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July 6th, 1904

prof. F. W. Putnam, 

Affiliated Colleges, 

San Francisco, Cal.

My Dear Professor:-

Have just received the two volumes of Goddard's work on the Hupa, and they are certainly the best things that I have seen in the scientific way in a long time.  As a piece of book-making they are about as near perfection as one can get; the paper, type and illustrations being especially good.  You are to be congratulated on this, the first publication of the anthropological department of the University, and I sincerely hope that it will be followed by many more in the near future.

We are making efforts to get out an article with colored plates, giving a general account of the contents of Room #38 of Pueblo Bonito, i.e., the room that contained the inlaid scraper and turquoise frog.  I wish that I might be able to get out two volumes, or even one, similar to the ones that I now have before me.  I think the size of the new publication is admirable, and I feel that our Museum would do well to follow in your footsteps, and cut down the ungainly memoirs now in vogue, to the size that you have [[strike-through]] got [[/strike-through]] them.

Every one speaks of the beautiful treatment that you have given these articles, and from the comments that I hear, the new department of the University of California could not have made a more