with your residences and migrations, whinh I
trust will clear the mrtter up to his honoratle satisfac-
tion.
Hoping you have had a suceesrful trip abroad, and
with bept wishes.
Very truly ycurs.
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Queen Anne's Mansions
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Dear Sir:
Dept.of Labor
Ernest Thompson Seton in e letter juPt received from
London states that he is in trouble in regard to returning
to the TTnited States, and asks me to send you an affidavit
as to his residence in this country.
I have known Smest T. Seton personally for 42 years,
beginning in 1883 when I had him come from Manitoba to my
place at Locust Grove in Northern New York for the nurpose
of mekinr; drawings of mamm.als to illustrate one m.y bocks.
J?Vcm 1883 until 1396 he lived part of the time in Canada,
part in New York, and while in New lork made the nr turpi
history illustrations for the Century Dictionary. In 1896
he became a permanent resident of New York and vicinity
(including the western border of Connecticut) and has con-
tinued to live in this repior to tho present time.
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Jr. i. VrenVlin ohull. Sccrsfprv
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Deer Doctor Shull:
itour Utt,. Of the 13.h i„.t.„t c.„e ..out s .=e. .po.
'- .. t e hope of «,eo,eH„, .o,e ..y ,, ,,,^ , ,,^,,
-- „, ...e.i,„t ,itho„t ^eHousl, i„te.foH„, ,u^
work t. Which , ™ „,,er „o..l obligations to do
fln-1 ««« • ^ 'tA?<oticns to devote my time
«"d orergies for th. remainder of .y life.
Unfortunately * hri-^ »,^+ v
. „ , "•^' - ^^"'-^ ^•°- ^^^^- «ole to think cf any .at-
-i "vay. .ho mtin dlfficjlty wouV be ^n -h.
the nrA.idential address. ?-c-i -^.f .v •
f^.f T ^ ^i'perience I have lerr-ed
, that I cannot count on oro^erin^ , ,«.^ ^ .
les<^ th«n o- , ■ ^ satigfactory address in
and an i . T "''''"' '^ "^* '"^ ''' P'^tliehed
would nr,f >, . t-i^^S5s^M5<l stoines^abc,:t animelg
wouia not be too trivifil t „„ ., ^-^ —
„;,,. . ■ ^* ^ "^''^'^ ?:^^P^^« ^^eh a talk. Or I
i^ignt «ive a talk illnqt^^t^^ v , .
of am,a, . , '"'•''"•to-i t'y l»r>tem slides on the r.Ution
of an>.al colors an. ^rtjn.s to a„,irc«e.t. .Mc^ in .„*.
Stance would bf* -j-cof^^.T-. '
p.acticaUy a repetition of a l.cture I .eve
8 number of timn.! ?/■> ^v. ^
times 20 or more years ago. There ;7culd be little
new in this. i-i-cie
o»='. " "L'nT °?"" "'" "'""• "'=" ^ =""'-* '» "^
• ' '^" "' ''"'^^'- "^^^"^ny. to dacnna the office.
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Jfinuary 22, 1926
tion. Howard M. Gore
Secretary of /.priculture •
^Va5?h* ngtbn, D. G*
Dear 3ir:
This is to inform you of my resignation as repre-
sentative of the Department of Agriculture on the United
States GeoprsDhic Board. I have eerved on this Board .
for 20 years (for 'the last 8 years without cQmpensaticn)
and for 8 years have l)een Chairman of the Board. Pres-
sure of other work is my reason for resigning.
I would suggest that ynu a«^k the Pre^^ident to desig-
nate Dr. T. 3. Palmer of the Biological Survey as my
successor to represent the Department of Agriculture.
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Hon. Homer p. Snyder
Hon«r"^ Committee on Indian Affairs
iiouse of fiepresentatives
i^y dear Sir:
Will you kindly have sent to me, at 1&19 Sixteenth
Street, copies of bills emanating from or approved by
your Committee and passed by the present Congress, author
izing Indians to file suits in the Court of Claims?
Very truly yours.
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Mr. John B. Bro^vn
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% dear Sir:
If not too nruch troubl** t =k„ u
"''^®' ^ ^^^^^ appreciate th»
^^-.n.inai.enter.eas.3u.3cri.ertc
^^^;^^^ and eend . a complete file of the
pulacau. for the pa.tt.orth.ee years. Will Mil
^orsame. a^d I will reniit promptlf;
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Chief. Visa Office
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Washington. D. Q.
The accompanying letter, which I wrote the
Commissioner General bf Immigration on January 22. at
the request of Ernest T. Seton^now in London, has been
returned to me with the information that the jurisdic-
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suggestion that I forward the &.1>%er>Co /^
Very truly yours.
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sSf: i^^^'.h Johnson
uHu'^-^sricultural College
Manhatten, Kanaas ^
son:
Dear Professor John
Sine, retaking to fe,hi„gtc„ I tore fcuM your
I.tt«. ,hich =a.e to „ at ..v s^,r ho., at lagu,ita,.
Oal.fomia, a,ki,^ for aoparatoa of my articl., on
newBals.
. I have juat selected a number and am sending them
to you by parcels post herewith. Trusting they will
reach you safely and that you n^y find something of
interest in them,
Very truly yours.
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My deer Sir:
I have been icfonned that you are one of the best
infonned nen alive as to the boundaries of
of Indians.
I m very much interested in this subject and should
appreciate the fav^r if you will kindly tell me about
where the dividing line ran between the ntea and Piutes;
also, if you happen to know it, the location of the
boundary of the fiaaftutfl..
Very truly yours.
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noting on jour .rngMtlor, i
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i. Martinelli
rfex Garage
rfax, Galifomi
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dear Mr. Martinelli:
Please send me both license papers (white ana. red) now
the license holder in the front part of my car. I want to
rward them to the proper authority, in order to secure
aense plates for the year 1S25,
I wish you would give me an estimate for the following *
. rk on my car, now on storage in your garage:
To clean thoroughly the transmission and differential,
washing them out with coal <^l^nd refilling with 600-11.
'''°«fi2£ *^® ^®®^ in the differential housing; it m^obablv
needs a new gasket. . i^iiuouj.y
To clean and grease the front axles.
To grind the valves.
litoat I want is a lump wHtiiytrf? for this work. If you
;nd ^hat any new parts are needed, I expect of course to pay
;xtra for these.
^ It rtiB^ be that the brakes need new linings.
We hope Lagunitas has had more rain tliis winter than it
did a year ago.
With best wishes to you all.
Very truly yours.
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ttr. J. G. Kleiam
1338 Shrader Street
San Francisco, California
My dear Mr. Klenm:
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On receipt of your letter of the 17th instent, I
took pleasure in signing aid forwarding your nomination for
the National Geographic Society, as per instructions.
Enclosed herewith is my check for $3, in payment of
the accompanying bill for dues in the Lagunitas Improvement
Club from January 1, 1S24 to Jeruery 1, 1925.
The old question as to why we should continue to pay
dues in the Improvenent Club tifeile our roads are wholly •
oeglggtflfi i« still a pertinent question. The upper road,
as you of course must know, has been in horrible condition
for the past two years and the promiaw^ wnrk on it has
nCYOr "bcea donfl« The condition of this road when 1 left
Lagunitas the latter part of November was a disgrace to
the community.
With best wishes to yourself and Mrs. Kle««, in which "^
Krs. iSerriam and my dau?jhter join, ^
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Uerr legner Publishing Ccm^any
San Franeiaoo, California
Dear Sirs:
I shall be obliged if you will send me, with
bill for same, a copy of a book entitled, •Karoc
Indian Stories' by Sarah B. Olden.
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Jf-nuary cl, 1925
Mv. James McCo mi ck
Sci^. Ui 3. Geopraphic Board
VVa^Wington, D. ^C.
t>coir Mr. McCormick:
i^y delay in returning the letters you pove me from J. '
K'+jlson Bfrry. reoomrr ending thet thf najne oneke Eir^r h«
cv..-ged to Lowia Ri7f.r 8r<^ nigges^inp morf; fitting names
lot peeks in the neighbcrhocd of rjellowa Lake, Oregon, hts
Ue^due to continuous pi-essure of important work. 1 am
tatuiminc -the letters end ficcompj.nyir.g p^^pers herewith.
I would be hard to change b n^rae in such general use
as that of 3nake River, even thcogh the name Lewis river
Us priority and is still used en many msps. I would sug.
3^st that for the present the Board tiike ro action.
As to the mountains tbout Wallowa Lske. there wo- Id
se,a to be no objection to fixing the nemo Chief Joseph
mi^intain to the mo-mtain locally knovw as Joseph iiour.tain
anf Tunnel Mo^t^in. «hen I was there some vearr ago. Chief
Joseph was camped with 'a large body of his tribe at the
^ot of the Lake and I saw a Mountain Lion run up the moan-
4aiji end disappear over the sumnit ridge.
The suggestion that the fine mcuntein at the head of
the Lake, called by the trivial name Middle LnnntHr. on a
J* McCormiok -2
Forest Service map. be changed to Mount Bon.evilU
strikes me as excellent-.-- But the desirability of c^^.n.-
ing the nane of Signal Peak to Mount Howard seems Ve« ^
■^i^parent, although the name d£Mi:4 would be by no v.e.n*
xrappropriate because of the conspicuous part pLx.ei
bj Gener.1 Howard in the pursuit and capture of CkL
Joseph. "^
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The Secretary of State
The Bx-Chairmen of the U. S. Geographic Board
desires to apologize to the Secretary of State for
delay in acknowledRing his communication of December
27 last, referring to the change of name of Christiana,
Norway, to Oslo. The name Qalc «8s adopted hy the
Board, but the documents in the cose were mislaid.
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Dear Seton:
As I wrote you on January 22. I immediately complied
with your request by sending m affidavit to Honorable
Sf. W. Husband, Commissioner General of Imnigration. In
reply he stated thrt his office had no authority in the
matter and referred me to the Department of State, to
whom I wrote at once.
The accompanying letter in regard to the matter
from Corrt du Bois, Chief. Visa Office, arrived by today's
mail and will, I trust, remove any difficulty real or
imaginary affecting your return to the United States.
With best wishes,
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Queen Anne's Mansions /
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Mr. B. Mallinckrodt . Jr.
St. Louis, Missouri
Dear Mr* Mellinokrodt: .
Replying to your letter t)f January 27, would say that
the only way I know of for Mr# Val.Fynn to *get a permit for
extra bears on Alaska Peninsula is through Dr* E. W, Nelson,
Chief of the Biological Survey.
I resigned from the Survey 15 years ago end, not being
in entire agreement with the present administration in re-
gard to g£ii!ie law natters and so on, do not feel that I
• would be likely to be of assistance in the matter.
Your inoving pictures of African game animals roust be
fascinating and I have no doubt that you hi^ve attained a
hi^ degree of proficiency in this very difficult kind of
work. I should like mightily to see your pictures.
B^retting that I do not see any way to help you in the
matter of Mr. ?ynn's permit, and with kind regards.
Very truly yours.
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Mr N. W. Dorsey. Accountant
Smithsonian Institution
Dear Mr Dorsey: -»
Herewith I am enclosing my expense account for the ^'
month of January, amounting to C38.15; and also vouchers forN^I
Mrs Ruth Hall, stenographer, ^125; Zenaida tlerriam, assistant.
$63; and Minnix.file cases, ^107.64, all of whick kindly pay ^
from the Harriman fund.
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^^ai man Committee on Publi(> ''^n^o
riouoe of Represrntatives "^"^^
% dear Mr. Sinnott:
Many thenks for your ccurtes
of ecpies of the recent H
on the proposed chc
y iri sending ne a number
ering before your Gornmittee
ne^ cf name cf Mount Rainier.
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LibrEricn, Marine Biolcricel Uboratory
Dcfls Mole, •*;ase8:ihu?etts
Deer 3ir:
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Several weeks ago i received from the Marine Biological
Libera tcry e pc^=tc.)rQ a.=kin^ if I wc,ild*^j^d2ejnir£elf*'to
send 70U l .-rt of r*»prints of ray publice.ticns.
It ip fgaini-t my principles tc ^ledgejnv^elf to do any-
thing, but I am entirely willing to send your library a large
number of my publications, provided there is any likelihood
that they would be prP5,erved and would b'e cf service to your
students.
ay publications are not in the line of marine biology,
but relate chiefly tc wjnal.. birds, olants. and Indians!
If ycu will lei tn^ know whether or j^ot'you would care for
publications along any of these lin^s, I shall be glad to
send yru a batch.
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^ i)r. Sterling Bunnell
San Prencisco, Celifornia
Deer Doctor Bunnell:
iou were mifjhty kind tc send me that beautiful picture of
John Muir. end so appropriately fremed. wire and all. ready
for hanging! I shell always prize it.
WeVn out* in retaining the name kount Rainier for our
grandest mountain. The Tacoma people appeared 4 times before
the Government (xeographic Board without success, and finally
appealed to Congress with the same result. I tm wondering what
they will do next, after they tire of their present campaign of
abuse.
We were all greetly interested in your account of your
flight over Yosemite. as published in the Sierra Club leaflet.
Our only feeling of regret was that you are still keeping up
the dangerous habit.
We heve^^had more then e r.onth of snow end ice, but the last
day or two a teken the remnants off from all but the shady
places in the city.
Th^ belt you had mide for me. in connection ;»ith the exer-
cises, ha? proved most hf-lpful end I have hed only two trouble-
some spells since leaving CBlifornia-both of these due
to standing and lifting.
With kindest regards frcm ell of us to you and Liss Bane.
As ever yours.
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Editor of the Outlook
Dear Sir:
?eb,8,1925
I am surprised and grieved that you should be
willing to degrade The OUTIDOK and at the same time mislead
unxnfomed readers by the publication of such an unjust article
as^gg.s attack on the Forest Service in the current issue
Those of us who have watched the progress and activities
of he .orest Service during the last quarter of a century believ.
It to be one. of the strongest and most useful of the Government
bureaus, and deeply resent the implication of dishonesty which
the article conveys.
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Dr. _j)87id White. Sec.
Kfitional Academy of Sciences
rfaahxngton, D. 0.
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Dear Doctor White: >
Replying to your recent letter asking for suggestions
as to communications to be presented at the next meeting of
the Academy, wuld say that 'l have no suggestions to offer
under this head, but a rather important one under another
head.
At the last meeting, ycu may remember, the session was
opened by a prayer or something of the sort by a Christian
minister. This was not only an uncalled-for innovation, but
was extremely distasteful to Je>vish members end to a ^ery
considerable number of eminent scientific men who are m t
addicted to any particular religion.
Being a mild-nenrered man. I abstain from the lanpuage
that would seem Appropriate to a matter of this sort, but
merely wish to call your attention to the extremely ill-
advised and inappropriate affair so that it may never occur
egain.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours,
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[.'rs. T. H* Mcntgomery, Jr.
Marine Biolof^ical Laooratory
Woods Hole, Me^sechusetts
My dear Lrs, Mcntp.omery:
Replying to your letter of the &th instant, in answer
to mine of the 6th, '.vculd say that i em sending your library
a package of separates of my publicaticns on mamnals, to-
gether with a few on other subjects • I have not yet looked
up my bird separates but can send ycu a number of these
if you care for them.
I em glad to Ic^o?/ that the Laboratory has developed so
remarkably since the period ^vhen I worked there under Baird
and Verrill in 1075.
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lion, echii E. Raker
Houpe CI Representatives
Washington, D.
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My dear llr. Baker:
A clipping recently sent me from e California oaoer
states that you have introduced s bill or an amendnent
in behalf of California Indians. 1 shall be greatly
obliged if ycu will kindly send me a ccDy of the bill in
question.
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Visalia, California
i'ebrucry 14, 1925
My dear Sir: -
Very leeny thenks for your interesting letter of Janucry
23, r^leting to the Grizzly Bear you killed at Horse Corral
Meadows.
You were very kind and thoughtful to send me one of its
teeth. This tooth in itself is sufficient to prove beyond
doubt that the bear was a Grizzly. It is the lower canine of
what appears to be an^dult fennaLle Grizzly and therefore in-
creases the importance of securing the skull.
I most earnestly hope that after the snow goes away you
will be able to find the remains of the bear. The skull is of
the utmost importance, but all of the bones would be well
worth saying.
I appreciate your courtesy in offering to send me a clew
from the skin, now in Korea. This would hardly be worth vfcile
inasmuch as we now know that the animal was certainly a Grizsly.
Do you remember the date of killing of this bear?
I have had several communications in regerd to the Giant
Forest Grizzly and am hoping that in case he is killed, we may
be able to secure the skull,and skin if popsible, for our National
MttseuB.
May we keep the tooth you sent?
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My dear Mrs. loung:
A few years ago, according to a statement I heye
recently seen, a little girl pleying near her home on
Klanath River was killed by a Panther or Mountain Lion.
Do you know if this is true? If so, I shall be obliged
if 7bn will kindly tell me where the child lired and at
what_ seasoq of ff ar she was attacked; also the year, if
YOU know it. .
?or the past two years I have been hoping to visit
your region again, but have been prevented by the necessity
for field woflc in other parts of the State. Jf I have pood
luck, I shell x^\f, the Klameth River trip again during the
coming season.
With kind regards.
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Deer Sir:
Will you kindly tell me if there is a roed
froii Branecomb dQwn South Pork Eel Hiver and, if so,
where it connects with the Redwood Highway in the
neighborhood of Rattlesnake Creek? Is this road
passable for automobiles? I do. net mean at this time
of year, but say in June or July.
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. Hoiv John i. Raker
H6«o cf Representatives
Welington. D. C.
