THE LARGEST SKELETON OF A DINOSAUR. 



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Mr. Carnegie, in response to a suggestion of His Majesty, King 

 Edward VII., who, upon the occasion of a visit to Skibo Castle, 

 saw a drawing of the skeleton, and expressed a wish that the huge 

 monster might be represented in England. 



The task of producing the restoration occupied the time of 

 from three to four men for two years. The work was done in 

 the palseontological laboratory of the Carnegie Museum by Mr. 

 Arthur S. Coggeshall, the chief preparator, and his assistants. 

 The cost of the making of the restoration, as well as of the bases 



Restoration of Diploclocus, modelled by Dr. W. J. Holland. 



on which it stands, was generously defrayed by Mr. Carnegie at 

 a very large expense. 



The specimen is the longest and most perfect representation 

 of a sauropodous Dinosaur in existence anywhere in the world at 

 the present time. The skeleton is nearly twenty feet longer than 

 that of the Brontosaurus, a restoration of which was made in 

 New York recently, and at the first public exhibition of which 

 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn kindly invited his friends to meet 

 him at what he facetiously styled a "Dinosaur tea." 



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