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the estimation of all intelligent readers of your very able vindication, 

 outside of that formidable " Bureau," there will be unanimous approval, 

 yet I am apprehensive that Mr. Henshaw will be found safely intrenched 

 behind the wing of the " Bureau," calmly contemi)lating your sharply 

 serrated arrows falling harmlessly at his feet; but the time will come 

 when your position will be fully sustained. 



F)-om Prof. Erasmus Haworth, /V«;/ College. 



OsKAi.ooSA, lowA, April 4, 1885. 

 Your pamphlet on "Elephant Pipes" came to me to-day. I have 

 carefully read it, and the least I can say of it is that it is very inter- 

 esting. All of us who are at all interested in science are indirectly 

 interested in it. If facts which are as well estabhshed as the authen- 

 ticity of the pipes and tablets are thus to be assailed by those who 

 should be high authority, what may we not expect in other depart- 

 ments? I fear this portends an unhappy condition in scientific circles. 



From A. Dean, Es(.>. 



High Bridge, N. J., April 24, 1885. 

 I have lately received your "Vindication" of the Davenport Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences against the accusations of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, and thank you sincerely for your courtesy and kindness 

 to one who must be to you a stranger. I have read your paper 

 carefully and am delighted with it. Mr. Henshaw's attack seems 

 to nie to be uncalled for, cowardly, baseless, unscientific, ungentle- 

 manly. I find it impossible to account for the seeming complicity of 

 the Smithsonian in the assault. Prof. Henry was eminently candid 

 and courteous, and until now I had supposed Prof. Baird was too 

 large a man to be jealous of a society like that at Davenport. I am 

 glad you have repelled the charges so meanly insinuated without a 

 scintilla of proof, and that you have made the rejoinder so unanswer- 

 able. ... I have long honored the Davenyjort society for its 

 industry, and I trust it will not falter in its work because of Messrs. 

 Henshaw and Powell. 



From Rkv. 1). W. C. DUKGIN. 



Pike, N. Y., April 27, 1885. 

 Through your kindness I have received, and with interest read, 

 your "Vindication of the Authenticity of the Elephant Pipes." I had 

 previously read Mr. Henshaw's views of the elei)hant pipes, and 

 speaking, as I su])posed, "as one having authority," I was inclined to 

 accept his verdict as final, and to look upon the "relics" in cjuestion as 

 a transiiarent fraud. It did not seem to me that the si)okesman of a 

 great national institution would treat with such seeming contem])t any 

 "find" that had the least i)resumption in favor of its genuineness. Your 

 "Vindication" presents the matter in a difiterent light, and furnishes to 

 my mind strong probabilities that the pipes are genuine. 