-^tf;dear Mr. Raker:
Very many thanks for yrur kipdness in sending me
woies of the Bill introduced by you authorizing Cali-
fornie Indians to submit clsims to the Court of Claims,
together with the report of the Committee on Indian
Affairs.
I am Tery glad to know tAat jcu heve succeeded in
securing the ^pprovsl of thr Committee on Indian Affairs,
ard earnestly hope that you may be eble to obtain favora-
ble action by Congress daring the present congested
session.
With be?t wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Hon. 21mer Thomas
Hcuse of Representatives
Washington, D. C;
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Replying to your inquiry of the 16th instant in
regard to motion picture films of an educaticnpl nature
supplied by the Department of Agriculture, would say
that the Department has lantern slide material and I
am told also certain motion picture films illustrating
various phases of the m)rk of the Department.
I ^ould suggest that you write the Secretf^ry of
Agriculture, asking for e list of their slides and motion
pictures.
In case your constituents desire films illustrating
special branches of the work of the Department, such as
the Biological 3arvey, the Bureau of Plant Industry, and
the Forest Service, it might be well for you to address
also the Chiefs of these Bureaus.
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Major Milo P. Pox
Corps of Hngineers
Wasnington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Your corrunication of the l?th instant, trans-
mitting matter and blueprint rap relating to the
nomenclature of certein channels in Tampa Harbor,
reached me this morning and 1 am forwarding the same
to Mr. ?renk Bond, Chief Clerk of the Land Office,
my successor as Chairman of tte U. 3. Geopraphic
Board, he will doubtless attend to the matter and
bring it before the next meeting of the Geographic
Board, end you will be notified of the result.
Very truly yours.
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Pebruery 20, 1925
iir. Frank Bond, Chairraan
u. o. Geographic Board
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Bond:
Herewith I an, enclosing a letter.with acconpfiny-
ing maps and description, just received from Major
^ilo P. Pox. Corps of Engineers, and am assuming
that you or Mr. McConnick will attend to the matter.
Vi'ith best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. Wilfred il. Osgood ' \ ^
i?ield i^Iuseum of l^eturEl History
Chicago. Illinois
Dear Osgood:
Your cbituery of x4olli?ter in the last number of
the Journal of kammalogy, received a day or two ago. is
sc full of appreciative feeling and so admirably ex-
pressed that I feel impelled to let you know how much
I like it and how glad I am that ycu wrote it.
To ell of us here Hollister^s loss is a very real
one.
\fith best wishes.
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Harold burgical Corporation
115 Fulton Street
New York City
In compliance with ycur price list just re- •
cei?ed, I em ercloping herewith my check for $1&.50,
for which please send me one of your Government
J'ield C6l)inet8 (trunk and drawers) as advert ised.
Please address Doctor C. Hart Merriam, 1919
Sixteenth St. Saik , Washington. D. C.
Very truly yours.
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M8Jor John C. H. Lee
Corps of Engineers
War Department
Washington, D. 0.
My dear Sir: '
Pardon my delay in sending you the promised corrections
and conments on the Califonua QuaJranglss recently issued^?he
Corps of Engineers. The delay has been due to the fact that
since my return from California I hsve teen overwhelmed with
work-almost to the breaking point-ond the detailed examina-
tion of these map sheets has naturelly required a good deal
of time, ind although I hs7s devoted a number of days to
their examination, a number of points have doubtless been
overlooked. J?urthermore, some of the Northwest Coast sheets,
as well as those in Southern California , cover areas in which
my field work ms done so long ago (30 to 38 years ago) that
my memory as tc geographic details is hazy.
The titles of several of the sheets are puzzling, and
in some cases misleading, failing to give any clue as to
where the place is. Por instance, it is hard to imagine how
such an unfortunate name as Glynn, instead of Scotia, could*
have originated; I hope it is not too late to change it.
Saddle Point is encther example, and there are several more—
usually indicated in the accompanying notes.
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As a general criticism, it may be remarked that many
valleys and numerous mountains are not named. Inasmuch as
the names of these features are in everyday use by the inhab-
itants and would naturally form the most important part of
answers given to inquiries concerning locations, they would
seem to be of value to the War Department*
The overlay of red, indicating cultivated land, and green,
indicating forest land, is so deep that in many cases it ob-
scures the contours, or at least makes them difficult to read.
These sheets therefore are not adapted for platting other
data and I would greatly appreciate a set with the overlay
omitted.
Some of the names are at variance with the decisions of
the U. 3. Geographic Board, as for instance Phillipsville. a
nonexistent settleirent, instead of Kettintelbe. the name of
the former Indian village, adopted several years ago by the
Geographic Board. A similar case is Myers, the name of a man
who has established a roadhouse at the place Kenteschobe.
I am enclosing a list of the sheets mentioned on the mar-
gins of other sheets, but of which no copies were received
by me. I should be glad to have as many of these as you can
spare.
But the sheets of greatest interest, and which I fear
have not been finished, are the following four, the designa-
tions of which I cen only guess at:
First, the Cloverdale-Hopland sheet, covering the gap
between the Healdsburg and Ukiah Quadrangles, thus completing
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Second, the one east of Dyerville and north of Harris
(probably P«med Eel Book Quadrangle), covering the section of
Eel Biver between Brock Creek and Sequoia and exteniing thence
northward. ^^
Third, the Mt,SMelena::Mistoga quadrangle, between the
Healdsbui^g and Pope Valley sheets.
Fourth or remaining sheet of high importance, the one
north of Lower Lake Quadrangle and east of Lakeport Quadrangle
covering East Bay or Sulphurbank Arm of Clear Lake, and extend-
ing northward to the neighborhood of Bartlett Mountain and
Bartlett Springs.
I earnestly hope that your office is going to complete
these intensely interesting sheets.
You can hardly appreciate how much I prize these Engineer
Corps maps and what a practical help they are to me in my work
of plattiflg-the distribution of animals and plants, and even
more particularly in platting the boundaries of the various
tribes of California Indians. For many years I have tried to
persuade the Geological Survey to extend their map work, over the
mountain region of Northwestern California, but they were always
tied up with the large scale irrigation maps of the valleys. I
had abandoned hope of living long enough to see reasonably accu-
rate maps of this region, '.vhen suddenly your splendid series
dropped into my lap. You can hardly realize what it means to
me, after spending so many years of my life in. field novK in
this region, to be provided unexpectedly with the means of
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possible on the crude maps heretofore available.
If I can be of any further assistance to you in the matter,
you will of course let me know. It may be that there are some
points you would like to discuss with me personally. If so.
I shall be very glad to see you or any of your'Corps at any'
time at my home (1919 Sixteenth St.). In case you come, please
•phone me in advance. My 'phone is Potomac 3886.
In the accompanying manuscript the sequence of quadrangles
adopted, perhaps unfortunately, is beginning at the North and
taking up the sheets from Weat easterly in each tier. I would
have adopted the alphabetic arrangement except for the mis-
leading titles on several of the sheets.
Have you a .feey maa similar to the key map of the Geolog-
ical Survey, showing what quadrangles have been surveyed? If
so, I should greatly appreciate a copy.
Very truly yours.
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-COffiaCTIOl^ AND COMMENTS OK XMR OP Tp ENGINEER CORPS'
MAP SHEETS OP CALIPORN lA— By C. Hart Merriam
CRESCENT CITY QUADR^iGU:
New Cliff Highway, continuation of Redwood Highly, not
shown. It skirts the high sea cliffs from Wilson Creek to
the sand beach south of Crescent City.
TRINIDAD QUADRANGIB:
Patricks Point is cluttered with names—Bight Tree,
Patricks Pinnacle, Castle, and Sugarloaf. This part of the
008 st is commonly known as Patricks Point>
EUREKA QUADRANGLE:
New hi^way across the flat from Eureka to Areata, not
s'lown.
CORBEL '^JADRAMGIE:
New highway from Blue Lake to Green Point and Berrys Ranch
on Redwood Creek, not shown. Completed several years ago.
H)HN-^RVILL3 QUADPAIIGLB:
Letter P in Portuna defectire. Looks funny to title sheet
Rohnenrille, a very swdl place not on the highway, when
Portuna on same sheet is so much larger and on the highway*
Similarly, seems pity to have name Table Bluff , ar insignif-
icant settlsment (not even postoffice), \*en Tahle Bluff
on next sheet west is so well known.
riT^WD QUADRAHGLB; [No comment J
PILOT CR3EK (Advance Sheet):
Name Eastman Creek not sliown. Runs westerly in 21 to 24.
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nama of the best known town and feature, Perndale?
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Indian settlement on south shore of Humholdt Bey not
indicated.
Big wireless station at Table Bluff not indicated.
CIPB MENDOCINO QUADRANGUS:
Stinglev Greek (first creek south of Cape)— correct
to Singlej.
GLINN QUADSANGIE: Why this unheard-of name? mj not SfiflUfi.
which everybody knows?
Prom Upper Mattole (location of 3oscoe ranch and others
a splendid scenic graded road crossing 21k Ridge to Bull
Creek is not shown.
DYSHTILLS QUIDR&NGIB:
Mjers, place in loop of South Pork Eel Rirer near
south end of map, change to KenteaehnhB . the name Lyers
being that of e roadhouse, not the locality.
Blk Creek— name omitted. Elk Creek is the stream flow-
ing south to the apex of the loop just northeast of Ken-
teschobe.-N
Boiling Memorial Grove, a Bedwood grovfjsituated at
mouth of Slk Creek.
POINT DBLGADA QUADHANGIE:
Name gtters Rangh printed twice.
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in northern part of sheet, change to Kettintelhe. the
neme of the old Indian village situated on the ground
occupied hy the so-called Phillipsville ranch. There
never was any village or settlement of any kind (except
a single house) at this point after the abandonment of
the old Indian village.
2-1/4 miles south of Garherville, at point where
highway crosses mouth of EastJr8nch_3outhJork.Jel
Biver, 8 hlack dots are shown on the south side of South
?ork 2el opposite the bridge. There is no settlement
at this point.
HARRIS QDADRANGISi [Not seen] ( S»*.Kft^*vAU,t.»s j
HOAGLIK (Advance Sheet): ,
Caution (east central part of sheet) is old location.
Several years ago it was moved about 4 miles SSI to
southern part of township 31, to exact spot where a little
black square stands at end of word Sfiuill*
The road from Zenia northeasterly to Hettenshaw Valley
is not shown. t *. .
CAP! TIZCAINO QUADRANGI2:
Name Cottaneva is commonly spelled Cottoneva. [Same on
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CUMMINQS QOaDBANGIB:
The main Redwood Highway following Rattlesnake Creek
from Oummings to South Pork Eel Ri.er is not shown at all.
It has, been stated that during the past two seasons more
than 300 automobiles passed over this road every day.
The stream in northen. part of map. labeled East Branch
South Pork, is commonly called Blkhorn ^reek . the southeast
V^i^of East Branch,W.c^**.X
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BRANSCOMB QUADRANGUS;
It would be useful to print the name Signal Mountain in
the open apace northeast of Branscomb. this being the domi-
. nant landmark of the sheet.te.^v^^^.^^^ ,,^^.^^
I am glad to see that you have shown Stron&Jiountain
(India, name Boo-tah'-danno) and Buehajidge (Indian nam'e
Bassha). as these important features are not usually shown
on maps.
lAYIDNVIIUI QUADRANGLE: [Not seen]
W. BRAGG QUADRANGLE: [No comment]
GlHNBLftlR ^^UADPANGLB: CKo. comment]
WIILITS QUADRANGLE:
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of Cahto, and flows southeasterly to Long Valley Creek,
which it join? about a mile northwest of Longval^;^l^^Jj;jJ^^i^^
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Outlet Creek is spelled on this sheet as two wordB---C>ut Let.
There appears to be trouble in the Sherwood Creek region*
ar-fh^ie^ttp'.
I am not personally familiar with the locality where Sherwood
Greek enters Outlet Creek, but Mendocino County maps show
the mouth as farther north.^ The principal tributary of Sher-
wood Creek, locally known as Curley Cow Creek, is from the
Indian name Kul-le-kow.
An important road is not shown. Going north, it leaves
the highway 4 miles south of Willits, runs northeasterly and
northerly to the highest-up ranch on Fullweiter Creek, where
it becomes continuous with one of the old roads to, Vfillits.
Tomkey Creek in northeastern comer of sheet — correct to
Tomki*
Several mountains and creeks on this sheet are not named^it>viL
POliO QUADRANGLE:
^lalleva* (northern part of map) — correct to iiSlill&» ®
well-known summer resort at west base of Sanhedrin Mountain.
The name of this conspicuous and widely known mountain is
omitted.
IfllllitfiyiJilfigJt on the west side of the sheet, should be IflBlki*
In Potter Valley the name fomo is printed under the Indian
village on the aififii side of the valley. The place poipQ, well-
known for maay years, is on the aast side, on the road just
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5 miles east of the present Indian villageitaidlTt*.*. ^^v.-*
Would it not te helpful to print the name Potter 7a] lev
on this mountain valley, say about an inch ?outh of the
Indian nillage? At present the name occurs only as that of
the little settlement in the northern part of the YaUey.
EUWflLLE QUADEANGLB:
The river flowing westerly south of Hullville, end
labeled South Bel River, is the main Bel. The v«ord 'south'
was cut oiit by the Geographic Board sometime ego.
Since many of your maps show the location of Forest
Service BEinger stations, you might care to indicate Elk
fciountain statj^, a rether important one- situated about half
a mile south of the summit of Blk Mountain.
ALBION QUAD3/INGL2: [No comment]
SADDLE POINT ..UADRANGLE; No comment. Vftiy Saddle Point? Don't
find any such jjlace on map and never heard of it. T/hy not
call it Naverro , so people might know where it is?
OERS QUADPJINGLE: No comment, except to wonder why it was not
naked after Booneville. which is so much better known.
UKIAH QUADBANGLB;
The small Indian reservatirn on Ackerman Creek northwest
_ of the city Ulfiah is wellknovm locally as Pinolevine.
The name Miyakitta_Mountains should be printed along the
summit of the range east of Russian River, and the name jS^i
Mountain on the culminating high northern end of the ranee
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lokiah Valley is one of the striking TsUeys of the State.
It is 10 miles long and in places 2 or 2i wide. It might "be
convenient to many nap users if the name were printed on the
map.
It might be worth while also to print the name Russian
River Mountains on the range west of Russian River from Ukiah
south.
LAKEPORT QUADRANGLB:
Scott Creek,! andKV? of Clear Lake, flows northerly and
foraerly emptied into Tule Lake (now drained and planted in
beans). The Lakeport Quadrangle shows it as continuing to
• the north and running up the g ide__qf,t]ia^jiountaln north of
the flat once occupied by Tule Lake.
The present State Highway from Hopland on Russian River
to Lakeport on deer Lake is only roughly indicated by dotted
lines. It is a fine road.
Lower Blue Lake, on the west edge of the map, failed to
catch the blue color*
The conspicuous conical hill on the east side of^tiw ^^ke,
known as ?loyd Hill, is shown, but not named. It is the point
guarding the north entrance of the strait connecting the main
body of the Lake with Bast Bay and Lower Lake, antf is obliquely
opposite Soda Bay.
The peninsula on the south side of tjie Lake projecting
northward toward Floyd Hill is known as Buckingham Point.
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with Ukiah and passing the Blue Lakes is indicated only in
part by the old road.
On the west side of the main Lake, the lower or shore road
north of Lakeport is shown in dotted lines, as if a poor road.
It is now the main road north from Lakeport.
Would it not be well to print the name Saint Turebius
Mission on the road running parallel to the south shore of the
western part of the Lake?
The name Wilson Valley printed on or near the top of the
mountain north of Clear Lake mey be all right, but I raver
heard of it.
U5heet east of Clear Lake not seen, probably not finished. It
is a very important sheet, covering Sulphurbank Arm of Clear
Lake end the country thence north to Bartlett Mountain and
east to or beyond Long Valley.]
POINT AP^A QUADRANGLS: [No comment]
ORNBAUN QUADP.&NGLB: [No comment]
HOPLAND TO CICVERDALB QUADRANGLE: [Not seen]
EBISSIVILLl QUADRANGLE :
MftaatJflpocli in northeastern comer of sheet should be
spelled gfiafijtti.
The place marked iifiJLSjjrlnga on the upper part of Big Sulohu
Creek is coirmonly called *The
Little Sulphur Creek on your nap has two names. The name Vockm^
ISli2I_Creek should be removed.
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The road from Geysers to Middletown via Cobb Mountain
Gap is not shoim.
IDW3R lAKE QDADRANGIR:
The name'fllflSrJ^* should he changed to LwerL«ke.
as the tem QlftaiLieks. ia applied only to the main body
of the Lake, as shown on the Lakeport sheet.
The name QfiiUiQliIliflin is printed well down on the
eastern slope of the mountain instead of on top.
The name Kfiflfiflkti-LgnMBS should be spelled KeBoMi.
The road on the east side of the Lake running north-
west from Bums Yal ley (name not on your map) to Borax
Lake is tH^^gal^oM to Sulphur Bank and should be con-
tinued. rising on the east side of Borax Lake and climbing
the ridge, which it follows easterly to the eastern pert
of 3ast Bay.
The island near the south end of the Lake, shown but
not named, is Kojl?., Island (Koi'e).
PLANTATION QUADRANGLE (Stewarts Point): [No comment].
SKilGGS OUADBANGLK: [No comment].
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H3AID3BUBG QUlDRiNGIX:
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The name Mount Pitch is on the wrong side of the river
and should be shifted nearly an inch to the northwest.
It would be convenient if the well-known name Alexander
3[allei were printed on the east side of Russian River be-
tween 6»yserville and the mountains at the bend (place now
occupied by the words 'Russian River' which, if necessary,
might be transferred to the opposite side).
