Dr. A. L. Herrera

Secretaria de Agricultura y. Fomento

Direccion de Estudios Biologicos

7a Balderas num. 94, Mexico, D.F.



My dear Doctor Herrera:



I owe you an apology for not having written to you quire recently.  In the first place I have been absent from home, not very well,  and simply ovewhelmed with self-imposed taks, and tasks thrust upon me.



I am happy to be able to report to you that we have completed making the reconstruction of the skeleton of the Diplodocus, so far as that work can be done in our laboratory.  The specimen has been packed, but I have not yet succeeded in 

making arrangements for its shipment.  This is a matter that  I must take up with the steamship and railway authorities. 



I write these lines to inquire whether you are ready to receive the specimen if we do forward it, and whether you are ready to install it.  I gathered from your previous letters that you are embrassed for a place in which to effect the installation, and I have imagined, therefore, that there was no special haste in the matter until you should inform me that you are ready to receive and effect the installation for such is actually the case now I shall accelerate my movements and do all in my power to get the specimen forwarded to you promptly.  Meanwhile I shall have to make extensive inquiries