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#98. B. TALBOT B. HYDE 80 WEST STREET G. H. P. #2. is, describing the collection, whatever it was. It seemed to mean something like "wampum". Probably you will write in a couple of days so as to straighten that all out. Hodge 'phoned me yesterday morning that he was in town, and I ran up to the Museum for about an hour just to shake hands with him and have a little talk. Everybody is very much encouraged with the outlook for the coming year, and I cannot see but that from now on our financial difficulties will be very much relieved. Hodge is a great friend of Bandelier's, and when I left them they were going to lunch together. Hodge says he will be taking a couple of weeks' vacation soon, and we can get together then. Heye wants very much to meet him, and I shall probably fix up a dinner at the club. I am inclosing separate of Bandelier's article in the July-September number of the Anthropologist which he happened to hand me yesterday when I was at the Museum. A publishing house in the city has under consideration his volume on Peru and Bolivia. I am sure if they take it up they will handle it all right. I heard from Witte this morning that Benham was on his way home, that is, back to Phoenix. I also looked over the South American material which Witte had and which I thought