The mountains on the northeastern corner of the sheet
are a part of the Mivakma Rang^e.
Map shows the old road from Montepulciano winery to Lytton,
The present State Highway in passing north from Healdsburg
crosses over the railroad track by means of a high concrete
bridge at the forks of the road 9/lOths of a mile south of
lytton crossing, continuing northward in a straight line,
keeping west of Lytton station.
IMT. SAINT HSLBU Sheet not seen. Perhaps not finished.]
POPS VimSY OaiDRANGIB:
Names fiaiell Mouat^ia and Serryessa Vallej omitted,
GAPil QUADRANGLE:
Name Capay 7alley absent.
The new road following Putah Greek from Llonticello to
Winters, instead of continuing south to the bend of the river
where the bank is falling away dangerously, turns easterly
up the canyon about U miles south of Monticello and runs
easterly and southeasterly around the mountain, coming back
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map 4-3/4 miles southeast of Monticello (the westernmost
of the two dotted roadcjL
Name Berryessa Valley omitted.
DUNC^ MILLS QUADRANGLE:
Soatheast cornertEstero de San Antonio should be changed
to Bstero Americano. [See note at bottom of Sebastopol
Quadrangle,]
32BAST0P0L QUADRANGLE:
On Ooaat^ 3stexo_San AntonioL should be changed to SatSTO
Americanp.
Estero del AmeTicaniL.or^IfimalMl, should be changed to
?8terp San AntpnijaL*
Note on these Esteros: The name S^tero American^, was
early applied to Tomales Bay. It was so used by de Mofras
in 1844 (on his chart 17) and his usage was followed by
Tyson in 1850 and also by Ringgold, likewise 1850. Its use
for Tomales Bay was then abandoned and for the past 50 years
it appears to have been applied generally to the Estero
next south of Bodega Bay*
The Estero next south of this^ labeled Bstero de inericaiy)
or Ipjia lea* on yourmap^is usually called Estero San Antonio.
The name is a little unfortunate for the reason thal^San
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of the names Estero Americano and Bptero San Antonjo. as here
recommended, is that of most current mape, including the
large Irrif;ation Map of Northern California of 1922, as revised
and redrawn by the California State Department of Engineering,
the State Water Commission, and the College of Agriculture.
Going back 100 years, we find that Payeras in his
'Notioias sobre^sg.' 1822 (Spanish MS in Bancroft Ubrary),
states that after going northwest and north from Olompali to
Arroyo de San Antonio [the present Bstero San Antonio, as
above described^ he continued northerly and northwesterly to
Estero del Americano [located as aboye described] and thence
over steep hills and south to the shore of Bodega Bay— show-
ing that the names and locations of the-^e Ssteros, as here
given and at present shown on current maps, were in use more
then 100 years ago.
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PASKEKTl (Advance Sheet):
^omae Creek—correct to Thoma Creek (in one place
printed correctly).
Heipher Camp Creek — correct to Heifer Camp Greek (SW
of Newville).
• Lowrej, usually spelled Lowry, but I don't know Aich
is right •
Ne\wille— Vfliat is the name of the Creek on which
Newville is situated?
?LOID (AdTance Sheet): Hhere is Floyd? Don't find it on map
Thomas Creek'^^correct to Thorns Creeks
Heipher Camp Creek— correct to Heifer Camp Cree_k>
EIZ CREISK ^iUADMNGUJ:
Ghrcine— "better add Milsap. the place being usually known
as fliilsap.
Heipher Gamp Trail—correct to Heifer Camp Trail.
Oriental— Forest Service station situated at Alder Springa
Name Oriental abandoned years ago.
PHJTO QUADRANCrLS:
The city of Fruto. shown on the map, is only a dream city-
never was "built. Present settlement consists of an insignif-
icant railroad station and two or three small houses.
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STONY FOHD QUADHANGIJ (South of Elk Creek): [Not seen]
VSNADO QUADBANGLE:
Boad from Wilbur Hot Springs, running easterly and south-
easterly to Cortina Creek and Ruma«y. ie not shown.
Bear Cre.ek is shown in two parts (interrupted in middle
of Bear Valley); its southward continuation toward junction
with Cache Creek is so little indicated that it might be
mistaken for a branch running in opposite direction.
HEIFF QUADRANGLE: Name on quadrangle, hut not on place known
as Eeiff (former postoffice).
Junction of Bear Creek with Cache Creek not indicated.
This is a rather important location.
HJiSSY iUADRAl'iGLS: [No comment]
CAPAI QUADRANGLE: [See page 10]
i:T. VAC A QUADRANGLE:
Name Mtr Creek, on east edge of sheet—correct to
21Stis_Creek. Misspelling probably due to following old (Jeol-
VACAYILLE QUADRANGLE: [Not seen]
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(Eeceived since the foregoing was written)
SAI?RI3 QUA3?;ANGLB;
Creek entering Bel River from west about i mile north
Ox Gain Rock railroad crossing, probably Mill Greek.
Jewett Creek, entering Eel River about a mile south
of Cain xlook, shown but not named.
x'rice Creek, entering west side Eel River next south of
Jewett station, called Pipe Creek on some mapa.
Pine Creek, ertering southwest comer of Horseshoe_Bend ,
shown but not named.
vftiere did you find the names of two creeka south of
Kekawaka Creek, namely, Qgeatchumpah and Boulder?
LAYTCMILLE Q'JADFJiNGLE:
Dutch Henry Gregk— name omitted. Enters Long Valley
(or Longvale) Creek U mile above its junction with
Outlet Greek.
Name South Eel River— strike out South, this being the
continuous main part of main Eel River (^ord Sfilitk cut cut
by Geographic Board several years ago).
G0V3L0 QUADRANGLE:
Raft Creek, in MT corner of map, tributary to Eel
River from 3W — name omitted*
Tributary from NS— name omitted* This is a long stream
well shoTOi on the sheet to the north — the Hoaglin sheet*
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about 3/4 mile north of mouth of North Pork— no place for
it shown on map. It is about midway between Ramsey
and mouth of North ?ork.
lofl&ii-OreeJt: Creek on east side Eel River two
miles southwest of mouth of North Fork— creek and name
omitted.
Ur Pend Oxeek; Creek on east side Eel River midway
between Blue Rock Creek and Spy Rock-creek and name
omitted*
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JiiF. L. L. Shirner
Fairfax, Cfilifprnia ■
l^J deer Sir:
Th^ks for your letter of the 18th in.ta.t in which
you e.tinrte the co.t of work on r,y car «. ^. • '
, .^ ^ car, as itemized in
ny letter of January 27, at $20.
I .ccpt ycur esti^te a„d ,han be .lad to ha,e „■„
ao the work as indicptfiH in ^- "
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I sh n of course expect to „ ,„ then e«r. a. c„,t.
f' -U let the breeHi„i„ga g, ,„ ^,, j,^,^^^^_
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Mr. I. P. Ber throng. Chief
Drcfting Div.. Genera] Lord C-ffiC(
interior Department
Weshington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Berthrong:
Very many thenks for your kindness in sending me a
photoatet copy of the tctmship plfit shewing the nsme
Chemise Creek (vhioh should be spelled Chsmise) on the
headwaters of the stream errcneouely nsmed Blue Rock Creek
where it joins Eel River.
It is a pity that such a large proportion cf the streams
indicted on the I^nd Office plats are left without names.
Thanking ycu for your courtesy in the mf tter,
Very truly yours.
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Mr* tlaynard Shipley, P'residen^
Science league of Inerica
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San i?rancisco, California
ky dear Mr. Shipley:
Owing tc pressure of accumiilsted 'vvork, 1 hcve not been
able until last everirp, tc read your circular letter stating
the objects of the Science League, k careful reading shows
that my first impression \V8?' erroneous tnd I ar pjad to beccrne
a member. I enclose herewith my dues for the first year (check
on Crocker Bank for $?).
On first glancing at the circular I feared it ^as rr.rther
move r.long the line of certain puhiished announcements, ispued
a yerr or so ap.o and t^igned jointly by several rf^ther conspic-
uous nrturrli«5ts, tc the effect that thj^re_exisjs jio ccnflicjt
bet^veen scionce and the dcf^as of relirion. This seemed tc me
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a very foolish and wholly uncalled-for announcement, irdicating
a panicky if not hysterical state of mind, issued in t!ie hope
of pacifying a certain class.
Changing the subject: I -vonder if ;/cu are aware of the
fact that there are today in the United States more than two
hundred thousand ministers and preachers paid to spread the
propaganda of the Christian church. Has the w^rld ever before
seen a orcT^aranda like t^ns?
With bept wi'^hes for the success of the League,
Very truly yours,
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Prpfessor I. ?. Lewis
university of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
lily dear Professor Lewis:
• Doctor Shull writes me that yru mry be willing to
erren^e the symposium for the next meeting of the American
Society of Keturslists. This is good ne-^a and I. eball be
very gled if you will kindly attend to the metter. '
There f.re t'vo rontons why I en unsble to attend tc
this nypelf: 1. That I arc not personally acquainted with
the men end interests; 2. That I expect to be engaged in
field ,7or'< in Gelifonua until December.
With best wishes.
V'^ry truly yours.
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Dr. A. Prenklin Shull, Secretary
American Society of Ncturelists
520 Linden Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dear Doctor Shull:
Mpny thanks for yonr letters cf Pnbrurry 17 end 25.
You ha7e cleared thr road for me to such an extent
that I am hound to accept the Presidency and shrill be very
glad to nive f. talk on Indian stories and ideas about cniraaL^ .
It is a relief to >no'v that a formcl address for pubLicaticr
is not required. I an thrnkful also for the information
that Professor Lewis ^ill arrange for tho symposium. I am
writing him by thi<=» mail.
Replying to the questions addressed tc the Executive
Committee ^ould say: I prefer Now Haven as the place for the
next meeting, but am of course willing to go to whichever
place is selected*
In tho matter of dues I cm indifferent, but if there is
likely tc be a shortage before the end cf the year should
think it good business to collect dues in advanceo
Thanking you for the interest and trouble you have taken
in TTV behalf.
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Dear Nelpcri:
Perdon my delay in replying to ycur inqijiry ^bout the
song of the Uountain Lion. I hcve ho£;rd it ^'ery rarely. The
occasion when it vms nrarest tnd most impressed upon my memory
was on the evening of July ii7, 18S?, when Bailey and I c^riced
for the night on a hervily v^coded flrt on the north ^ide cf
Notches Eiver on our way from IJorth Yakiina to Mt. 'Rsinier.
- The Mountain Lion in qiipstion 'A-a? very near r nd hie dis-
tressing criej*, repeated e iV.w tirr^GS, v'?ere deeld«:dly ptrrtling
and for the time all-er'p;rorf3inj;^and oHUfred cur hOi^es i^:nd
nule to rush wildly thn;Ui;:h the f?'llen timber to carrp.
when the incident -ves- fresh m mv nind I i.rld Rc>oserr*it
BvA he asked mo to write him aucut it, v/riich I did. Lly
recollection is that . he publishf»d it. Lut since receipt of
ycur inquiry Zenaida and 1 have hunted t'-rcuph a numbei of
Roosevelt's publications wit'iout finding it.
\vhilo en the ^^:bject cf ilcuriloin Lions. I v^cul^ c^^ll
your attention to r.oosevelt'a articles iu Scjritner's Magazine
published the latter part cf 1091, in .^hich re ha^ sc^^e thing
to sav about their attacks on man.
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Mr. B. H. :)wnle3 . . ^. ^
Secretary, Baird Ornithological dub
2S21 /abenarle Street
Chevy Chase, iJ. C. ^
Mv dear tlr. Scales:
Many th-inks for yrur letter cf the ^?th instant
notif:;Uig me t>iat 1 have been elected a^ honorary m^^'^ber
of the Baird Ornithological Club, tle^se convey to the
members my appre/jiation*
Although I rarely go out nights, I should be glad
tc receive notice of the meetings and vhen practicsble
to be present. ^
^fith byst wi^^bes,
Very tr.ily yours.
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Mr. N. V(. Dorsey, Accountert
'i-nithsonisn Institution
w'asLingtcr, i>. 0.
Derr Hr. Dcrpey:
!!nclosed hereT^ith i? my expense recount for the
month of February am-untins to ?9C.0E. ^nr\ vouchers for
GhLrl-.^ H. McNeil.be;.r skulls $1?; Mrs. T.uth C. Hell,
services as stenographer tl25; Semude Eerriam, services
as assistant 13 days et U- per day $52; icrs. Burt Trcut.
services as a^istant 7 df.ys at $4 per day $28. all oi
which please pay from the iiarriman Fund.
A., enolcsine ^.Iso Ih^J^Vfeeipted bill froir. .Frcnk V.'ccre
of Derby. England, fcr t!:e books of v/allis Budge. #a ch
kindly attach to ny JaTiut::ry accountC^^-^-— ^-^••)
The receipt from Allen's Press Clippinp;s Bureau et
3an I-Varcisco for January olippincs has not yet cone to
hand, but will be for^rrded later; same trbe of receipt for
electric currTt.
Very truly y-^rs.
Kindly send a b-.nch of vouchers and. sheets for voucher
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Stockett-riske Go, (50 stieets 17x22 ruled oaper)
Geo. ?. Muth Co. (paints for coloring maps;
lA^d and blue leads, 50c- 3 sheets statistical
paper 15c; thread tor binding 10c
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field cabinet of
Harold Surgical G<
drawers for field use
\<. M. Minnix Co., file index cards
Allen's Press Clipping Bureau (Indians) for Jan
Stamped envelopes and postage
Back'' numbers 'iJative American'
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Outdoor Life (2 copies)
American Indian Af^sociaticn
Proceedings Biological Society
Americi":n Journ?^l Mammalogy
Science
Sunset magazine *\,
American Pores ts and Forest Life
Calif. Histtirical Quarterly for 1925
Calif o Indian Karald (2 copies)
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Dr. V/illiam ?. Bade
Berkeley. California
Deer Doctor Beide:
Th.nk. for vour lattor of Pebrur.ry 2Z. We have re«d
.ith interest ..ny of lluir'. letters .nd cc.P.r.tul.te you
■, • V .v,t ont, CO 7flur-ble ar, additicn to the John
on hs-ring brcupnt cut so 7r. la* ux
Uuir nj-teripls.
But I rer.ret thst the .train o. you h.. been so .evere
r.a t'-.t yc.r eve. ha,e e.>ffer.d. I >-"'- Ven through the
„,„e .ort of thin, sever,! ti.ee hut in the Ion, r^ heve
^„f rr trn It i? necesntry for me to
thus it-r i:lways come cut cr. top. ^^
,cr:. under hifih pressure during the .inter in order to ,ut .ne
notes of the nrecedine se.son in sh..,e for ,er«nent preserve-
ij »*. ^^r-icVi fhic "jork in tiro tc £0
lien- other.vipe I 'wuld not fir.iFh t a. .orit
iack'to Oalirornia for the en.uing se..on. ^>e are hoping no,
to reeoh L«,ur.ite. so^eti.e in ipril rnd trust thnt you and
^„, Bede -..III be .hie to oo«e over to see us before .nct.,er
With be?t wishes to ycu both.
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Se^-ttle, m^^hingtcn
ly dear Sir:
The twc beiir skulls ycu sent to the Bioloriciil Survey
sometime ego hirje been received and examined. They are
velued at $17, a check for which will be ?ent vcu direct
from the Smithsonian Institution in e fo-v deys.. .
I am obliged for ycur rentrks on t-ie general aj^peertnoe
end actions of ore of tliepe l^et-rs.
Very truly yours.
in yrur letter you foi^ot tc mentirr the localities r,nd
dates of thepe two skulls and seid nct> ing a? tc which ore
was the hero of the episode ycu described a:f^ whose peculiar-
ities you mentioned. It i? important for me tc be able to
tie descriptions to the specimens to which they belong. Per-
h^:ps you do not realize thft I an at work in th^ field six
or seven months each year an-r^ usually do net see bear skulls
for 8 number of months after they haVe been pent in and,
as a corsequence it is often impossible for me tc conrect the
notes with the ppeciwns. I chculd like very much to know
where the bear you describe was killed.
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Netioral Gecprephic Dociety
Washington, D.C.
Dear Dcctor Ccville: iKVKtx-Htt,^"
Heplyine to your memorandum slip efkinf for my vie^s^
on 6 certain proposition from Doctor nes Hrdlicka. as per
ECoom?rnyir,3 letters (herewith returr.ed). ^vculd .ay thrt
it dop« not occur to me thct the proposed trip for the pur-
pose of visiting the various localities of discover/ cf
ancient human or somi-h;m.n remains in South Africe. India.
Jtvo, Australia, and c fe;^ other place?, wnl«? justify an
appropriation from the funds of th-^ liatiopa Geographic
Sccietj.
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Editor
Kod and Gun in Canada
WoodPtock, Ontario
Dear Sir:
It is hard for an editor to keep tab on all the matter
that appears in his -Tiagasine and t>ie best cf us slip a cog
now and then. IHii? seems to have been the case in parsing
an article in yvur Iterch number entitled '£ip; J^xks Overrun-
Hinjl Ontaric>^ The author. T. P. Klliott. v/hen speaking of
California Jackrebbits introduced into Ontario says: '*Thous£.nds
of them are kxcwn to exist in swamps and wcodlots cf ^^ wide
area." This leads one to wonder \T*iether during the brief
period since thoir introduction in Ontario, Jackrabbits have.
so radically changed their habits as to have forsi:ken the
deserts and pL^ins for 'wcodlots' and 'swamps.'
