Elephant pipes and inscribed tablets in the Museum of the Academy of natural sciences, Daveport, Iowa / by Charles E. Putnam.

  • Charles Edwin Putnam
Date:
1885
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Credit: Elephant pipes and inscribed tablets in the Museum of the Academy of natural sciences, Daveport, Iowa / by Charles E. Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden. \Vn.KESP.ARRE, Pa.^ April 14, 1885. C. E. Pui'NAM, Esq., President Accuiemy of Natural Sciences^ Daven- port^ lowa^— Dear Sir: Please accept my thanks for your very exhaustive and thoroughly satisfactory paper on the elephant pipes. It is an outrage that a man who has left his “last” should be allowed by pure insinua- tion to cast doubts on treasures as well authenticated as those of your society. The Smithsonian Institution is growing to be centralizing and jealous of other societies working in the same line. As Mr. Peet says, “I should consider Mr. Henshaw’s statements a Mibel.’” Our Wyoming Historical and Creological Society will be glad to have your monograph. Yours, with esteem, Horace Edwin Hayden. From W. Iv Barnes, FAiitor of theAge of SteeiF Sr. Louis, Mo., April 4, 1885. Chas. E. Putnam, Es(^)., Academy of Natural Sciences, Davenport, Iowa,— Dear Sir: I wish to express to you my great satisfaction at the manner in which you have answered Mr. Henshaw, of the Bureau of Ethnology. It seems to me that your vindication is complete. I was greatly surprised, in reading the Second Annual Re])ort of the Bureau of Elthnology, to find so remarkable a statement emanating from this source, in view of the ease with which the Bureau could have commu- nicated with your Academy and ascertained the exact facts in the case. dhe publication was not only unscientific, but almost a crime. I have been deeply interested in all your publications, and look forward with interest to the publication of your Vol. IV. I shall take occasion to refer to your pamphlet in the next issue of the Age of Steel. With kindest regards. Yours very truly, W. E. Barne.s. From .\lbert G. Webber, Esq. Decatur, III., July 7, 1885. Charle.s E. Putnam, E.sq., President Academy of Natural Scietices, Davenport, Iowa,— Dear Sir: As requested, a copy of your “Vindication” was duly received, for which I tender you my sincere thanks. Your ably-written paper has the effect of a thunderbolt upon the stagnant insinuations of Mr. Henshaw. It purifies the cause of ethnology. Men at the heads of our national bureaus of learning must be taught that fellow-workers upon the field of discovery are entitled to a respectable recognition at their hands. 'The cause of science has no official expounders. He who states facts which reveal the truth of nature has the ])aramount right to be heard, no matter who he is or where he may be.