in my country and the largest and richest of natural history museums in Italy, attached

to the oldest institution for the higher instruction of students in the world, by the most

thoughtful and generous giver of all time. [ See Frankin Institute Journal for

April 1908. p. 294]. 

This as was your suggestion in the letter of Aug. 1. received a few days

ago that the casts of Diplodocus have hither to been presented to the 

monarchs of the respective countries where they have been erected.



The objective point of students who go to Italy for the purpose of pursuing

paloeontological or geological investigations is Bologna.  Here from the time of 

Aldrovandi - (who is credited with the first, use of the word "geology") - to

the present, the Professors of natural history have enriched the collections, and none 

more than Professor Capellini.  He has traveled over Europe and American

bringing