V/hile pondering over this, the e.ye catches the additional
statement that ^*the California Jackrabbit prows to a weif^ht
of E5 or 30 pounds,*' and later v#e are tele that Robert Holmes
of Diindas Street, London, ''shot one not long ago that weighed
3i: pounds," and another 2*^ pounds.
In view cf the fact that the California Jackrcbbit under
normal conditions weighs only 4 or 5 pounds, rarely attaining
the weip'ht of 6 pounds, ore is led to inquire i^hHther Mr.
Elliott vvas rf^allv talking about Jackrabbits or Coyotes!
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In another part cf the article it is stated that in
the agricultural districts of Australia "the Jecknbbit has
been an enemy for decades." As a matter of fact, the so-
called Rabbit plague of ^.ustraiia was due to the introduction,
not of th^; American Jackr^nbbit but of the common small
3uropean Pabbit (Leous c an i cuius). Occasional slips cf the
pen, t'.ough unfortunate, are to be forgiven, but what shall
one say when an author deliberately publishes such atrocious
misstatements as these?
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Dear Sir:
Your letter of ?eoniv,ry 15, ed/^. rested to the Smitheo-
nian Institution^ ha? been referred to me for reply.
I em glad to knov; thnt ycu have secured v specimen of
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the RO-ealled Lava Bear* Ycu do rot state whexe the bear
was killed, and you do not scy whether you have its skull.
The hide without the skull would be of very little value
to us B^ the di^tinf^uishing characters of this bear, if
it differs from the ccmi^on Black Bear, are likely to be
in the skull rmd teeth. I shi:ll be plrd to hear from ycu
in refrard to these points.
Very truly yours.
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Forest Rer.f^er
Covelo, Crlifornia
Dear Sir:
Herewith I an erclosing a rcuch trscing of a section
of Eel Ri^er wert of your region in the hope that you will
be able to correct certain name? of creeks. if they need
correcting, and else to add names of Fonc that ere not
nf.rned. I an particularly anxious to know ~hich creek is
celled -Indian Creek; but any corrections and additions
"ill be thankfully received.
Is there any other name for Natoikot Greek?
tmich is the proper way tc spell Dobbin Creek—Dobbin
or Dobbyn?
Very truly yours,
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I- there a creek rurjiinc down Tc Sel Fiver fron the
old Underhi 11 ranch (new Bob Glen or Bob Green ranch) on
west side cf 3el River?
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Dear Sirs':
ilsase send me at the above address, with bill for
sane, twc thousand (iiOuO) sheets M'juiging Bond like the
enclosed sample in quality and size.
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LxY deer Kr. Kle^:
Thanks for your letter of the 4th in.-ttr.t telUnc me about
the dmene done by the recent henvy rein at Lcfrunites. I am al^o
obliged for the :oir:t letter, signed by ¥t. W?tscn and yourself,
givinp additional inforrrp.ticn o? to necespery repairs. Acting en
this, i an enclosin;^ herewith my check for |10 to^be iij-plied^r
Vie read work. - ■ .
In cornecticn '.vith this matter I wi=h to express the hope
that the. necessary writ be done by cr under the- pcrscral super-
vision of some competent road builder rnd not a? heretofore by
day Ifcbor. During pest years a very neat sum has been expended
on road repairs by day labor which, if it had been applied to t^-e
cc:structicn of e real road much of the present trouble r^culd
heve been avoided. I >'87e previously celled -our rtterticn and
that of kr. ViatPon to the utterly irrational -^ey ir which cur
upper road had been treated". pcintinP out the feet that st times
the ■'iitch supposed to carry off the ru^crflucus water ^as higher
than th^ read bed. re-aUinf^ ir the continual was' inp, away of
the road. I am Tailing to ccr.tribute ny share tOTvard the
construction of e real road, but dislike greatly to put any
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been done heretofore.
Vtfe were much interested in your account of hearing over ^
your radio the inaup.ixraticn speech of President Ccolidge and
the mue-ic of t'le I'arine Band. My daughter Zenfida vdtnep^ed
the ceremony and saw the parade, hut lurs. Mf^rrieim aiid I were
glad to stay at hone.
With kindest rep'ards^ from all of u« to Mrs. KlemTi and
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Mr, 0. T. Gorover
408 Herion Street
oeettle, Washington
Dear Llr, Conover:
Ycur letter of the 6th instant h86? just reached me.
^^ A <?hort time ago, after twenty years sex'vicc on the
II. 3. Geopr«phic Eosrd, the le^^t eight years cf which I
was Ohnirmen of th^ Board, i resigned. Thi«? was net due
to any friction, hut'solely to orespure o'f' other work
which a men cf my £ge feels anxious to ccmolete.
1 am therefore forwarding your recomnendeticn to the
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Board may decide.
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iiear Sir:
Jfcur letter cf Februtiry 14 has just retched ne. I
note that you h£7e the head of c big Beer said tc be a raele
in fine condition from Icy Straits. By the word 'heed'
I aj^j^uae that you nnsn the 5ekull.
I am not able to pay as much as formerly for Bear skull?,
but if the specimen is fully adult and reaches me in rood
condition, I -.ill a.-^ree tc pay -ou $10 or ?12 for it.
It should be shipped b;' express (charROE' collect ),mprked
U. 3. Biological Ourvey, Department of /:.-riculture . Washington.
2« C. Ycur own name and address should be written on the
outside of the packepe , ard also on the ta?' attached to the
skull. ■ .
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Hy dear Joctor 3hull:
i-Vom the enclosed letter ycu will .ee t^u.t Professor '
Lewis declines the distinction of arranging the .:^posium
for the next meeting of the Neturelists. This seems to
leave us in a hole. Hove you any othrr su^;,eetion. or will
you attend to the matter yourself?
Begretting to be obliged to trouble you again in the
natter,
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My dear Kr. Urant:
Thip will introduce Dr. b\ V. Gov i lie, C'ipf
Government Bctanipt, who is about tc set out on field
wcrk in varicuf? parts of the st? te.
Dr. Coville i? chrirrrien of the UA A'ivircry Eoard
of the Diptrict of Columbia.
Qcubtle^s ycu cpn be of naterifil assirtence tc
him in the way of road naps end information.
Hoping tc see you in five or six weeks,
Vnry truly yours.
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Herp'vith I enclose my income tex blank for the year
15L4, along with check in p^^/ment of f?eme (^2d.64).
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iJy dear Professor Lewis:
Doctor Shall witp.? m^ +i, . '*
wites me that yru may be willing to
arrange the s;.,posiu. for the next .J- T
Society Of Neturali^ts Thi ' ''^ "^^'""^
ver. m.. •. '' ^°'^ "^""^^ ^"d I ,hall be
very glad jf y^^u .,, j... ,, ^.^ ^ ''^■'■' "®
. ^li-LIfindly attend to the natter,
i^ere are t.o reasons why i a. unable to attend to
thas myself: 1 Th«f t ei:tenfl to
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Ann Arbor, Llichigan
Dear Doctor Shull:
Your letter end mine evidently crosFed in the mails.
Sorry I wrote the \vrorg Le^is. An writing ProfeFSor Warren
H. Lewis of Johns Hopkins Medical School today and trust
thnt he, or ycu and he together, will be willinp to arranpe
for the nfxt meeting.
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Dr. 2. W. Nelson, Chief
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Washington, ~^D. C.
Dear iIel?=?on:
In looking at *The Survey' dated February ii8, I am appalled
by the tronendcus sum of money approprieted for the Survey for
the coming year.
I notice r^lso that two papers on mammals, one by A. B.
Howell on variation in Microtus montanus yosemite. end another
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by James Silver on^the European Hare, have recently been pub-
lished in. the Journal of Agricultural Research end ar^ available
in separate form. I shall be obliged if you will have two or
three copies of each sent to me. It seem strange that so many
of the publications of 'The Survey* fail to reach me.
The February 28 issue of 'The Survey' is rather noteworthy
because of the number of items of interest to mammalogists. At
the top of page 8 it is stated that "on several nights from 1500
to ZOOO raVuts were picked up,^' but it leaves the reader in a
dreadful state of anxiety as to how they were picked up, why
!;lLliXASJ^MjlfJLaJis_d£yJ^^ end hew
it was that they were induced to remein in such a quiescent or
hypnotic state that they could be picked up.
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Mr* Lewis James
Ladoga. California
Deer Lewis:
Ver-/ many thanks for the trouble you took in collecting
and sftndine ^^ a specimen of the Chcohel grt^ss. It is the
kind of gress celledsedee. but just which species of sedge
cannot be determined from this specimen. We h^-e compered
it with sppciraens in the kuseum end the botanists say thet
they cannot be sure without a specimen berrin^seeds. I do
not know just vAien the seeds grow in your coiuitry, but *ouId
think the time might be in late .April or early L'ay. If ■
you could get a specirnen with the seed?, we could mf^Ve sure
of the species.
We were all very sorry to learn th<:t you were having
trouble ;vith cne of your hind legs. We hope it is ^ll ripht
now.
We bed expected to start for Califcrnie about ths enjj
of this month . but the work I.ii."e had to do h^re has taken
so long that I an sure we shall not be able tc pet off before
the middle or latter part of April.
With best wishes^ for yourself and the others.
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My dear Krs. ^iomg:
It W8S very kind of you t.o reply to my inquiry in regard
to the alleged killing o^ ^ <^^^^ ^7 « Pf^nther or Mountain
Lion.
I cW pJ.pA to know whi^t ycu tell me fibcut the killing of
a child near Port Jones in Scott VcUey £5 cr 30 years ago.
1 hed not hetrd of this cape "before. An glad al^o to know
about the old story told by your mother of sn Indian and
little boy killed when sleeping under a tree.
Here in Washington we have had en unusually open winter
with comparatively little snow, and the gras^ is already turn-
ing green. But we learn that at our sumner home in Lagimites
there was a couldburst in x^ebruary which proved very destruc-
tive to the roads and flooded many houses along the brtton
of the valley. Our house fortunately is up en the ?ide of
the canyon, 20U feet above the creek.
^ With kind regaitis and best wishes to you all, and
hoping tc see you during th^ ccming season,
Very truly yours.
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Dr. Gilbert Grosvencr, Tre^ident
National Geo^rrphic Society
Washington, I). C.
My dear Doctor Grosvenor:
flany thanks for the bound volumes of the National
Geof^r.:phic Magazine for the year 1924^ ju'^t received ^:7ith
compliments of the Society.
They make a splendid collection of interesting infor-
mctionrand, as in previous yerrs, I will take th^m to
Lagunitas where they may be rend ^vith profit by a number
of people ^hc do not themselves take the magazine.
Very truly yours ^
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Ifiashi^ngton, J. C.
liy deaf Itoctor Bleke:
Thanks for your letter of the 14th instant, telling
me that the specimen of Gorex from Beer Velley, California,
cerrot be iientified without a fruitine specimen.
I shell endeavor to obtain such t sprcimen but. as
you doubtless knc\r. it is miphty hard to get ftn Indicn to
visit 8 particular locality at a sti:ted time cf year and
then to tr.ke the tror.ble to collect and send in a <'peciren.
The identification is important because of the prominence
of the plant in the history and custons of the tribe.
Thanking you for your trouble in the Tnetter,
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Dear Ur. Ifiagn^jr:
Your letter of February £, enclosing a copy of another manu-
script by ^\ t:. i^'letchor on Jedediah Smith's probable route
across the Jierra^ reached me in due course, and would have re-
ceived earlier attention but for the constant pres^^ure of other
work.
After reading tir. i^letcher's article carefully four or five
times, I fail to see that he submits any^iidisiice jsbiJever in
support of the reiteration of hi? former QpjjiJQp that Jedediah
Smith crossed the Sierra by 7;ay of the Stanislaus Fiver. He
still believes, he ^ays, ''that the Stanislaus route is the more
probable and that the American route is impossible.'' but fails
to give any reaeon .vhatever for the absolutely preposterous state
ment that the Anerican route is 'im^pgsibJLe. '
And after repeated reiterations of his firm belief ''that the
only reasonable conclupicn is th?.t Smith crossed the Sierra by
the 3tanisl^^us route," he a )perently contradicts himself by re-
ef firriing the opinion, expressed in 'us first article, that
Smith left his party on tho river named fVimmelche, after the
Indians, adding, ''but thp Wimmulches resided on Kings Eiver"--
thus aceeoting my identification of the Tiimmelche with Kings
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this he adds, "Possibly Smith crossed the Sierra frorr that river."
Mr. Hetcher, referring to my reference to a letter from
an associate of Smith, remarks: "whfit thi? letter actually states,
according to Bancroft, is"— and so on, implying that ^ had rot
written correctly-->al though his ov/n ^uctaticn, unnecessarily
lengthy, contains the significant words given by me, namely
that '^Smith left his prrt^ en American Pork and with two men re-
turned to the rendezvous."
Fletcher then attempts to cast doubt en Vifarner's statement
that Smith "put his party into summer qu^frters on the American
?ork of the Sacramento, from which it took its name, and with
two men went over the mountains, traveling up the American Pork
. . .". by saying th^t "V/cmar evidently fellows the account by
the associate of Smith." He thus overlooks the important facts
that Earner himself met Smith personally in 1830, only three years
after the journey in question, and that in the following spring
he was not only employed by Smith but accompanied him on the
expedition on wliich he net his death, and a y^ar later was engaged
in trapping in the San Joaquin and Sacramento VaLleys. To any-
one familiar with the campfire talks of trappers, it must be
obvious that Warner's knowledge of Smith's movements in California
was not from newspapers but from first-hand information, as related
by Smith himself.
i^'letcher boldly asserts that "there is no evidence that
Smith was on the American River prior to the winter of 1827-28,
and therefore no reaf^on to route him across the Sierra from that
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river.
rather startling in view of the convincing evidence to the contrary.
You will remember that I have previously referred to Gallatin's
nap of 1836 with a dotted line showing Smith's route in 1827, cross-
ing the iSierra in the American Biver region (based on information
from Smith transmitted by his partner Ashley), and to Wilkes' map
of 1841 with a line captioned "Smith's track" crossing the Sierra
in essentially the same region; and also to the statements of sev-
eral independent authors, namely. J. K. Gwynn, J.J. Warner, T. F.
Croniso, end "an associate of Smith," who in 1867 wrote a letter
to the San Francisco Times "for the purpose of correcting errors in
regard to Smith's movements." All of these authors say distinctly
that Smith left his party on American Fork, and moreover, as already
remarked, Warner himself was_OT>pl^2edJb:; 3nith_8nd.w8^^^
le??; than four y^ars after Smith's trip across Nevada, so the* there
is every reason to believe that he spoke with the authority of a
man who knew what he was talking about.
Cronise, writing of the more or less conflicting accounts of
Smith's doings in California, stetes that he had been "at consider-
able trc'ible to unravel these various stories" and had gathered
his particulars "from those who knew S^ith personally and_shared
his oerils, and from documents' in the State archives." Ue then
goes on to sa/ that Smith's party "trapped for beaver, and other
animals, from the Tulare to JheJ.mericanJ'ork of the Sacrsmento,
where there was already 8 camp of American trappers. Smith estab-
lished his C8mp near the site of the present town of Folsom, about
22 miles Korth-east from the other party."
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colloofd by Oroni,.. ,as a little too hasty, for he say, that
Oro.is. "gives two accosts regarding S.ith and leaves the reader
to make hi, ohoioe." But reference to Cronise show, that his 30.
called second account frtich he hi.self calls "another ve^icn-1
has no hearing .hatever on the subject of the present discussion
bu relates to .hat happened, not only .any .onths after 3«ith-,
"tun, to Oaliforr-ia and departure for O.gon. but after the «as-
-ore Of his .en by B„p,ua Indians in western Oregon, and even
alter his arrival at and denartur** fr-n., v^ 4. n
p. . , aeparture from Port Vancouver on Columbia
Rxver in what is «ow the State of Washington!
i^urthermore, if .ore were needed, Harry L. Wells, ir His
account of 'The erAflf ^i^,.y^ n^
t„ P,-, r^^"*^-^*^^"'"'"" '-«"'«'-■ Trooping Expedition,
t. California., mentions Smith's retun, to his .en in the l^^
-« word,: .Beuniting himself ,ith the company he had left on the
-r.c.n Hiver the year before. . ., Bells also states distinctly
t^t .„uh. before returning to Utah, had established headquarters
5S^L'a._on_iaerican. River. Wells .as personally acquainted
.Uh the trapper Stephen H. Meek (Irother of Joseph keek) »ho ca.e
to CaUfornia ,ith ..alker-s party in 1833 and "related the
particular.." To ,ueation the reliability of positive st;te.ents
as to locautie. given by hunters ard explorers, because of errors
Of a year or so in their .enory of dates, .s to gainsay the value
Of human testimony.
^ilr. netc^,er say,: "ar. iterria. contejls that 3„ith crossed
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of the American River," and so pn. Reference to my published
statement sho^s that I did not either 'contend' or 'claim' that
he went up the North Fork, hut did say: ''In view of the evideftce
here assemhled. it mj he accepted as an astahlished fact that
Smith crossed the Sierra in the neighborhood of American River.
But whether he chose the north or the south side is not of record.
Howe-rer. since en explorer of Smith's experience would not.have
made his second attempt without e preliminary examination of the
country, and since the route on the north is far less difficult
than that on the .oath rnd is the one since chosen, not only by
the railroad, but also by the State and Lincoln highways. 1 infer
tha be laid his course on that side, namely, along the ridge
betvjeen American River and the Yuba."
Referring to Smith's route on emerging from the Sierra. Mr.
