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Title: To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ls of their visit. Upon the morning of the secondday of the celebration the writer was summoned to thetelephone by Mr. Carnegie, who said: Did you notonce tell me that when you were making the replicaof the Diplodocus for the British Museum you hadmade a couple of additional castings? The answerwas in the affirmative. Then came the reply: Thekindness of our German and French friends on thepresent occasion prompts me to do something in return.If it should be thought appropriate to tender to themuseums in Berlin and Paris the same gift we made toLondon, please take up the matter with the gentlemenwho represent Germany and France, and arrange todo so. It did not take long to act. The GermanMinister of State, Herr Theodor von Moeller, andGeneral von Loewenfeld were in a few moments in theoffice of the Director and a statement of Mr. Carnegiesthoughts was made to them. They appeared greatlypleased. Baron dEstournelles de Constant and Mon-sieur Paul Doumer were shortly afterward apprised in
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o The Diplodocus 13 like manner of the desire of the founder of the Institute,and they also expressed satisfaction. General vonLoewenfeld with soldierly promptness resorted to theuse of the cable, and on the morning of the followingday presented a reply from His Majesty, the Kaiser,which was as follows: General von Loewenfeld, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sprechen Sie Mr. Carnegie fur seine Darbietung, die ichgeme annehmen will, und fur die mir durch das Geschenkerwiesene Aufmerksamkeit, mcincn wamistcn Dank aus. WiLHELM. From President Fallii^res, at a later date, there camein response to the personal representations made tohim by the French delegates, a graceful acceptance ofMr. Carnegies offer. As a result of the events just narrated it came aboutthat at the end of April in the year 1908 the writer,accompanied by Mr. Arthur S. Coggeshall, repairedto Berlin and there installed in the Royal Museum areplica of the Diplodocus, following that act in Juneby rendering the

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