BINGHAM, HIRAM

_ (1875), explorer, was born at Honolulu, the s. of the late Rev. Hiram Bingham. He was educated at Yale, the University of California, and at Harvard. He became receptor in history and politics at rinceton and in 1907 started his career as explorer by following Bolivar’s route acro Venezuela and Columbia. He was afterwards appointed lecturer on South American geography and history at Yale University, and later a istant aod and then of Latin American istory. He was the United States delegate to the first Pan-American Scientific Congre at Santiago de Chile. He later explored the Spanish trade route from Buenos Aires to Lima and was the director of the Yale Peruvian Expedition in 1911, when he located the site of Vitvos, the last Inca capital, and made the ascent of Mount Coropuna. He has directed Peruvian expeditions under the auspices of Yale University and of the National Geographical Society. His published works include Journal of an Expedition Acro Venezuela and Columbia, Acro South America, Vitups, the Last Inca Capital, The Monroe Doctrine an Obsolete Shibbo_ leth and he has also contributed a large number of articles to various scientific and literary periodicals. During the World War he learned to fly and was ordered on active duty in 1917 with the Aviation Section. Eng. clergyman; Fellow of Univ. Coll., Oxford, of which position he was deprived on a charge of heresy; pub. a valuable antiquarian work, Origines Ecclesiasticoe (1708-22).