though not honest, brought from Germany a glass skull made 
to imitate rock crystal. Batres pursua.de d him into a part- 
nership to defraud the National Museum, by selling it as 
genuine rock crystal from ^rizaba for $3,000. Sanchez 
was on the point of buying it but first had Dr. Kaska ex- 
amine it who at once pronounced it glass and the two busy 
B’s are under a cloud. Ad ban has closed his museum and will 
remove it to New York, soon. Look out for him! He hopes 
to se^l a great many tilings to the Smithsonian. H e has 
some valuable antiquities but his ownership of them gives 
them a suspicious character. He has for example a magnifi- 
cent collection of the immense iron stirrups used by the 
Conquerors . 
Father Fischer thinks you are a little too sweep- 
ing in your condemnation of the black ware. I stumbled 
upon the factory at Teotihuacan where the modern stuff 
is made. But Fischer says that this art is handed down 
in certain families from father to son for generations 
and that the makers themselves cannot tell a piece 
5C years old from one 300 years old, as all re made pre- 
cisely alike. 
Bill you send Father Fischer a copy of your 
Monoliths? He has read mine and is greatly pleased with 
it. He also asks to be remembered with the publications 
