La Plata 



yesterday continued to make a bold stand against the 

 encroachments of the white settlers, and the landscapes 

 of the Andean region. These paintings were executed 

 by well-known German and French artists brought from 

 Europe for the purpose. The view of El Tronador, the 

 great alpine peak which dominates one of the valleys 

 in the lake-region of Argentina, is particularly impres- 

 sive. On the first floor of the rotunda, confronting the 



Fig 10. Skull of Sabre- toothed Tiger, Smilodon 



neogczus Lund. | natural size. 

 Drawn from specimens in the Carnegie Museum 



entrance, is the skull of an enormous whale. The col- 

 lection of skeletons of the Cetacea in the possession of 

 the museum is singularly large and fine. Many species, 

 great and small, are represented. With the exception 

 of the great collection of whales in the British Museum 

 of Natural History made by the late Sir William H. 

 Flower, this appears to me to be the finest assemblage 

 of its kind in existence, and surpasses the British col- 

 lection in the fact that it is odorless. Every one who 

 has visited the "Whaleroom" at South Kensington 

 carries away a memory of the disagreeable smell of 

 whale-oil which pervades it. Here in La Plata they 