Fletcher continues: "in th. .pring r.nd early surnmer the Truckee
is 8 torrential stream, which Sr.ith would not attempt to cross
except from necessity." In reply, attention may be called to two
facts: (1) that I did not ssy that he crossed the Truckee; and (2)
that the Truckee. being the outlet of a large lake, lacks the
sadden and violent floods characteristic of n.ny mountain rxvers
and ..rely if ever becomes '^a torrential stream" sufficiently
formidable to halt a mountain man of Smith's experience and cour-
age-especially since he ha. already crossed the series of impet-
y. 2 4v,« uj^qt flsnlc of the Sierra brtiwen
uous rivers that rush down the ^est lieiiK o.
Kern Eiver and American Pork.
Mr. FUtcher's s.ticK, cont.lna peges of utterly lrrel»ant
matter, such a. ,»tatio„= fro. Smith's letter of J<a, 1827
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(already several times published) relating to his route before
reaching California; to his visit to the missions after his return;
and to his movements a year or two later, when bound for Oregon-
not one word of which has any bearing on the subject in hand.
Mr. Fletcher thinks it worth while to mention Smith's remark
that he traveled NW from Sen Bernardino 300 miles, which accord-
ing to Fletcher would bring him to the Stanislaus. The attempt
to prove anything definite by this rough estimate of distance
traveled from San Bernardino to some place not positively stated
(though inferentially the Wimmelche or Kings Ri^er. rather than
either the Stanislaus or American) is too trivial to need reply
farther than to remark tliat the to-and-from windings of a party
of beaver^rappers in the mountains between San Bernardino end
Kings River could easily exceed this distance.
Mr. Tinhstor seens to see something exceptionally significant
in Smith's plain statement that his route across the deserts of
Nevada was through a country "completely barren." and points out
that the American River route would have led him through the bed
of the ancient I^ke Lahontan.' Can Mr.^^fe^t or anyone else,
point out .any rcute by which anyone could possibly traverse Cen-
tral Nevada from tha Sierra region to Salt Lake without croasin^
the "completely barren" bed of this ancient lake? And can anyore
gi^e ^x.re8s_oiuviix the bed of this old lake Fhculd ii£i be crossed!
or how anyone not a geologist could possible kr.o;v when he had
arrived at its ancient shores? Oddly enough. Mr7fe^^„^',es no
mention of the broad and really formidable salt bed of the ancient
Lake Bonneville which Smith was obliged to cross before reaching
■^alt Lake!
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^vould leave this open country to climb the difficult mountain
ranges lying south of it.** In this—regardless of the location
of the 'open country' referred to— I quite egree with him; and
may I ask if cnycne ever suggested that Smith did climb these
difficult ranges? Those who have crossed Nevr.da along different
routes (as I have done several times, both on horseback and
by automobile) must be personally familiar with the wellknown
feet that the Desert Eariges of the Great Basin stp.nd in echelon
and that the various roads and trails wind sufficiently to
enable the traveler to cross without climbing the mountains.
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u-liforria Historical 3oci
oar ."rsncisco, California
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Deer tr. Wagner:
Don't ycu think it a little tough on an overworked
old man ^trugeling against many odds in the hope of cr-mplet
ing for publication a few of the twenty or more volumes on
which he has been at work for a quarter to half e oent'try •
to lay his wo-k.aside in order to reply to such utter'
twad;11e as the article under considereU.ion?
One ca^/not^help >:>ndering why a r&i;pectable historical
journal should^ degrad'i»gitself by publishing such stuff.
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Sen jVnncisco^ Galifornifi
Dear i.*r. Vtef.ner:
ric^se pardon ray rielay ir eckncwledging receipt cf
ycur inportent book, California Vrye^eg,183£>1541, I
appreciate the labor you ha^re bestowed upon the trsnsla-
ticn of these precicuf documents and in writing the mi:ny
illuminating footnotes, not to mention th^ T^aps ^nd the
most usefiil index.
Has the circumstance any significance that in Castillo's
map of 1541 the word ' Cfi^ifornic ' on the peninsula is in
printed type wholly difi'erent from aryt^ inp else on the map?
Does not this i^^ply that the name was added after th^ map
hcA been finished?
i»p* in thankinp you for this latest contribution to know-
ledpe of th*^ early history of explore t.ion alonp the coasts
of Lower California ,
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My dear Miss Huggins:
Will ycu ki.dly send me a duplicate cooy of Yrlume 2
Number 1. cf^t^.e Quarterly cf the California Hi.tonca]
Society, dated April 1S23. and containing important reticles
on Geornc C. Y,^,o ,,^ ,,^^, ^^^ ^^ .^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^_^^^
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Mr. G. 0. Tatham, Editor
Hod and Gun in Canada
Woods tock, Ontario
i)ear Sir:
Thenks for your letter of the 11th instant in regrrd
to the atrocious article on the Jeckrebbit in Onterio.
You 8sk for information in regcrd to the !!urope8n Hrre.
You will find a good deal of meterial of this kind in prac-
tically all European works on ntturtl history, and in
Lydekker'a Hoyal Katurol History, as well as in mmy popular
wrks on sport and hunting..
Information as to its introduction and fpread in the
United States you will find in the enclosed penphlet by
James Silver of the Biological Survey.
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Dec^r Professor Cattell:
'Science^ of ilarch EC, ju^t received^ conttiins an
Item ccr.tribated by Science 3onrice, stating that "The
>Vench Linirter of Cc lonies hr? f^et eside, by eyecutive
decme, p. number of inlands o^med by Prrnco in the Anterc
tic rerirn? a? prme penctuaries for Dcler boer. .valrus.
^na lion?' ar^ othnr aninrls.^
In view cf the well-known fec^t th^it the Polar Beer
and V/alrus are confined to the Jlorth polar region snd
that t ley ha'/e no r<^prepentative near or remote in the
-Antarctic, is it not somewhat cut of the ordinary for
i^Vance to set a^ide sanctuaries for these arimals in the
South polar repicn?
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Washington, D. C. ■
My dear Profespor Slosson;
In tho lang-aage of the Outlock. "Has the Science Service
gone daffy?"
^Vcn cn'ltem^cntributed by ycur Service to the Ian
number of Science fScience.Merch 20). one would infer that a
factory of false news, similar to that recently established in
the Outlcok by a man named Grepg.had been erected by Science
Service. I refer, of course, to the statement th.t the .Vonch
Government ha. set aside as r.ame^IciuirTes/c^^rt^^nt^^^ds
in the ;.ntarctic, notwithstanding the well-known fact that
these animals are restricted to the North pl^r region.
i may be in error, as it is possible that the mistake was
made by the i^Vench Llinister of Golonien, or oven that the r'r.nch
Uoverr.ment is considering the estaUishment of nurseries for
these animals which it may contemplate tr^nsplaii^Ii^the
opposite pole from that in which they now enjoy tho vicissitudes
cf a chilly existence.
With best wislies.
Very truly yours.
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GeorGe H. Himes, Curator
Public Auditorium
Portland, Oregon
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me 2 copies of the
Oregon Historical Society Quarterly containing J.J.
Hill's article on Ewing Young (Vol. 24, No. 1, 1923)?
I am enclosias rr.y check for one dollar in payment.
Very truly yours,
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Mr.
gi^O Ijlain otreet
fortlend. Gr-gon
% dear Mr. Hoss:
Tery mcnjr thanks for th. »™ v,
,.„j- trouble you te»e trken in
"""ding Be the oliooinps ;„.' •
«« these detailed ao=o„„te to „, nu. ' '
-^^is case PC rrr-, «r>
i. ,., ,. •"'' '''' '" ^^^-t.iriy authentic. It
IS attr.cti„c ^vide attention and -s vn. '
y^rv fh. v.. . '"^ " •^''^™' '*^'S^ teen
^■^y thoroughly invest ireted T «>.« .^
,.^-,.f . ^ gre£:tiy appreciate ycnr
coartegy m the natter.
^ery truly yours.
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Merch 30, 19E5
Mr. J.D. Grnnt
Chairman Board of Directors
3a 76 the RGd\voods League
San Prsncisco, California
inp, to a caroon^of a
My dear Mr. Grant:
Beferring
letter from Mr. Walter B. Scaife, of Berkeley,
relating to the unpleasant name of the magnifi-
cent F:edwood Grove known fs '^Bull Greek Plat,"
would call your attention to the fact thn^ the
native Indian nar^e of Bull Creek is IDLANKO.
About five ye are age the Gov-
ernment Geogra'phic Board fcrrrially adopted the
name ^*LolaLko^ for Ihe^river flat and splendid
rcdv70od grove on the west side of South Fork,
Kel Eiver, at the mouth of Bull Greek, Humholt
County. While this name is perhapF less
euphonious, than ^Kettintelbe/^ adoptnd at the
sa'i^e tine for the plaon some tines cr;llc^ Phillips-
ville, nevertheless it sounds bettor than **Bull
Creek.'*
Very truly yours.
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Jirst Berkeley Bnipch
Moroen tile -.Trust CompVnv
Berkeley. Cfiliforria ^
3e£r Sir:
J- copy of ;rcur letter of Merch
18. urgiiig that a less obnoxious name be
given to the splendid redwood grove co,mr.on.
lykno^nas "Bull Creek Plat." has been
forwarded to n:c by the Save the Pcd^cods
League .
A copy of ny reply to lir. Grant
is enclosed herewith.
Very truly yours.
CHM-G3H
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March X, 1965
Mr. end Mrs. P. Martinelli
Laguni ta s
California
Dear Kr.and Urs .Martinelli:
Very many thanks for your letter of
Kerch ^2, telling me that someone had broken into
our house and left the water running. We arc
very nlad that you discovered it and that you
took up the kitchen linoleum and put it out to
dry. I an obliged to you for this end for shut-
ting off the water completely. I thought I had
done this, myself, before we left last Pall.
Has the upper road been mended so that
we can drive the ear up to our house?
We hed hoped to leave YJashingtop about
now, but have not yet been able to finish the work
which must be got out of the way before we start.
We now expect to go cbout the end of April.
With kind regards end best wishes to you
all,
Vory truly yours.
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April 1. iy^5
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Ccshier, Crocker Ilcticnal Et^ink
3an Frencisco, CeUfomie
Deer 3ir;
Keremth I ^.n enclcsinp mv check on the national
Letrcpolitar Br.nk of this city for t^^o hundred dollars.
which kindly piece to the credit of m cccount.
7er7 truly ycurs ,
die
919
/:pril i 19ii5
Lejor John C. H. Lee
Ooro? c'' Engineers
i^asningtcn
iily dear iir:
In your letter of torch l£,ac>no;vledgiriG receipt cf my
letter of Februery 25 tr&nsiritting a number of comments and
corrections on the California quedrsnglea ispued by the Corps
of engineers, you told me thpt a copy of my ccinnents had been
forwarded to thp engineer under -Aose direction the -crk bed
been dene. I hcve not yet heard from him Pnd shall b* very
glad to receive a reply cohering the questi-n? esked in ny
letter of .^Vbraary k.5 and also in relation to any matters
v>'' ich he mty regard with doubt.
1 have not received • ny of the sheets of which I sent
ycu a list, the names cf ^hich appear on t;;e mai^ins of the
quadrangle? previously sent me. If any of the^p have been
published I Ph< ;:ld be vrry glad to have them; and I shall be
o'cliged if you will kirdly send me for field use a duplicate
set cf the sheets covering Russian Eiver and Zel hiver.
Very tr-ily yours
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New York City
My dear Sir:
Replying to your letter of H,p i.f • .
- to write a letter express- '^''^
"the forei^. and mill '' °'"'"" ^^^^^^^^
^' and military policy of t>i« IhnfaA -. .
would call your ntt..f . ^ ^ ^[-^ Uriited states".
year attention to the fact that a liffi,
more than a year bpq ^r.y ««, , ^^"^"^^
^ •'^ ^^-'^^'^ "'e for a letter on^
national duty to the Indians T
request I .ent vou o TT "'"'""'' ^'^^ ^'^^^
.>uolt / ' '' '" ^^'^^^« -titled The
cruelty of Forced i-llotmert. ir Calico. • r
this for abet siv .. California'.. Ye,, ^ ^
abet SIX months and then published from it a
«inple paragr.ph-thus leavirr th« .... .
the air .n^ A ■ "''' ^""^ "P i"
Jnyself material injustice.
Not ca.i.g to be burnt the second time I re..
pectfully decline to send anythi.. f.^th^r t .
-y iHc. further to tne Forum.
Very truly yours
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April 2 1525
Mr L L Shiner
Fcirfex, Ciilifomia
My deer Sir:
Have you finished work on my car? If so I
should. b^ greatly obliged if you ^ould spnd ne the
hill so thr.t T nay ?end you a check for the amoant
at once.
I expect to reach California about the end of
the i;re9ent month.
Very truly yours
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April 4, 1925
C. Hart Merriam
Mr. H..><. Dorsey. Aocountarit,
3mit':3o;iian" Irstitution,
V/jishington, D. 0.
Dear IJr. Dorsev:
*v, ^l^-^?"^^'^! ^"^ enclosing my expense aocount for
v,he month of March, amounting to 5>56'.76, end also
vouchers for
?.:rs. Ruth, Hall, stenographer - - ' $108.33
jiise ^eneida mrrif^.ir . Rspxetant - - 72.00
hrs. "^dith Burt Trent, assistant - - 40.00
all of which kindly pay from the Harriman fund.
Very truly yours.
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Scientific ycnfhly for Pi ^^ ^^ ""^^ ^"^
American Anthronologist -for S25
Ca^!lf%^^stf°ioc.fSfon'L^f:%fSS^1^T '
Byron 3. Adams, 1600 letter h««L * ^"^
Unden^ood Ribbon Ooupin Book '^'^^
norence Johnson. Cleaning office roons
Electric Current. Peb.l9-£ch:2i;
Gas, ?eb.25-iich.25.
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April 13, 1925.
T)ear Dr. 3te-jhensl
Ve were pleaded this noon to receive your letter from
lakeport, dated Ajril 7th. ?or a Icrr tir-.^ T >,.->« v., u •
i «- 1 d -Ltr/, line i nH?o been nouirg
day by dsy to -.vrite you, but htve been pr«trerted by th« ster.dy
n^e.Pur. cf behirdhr-nd wcrV, together mth the redrt -.eek-long
meeting of the Ame -ioi:n Society cf .iimmelof^ists . ovsrlf^ppei by
on imr.sion cf ..erri.r.s. thirteen of ^hon lunched at my^sister's
yesterdey,
^le er. miehty cMd ^c hear frcn you r.nd krow that ell
of you are -.veil and that yea h.^e already beer, able to visit
The 3hado-.7S. It is>ocd al.o to >nc^. th«t Lrke Coar.ty h.s at
last received its full sh.re of rain. T<e h.d a li.tle too much
at lEcunito? eccordirg tc all tcocur.ts.
We ere interested el^o to kno;v th^^t Bruce i^ st work
in the Hcpkirs J^orine Stctio^ at Pacific Grove. The mar. in
charge of this laboratory i. >. y.Uer K. Pi.her. when I have
kno^n ever .ince h. ^.^ a tiny bov ir hi. crib. He i« only son '
cf Dr. A. K. Pi.her cf the Piolop.ic'l Survey, .hon you ^n.v have I
met. You mi^M rentier this to Brace when you write rnd tell !
hlr -'Iso that Vihr-r I -vr.c; -u'-rb-; r-rv ^^^ ♦.v, n- % r^
.^.-. 1 ..rjc: .7..<-kirp ^or the Fish Com^nispion td
Woods Hole. i:.=.ecb..ett.. ^uet fifty ye.r. ..o, ] dissected
a ec^s;dereh]e r.a;:ber of ,h.rks ar'l still have drann.^. of the^>
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You forgot to ten no c ^t. .
"^ -.ope u u i„ jz :;;r '^ "°"' '"■- -- ^----i-
and ..ive you t^^. .-.,.. ,. "' ^'^"^ «"^- s^^ietv.
,..., ^ . ^' ^'^^^ 3^'" de-erve.
■'.ale try.n, h.rd e.ch d.y t. ..,.. to . • '
have'^eer unable to ren^t . . " "^ 'cr.itting, i
'^eetir^ c- -,. - . ^' " ^"^'''^^' ^'^«^' «- tho recent
~'^ w .ne „,enr.al Sorlety ard od^o ,,, ,,. . , "^'''"^
work hesitotin,ly rofe^-.-ed to ^. ., i-" !^ " ^^°^^^^^^-
the Gove^....t Gecgraphio "o^.^d ^:V"''"-'^^ ^^^^'^^tee of
i took (eorre Ri>.H fv; ., -t-rd.y (this i, tionday)
L- -x.a '.rrmnell Pnd 'vi'o f, "^
Naticn.1 Uoo. '' ''" ''^ '^^^^^^ in tho
3li2abeth end Zenaide join in ^or. t
in the hooe that .e ..v ^'' '^^ ^^^ ^1=°
the present month " ®^ ^^"^ ""'^ of
As
Or. W. Barclay Stephens,
Alar.'ioda, Californie.
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/.pril 13, 1S25.
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Dear Coville:
Your letter cf I.Iarch 29th, with enclosures of some of
o'jr Liig'jnitas pleats, arrived duly find was fjreetly appreciated
by all three mornhers^of the Merriam fanily. The numir.n.laria
mfcn7.finita and thr Fritillp.ria arrived in perfect condition and
Celled UD rpanv memories.
