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New York is reached. Mrs. Pepper has transferred from the note book to the regular account book and has balanced accounts every week or two so that there will be no work on this line when we are ready to go over the accounts in the East. The bill at the Alvarado Hotel ran up higher than we thought it would, as I wrote in one of my letters to Mr. Hyde, but this could not be helped. I have, however, with the money that Mr. Hyde is to send, enough to carry us through the balance of the trip.

The little time remaining before Mr. Cobbs starts for Apatzingan I want to devote to the collection of material in Uruapan. I made a careful note of all of the pieces while in town and found that there were the following specimens that are worthy of special note.

There are 6 clay figurines that were found with the body of an infant. They average about five inches in length and are beautiful specimens of this class of work. I am quite sure that we have no such sets in the Museum. Another set of 6 Monos, or figurines, has a greater divessity [[diversity]] of forms. One of these is quite large and is elaborately decorated. A large clay figure with decorations in the form of painted portions of the body is also a good specimen. There is a copper finger ring made of filigree copper. I have seen imperfect rings of this nature and I think we have one perfect one in the Museum. They make the same form in gold. This one is perfect and shows wear. It is a good piece. There is a nose ornament of stone similar to the ones made of shell from the Oaxaca region. One of the pretty pieces, in the way of color, is a jadeite pendant of