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lives; to go to some senseless mound of earth, some hidden ceme- 
tery, and thence bring into the comradeship of man some portions 
of the lives of this sculptor, of that artist, of the other scribe; to 
make their labour familiar to us as a friend; to resuscitate them 
again, and make them to live in the thoughts, the imaginations, the 
longing, of living men and women;to place so much of their living 
personality current side by side with our own labours and our 
own thoughts *. 
Buenos Aires, el 23 de Febrero de 1905. 
N. B. En las leyendas de las viñetas que van intercaladas en el texto de esta 
imemoria, figuran diversas abreviaturas cuyas equivalencias son las siguientes" 
C. F. A.—Colección Florentino Ameghino; C. M. N. Colección Museo Nacio- 
nal de Buenos Aires; C. J. B. A.=Colección Juan B. Ambrosetti; C. F. F. O.= 
Colección Félix F. Outes. j 
:"W. M. FrinbeRS Perrik, Methods and aims in Archaeology, 177 y siguiente. 
