Tuesday 

18 August 1908

Dr. W.J. Holland

Director of the Carnegie Museum

Pittsburgh, Penna. U.S.A.



Dear Sir

In my first letter of May 17 to Dr. Carnegie the gift the cast was asked

for the Italian people in the person of their king, who of course would

accept and express his thanks for it in a public ceremony worthy of the occasion.

I was asked that its destintation be the Aldrovandi museum of the Univeristy

of Bologna because such a location would fulfil one of his cardinal

principles of benefaction by making the gift accomplish the maximum of good.

This is the case because the most important of vertebrate fossils would thus be

added to the oldest