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your Museum, should be enabled thus to evince our gratitude by add- 

 ing another to its innumerable attractions. It is doubly pleasing 

 that this should come from the youngest of our Museums on the other 

 side to yours, the parent institution of all, for certainly all those in 

 America may be justly considered in one sense your offspring ; we 

 have followed you, inspired by your example. To our Director, Dr. 

 Holland, we owe the discovery of the Diplodocus. He it was who 

 suggested the annual summer holiday to our staff, which really is the 

 hardest work of the year. He it was who conducted the first party to 

 the Far West and organized victory. Success follows him wherever 

 he goes. He suggested that this cast be made, and, as you well know, 

 such was his intense interest in the task that he came over here and 

 gave personal attention to it. He tells me that the cases which con- 

 tained this duplicate and which were to be returned to Pittsburgh are 

 not going home empty ; on the contrary, some are to be filled w'ith 

 things valuable to our Museum of which the Trustees have duplicates. 

 An alliance for peace seems to have been affected, — we are to exchange 

 duplicates, and Shakespeare's words are fulfilled, when ' Distribution 

 shall undo excess ' and both still have enough. We are to enrich 

 each other without in the least depleting ourselves, 'as one lamp 

 lights another nor grows less.' This is an alliance indeed which 

 'blesses him that gives and him that takes.' No dangers dark and 

 unknown lurk in this holy alliance. 



"Thus you. Trustees of the old museum, and we. Trustees of the 

 new, are jointly weaving a new tie, another link binding in closer 

 embrace the mother and the child lands, which never should have 

 been estranged, and which, as I see with the eye of faith which knows 

 no doubt, are someday — some day — again to be reunited. (Ap- 

 plause. ) 



"Gentlemen, Trustees of the British Museum, I now perform one 

 of the most pleasing acts of my life in asking your accejitance of 

 this gift, for which, as I have before explained, you are indebted to 

 His Majesty's abiding interest in your Institution." (Applause.) 



Lord Avebury on belief of the Trustees responded. He said : 

 " My colleagues have done me the honor of requesting me to accept 

 on behalf of the Trustees and to thank Mr. Carnegie in their name 

 for the interesting reproduction of the gigantic Diplodocus, which, at 

 the wise suggestion of His Majesty, who takes so lively an interest in 

 the Museum, he has been good enough to present to us. 



