April 18, 1908.



My Dear Doctor Holland;-

	Affairs at the Museum have gone on very well since my last letter to you. Nothing startling has happened. The first part of the week I had a letter from Utterback saying he had arrived safely and that he was ready to start work, but found a note from Cook awaiting him stating that he would like to see him before he started work on the quarry, and as Cook had gone to Lincoln, being a witness before the Grand Jury, he would not return until April the 20th. Utterback seemed quite worried by this information, thinking Cook wished to place obstacles in his way. I at once wrote him to say that you had a perfect understanding with Cook and that I thought it advisable to go ahead with the work and see Cook on his return.

	The cases for the organ-outang group and the Dinohyus have arrived from Kates and are being set up. The Dinohyus case is finished, and the other will be to-day.

	Mr. Elder arrived here from New York this morning, and will spend the afternoon with Geschwnd and myself going over the coins. He will then give me an estimate on the value of the collection, which I will present to the Museum Committee at its next meeting.

	The most surprising thing that has happened this week was a proposition presented by Bigelow at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, in which he proposed that the city should condemn forty-three acres of ground on Forbes Street and turn it over to the Tech.