Secretaria de Agricultura y Formento

Direccion De Estudios Biolgicos

A.L. Herrera, Director





Dr. William J. Holland, Director 

Emeritus, Carnegie Museum, Dept.

of the Carnegie Institute 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.



My dear Doctor Holland:



With reference to our former correspondence in continuation thereof I have the pleasure of sending you a copy of the note received form Senor Ing. D. Mariano Cabrera, VicePresident of the National Railways of Mexico ( Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico)  communicated to Senor Ing. D. Alfonso Gonzales Gallardo, official head of the Secretaritat de Agricultura y/Fomento, relating 

to the free transport from Matamoros or Nuevo Laredo to this captial of the thirty-six boxes, which contains the replica of the gigantic fossil Diplodocus, which the Museum under your worthy charge is presenting to Mexico for our Museum of Natural History: