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Mr. E. T. Reed, Mr. C. T. Regan, Dr. A. B. Rendle, Sir Arthur W. 

 Riicker, F.R.S., F. W. Rudler, Esq., LS.O., Mr. W. Radcliffe 

 Saunders, Dr. R. F. Scharff, W. Schaus, Esq., Dr. P. L. Sclater, Dr. 



D. H. Scott, F.R.S., Mr. F. C. Selous, Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., 

 Miss Emily Bowdler Sharpe, Dr. and Mrs. R. Bovvdler Sharpe, Prof. 

 Dr. W. Napier Shaw, F.R.S., Lady Sinclair, E. A. Smith, I.S.O., 

 Mr. G. T. Herbert Smith, Sir Thomas Smith, Bart., K.C.V.O., Mr. 

 L. J. Spencer, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., W. P. D. 

 Stebbing, Esq., Prof. C Stewart, F. R.S., Major General Stirling, Sir 

 Benjamin Stone, M.P., A. Strahan, Esq., F.R.S., Col. C. Swinhoe, 

 Mr. J. T. Taylor, I.S.O., F. V. Theobald, Esq., Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas, Prof D'Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., Sir E. Maunde Thomp- 

 son, K.C.B., H. Yates Thompson, Esq., and Mrs. Thom])son, Prof. 

 W. A. Tilden, V.P. R.S., Sir George Trevelyan, Bart., LL.D., 

 D.C.L., C. W. Wadsworth, Rowland Ward. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 



E. A. Waterbury, Esq., Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, Prof W. F. R. 

 Weldon, F.R.S., Mr. H. S. Wellcome, Admiral Sir W. J. L. 

 Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., Miss Whitfield, A. F. Wiener, Esq., Dr. 

 E. A. Wilson, Captain D. Wilson Barker, Rt. Hon. Lord Windsor, 

 the Rev. H. H. Winwood, Miss Alice Woodward, Dr. Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, F. R.S., and Mrs. Woodward, Mr. B. B. Woodward, Miss 

 Gertrude Woodward, Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., and Mrs. Wood- 

 ward, Mr. R. C. Wroughton. 



The ceremony was introduced by Professor E. Ray Lankester, the 

 Director, who said, 



' ' My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen : 



"Through the kindness of Mr. Andrew Carnegie we are about to 

 receive to-day as his gift to this Museum a restoration of the skeleton 

 of the colossal reptile Diplodocus. When the question of finding a 

 place for this interesting specimen arose we resolved that instead of 

 attempting to put it into the Hall of Paleontology, which is already 

 greatly crowded, we would place it in the Gallery of Reptiles. 



" In conversation with Mr. Carnegie on one occasion he pointed 

 out to me that all the great progress that has been made in the Ameri- 

 can Republic has been founded upon ideas, which have germinated, 

 and inventions, which have been really conceived, in England. The 

 American form of government is an unfolding of British thought ; 

 the great mechanical triumphs of American manufacturers have been 