Just now Lrs. IL. h.r.9 received a letter from Llrs, Coville,
carrying the horrible newf^ that your New 2ngland hone has been
burned, V/e have always had a dread the sane sort of thing might
happen to our Lagunitss home so that we have a very geruine fel-
low feeling end share your sorrow.
of work
more sev
of thp
week; an
I should hr ve written you long ago but for the Drossure
and interruptions, both" of which of late have been even
ere than^^usual. Vie hs'^e just r^ccvered from an in-^asion
mericr Society of I«lcmmalbgists , 7;hich consumed about a
d before the meeting had ended we \7ore the recioients of
icn of ..!erriams^ 'vhich i? still in progre«?s. Dav before
an irvr»s
yesterday there were thirteen iJerriams at my sister^s home on
itrlorama " ' ' . , ^-^~ , . . -^ , . .
inr some
suburbs.
Road,
, and the entire day yesterda v'"^ was consumed in tak-
of them on automobile drives eboul the various parks and
These ^'■aricus irterruDticrs have of course interfered
sadly with my work so that we are not yet .--.ble to name the date
of our depart;ire for California. V/e hope, however, to have at
least a couple of weeks with tou before' you feel impelled to re-
turn eastward.
Glad you found some things in flower on our place.
With affectionate remembrances from all of us.
As ever yours ,
Dr. i^\ V. Oovillo,
Academy of Sciences,
San^ijVancisco, Calif.
ilpril 13. 19£5
Shepard Bock Co.
408 Scr.th State St.
Salt Lake City/uteh.
Deer Sirs:
obliged if you will^"fn5%7"^^?7"<i ^^^^U
dresled to 1919 3ixteen?h 3t ^'? ^u' '^•^' ^d-
wxceentn ot., Hfshington. D. G.
Very truly yours ,
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April 13, 1925
^P^n 3, 1^25.
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Hiss Dorothy ... ..v.>.»,..*.^ ,
Califcrnie Historicr^l Society.
508 Wells }^arfyo Building'
2an ?renci<2co, Calii.
iiy desr Iliss Huggir.s:
an enxious tc havp the Yount article and
still hcpinp tliat it hf-s been only t
sent and may yet erriye.
am
emoorerily mis
"Very truly yours.
Wr. Stephen Kniaht.
Ukiah. Celifornia.
Dear Mr. Knight:
£»i-i to becorae a la™ t^uL t-iX^.'^^ the Court of pV^',-
passed both Housfc vlf^i^'JiH irtrod'ic^ hn i> fe""^
ve
-fno^, but the lawyer* hnn. fK * -^.^0 come up I d,
calendar for rext'lall oTwinter'* ^^^^ ^* P'"^* oi
egcirst the'indians Snt*.; ^^ ^^'^ '^"ovv, was deri^-^
,^upreme Court. Wh-n u^-^^f-PO" been app^ hlj tn ?i,
^now. but th-Ti „!!:;:"_ ^t IP likelv to r.^iSr If*? ,^° the
do not
on the
aM^t?tlifii;9uu5^ris^Sa?ir;fif,s:^tins
which I ?erJ°„.u«iV%^?Jf;^ta the end'o^^^^J S?.;,Je
your family!^^"^ ""'"^ ^'^^^^^ ^^^'^ -H of u. to all of
-*^^*ci.
Very truly yours.
^"^^ ^--JW v-»av ^ ' '" '^ 'i^'*^ *^* '**~t.* V^
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fiss Dorothy H. Hufrnins,
Cclifornie Historical Socjietv.
508 Wells Fsrp,o Building!
ijan Frer.cisco, Calir.
liy desr i;i.«s Huggins:
Since the receipt cf your letter tell-
ing ne thfio yen wf^re sendint] the iuprterly af--.-ed
tor under sepercte cover, I hr.v<^ feen enxiouiilv
awtii^irr. the receipt of the publio;:tion. bat re-
gret to c,ay t'^iit thu? frr it he? not arrived.
I am anxious to have the Ycunt article and am
still hcpmp tliat it hj-p been only temoorarily mis
sent and may yet arrive. " *'
Very truly yours.
it
-^pril 3, 1925^
■ ^^' ni?Pl?«" Knight.
Ukiah, Calii^ornia.
IJear Mr. Knight:
^i^i. to become a lam ?v,- v-^?*.°' the Court of nV?,-
passed both Houifc b^frtl^f^^^.^-'^^^^odnc-d hv f> te"^
agcinst the indiaJs'^ hf,t\ ^^ ^^^ 'fnow, was deoi^.H
,^upreme Court. Whfn ?^^>s?.now been aDD^;i2H f. ^u
Vnnui v,,* iu -, "Hen it if> liif.i,. *" °ppeti.ea to the
your family?^*^ ^^"^ ^^^^^^ds from all of us to all of
Very truly yours.
^
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April 15, 1925
l£r. Sim Moek,
Tfestwood, Celif.
My dear Sir:
Many thank? for ycnr letter of the 5th instant
(which ycu forpct to sign), en^^ for ?endinp, me ycnr lit-
tle book entitled ^^The last of the liill Creeks/' It is
very irteresti rr rep^.ing and I am j^tlpd to ed^ U to my li-
brary of California Indian materials.
It would be a p,ood thinp, if more of th^ old Cali-
fornia pionc?r« would put on record their persrnal exper-
iencAfl. The forest state has been so completely overrun by
white people dvring the pe^t fifty years and the popula-
tion has increased so erormously tliat it is hard for the
younger generation to realise the haoperings \'?ithin the life
time of sone of the older people like yourself.
The dollar in payment is enclosed herewith.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours,
A.
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April 17. 1925.
Hotcr Vehicle Depi:rtment ,
3ccra'^ento, Gclif orris.
Deer 3irs;
Lly car ('Jlievrolet Baby Grand IIo, ^496,
i<'3 50, 1920) has been jaoked up in the Fairfax Garef;e,
8t .^^airftx, iuprin Oounty, erd hep not benn used since
I left Gelifomie in Moyember lest. I expect tc re-
tarr to iny summer plr^ce at Lag'onitas, LL^rin County,
about th<^ end of the jresent month, r.nd I an anxious
tc obtain pv new license ta^ and olrte? as earlv as
prccti cable. I have 'viVr me h^re the white Certifi-
cate of Repistration of 1924, cerriftd in the frcrt of
the car, but th^ red slip is in my ?afe at Lap.unitas
and net cbtainablp until I reach California.
Lly laf^t year's Certificr.tr of Hepistraticn
rea-l^ a^ fcllo;9s: ''C. Uart kerriam, Larunitas, Cali-
fornia. Cede 1-2. Licence V.c. lOT.'^lS?, Chevrclet, 1920.
'^nf^ine No. 635o2, Tourinfr itedel 1920, Fee ^'3.00? dated,
i955ued "-16-24 30.
Is it prrcticrble to send the necessary infer-
mation and fee in ar'.vance so that th^ new license and
plates mav be ready or my arrival in the state? If so,
shall I send ycu mv 1924 Certificrte of Registration?
Very truly yours, i
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April 17. 1925
Hon. Herbert Putnam,
Librarian of Gonp^ress,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Dr. Tutnam:
On inquiry I find that the Library of
Congress lacks e number of the county histories
of California counties. Some of these I have
consulted in the Bancroft Library of Berkeley,
but just now I am anxicus to see the History of
Tehama County, published by Elliott and ttoore
in San j?Vancisco, 1880.
If you chance to have a copy which haf?
escaped cataloging, or to suspect the existence
of a cooy elsewhere in %shington, I should be
greatly obliged for the information.
?erv tmlv vours,
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Ccmmittee on Adnissicns
Cosmos Olub, V/g^-ungtcn,
In locking over the list of Cf^nc^id-Ues tc oorriC-. before
the Conmittee on Admiseiors on Hay 4th, I f ird four wl.orn I
am "glad to support. Thciie are:
(1) A. Brazier Howell. Though entered a« 'crnitho logifit ' ,
kr. Howell is much more: he is corresDondinp' secretarv c" the
Ar.ericpn 3c(5iet7 of Mami^.alorists find an all roulid iiptvircliiit..
lie ha^ oublished s number of ir-^ortf-nt paoers on maramrls.
birds, Knd f^notcrav, ^^d is h ver^; comoetent and thtvrc'irh ^vcrk-
er.
(2) Victor K> Ghesrut . Chemist. Chesnut is too well kncvvn
and respected to require comment. Mis field of nork is so
different from my o^n that I feel competent to speak only of
c^o of his earlier papers — the one entitled, "ilcmts used by
t^^ie InH j:ns of Llendocino County, California," published in
150£. This is an admirable contribution to kncrvledge and one
m^ich quoted b;.^ ethnologists.
(3) Alexander Wetmore. formerly Superinterder t of the Na-
tional Zoological rark, now iissistant 3ec>-etary of the or-ith-
scr.ian, in chrrge of the National L!useum. Dr. V/etmorf^ ^c'S
formerly an assistant en the B-iologicrl Survey and has been
in charge of scientific expeditions tc South AiDerica end to
f-^'
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■ ned eminence ir ^h^
e IS al5?c ^ mhnvmclcp.Ut and v rian of
the remott.r i'- lands uf the rt^-'^U- r >^ ^ - •
^'- i^.itf na\...ixc.ii ,jruap. ::e is ore of ;,jr.cr-
ica^s leading orni thclur^jo ts ^n,* hr-r attair
field 01 bird anator^y. r'
r^thor unusual pbilitv,
U) lIiili«!L.lv..Uiiixsoj:. lly acqwur.trnce v;ilh JccVoc.n <^>t-
^ ■'■''■" -••• ^'-'-- Cjl::'. Hep'en Su^-vev,
of *hi.h .. ^.cih .ere -rVr^^. J.ckscn v... net only the cffi-
cUl photcerepher of the e.pediti.n; ho "wr. aire nor t h.l, ful
.in n-r^-oi... ^n.! bev.nl . dcubt ih^ W.i likec^ r.,r^ ;. f., •
e/pedition. During ^ =v^ .i2r«?f "if^r- -^^c >,., t • , .
■• .> ^^^ - -I --'e Sf;en him onlv
«t vere 1nf:ervrU, out ..... .i;v.vn felt th.^ h« deserved th-^^
hi-h opinirr -ve hf?d -^ hi., in tii. ern7 d^^vs.
Verv truly yours,
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ics's leadinc ornithologists and ha«= attained eminence i. the
field of bird anatomy. He is also a ma^mnalogist end a mnn of
rather unusual ability.
(4) WiUi^m 'f. Jrirlfffpa. My acquaintance vrith Jeckscn dates
back fifty-three years-to the day. of the old Hayden Survey
of which we both were in-bers. Jackson was not only the offi'-
cial photographer of the expedition; he wrs also -no.t hel.ful
in e^ers-cies. and beyond a doubt the best liketl m^n on the
expedition. During the pest fifty years I have seen hir, only
at rare intervals, but hr^e always felt th.t he deserved the
hif^h opinion we had of him in the ecrly days.
levy truly yours,
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April 18. 1S25
Committee on Admissions.
Cosmos Club, Washington.
Deer Sirs:
Professor Willim S. Hitter hes been nomineted
for membership in the Club. For- a long period of veers
hf^ waF heed professor of biolopy in the ^niversit^^ of
C?.lifcrriifi,frcm '.\hioh he resigned tc accept the director-
ship of t'le Scrippg Institute fcr Biclogiuel Beseoroh,
*ich post he held fcr a nuTiber of years. He hae now
retired and is President cf the Boord of Trustees of
"Science Servico."
Twenty-five years ego he wes in charge of in-
vertebrate aoolccy on the iierrimer. Alaska Expedition,
and is an euthori ty in riKny lines of biolofioal wrk.
^*ile no longer ycung.Eitter is a most friendly
and companiom->ble iv.p.n, full of informetion on a surpris-
ingly large rarige of subjects.
Very truly yours,
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••3f^i«r,,w> Q- • • ^iroctor,
jcienoe bervice,"
Washington, D. C.
Dear Dr. Slossen:
dieting or your suggestion I have
this d^-7 vfritter the Comrrittee on Mris.icr.
of the Ccsnos Club, reconrendin^ th. election
of Dr. William ?.. Ritter.
Very truly yours
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Committee on Admissions,
Cosmos Club, Wa5?hinf^ton.
Deer Sirs:
?rofesj?or Willim E. Eitter hss been nominated
for membership in the Club. ?cr a long period of years
h^ wa? head professor of biology in the ^Tniversity of
Cslifcrnia,frcm 'Aich he resigned to accept the director-
ship of the Scripps Institute fcr Biclonical Research,
*ich post he held for a number of years. He has now
retired and is President of the Board of Trustees of
**3ciGnce Service/*
Twenty-five years ago he was in charge of in-
vertebrate zoology on the Harrimen Alaska Expedition,
and is an authority in many lines of biological wrk.
^ihile no lorger young .Eitter is a most friendly
and companiom^ble ciPn, full of irformction on a surpris-
ingly lerge range of suhjects.
!^ery truly yours,
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^'"' ^"loiJ^U^J*^"^^" 3iroctor,
ocaenoe Service "
Washington, 'd. C.
30a r dr. Slossen:
dieting on your suggestion I here
this dav Tfritter the Comrrittee on idris.icrp
of the Ocsnce Club, reconrerdin^ the election
of Dr. William E. Eitter.
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Prof. Vterren H. Lei^^is,
Deuartment of Embryology,
V/olfe and Msdiipon ots.,
Baltimore, Lid.
lly dear Prof*9*3cr Lewis:
Your letter of the I'^'th in^tent gives me
much 58ti«fpcticn end I wish to c^rpress mj indeb-
tedne^^ to you for your kiridne^fQ in crranRing the
s:,^oosiiim for the fall meeting of the naturalists.
The subject selected. ''The Structure of
Irctoplafrm/' is entirely rati«^fpctc^'' tc ne.
I am plad tc kro^.v al«^c that the meeting
will be in Hew rit-Ton irsterd cf Kcn?r:v^ City.
With best .vishes.
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Dear Ooville:
In passing yonr house a day or two ego I
roticed that the outside vestibule doer «.e coer .nd
t'^at a pa,or w.. stickir.P in the .idc of the Inside door.
I therefore parked my cpr end :vent into the vestibule
wher^ I found the enclcsed dccwents.
We ha/e no meenr cf knc^vinr whether or not
you locked the ont.ide .e^tibule door when you left.
We are still hoping to get off the Itst of
^^e nonth. ard J hop- to see yon soor thereafter.
The little remembrarces you were thoughtful
enough to send us from Lagunit«c g^e ju.t .s fresh look-
ing end beautifnl as wh.n they arrived and it is a ccn-
fort to h87»» them.
Hoping your recent botanical maneuvers hsve
teen productive c^ joy and specimens, end with love from
us all, • -
As ever yours.
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Dr. P. V. Coville,
Academy of Sciences,
San ih-mcisco, Calif.
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My dear Profesfscr Lewis:
Ycur letter of the l''th ir]5?tent gives me
much ?gti«fpcticn end I wish to c?r.press mj indc^-
tedne*?*' tc ycu for ycur kindne^'^ in arranging the
s:y?noo«inm for the fall meetirp, of th^ raturalists*
The subject selected, '7he Structure of
rrctoplarm/' is entirely r^ati^^fpcfc^ tc r\e.
I am plad tc kro^v al'-c t^rit the meeting
will he in Hew rIaTen irsterd cf Kansas City.
With best '.vishes.
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Dear Coville:
In passing yo.r hou.e a day or two ago I
rotice. thet the outside .e.tibule doer wo. coe. .rd
t'-t a paper wa. sticVin, in the .ido of the inside door
I therefore parked .y e.r and :v.r,t into the vestibule
wher^ I fc„r.d the enclosed dcca^.nts.
^*e ha-re no meanr cf knc.inr whether or net
you locked the ont.ide .e^tibule door when you left.
We are still hoping to Ret off the Itst o^
^^e .onth, ara J hoo^ to see yon soor thereafter.
The little remembrarcep yon were thoughtful
enoueh to send us fron. I^gunitu^ are ju.t as fresh look-
ing 8M beautif.I as wh.n they arrived and it is a ccn-
fort tc hav^ them.
Hoping ycur recent botanical maneuvers have
been productive of joy and specimens, .nd with I
us all, - -
ove from
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Acad amy o^ Sciences,
San iVrncisco, Calif.
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Division of Publications,
Heye Museum American indien,
Brcedway at 155 3t.
iiew Xork City.
dear Sirs;
Sometime ego in compliance Fith my request ycu sent me
8 li<?t of publications of the Museum, for ^hich I tin obliged.
?rom this list I shall be glad if you will send me the follow-
ing, a check for which, amounting to $9.95 is enclosed here-
with.
No.^
Vol. Ill No. 4
Vol. VII No. 1
Vol. VII No. 3
Vol. X Mo. 5
fron the Muaftiiri
Spoons
Canoes
the Uakeh
Houses Fuget Sound
Houses
rg Chsms
'or Lenape
$ .50
.40
.65
1.00
.20
.15
.15
.60
.15
.70
1.60
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Chief Clerk.
Library of Congrw*.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I shall t« greetly obliged if you will have
msdp and sent tc me, two copies of £ map in Thomaa
.7. Parnham's book entitled "Travels in the^Gjjj,-
fcrnics enA Scengs^ in the Pacific Ocean," New York,
1344. The map in question is ertitled "Map of the
Calif omias," end in the cojj I have seen faces
pcne 288.
"Would enclose check, but have no means of
knowing the price. \U11 remit a? soon as informed.
Very truly yours.
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Dr. G«or«» Bird Grlnn»ll •
238 last 15th St,
Hew York City.
Dear Grinnell?
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Vei7 many thanks for your letter of the 16th instant, re-
plying to ay inquiry as to the best organization with which to de-
poait «y duplixjate ethnological material.
It is good to know that your decision, agrees with my feel-
ing, that the tfaseum of the iaerican Indian, Heye Foundation, is
the place ibe re the material la likely to do the most good.
