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idea is that they should secure all these at the end 
of the year. This local corporation will be made up 
of about seventy-five of the leading- men and women of 
this city, all thoroughly in sympathy with our work* 
They will appoint a board, of probably fifteen, which 
is the number adopted by the Field Museum in Chicago* 
This board will include stockholders of the Exposition 
and will, I think, be able to deal effectively both with 
the Exposition Company and the Park Commission* I can 
see no possibility of litigation or legal complications 
of any kind and I feel sure that the local jbieopl© here 
will get behind the combined Museum and Anthropological 
Station. I do not anticipate anything like the dif- 
ficulty in financing this that we have had at Santa Fe, 
because there is so much more wealth and population here* 
As to opposition, I do not expect much, though there will 
be some. Dr. Hrdlicka can perhaps tell you something 
about the intrigues of our Dr. Thompson of the Davy. He 
has been occupying a desk here in connection with the 
anthropological collections as a guest of our department 
since Dr. Hrdlicka left. He seemed to us to be rather 
promising as a scientific aid, but it appears that without 
taking any of us into his confidence, he has matured rather 
ambitious plans for getting control of the anthropological 
collections. All this has been very carefully looked in- 
to by our friends and they seem to have a thorough under- 
standing of the situation. Personally I have not had 
time to give it any attention, but I think the situation 
is properly safeguarded, and that the action taken re- 
cently in forming a large museum corporation has effective- 
ly cheek-mated his schemes. Aside from this I can hear 
of no opposition at all, though as I have told you before, 
the ruling element on the Executive Committee of the Ex- 
position has never cared for this work. What we have 
done has been in spite of them, and their spirit has not 
changed with reference to it up to the present time, not- 
withstanding the fact that our work here has won the un- 
divided support of the community and is continually spoken 
of by the visitors to the Exposition as the all-important 
thing here. I am relieved of the necessity of bragging 
much about the showing- we have made because the citizens 
and visitors do cpiite enough of that without me* I 
really think that you will find that a very favorable im- 
pression has been made, not only upon the' lay visitors 
but upon the scientific men who have been here, and which 
now is a considerable number* 
4. As to your fourth point, the main things in 
the plan concerning the Anthropological Station, I think 
I ought to take quite a little time to work upon that 
before submitting any scheme in detail. Off" hand, I 
should favor putting it in the hands of an assistant 
JljieQto^__Qf_gopa_ administrative ability, and make it the 
