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Pueblo ; the pueblos near Santa Fe have felt the influence 

 of civilization too plainly; they are too near an old 

 European settlement. I have now seen all that is worth 

 seeing in the way of the ancient North and South Amer- 

 ican ruins and shall try my hand sometime at presenting 

 what seems to me the true explanation of the unity of 

 race of all the people who have taken part in their 

 buildings and whose path can, I think, be plainly traced 

 from the North where they are hunters, to the agricul- 

 turists of the Pueblos and of Yucatan and Mexico, to 

 similar buildings in South America (Peru and Chile), 

 till you come at last to the hunters again of Patagonia 

 and the Eastern steppes of the Andes. 



I am very sorry to hear of Mr. Jeffreys's death and 

 was very greatly surprised to find that his favorite col- 

 lections were to go to Washington. It will be most valu- 

 able to us. But how and why did the B. M. permit so 

 valuable a collection to leave England? 



TO ERNST EHLERS 



Cambridge, May 22, 1885. 

 Many thanks for your offer to send me hereafter the 

 numbers of the "Zeitschrift" as they appear. The sim- 

 plest way is, as you suggest, to send it directly by post. 

 I shall be very glad to get the manuscript and plates 

 of your final Report. 1 There are now not many more to 

 come in, and I shall not be sorry to have that off my 

 hands and devote myself again to my seashore work and 

 to the publications of the work done by Museum assist- 

 ants. We have now, I am happy to say, got along so 

 far with the Museum that I do not propose to spend 

 either so much time or money in collections. The Pale- 



1 On the Blake Annelids. 