I will leave a mamorandam to this effect in one of ii^y
tafes before going to California, abont the end of the month, and
when I return next fall will take the matter up with the necessary
details and specif ioationa. I feel greatly relieved at the outcome,
since for some years past the matter has given me a good deal of un-
easiness.
The results of my California field work are now in such
shape that, with the little additions here and there in prospect
for the coming field season. I expect to begin publication very soon
after returning in the fall. The place and manner of publication
and the matter of the reproduction of large scale colored maps are
atill in abeyance*
With thanks for yo^ar trouble, and with kindest regards
froa ue all to Mrs. Grinnell,
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Chi-f Clerk.
Library of Congre*^.
v/ashington, D. G.
Dear Sir:
I shall te greatly obliged if you will heve
medf^ and sent tc me, two copies of £ mep in Thomas
J. Parnham's book entitled ^'Trsvels in the Celi-.
fcrnics end Scenes in the Fccific Ocean/' New York.
1344, The map in question is er titled "ilap of the
Calif orr.ias." and in the cojy I have seen faces
pcf^e 233.
Tfculd enclose check, but have no i^eans of
knowing the nrice, liali remit e^ soon as informed.
Very truly yours.
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238 last 15th 3t,
New York City,
Dear Grinnell;
Vez7 many thanks for your letter of the 16th instant, re-
plying to my inquiry as to the best organization with which to de- ■
poiit my duplicate ethnological material.
It is good to know that your decision, agrees with my feel-
ing, that the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, is
the place where the material is likely to do the most good.
I will leave • memorandum to this effect in one of my
safes hefore going to California, about the ecd of the month, and
when I return next fall will take the matter up with the necessary
details and specifications. I feel greatly relieved at the outcome,
since for some years past the matter has given me a good deal of un-
easiness.
The results of my California field work are now in such
shape that, with the little additions here end there in prospect
for the coming field season, I expect to begin publication very soon
after returning in the fall. The place and manner of publication
and the matter of the reproduction of large scale colored maps are
still in abeyance.
With thanks for your trouble, and with kindest regards
from us all to Mrs. Urinnellt
As ever yours.
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Dr. 0. C. Cot
Unirersity of California
Berkeley, Calif,
Dear Dootor Coj:
Beplying to your letter of the 11th instant, will cod'*^® ^^^^
fidentially that I hare seteral hundred Begatiree, tft>*»n by myself,
of California Indians, Indinn homes, rounOouses- baskets, and
other objects of the sort, which I expect to r^^blish in forthcoming
volumes on the ethnology of the state.
Thus far I have declined all requests for the use of these il-
lustrations, but owing to the educational ralue of your Pictorial
History of California, am willing to let down the bars far enough to
give you the use of a few photos of Indiens and a few of their bas-
kets, if you would like these. The difficulty just now is that I
am hustling to get away to California by the end of the month, and
naturally am overwhelmed with work. 1 have duplicate prints of on-
ly a few of the pictures, so that unless these suffice it will be
necessary to dig up the negatives and have prints made— which will
take time. Can probably let you have four or five photes of Indians
ef different tribes and half a dozen baskets if wanted. Please re-
ply at once se that 1 may be sure to hear from you before leaving,
as there are no copies of these photographs in California.
I am delighted to learn that the appropriation bill for yeur
historical werk has passed the Senate, and trust that it will gf
throijgh,
Very truly yours.
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April' 22. 1925
Mr. Richard Welling,
Chairaan^ Self^Go
90 Broadway,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
Beplying to your letter of the 16th instant,
whether New York State has more Indian nenes than other states,
would say that I hare not compared the New York county list
with similar lists of any other state except Washington. The
State of Washington has 14 counties bearing Indian names, namely.
Chelan
Clallam
Cowlitz
Kitsap
Kittitas
Klickitat
Okanogan
Skagit
Skamania
Snohomish
Spokane
Wahkiakum
Walla Walla
Yakima.
names, namely.
CattaraufMa
Cayuga ^
Chauxau^ua
Chenango
Chemung
The State of New York has 17 counties bearing Indian
Delaware
Niagara
Oneida
Onondaga
Oswego
Saratoga
Schenectady
Schoharie
Seneca
Tioga
Wyoming.
So far as I am aware without looking the matter up. no
other state has so many.
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Banoroft Q»*j
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I«« loric City.
0Mr Sirs2
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1 few jean age I purohaeed a book, apparently
publiahed bj yeu, vritten by Hubert Have Banoroft, e»-
titlei the llld Trfbae ef feet toarioa » tfce eaM being
eeeeatially a reprint of Tolnme I of Banonf t *a Hfetive
Baoea ef tbe Bacifio Statee.' Thia Tolnae beare no
date. Can you glte m the date ef poblioation?
the saae is trm of the felleeiag Tolimee, all
by the aase anther:
%rly Oalifeniia Annaltf.
innala ef ProTincial Cuifemia
iimala ef Territorial Oalifemia
innala of Pioneer California
innala of the Calif entia Geld Ira.
innale of the OrafBfit ef Oalifexnia.
If yea can fnniiah tliis infonetioD I b1«11 be
Tozy anoh abliged.
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I liave raaently been infortfed that the
akalatoD of a mBn^ a bear» and a ^lifornia ead*
ele hfiiTe baaaL^AaBd in a care abqut eighteen
ttilea east of Uht^* This interests me very much.
asA I shall Be greatly obliged for any detaila
tbat you may be kind enough to supply.
Is the sfcemba of the bear a9»i labia?
I should like very mu€t>W to determine the species
and add"^ w'our collection in the National
Museum.
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Ibweum imerican Indian
Heye Foundation
New Yoric City.
Dear Doctor Hodge:
Thanks for your letter of the 23rd instant.
I am delighted io know that you are coming to Wash-
ington in the near fiiture and am writing this in
haste to »am you that we are now beginmiog to pack,
and expect to shut up the house and start for Cali-
fornia about the end of nwt week—so the sooner y<m
' come the better, from our standpoint.
I have much to show you and some things to
tell you in wlation to the results of «y work among
the Indians of California during the past thirty-
five years or more.
Please express to Mr. Heye my appreciation
of his courtesy in the matter of publications of the
UuseiuB* I had not expected any such generosity.
With hest wishes, .- ■
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1« J. 1Ib1ocI)«v
Batoa« Htv KMioo.
Mj d«ar Sir:
I lMr« r«e«Btly lb»eu ioforMd that tht
skslaton of a aaB, a bear, and a Dalifornia aad*
ele h«Te l9mk^mmL in a care about eighteen
■ilea east oflibt^A.^ This interests ne rery moh.
Slid t shall le greatly obliged for any detail*
that you aay be kind enough to supply.
If the rtefirba of the bear asAilable?
I should like very mu4& to detenine the species
and addT^^toour collection in the National
Itoseum.
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Or. f . W. Hodgs
IbieuBi iaerioan Indian
Heye Foundation
Hew York City.
Dear Doctor Hodge:
Thanks for your letter of the 23rd instant.
I an delighted io know that you are coming to Wash*
ington in the near future and aa writing this in
haste to «em you that we are new beginning to pack,,
and expect to «hut up the house and start for Cali-
fornia about the end of nut week— so the sooner yon
' Qoae the better, froa our standpoint.
I hare ouch to show you and sorae things to
tell yon in relation to the results of «y work among
the Indians of California during the past thirty-
fi TO years or mors. •';-
Please express to Mr. Beye my appreciatioi
of his oonrtesy in the matter of pabliastloos of the
Kusemi. I had not expected any such generosity.
•ith best wishes, ' '
Tory truly yours.
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UBdicil building
San FrefDeisoo, Calif.
9oar Doctor Brown:
Thanks for your letter of the 20th in regard |
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to Mrs. lezia, to tihoin I an writing by this mail*
I waa aoaeidiat amaed at the way you addresfed
your letter*-i3Biithaonian|Camegie luatitution^and 19X9
3iicteenth Street, locatinna about two miles aparti
Bowerert it hit the mark all right.
I hare h^ed to see you for several year8[^^1r,|
but accuaulatiTe pressure of field work prerented. 1!op-»*
ing for better luck this year, and with kindest regards
to Mrs* Brown and yourself t
Tory truly yours.
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Sen Prafccisco. Calif,
Dear Mrs. Mezia:
Thanks for your letter of the 13th instant. j«t
roceiTed. » juow
IMorto„.t,iy.i d. not too. of any i.p„di„ „.
p.<'ition of th, oharaofr indlcatod in your l.tt.r.
H«„„r. I „p.ct to g, t, CUforfi. .hortly to
cntlnn, ^ fi.ld work .„ng th, Indian, of north.™
e.Ufo«i.. and shall b, glad to talk rith you 1„ r.gart
to posMbla fl,id work with ». I „p,et to r,.oh Oali-
fomla about th. .nd of th. firat «,k in «.y. *.„ „
h»d,uart,n,. a. usual, .in b. i^,^n„^ ^^^ ^^^^^^
Stall *. glad to ,ae you as early as pr,otie.bU after
ny arriral*
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. Stephen Knight .
B. K D. 78^5
Dkiah. Calif.
Dear Mr. Knight:
Since writing you last your letter of the 12th inatant
has arrived.
Aa I wrote yoii, the California Glaims Bill passed both
Houses, but was not signed by the President. Since writing you
I hfiTe heard from another source that the reason it was not signed
was that a considerable nunber of bills of similar purport had
been passed and had become law, so that the drain on the Treasuiy
was likely to become rather latige. This, to my mind, is a mighty
poor excuse. But the California bill was not alon«: two o.ther
Court of Claims Bills-one for the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota
and Wisconsin, the other for some Oregon or Washington tribe-
were in the sane batch that failed to receire the President's sig-
nature.
Just now I am rery much disturbed trrer the news from
California that on April l$tb a number of Indiant. claiming to be
delegates representing 11,000 California Indians, called on Got-
ernor Richardson to oppose the passage of Senate Bill» 336 and
337 for the relief of California Indiana. This strikes me as
atrocious, and is obriously the work of someone well known to
both of usV He is going too fan and i« poisoning the Indiani
against thenselres. Who elected these Indiana andi what right
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.rnor to .it«,.u M, ,i^,,„. ,„^ ;,.t"' '"^ ""'
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^-i^" Hi«r. »a ^„t t.u,t 1 1 T """^ ^-""" «°
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»• hope to g.t o« abont tho fir.f ./ i,
""'" "°'"" "«'^"° you m f„. an Of „.
Very truly yours.
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ilr« fi^ingtoii^ Kellogg,
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laehington
Dear Mr. Ktll<igg:
Ytry menythanke for four kindnass in telling
Me about 9« ff« Uhler^a find of the skeleton of a aaut
Saddle 9 and bear^in a oare eighteen milea eaet of
Batcmt New Mesrioo*
I had not heard of this and aai trriting to
k. Z. Iblodie* at Baton» for further pertioulara^. la
aeeordanee with jour kind euggeetion.
With best Irishes,
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Mr. fl- l» Uanshav
IftttOaUrio
fcshington, D, C,
Dear HeBiy: ' ^ .
How MH«t the bibliography? I hope you ha^ aecei
tained tike missing de^s?
I hare a copy of your large quarto prelininary
-heets entitled '^be^ c,n*orth Wica:, «th.^^
»«eetaii family, feurteen pages, published so«eirtiere in the
neighborhood of 1890. and distributed for criticism or st«.
gestion. as to method of treatment. Can yoa supp]^ exact
date #f iaaii^
Bm. If I am D.t .l,t.lMo, y„ „„ t^, ^^^ ^^
»P of lndi« trib... ,r.pir«l k, ^r..lf .„d Major r«,.u
. l«g «,. ago. X ha« no «„ .f thi, paj.r and d«„a4
»«7 «.oh Ilk, to p«».„ ^. I, ^„ ^„, . ^^^^^^^ ^^
•«« to fU. it ^„m»M.-, Ith th. ™,t of „„ prtu„.
*i«i.a. Can r,„ gi„ „ n, 4.J, „, j^__^jj_^^^j^_^^
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Sl»*jow Brelhars
^^^J &$**ry ^«rio«
San Bafael. Calif.
Dear Sirs:
I hare not heard from you in regard to the
^ak battery which you sold me several yea« ago. and
took from my car for examination last November.
If it is good for the coming season I shall be
obliged if you will connect with Mr. Schimer. the
ftiirfa. Garage. Fairfax, so that it may be in placTe on
■7 arriral. akout a week from the day you i^eive this
letter. If it i, not in condition, please supply e
rental battery until I am able to see yoi,. which' will
be soon thereafter.
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Dsar Sir:
Can you send m« tax bill for my property
at 1919 Sixteenth Street?
I expect to leave for the stunmer about
the end of the week and would like to pay taxes be.
fore going.
Very truly yours,
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April 27. X925
Publisher
Soienoe
Lenccstert Pa#
Dear Sir: *^
Kindly change my nailinE address for
the su^nmer, beginning noif, from 'lgl9 SixtCffl
StTnt,t. Washington. D. C* to 'LBeunitflg. M
gonn^y. CHlifomia* , returning to the old ad
dress th"? let of No7enfl)er.
Very truly yours.
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iMrioan Forestry, IKS I St.. Washington. D. C.
field and Stpea«r2rf. 45th St. . Me^ort City
VotAr Lend. 1628Ten Kese Are. . Sen Prencisoo. C*f^'* « -
BtionalGi^grapliiQ MBgwitt*. Sixteenth St.. Washington, P. C
tare lagMlne^ BIS Hartford Ite. , Beltlaorei Md.
tdoor life, 1824 Curtla St., wnjer, Oolo.
_d and &un in Gaaada, Woodstook. Ontario
Seientifie Monthly. Imcaater, Pi. „__ . „ ,.,
Suaet Magasine. 460 Fourth St.. San Pranoiseo. Calif.
soienoe* Lanoaster. Pa% v _». ^x*
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«»i» U to UU you that on* copy of the
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toinlm tlM ChroBiclo. of Goorgo C. lomit. has
jtwt arrivod.
»• oo|y fi„t aant hea naror com; appar.
•ntly tba nmbara wars hald np i» tha San ?ran.
cifoo poftH>ffi5ai.i„ea^of dafioiancy of poat.
aga undar tha na, law. abieh thay .ae» to ba an.
lowing rtgoroualy. aiottld tha othar copy a^ar
•rrlTa. I ahaU ratara it of oouraa,
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«»i» l« to un you that 0B« copy of tho
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toi«ti| til* Cfcroaiclo. of Gooxg. c. louat. has
jttit »rri»od.
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•itoo JP«^t*#ffi0o)4i,«^of dofioia»oy of post,
age undor tho a., law. ^^ ^hoy aoe. to bo on-
tofing rt«o«m.ly. fflioiaa tho othor copy o^or
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Ciucago. 111.
Dear Sir:
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Thanks for your catalog reoeived this Korring.
J-Vcr, it I should liie tc purchese the following:
11 Newspaper, Scott Valley Miner. Jan. 5. 1361-$1.00
339 Long, Voyages and Travels^ , .^
for ^hich ^y che.k for ;^.00, on the National Metropolitan
i^aiiic ox this city, is enclosed.
7ery truly yours.
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oacrf'Bianlo , Calif.
Dear Six^s:
Very nitiny thanks for your comunication of the r:5th
inntant (Seg. 107313';^},
Acting on your nd/ice I m enclosing;, herewith r^
check, on the Crocker Biiuk of ^mi ?rarcisco, for $6.50,
though I assumr th.^t the penalty i? act neces8er7 ^^ I
tm onclosiLg effiddivit stating that the or^r her not been
U5?ed Binca Novf^mber 13, 1924*
I am enciof^in^ alfjc the blank you seat me f/ntitled
^ 'Application for Diiplicatr Certificate of O^vnei^hipl I k^,
filled this, but see no rsiiPon why a*^ Piy pink certific^ts
is in ray ?afe at Lagunit<?«', tn(\ J Bm loth owner arid oper-
ator of the (^BT in question.
I s^all nopreciatr the courtesj if ycu will kiidly
send the 192J^' Psristratior Certificate and Licon?e Plates
addressed, 'Dr. C. ti^^rt ilorri^n, care of Pairfai Gars^e,
Fairfax, -^srin County . Oaiiforiua.
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My dear UeuUnent Imions; ■ ' ,
Pardon my delay in replying to your last let-
ter. In compliance with your requast I have asked the
Forest Satrice to send Mr. H. Ikeda. 615 Hast_inge Street,
West, Vancouver. British Columbia, their puhlications on
forestry of the Pacific region with special reference to
trees, nood and pulp.
Many thanks for the copy you were good enough ^
to send M of the American Uussum't ioumal 'Natural
History' containing your interesting article on the 'Kitik-
ihan and their Totem Poles' and one or two other articles
of interest.
Unfortunately, i do not know of anyone or any
institution in a position to purchase the British Columhia
baskets of whiofe you speak. There «re plenty of museums
- irtiich would like to haye them, but all seem to be in an
impoverished condition.
With kindest regards, ^
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Mr, Charles S. King
250 BroadTiew It©.
New Hoohelle, N. Y.
My dear Mr. King:
Thanks for your letter of April 28th with
copy of your letter to 'Outdoor Life' gi.i„g measure-
meats x>f your big bear,
IncidentaUy it turned out thtt Minnick's
•n)ig» skull was by no means big. He must have meas-
ured it in the Hesh oyer the curre. for when I
measured it later after it had been cleaned the dis-
tance between upri^ts was. if I remember correctly,
nearly two inches less than the published measure- '
ment.
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Mr.
