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Unfortunately the illustration at the head of the menu 

 and which represented the features of the Founder of the 

 Carnegie Institute, surrounded by a wreath constructed 

 of the bones of the Diplodocus, I must omit, because 

 of the limitations of space. 



We were a merry and a very cosmopolitan company. 

 The scholarship of Argentina, of England, Germany, 

 France, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy was represented 

 at the table by men, some of whom had been born in 

 these countries, and all of whom had received their 

 early training in the universities of one or the other of 

 these lands. All, except the writer, were citizens of the 

 Republic which floats the white and blue flag. All 

 were men who had done things worth the doing. The 

 dinner was excellent; mine host Salvadori had excelled 

 himself. When we came to the cigars Dr. Lafone- 

 Quevedo rose and in a graceful speech expressed the 

 gratitude which was felt by the Academy of Science 

 of the University of La Plata, which is charged with 

 the administration of the affairs of the National Mu- 

 seum, for the recent gift of Mr. Carnegie, and proposed 

 the health of that generous citizen of the United States 

 of North America and his representative, the guest of 

 the evening. When this had been done, the speaker 

 announced that he had still another duty to perform 

 before he took his seat, and that was to welcome the 

 guest of the evening into the ranks of the Honorary 

 Membership of the Academy of Science of La Plata, 

 and handed to the writer a diploma certifying to his 

 election. The writer replied by expressing his deep 

 sense of the distinguished and altogether unexpected 

 honor which had been conferred upon him, and which 

 he accepted as a highly prized token of good-will, but 

 much more as a token of esteem for his distinguished 



