It probably will be from six to eight months before the specimen intended for the Argentine Museum can be gotten ready for shipment.  The force of men capable of doing this work at the Museum is very small, in fact there are only two men at present who are familiar with the ins and outs of the trade of Diplodocus-making.



The Director when interviewed stated that he has at the request of the Argentine Minister, Dr. Naon of Washington, written to the head of the Argentine Museum seeking information as to the amount of space that is available for the installation of the specimen.  It has been necessary on one or two previous occasions to change the pose of the animal somewhat to accomodate it to the narrow space that was available.  In Paris, for instance, at the National Museum of France, it became necessary to bend up the tail and brig it around with a curve, so to speak, to give the tail a "twist".



For a number of years past Mr. Carnegie has generously granted an annual subention to the Carnegie Museum in order to carry on explorations in the fossil fields of the West.  During the past three years a very interesting work had been going on in Uinta County, Utah.  Mr. Earl Douglass of the Museum staff was so fortunate as to find on the top of a mountain, to which Dr. Holland has given the name "Dinosaur Peak", the remains of a huge dinosaur exceeding in size any dinosaur which has yet been discovered in North America.  In the prosecution of the work of getting out his monste it was presently discovered that in the very same ledges, and partly overlying this