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spect to representations of elephants, that they have been not infre- 

 (juently found deposited in the ruined cities of Central America, and 

 they seem to have an Asiatic-Indian appearance. 



From Max Uhle, Pi-esidcnt of the Royal Ethnological Miisemn. 



Dresden, Prussia, May 7, 1885. 

 I have read with great interest the jiamphlet you were so kind to 

 send me, on the elephant pipes which are preserved in your im])ortant 

 museum at Davenport. On reading your treatise, and inspecting the 

 wood-cut of one of the i)i])es accompanying it, I have become inclined 

 to believe in the genuineness of the pipes in question. In no case 

 should objections based upon circumstances of the finding, if not ac- 

 companied by objections taken from the marks of the things them- 

 selves, suffice for the decision in such a matter, and it is to be wondered 

 at that so eager attacks are undertaken as to the authenticity of relics 

 \Mithout any inspection of the things themselves. 



From Dk. J(1sp:i'h Belluni. 

 (tkanslatio.v.) 



Perugia, Italy, April 30, 1885. 

 I am in receipt of your defense of the authenticity of the elejjhant 

 pipes in the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Daven- 

 port. I thank you sincerely for sending me this paper, which I en- 

 dorse fully, and which I have read with great pleasure and instruction, 

 at the same time admiring your learned and exhaustive criticism of the 

 counter-argument. 



FroDi I^DC.AR Hei'P, President of the Society of Seieitee, Morals, Letters, and Art. 



(TKANSI.ATION.) 



Versailles, France, May 19, 1885. 



I have the honor, in the name of the Society of Science, Morals, 

 Letters, and Arts of Seine and Oise, to thank you for the obligation 

 under which you have placed it for your monograph on "Kle[)hant 

 Pipes." One of the members of our Society, the learned Dr. Osnard, 

 ])resented to us in the session of May 8th a comj^lete rei)ort of the in- 

 teresting discoveries which signalize your work, and which renew inter- 

 est in the studies of Manpiis De Nadaillac upon American antiquities. 

 One of the members of our Society made the remark that the use of 

 the pipes, so general among Americans when they assemble themselves, 

 serves to i:)reserve their national traditions among all the village In- 

 dians, where the calumet is still held in honor. 



Whatsoever may be the worth of this consideration, your comnnmi- 

 cation has in a lively manner interested the Society, which expresses 

 but one regret, which is that knowledge of the Knglish language is a 

 l)rivilege enjoyed by only a small number of the nienil)ers, and that 

 our Society is therefore only able at this time to associate itself in an 

 unsatisfactory manner with the si)irit of scientific investigation in your 

 Academy. 



