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work there was a total lack of appreciation and sympathy and 
we were hedged about with difficulties and embarrassments about 
which the outside world can have little conception. 
fhe difficulty was due not only to the business a@irection 
which extended over the selentific work, but to the personality 
coupled with that direction -~ & personality embodying more 
unfortunate elements thath I have ever known atsbahtal in one 
individual. | 
Aside from the personal phase of the matter Thad the 
best ¢Gaeone for complaint. When I arrived ‘in chicago, cone 
trary to promigps made, I found the Depa rtment of Anthropology 
of which I was to take charge divided into Anthropology and 
Industrial Arts, with no well-defined line between them, and T 
prada y learned that the latter, being re ee Director 
because of the name “Industrial” was tote betit up at the 
expense of the former, and placed under a business mans cement, 
the Director bing in charge. I was thus to be deprived of the 
very features of the work -- the development of the features 
illustrating the various pranches of human progress from the 
point of view of evolution -- upon which I had labored for 
years and in whieh. of course, I take a special interest. A 
few months ago I found that other encroachments were to be 
made, that a Department of Monographic Exhibits was to be 
created, which would deprive me of other exhibits not readily 
classed as "Industrial". The motives in all this were to give 
the business director additional control and to reduce the 
importance of the scientific side of which I had charge, thus 
