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From Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden. 



WiLKESBARRE, Pa., April I4, 1885. 



C. E. Putnam, Esq., President Academy of Natural Sciences, Daven- 

 port, lotva, — 



Dear Sir: Please accept my thanks for your very exhaustive and 

 thoroughly satisfactory paper on the elephant pipes. It is an outrage 

 that a man who has left his "last" should be allowed by pure insinua- 

 tion to cast doubts on treasures as well authenticated as those of your 

 society. The Smithsonian Institution is growing to be centralizing 

 and jealous of other societies working in the same line. As Mr. Peet 

 says, "I should consider Mr. Henshaw's statements a 'libel.'" Our 

 Wyoming Historical and Geological Society will be glad to have your 

 monograjih. Yours, with esteem, 



Horace Edwin Hayden. 



From W. E. Barnes, Editor of the "-Age of Steel.'''' 



St. Loits, Mo., April 4, 1885. 

 Chas. E. Putnam, Es(j., Academy of Natural Sciefices, Davenport, 



Io7va, — 



Dear Sir: I wish to express to you my great satisfaction at the 

 manner in which you have answered Mr. Henshaw, of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. It seems to me that your vindication is complete. I was 

 greatly surprised, in reading the vSecond Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, to find so remarkable a statement emanating from this 

 source, in view of the ease with which the Bureau could have commu- 

 nicated with your Academy and ascertained the exact facts in the case. 

 The publication was not only unscientific, but almost a crime. I have 

 been deeply interested in all your publications, and look forward with 

 interest to the publication of your Vol. IV. I shall take occasion to 

 refer to your pamphlet in the next issue of the Age of Steel. W'xth 

 kindest regards, Yours very truly, 



W. E. Barnes. 

 From Albert G. Webber, Esq. 



Decatur, III., July 7, 1885. 

 Charles E. Putnam, Esq., President Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Davenport, Iowa, — 



Dear Sir: As requested, a co])y of your "Vindication" was duly 

 received, for which I tender you my sincere thanks. Your ably-written 

 paper has the effect of a thunderbolt upon the stagnant insinuations of 

 Mr. Henshaw. It purifies the cause of ethnology. Men at the heads 

 of our national bureaus of learning must be taught that fellow-workers 

 upon the field of discovery are entitled to a respectable recognition at 

 their hands. 



The cause of science has no official expounders. He who states 

 facts which reveal the truth of nature has the paramount right to be 

 heard, no matter who he is or where he may be. 



