. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . La Plata 115 yesterday continued to make a bold stand against theencroachments of the white settlers, and the landscapesof the Andean region. Thei^c paintings were executedby well-known German and French artists brought fromEurope for the purpose. The view of El Tronador, thegreat alpine peak which dominates one of the valleysin the lake-region of Argentina, is particularly impres-sive. On the first floor of the rotunda, confronting the. Fig If). Skull of Sabre-toothed Tiger, Smilodon neogaus Lund. \ natura
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . La Plata 115 yesterday continued to make a bold stand against theencroachments of the white settlers, and the landscapesof the Andean region. Thei^c paintings were executedby well-known German and French artists brought fromEurope for the purpose. The view of El Tronador, thegreat alpine peak which dominates one of the valleysin the lake-region of Argentina, is particularly impres-sive. On the first floor of the rotunda, confronting the. Fig If). Skull of Sabre-toothed Tiger, Smilodon neogaus Lund. \ natural from specimens in the Carnegie Mustum entrance, is the skull of an enormous whale. The col-lection of skeletons of the Cetacea in the possession ofthe museum is singularly large and fine. Many species,great and small, are represented. With the exceptionof the great collection of whales in the British Museumof Natural History made by the late Sir William , this appears to me to be the finest assemblageof its kind in existence, and surpasses the British col-lection in the fact that it is odorless. Every one whohas visited the WhaJeroom at South Kensingtoncarries away a memory of the disagreeable smell ofwhale-oil which jxirvades it. Here in La Plata they ii6 To the River Plate and Back have succeeded in so thoroughly bleaching the bonesand removing the grease that no odor is asked how this had been accomplished and was showna large tank in one of the courts, in which I was toldthat a
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