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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
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It is not altogether an easy task to assemblesuch a specimen, and get everything into place withoutbreakage. It requires as much knowledge and expert-ness as would be called for in setting up a large and verycomplicated machine. There are tricks in all tradesand the trade of making and installing dinosaurs eightyand more feet in length is one which at the present timeis known and understood thoroughly by only threepersons, two of whom are the writer and his assistant,Mr. Coggeshall, both of whom have had more experi-ence in this novel kind of work than it has fallen to anyother mortals to acquire. The task not only has itsdifficulties, but also its dangers. The replica, althoughnot nearly as hea\y as the original, weighs severaltons. The first thing which must be undertaken is toerect a strong scaffolding, and to provide in its upperpart a support capable of carrying a heavy weight.Directly under this the central platform or base isplaced. The top of this base dare not be put into 248
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President Pefia. The FVcsciUalion ol llic Oipludcjcus 24^) position until the skeleton has been assembled, becausethere must be room left to get under the cross-beams, sothat the supports which are destined to finally bearthe specimen may be adjusted from time to time andthe bolts which hold them may be tightened. Upon thecentral base planking is laid, and on this the vertebra?of the body, or barrel, are carefully assembled and putinto position upon two more or less horizontal steelrods. WTien all has been carefully adjusted a steelrope is bent underneath the mass in such a way asto catch the temporary supports which hold thevertebrai, and the whole thing is tied together. Thearrangement of the details is too comi)licatcd to makeit worth while to attempt to describe it here. The nextstep is to slowly and carefully lift the mass into the airto the height of alx3ut fifteen feet. This is accomplishedby means of blocks and tackles lowered from a beam,which generally forms a part of the sc

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