really belong to him, having been 156 procured with personal gifts of his. He professed the willing intention to turn these over to the Museum ac- cording to the contract, but he wanted to know what would be done about these in carrying out the promises which I made to Rasmussen. He said that he considered that he was entitled to turn these back to the Eskimos in payment of debts to them. (Ex- pedition debts, I infer.) I said that the Museum would be willing to credit him with being the donor of the 50 skins which are to comprise the pelage 1C series. This seemed to be satisfactory to Mac. He is se- vere in his condemnation of the attitude maintained toward the Expedition and the Museum by Green and Tanquary, who failed to do what they came up here ostensibly to do. Green claimed that he and Allen were not responsible to or amenable to Mac and the Museum because they were employes of the Government and they were receiving no salary from the Expedition. I frankly told Mac that I thought that events had shown that Dr. Hunt's complaint regarding the amount of food at Etah had not the found- ation in fact that was claimed for it when it was made.