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slopes to gain the ritlges again. If one has a curiositA' to know what lies 

 just beyond the next ridge, he does not need to go there to know — he 

 can be certain that it will be a canyon and aiiotlier ridge, a canyon and 

 another ridge, and so on. 



"We leave Sunday for Loja and the Oriente, where we shall work 

 in the forests of the Upper Amazonian drainage and where we come into 

 contact with the Jibaros or headhunters. We are looking forward to this 

 part of our trij) with much interest and expect to get some valuable 

 material, and, we hope, some good pictures of the aforesaid h.h. We 

 have been told some most interesting things about them by people who 

 have been a short distance into their territory. 



"Cherrie joins me in sending very best regards to you and to those 

 of the Museum who may ask after us." 



Of his impressions of the European cities and museums which he is 

 visiting. Dr. Matthew writes to President Csborn. We quote a few ex- 

 cerpts:. 



'' Vienna. — I spent three days there, of which the first was mostly 

 devoted to going through the formalities incident to getting away from 

 the city. I have not made much note of this, but the pas.sport and ticket 

 business has been made excessively difficult; I am told in order to dis- 

 courage travel, which the various governments do not want on account 

 of the universal scarcity of coal and consequent difficulty in running 

 enough trains to take care of the traffic. E. g., to get a ticket from Vienna 

 to Venice I had first to apply at the ticket -office in the city, was referred 

 thence to another ticket-office, thence to the Italian consulate, thence to 

 an Italian military mi.ssion, where I obtained authority to buy a ticket, 

 thence to a third ticket office where I bought it. All these in different 

 parts of the city, all involved waiting in line, and none had anything to 

 do with the vise which I had already obtained after a similar series of 

 delays. No one knows much about these regulations; you have to go 

 from place to place to find out ; and they are not always consistent. The 

 German consulate in Stockholm assured me that I would have to pay a 

 certain sum — SIO.OO per week — to get my leave extended in Germany; 

 but I applied at the Frankfort police station and got leave for ten days 

 extra at a cost of 15 marks ($.25). 



"Dr. Schaffer at the Mu.seum and Dr. Abel at the University of 

 Vienna were most cordial. The Museum ])uilding is a magnificent one. 



