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abundantly illustrated, describing new discoveries and supporting and 

 elaborating his stratigraphic and phylogenetic views. 



His untimely death in August, 1911, is stated to have been due to 

 blood poisoning from a neglected wound. 



Through the courtesy of Professor W. B. Scott and Dr. W. J. Sin- 

 clair I am enabled to illustrate this notice with a portrait of Dr. 

 Ameghino, and with views of the shop which supplied the funds for his 

 explorations and the little workshop and study where his collections 

 were installed and the greater part of his monumental researches were 



Fig. 3. Ameghino's Workshop and Study at the Back of His 

 Stationery Store in La Plata. 



Courtesy of Professor W. B. Scott. 

 Packing cases stacked against the walls and in every available space served to 

 accommodate the boxes of fossils, and rough deal tables to lay them out for exam- 

 ination and study. 



carried on. There is something peculiarly affecting and inspiring in 

 the picture of this great paleontologist, maintaining through all these 

 years of straitened circumstance a record of splendid achievement, in a 

 field which beyond most others is supposed to require ample means in 

 order to accomplish much that is worth while. For the most conserva- 

 tive of paleontologists will accord to him a record of accomplished work 

 equalled by few of his confreres in amount and importance. 



Time will show how much of Ameghino's contribution to paleonto- 

 logic theory will stand. But, right or wrong, his challenging of many 

 accepted views has compelled a reconsideration and more careful sifting 

 of the evidence upon which they are based, which can not but be bene- 



