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like manner of the desire of the founder of the Institute, 

 and they also expressed satisfaction. General von 

 Loewenfeld with soldierly promptness resorted to the 

 use of the cable, and on the morning of the following 

 day presented a reply from His Majesty, the Kaiser, 

 which was as follows: 



GENERAL VON LOEWENFELD, 



Carnegie Institute, 



Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Sprechen Sie Mr. Carnegie fur seine Darbietung, die ich 

 gerne annehmen will, und fur die mir durch das Geschenk 

 erwiesene Aufmerksamkeit, meinen warmsten Dank aus. 1 



WlLHELM. 



From President Fallieres, at a later date, there came 

 in response to the personal representations made to 

 him by the French delegates, a graceful acceptance of 

 Mr. Carnegie's offer. 



As a result of the events just narrated it came about 

 that at the end of April in the year 1908 the writer, 

 accompanied by Mr. Arthur S. Coggeshall, repaired 

 to Berlin and there installed in the Royal Museum a 

 replica of the Diplodocus, following that act in June 

 by rendering the same service in the Musee d'Histoire 

 Naturelle in Paris. 



Meanwhile the Imperial Museum in Austria and the 

 Italian Museum of Paleontology in Bologna had re- 

 quested and been promised the same gift. The replica 

 presented to the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria 

 was installed in the Kaiserliches Konigliches Natur- 

 historisches Hofmuseum in September, 1909, and 



1 Translation: "Please express to Mr. Carnegie my warmest thanks 

 for his offer, which I am happy to accept, and for the attention shown 

 me by his gift. WILLIAM." 