K. W. Dorsey, Accountant
Smithaonian Institution
Washington, D. C,
Dear Mr. Dorsey:
Herewith I an handing you my expense ac-
comat for the aonth of April, amounting to $38.82;
and the following vouchers:
Library Bureau, 4x6 cards $7.47
Colonbia Plano^raph Co., 60 copies
. T. ^riAi/^'^^ -cabulaSj;
Zeneida Merriam, services as
assistant month of April
ell cf which kindly pay from the Harriman filiid.
Very truly yours.
107.00
125.00
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Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Dorsey:
Herewith I am handing you my expense ac-
count for the Bonth of April, amounting to $38.82,
and the following ▼ouohers:
Ji?"'y Bureau. 4x6 cards *7.47
^i^ll^ Hano^ranh Co.. 60 copies *
'm ?f2®T if'' ^^«°^f vocabularies
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grapher honth of April 126 no
Zenaida Merriam, services as ^^•°°
assistant month of April 76.00
all of which kindly pay from the Harriman filnd.
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Mf deer Friend:
Please ibrget mj delay in replying to your letter of sob*
ti«e ago. I have been exceedingly busy and al«« hare been waiting
in the bope of findi^ out 80«e things in regard to pending legis-
lation for California indians.
I use very glad to bear fron you and tm. sorry the t I can
not gife yon the iftforaation you want. I think yon hare two dif-
ferent ■Bttere «ixea« The 3t»te Legisletnre of CaUfomia has ap-
propria ted $25,00© for an inrestigation of the actual condition of
the Indians thron^ont the state, but the last news I had was that
the GoTsmor had not yet signed the bill. Ihether he has now
signed it I do not Icnow.
There was another bllV asking for the appropriation of
HOO.OOO for the relief of old. sick and needy California Indians,
but I hate not heard that it passed the Legislature.
But a Tery unfortunate thing has happened. Kererend If. G.
Collett sent a delegation of his Indians to Sacrenento to Mit thi
tioTemor not to sign these bills, fearing that if the State ap-
propriated this woney it would in sobs way interfere Irith the pas-
sage of the Court of Claiai Bill In the Iklted dtates Congress,
vk^. .i.i.<..fM tif CAii«tt*a olfiined that the? represented 11,000
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the uorer^o. ^, ,,^ ^,, bills-.p.Aap. he has al^ady; I hope s
,A ^ ^ ^* °' "^^^ «11. intitKl^oed in Coae«s^ by
Judge Baker Jot Atu>«B n«.-.^ v *v u -© /
signed by the President, i - , . ^
/ *"• ^ '"*P«« J»ago B*sr will introduce it
•gain in the new Congress next wi«t«,. ^a ♦».« v «. ^
th.„ .ig» it. "= «* m.* a. ?«.i4„t rti
h» ,x»t.d «„Mngto. tw ,«r ., ,„ ..^i ^ ^.^ „, ,
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»•• jott diuring the sonner*
My wife and »hau^ter l-oln in kindest «,«.rf. ♦
_...,.. ^ »«ae»t regaxSs to you all,
with best wishes,
7eiy <joily yojrsi.
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Your letter came a long tine sgo. I was very glad to hear
from you and would hare written ycu, but hare not been able to
find out eon« things that we both want to know. \
1 am writing your neighbor, Mr. Robert Hivis,by this mail '
and will tell you both the same thing, which ie all I know.
The State legislature of California has appropriated $25,000 |
for an investigation of the acutual condition of the Indians through-
out the state, but the Ust news I had was that the Governor had not
yet signed the bill. Whether he has now signed it I do not know.
There was another bill.eskli^ for the appropriation of
noO.OOO for the relief of old, sickjEnd needy California Indiana,
but I have not heard thst it passed the Legislature.
But 8 '»eJ3r TBJfortunate thing has happened. Beverend P. G. ■
Collett sent e delegation of his Indians to Sacrament© to ask the
Governor not to sign these bills, fearing that if the State ap-
propriated this money it would in some way interfere with the pas-
sage of the Court of Claims Bill in th« United States Congress.
These delegates of Collett's claimed that they represented 11,000
Indians. It is too bad and I am veiy «orry, but in spite of this,
the Governor may «ign the bills-perhape h« has already; I hope so.
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Judge Raker of llturas, passed both Houses of Congress, but was not
signed by the President, I supports Judge Baker will introduce it
again in the new Congress next winter and think the President will
then sign it.
far as I know, no delegation of California Indians
has visited Washington this year or for several years past, and I
did not know that any Indian had received any money at Sacramento,
I am going to California ito a few days and mj address,
as usual every summer, will be Lagunitas, 4ferin County. I hope to
see you during the summer.
My wife and daughter join in kindest regards to you all.
With best wishes.
Very truly your».
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April ..30, 1925
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Ool. |. B. Greeley
Cj*ie|. U. S. Powst Serrice
Washington.
Dear Colonel Greeley:
Mr. H. Ikeda, 615 Hastings Streetv^Weat)
Yaneourer, British Columbia, is much interested
in forestry and kindred topics and desires publi-
cations, particularly relating to the Pacific
area on trees, wood and pulp. Anything you may
be able to send will be appreciated.
Very truly yours.
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"a°lJSiijK|^ip-J Society
Dear Sir:
In compliance with your circular letter
of April 29th aslri^o ^ *^
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portrait of ft 3 :!„„<.. '
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and regret thnt r .» . f^.w
grei that I can not aake it laiger.
V«ry truly yours.
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Mr. ?• Gahan* Postmaster
Lagunitas^ Calif#
My dear Mr. Gahan:
Please hold until our arrivel all mail
reaching Lagunitas ead addressed to our branch of
the Merriam family.
We had expected to be in Lagunitas before
this but as u^ual hare been detained^ Uowerert
will doubtless get off in a fev days.
With best wishes to you all^
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Herewith I am enoloai^g ny check on
the. NBtional Metropolitaii Bank of this city
for $500.00. nhich I ahall be obliged Jf yoi
will kindly credit to lay account • , .
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a few days ao that no more atetemente ahpuld.^.
be sent to" leehington until ray return iji i*^;. .
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Dear Coy iUa:
ifter a aeries of dreadful delays we
hareat last secured our reservations for Satur-
day of this wk (the 9th) and hope to arrire
in Lagunitas on the I3th,
Jope to aee you and iirs. CoTilla iT
'.^•Prly as praoticabla thereafter . anT with^b^st
wishes from us all,
Aa ever yours.
•• were thrilled by your interesting descrip-
tion of the plants along the wad to UrexBore
Valley. The roads evidently hera improred aince
I was there some years ago.
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Lagunitas. Calif.
Uj dear Mr. Uartinelli:
At last we hare our tickets and sleeping
oar reservations to leave here on Saturday, May
9tht so that we should reach Lagunitas on the
evening of the 12th or by noon on the 13th#
We all will be very glad to get there*
With kind regards to you all.
Very truly yours.
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Mr. $» f. Claxlc* Noting ioeoontant
abithaoBlMi Insiitntion
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My dear ^r. Clark:
Bapljixig to your * let ter of rthe 4th ifts tant
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in Tfg^rd W.^be imelaimed letter. ad4r eased to
OiariaffH. Mol^il, Hoi^l itvood, Seattle, contain*
lag cheek for $17^00 in paynent for two eltu^a of
grlsslj bean.voold eay that hqf letter to hiii.aimi
larly addretaed ha^ alao been rationed to mcu,^
I inij^rr^ therefore » that he has gone back to hia
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sanmer place,, uhldi if Kanfrhak Bay^, ?la SeldoTia.
Alaaka^
1 am writing hia to that address by thie
mail*
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Kamiefeak, Alaska.
Jfy dear Sin UU
The enclosed letter dated Uandi i*^ has been
returned unclaimed. I aasune tberefcw that j^ hare
gon* back to JCamiahak and a-'aending this i.t*e1. to
your oaual auMer addreai^ .
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^ The rcwher and check for $17,00 sent you by
the.ailjhaonian on i«ay 4th have alao baen wtamed,
•nd I a. trriting the Aaburaing officer by this «ii
to foraard aame to your ilaaka addreat*
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Mr. Galen L« Tait, Oolleotor
Internal Revenue Serrioe
Baltimore, Md*
May 6. 1925
Dear Sir:
Attenti
Replying to your conDunication of the 4th instant, would
state that the automobile deduction of $610*00 depreciation in n^
Tax Report for 1923 was for two automobiles; one used in this city
(depreciation $388), the other used in California for the other
half of the year ($222), the depreciation of each being reckoned
in the usual way of 25 pet cent per annum. My lashir^ton car is
used tCT ordinary family purposes and also in trips to the Smith*
scnien Institution, Ilaticnal Museum, Department of the Interior,
library ef Congress, and so on; mj California car mainly in field
work in moantainous pertw of the state where deterioration has
been very rapid#
I am not an employee of the goTemment; am paid, from a
speciel.fund placed under the Smithsonian Institution for my work.
I have never made any charge for deterioration of automobiles
against this fund.
You have asked the nature of my occupation. I am a natur*
alist and ethnologist^ and for the paft 15 years or more have spent
about half of each yeer in field work in California; the other half
in Washington, D. C. |
Very truly yours.
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Ma J 7. 1925
Dr. 0. 0* On
niilT«r«ily of California
Dear Dr. Ooj:
In oofflpllfMe mith your rsqutst and my promise^ I am sending
you herswitb a few of wj phot^mpha of Califcmia Indiana and their
homea and baakat9» Thoae aant sra as folloiv:
Mawok aoBiar teaa naar Sonora
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Tahcha hoore and family » Tulare Lake
(Smkcbaaay aiiMiii home with man and wifa, near Freano Plat
(%Qkidianay iH»aB a^ittiiig aeoma for 90ortt moah
Tnlayoma family a^nth of Clear Laka( triha nearly extinot)
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Laat fnll-Uood Oo-fcoo^toa-tll-ka (Coaat Iiike)
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Clear Iiakm Porno
Laat of the Siaata ehia£i and hia wife, Klmath Birer
Beautiful ^Hvilkut ^irl» Radmood Creaky Uumiboldt Cotmtyo
Am ancloaing alao tM photos of baaketa in my library to
ahow their decora tive rala** Would aend you a fine aeleotion of
basket picturaat but it ia impoasibla to aalect them now owing to
the foot that I am already a smnber of daya lata in atarting and
hare our transportation » incliiding sleeping oar ticketa. in iqr
pocket and afoat make the train.
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Tho print of tho Chukchanaj stmnor »ikittp is palo» l)ut
can be groatly otrengthonod by rophotographing if jon wiah to t»o
it.
Pleaao soloct from these the ones you wiA to aao in
your book and return tho unnaed prints to no at iaguaitaa, lou
of ooorse realize that thla ia rery precioos aatorial, impoasiblo
to duplicate, and I have nerer before allovad anyone to no any
of then. If I liTo a year or two longer I expect to publish them
with many others in my forthcoming aorica on the California In-
diana»
Uj address until the lattar part of October will be as
usual lagunitaa, Uarin County,
With beat wiahea.
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Mr. HoMr Sargent
222 irrovo Terrace
Paaadena. Qelif.
My dear Mr. Sergeot:
I am Tery nach mortified that i was not able to finish
with your last grizalies long ago, but rarious matters hafe con-
spired to prerent.
When I went to the museum to exanine th» skulls early in
the year I was shocked to find that neither of them had been I
cleaned. I had them sent to the cleaner and since their return '
here spent sons time in studying them, but here not arrired at «
final conclusion. *
The main difficulty is that since our collections were
condensed during the war and most of the space formerly occupied
^W88 giren to the display of uniforms, swords, and miscellanefttts
war materials, it has been impracticable to do any satisfactory
work on large skulls. The series of more than 2000 bear skulls
which I succeeded in obtaining for the bnseum has been crowded
into cases vsometimes sereral deep)in such a way that it has been '
impracticable to find skulls needed for coi^rison; and further- |
■ore, the skull cases have been stacked three deep so that one I
needs a ladder to get S^ all but the Ipwer ones. After wasting
a lot of raluable time I finally found a few of the skulls ^
searched for. but not enough to enable me to arrive at satis- I
factoiy results.
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During the past month a Erector (Dr. Hexander Uetmore)
has been appointed in charge of the Museum. This is the first time in
many years that the Museum has had a„scienUfic head. We are now in
hopes that space still occupied by war relics may be turned back
*ere it belongs, for the use of natrxral history specimens, and I
most earnestly trust that on my return next fall I mar be able to
complete my studies of at least several of the groups of big bears.
All this by way of apology: your two skulls are most
interesting. The one you preeented to the Museum is a young-adult
male; the one you wish returned, a fullyadult male in excellent con-
dition. I am so anxious to exhaust our resources of comparison with
these skulls that I am making bold to ask pennission to retain the
old one until next fall,
I am leaving for lagunitas tomorrow, but if you want
the skull sent you before my return in the fall, will see that this
is done.
The skin of this old male grizzly, in accordance with
your directions, was shipped to J. D. Allen, Mandan. North Dakota,
the latter part of March.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours.
H^
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May 8, 1925
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Mr. Maraard Shipley
948 Mark«t St.
San Francisco, Calif.
My dear Mr. Shipley:
Your letter of March 7th reached ne
in due course and was rery welcome. I should
have written you earlier, but hare b.en orer-
whelmed with pressing work.
There is just one thing you ought to
know: namely, that the number of peid preachers
in the United States which I nentionea ««
200,000 was not a guess on my part, but was taken
from the United States Census figures. I men-
tioned this incidentally in connection with the
propaganda for the name 'Mt. Tacoma* as against
♦Mt. Eanier* in my hearing before the Coraraittee
on Public Lands on January 9th last (Hearings on
3. J. Res. 64. .page 25).
^ leaving Washington for California
tomorrow, after which my address "until October
will be Lagunitas, Marin Couaty.
Very truly yours.
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Publisher
los Ange«les Times
Los Angeles, Calif.
Daar Sir:
C!an you send me a copy of the 'Times' of
March 22nd. last, containing an article on the Indians
oJlOwensJall^. to which I have just seen refrren^
As 1 am lef.ving for California i«^»-|:ew days
please send to me at Lagunitas. Uerin County, Cali-
fornia.
Very truly yours.
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Ma J 8, 1925
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Dear Julia:
Here ia your Washington Railway and Bloctric
coupon t| Juna let. Tour Tsank will accept it for coX-
leetion at any time.
Not baring any Wank certificates of owner-
ship (all of mine having my name atoaped on then), I
am enclosing a dummy for you to copy on a clean cer-
tificate, *ich you can get at any bank.
Tou doubtleaa hare shared in the general
anxiety and sadness resulting from Pred Hone's sick-
ness and death*
Coll and Jflo when they left were expected
to go direct to Lyons Palls, but their plans were
changed and I think they «re how at Ossining.
We, as you see, are^etiU here, but we hare
our tickets and fullman resenrations for tomorrow and
•xpeot to reach lagunitas on the 13th.
It has been a hard pull to get my materials
in shape for going— part to leare here and part to take
along. Por some time pest I have been getting up be-
tween five and six and have worked twelve to sixteen
hours a day, to that I shall be thankful for the rest on
the train. ,£th love from us all.
is ever yourt ,
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■ashington, D. C,
i>ear Sir: •
I am closing i^ house and leaving for
California tomorrow.ihe 9th instant, after which
please have my letter mail forwarded until further
notice to
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I do not expect to return tmtil October*
The members of my family to whom mail
should be forwarded are Mrs. Mrriam and myself
and Miss Zenaida
Very truly yours.
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May 9. 1925
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Chief of Polioe
naahington, D. C,
Dear Sir:
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Today I am closing my hoose, 1919 Sixteenth
Street, for the ee.son. and do not expect to return
until some time in October. I shall be obliged if
you will kindly have your patrolmen keep an eye on
the house from time to ti«e as they p«8«.
Should anything occur to require attention
please notify ilr. or Mrs. Vernon Bailey. 1834 Kalonima
Road, or Mrs. Marian Baker. 1905 Sixteenth Street.
My address until October will be Lagunitas.
Mann County, California.
Respectfully,
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Waanington, D. C.
Bear iSira:
I hare todM^ closed mj house~1919 Six-
teenth Street — for the remainder of the summer,
and hare turned off the water where it enters
No water should he used in the
the hou8e#
house until my return in November*
Bespect fully.
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May 9. 1925
Potomao Electric Power Co#
Fourteenth end C Sts*
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Today I m closing my house, 1919 Six*
teenth Street, for the season, and do not expect
to return until November*
I have turned off the electric current
at the main switch in the basetfeht under the
stone steps at the front of the houae, and no
current should be used until my return.
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411 Tenth Street
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Today I am closing my housf , 1919 Six*
teenth Street, for the season and do not expect
to return until November.
I hate turned off the gas, where it
comes in from the street, just before reaching
the meter. No gas should be used in my house un<
til my return.
Respectfully,
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Jiwr Sirs:
»» ir* closing our houM» 1919 SiztMath
St»«t, todey/and do not «zp«ot it to be ro-
•ocupiod before Noreaben
I shall be obliged, therefore, if jou niU
dieoontiniM the phone antil further notice*
Beepectfully,
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|[r« N« W« Dorsey. icoountant
SBithsonian Institation
Vaafaington, D. C.
Dear Uv. ])ors0y:
Shcloaed is a Toucher for serrices of my
stesographer, Hias Miriaia Uolaea, Hay lat to May
9th» IxiclusiTe. $37.50. which I ahall be obliged
if you will kindly pay froa the Harriaan fund,
sending the check direct to her address on the
voucher.
le are learing for California today, and I
wish to thank you for your promptness and kind at<
tentions in the natter of my accounts.
With best wishes.
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