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made by his friend as he entered: "I like this old Diplodocus; it 

 brought us together in Berlin, and again in Rome, and now it brings 

 us together in far away Argentina." Dr. J. V. Gonzalez, the President 

 of the University of La Plata, Dr. S. Lafone-Quevedo, the Director of 

 the National Museum of La Plata, and their amiable assistants, vied 

 with each other in manifestations of their generous appreciation of 

 Mr. Carnegie's gift. It was the high privilege of the writer to meet 

 many of the most distinguished and able men of Argentina and he is 

 filled with a lively sense of the fact that before this rapidly growing 

 republic there lies a brilliant future, in which not merely material but 

 intellectual success of a high order is destined to be achieved. The 

 nation which is developing in temperate South America combines 

 within itself some of the very best elements of humanity. Under 

 favoring skies, with a soil of marvellous fertility, and vast natural 

 resources, as yet barely touched, the day cannot be far distant when 

 this people, justly proud of their past, shall rise to take their place 

 among the great nations of the earth. Already they occupy a com- 

 manding position, and Buenos Aires, with its population of a million 

 and a quarter of souls, is, next to Paris, the largest city inhabited by 

 men of the Latin races upon the globe. 



The work which has been carried on in our great quarry in Uinta 

 County, Utah, during the past summer has resulted in a number of 

 extraordinary discoveries. Mr. Earl Douglass, in charge of the 

 work, continued his excavations westward across the top of the 

 eminence known as Dinosaur Peak, exposing in the course of his 

 labors the skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur which he reports to have 

 been lying in practically undisturbed position, with all the vertebrae in 

 place and in serial order from the head to the extremity of the tail. 

 The animal apparently is new to science, but a final decision cannot 

 be reached until the remains have been brought to the Museum, 

 extricated from the matrix, and subjected to careful examination. 

 Peculiarly gratifying is the discovery of three dinosaurian skulls in a 

 good state of preservation. The results of the labors of Mr. Douglass 

 and his associates during the past two years are represented by one 

 hundred tons of rock containing the remains of Jurassic dinosaurs, 

 which are in process at this writing of being shipped to the Museum, 

 and which, by the time this number of the Annals appears, we trust 



