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Aires. He continued his systematic explorations of Patagonia 

 and the Southern Andes until 1884, when he was entrusted with 

 the organization of a great new museum in La Plata, the recently- 

 founded provincial capital. The building and installation of this 

 Museum were completed in 1889, and to it were transferred al 

 Dr. Moreno's collections, with his library, besides a remarkable 

 series of skeletons of the Pleistocene mammals of the Pampa 

 discovered during the excavation of the docks at La Plata. The 

 geological and palseontological publications of the La Plata 

 Museum, prepared under the direction of Dr. Moreno, are among 

 the most important contributions to our knowledge of South 

 America. In 1899 Dr. Moreno visited London as Argentine 

 Commissioner in connexion with the Argentine-Chilean boundary 

 dispute, which had been referred for arbitration to the British 

 Crown, and in 1900 he issued four valuable volumes of evidence, 

 illustrated with beautiful photographs of the country. For a few 

 years longer he continued at La Plata to promote researches into 

 the natural history of the Republic, and eventually retired to 

 Buenos Aires, where he still rendered public service b} r applying 

 his ripe experience to the problems of education. His published 

 writings give little idea of the extent of his work, for he was as 

 generous with his learning as with his personal property, and he 

 was never happier than when inspiring others to prosecute scientific 

 research. In 1907 Dr. Moreno received the Founder's Medal from 

 the Boyal Geographical Society, of which he was an Honorary 

 Corresponding Member. He was also a Corresponding Member 

 of the Zoological Society of London. [A. S. W.] 



By the death of Prof. Paul Chofeat at Lisbon on June 6th, 

 1919, in his 71st year, the Society has lost one of its most distin- 

 guished Foreign Correspondents. Choffat was born in 1849, and 

 his earlier career was passed in Switzerland, where he qualified as a 

 Doctor of Science of the University of Zurich, being subsequently 

 appointed Professor of Geology in the Polytechnic School of that 

 city. During this period he commenced active research- work in 

 geology, carrying out extensive investigations on the structure of 

 the Jura region of Switzerland and France, the results of which 

 were embodied in a number of papers full of new and valuable 

 details of palseontological and tectonic interest. It was this sound 

 experience of field-work, combined Avith a facility for writing, that 

 enabled Choffat later on to accept an important position on the 



