. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . Carlos Ameghino, began diligently to collectfossil remains which they encountered in various partsof Argentina, and more particularly in Ameghino began to describe them, and sub-sequently gave to the world descriptions of an enormousnumber of new genera and sjxcies, attributing to thestrata in which they were found various geologicalages, in such a manner as to provoke the astonishmentof students in other parts of the world. PrincetonUniversity was enabled through the generosity ofcerta
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . Carlos Ameghino, began diligently to collectfossil remains which they encountered in various partsof Argentina, and more particularly in Ameghino began to describe them, and sub-sequently gave to the world descriptions of an enormousnumber of new genera and sjxcies, attributing to thestrata in which they were found various geologicalages, in such a manner as to provoke the astonishmentof students in other parts of the world. PrincetonUniversity was enabled through the generosity ofcertain friends to send several expeditions to SouthAmerica. Two of these were conducted by Mr. JohnBell Hatcher. Other expeditions by other institutions 208 To the River Plate and Back have gone out, and numerous eminent paleontologistshave personally visited the region. Meanwhile thoseupon the ground have continued to explore it. Theresult has been a great access of information whichtends to prove that Ameghino was not always quitecorrect in his interpretations, though he deserves the. Fig. 19.—Macrauchenia patachonica Owen. J^ nat. size. very highest praise for his diligence and for many noblediscoveries. I had the great pleasure while in La Plataof visiting Seiior Carlos Ameghino, who survives hisbrother, and of seeing the collections which have beenaccumtdated and which contain many of the types ofthe species described by Florentino Ameghino. Whileof the highest scientific interest, this assemblage ofmaterial does not contain nearly as many finely pre-served specimens of the fossils of the pampas as arefound in the National Museum at La Plata, or in theMuseum in Buenos Aires, where are the collections A Trij) to Mar <kl IMata 209 brought together during the time in which thoseeminent scholars, Dr. Burmeister and Dr. Carlos Berg,were the directors of that museum. The mountedskeletons of the great armadillo-like mammals of thePampean beds, of the huge ground-sloths, of Toxod
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