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ANNALS

OF THE

CARNEGIE MUSEUM

VOL. VII. No. I.

1710-11.

W. J. HOLLAND, Editor

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
NOVEMBER, 1910

PRESS OF

THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY

LANCASTER, PA.

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THE Director of the Museum, according to an understanding with the authorities of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, left Pittsburgh on the 4th of June and arrived in St. Petersburg on the 14th of the same month. The work of installing the replica of the skeleton of Diplodocus carnegiei in the great Lecture Hall of the Imperial Academy of Sciences was immediately taken in hand and was finally brought to completion about the middle of July. During his stay in St. Petersburg the Director of the Museum received many evidences of the kind regard of the different members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the promise that all the publications of the Academy should be sent as soon as possible to the library of the Carnegie Museum. Special hospitality and courtesy were shown by His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, by M. Iswolky, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Academy, M. Th. Tschernyschew, the Director of the Geological Survey of the empire, M. Mogilansky, the Director of the Great Ethnological Museum bearing the name of Alexander III, and by many others among the leading scientific men of the Russian capital. The Director made it a point to acquaint himself thoroughly with the work which is being done not only in the museums of St. Petersburg, but in Moscow. In the latter city, under the guidance of M. Krishkoff he visited all the museums and was able to obtain thorough knowledge of what is being accomplished for the advancement of science in Moscow, a city the wealthy and intelligent citizens of which are displaying in recent years a

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