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From J. A. Lintner, Esq., State Entomologist, Nezo York. 



Albany, N. Y., April 8, 1885. 

 Please convey to your society my thanks for the excellent pub- 

 lication of Mr. Putnam upon "Elephant Pipes." It seems to be, 

 from a part reading, an admirable refutation of the unworthy attack 

 made upon the collections and operations of your society. I regret 

 very much that anything of the kind should emanate from Washington, 

 but it is obvious that a great eftbrt toward "centralization" is being 

 there made. 



From B. F. Waller, Esq. 



New Palestine, Mo., April 13, 1885. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. O. W. Collet, of St. Louis, I re- 

 ceived your pamphlet vindicating your society from the imputations 

 of fraud, so ungenerously accused by the Bureau of Ethnology. I re- 

 gard your defense as being an able one, and of sufficient weight to 

 carry conviction to all honest seekers after scientific truth. I have 

 been led to suppose that your collection contained many spurious rel- 

 ics, but since reading your pamphlet I am now convinced otherwise. 



From Oliver D. Schook, Esq. 



Hamburg, Pa., April 10, 1885. 

 Your pamphlet relating to "Elei)hant Pipes" is received. In writing 

 this to you in thankful acknowledgment, I can only express my regret 

 that any occasion should have arisen that would have recjuired this 

 vindication, which I think is complete. 



From PIdwari) L. Berthoud, Esq. 



Golden, Col., April 25, 1885. 

 I have received the "Vindication," and have read it with profit, 

 pleasure, and satisfaction. I thank you for the work, and am very 

 much ])leased at the stand you have taken in the Davenport Acad- 

 emy. ... I know something of Mr. Henshaw, and I think 

 he has "brass" enough in him in thus settling, ex cafhednt, what has 

 ])uzzled and foiled the repeated attem]>ts of some of the best antiquari- 

 ans in America for over half a century. I see nothing improbable in 

 the mastodon being an animal cotemporaneous with the early inhabit- 

 ants of the Ohio and Mississii)pi valleys, and I firmly believe it was 

 living there since human occupation. 



From Mr. R. P. Grec, F.R.S. 



Coles, England, April 29, 1885. 

 I have just received your paper on "p]le])hant Pipes from one of 

 the Mounds in Iowa," for which I am much obliged. I am much 

 interested in prehistoric America, but as yet have not come to any 

 fixed opinion as to the origin of the Mound-builders, or their con- 

 nections with the old Mexicans. I may observe, however, with re- 



