Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Fishes, Fossil, Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873, Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904, Stanton, T. W. (Timothy William), b. 1860, Paleontology--Judith River Formation, Geological Survey (U.S.), Diplodocus, Okapi, Muse?e royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Le?opold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
Typescript letter. Carnegie Museum director Holland reports to Carnegie that the extension of the Museum building will probably begin soon. The Bayet paleontology collection has arrived. It contains a number of fish species new to science, and therefore complements the earlier work of Louis Agassiz. Paleontological explorations in the western U.S., specifically the Judith River Formation, led by John Hatcher, on loan to the U.S. Geological Survey which paid for the expedition, and a Mr. Stanton, who opposed Hatcher's scientific views, were successful, and the material collected will come to Carnegie Museum. Some remarkable finds there, among them a large teleosaur, remain unidentified. Holland will act upon Carnegie's suggestion to have reproductions made of the museum's Diplodocus to be used as gifts. He then tells Carnegie that while in Brussels he learned that the Museum of the Congo Free State there has Okapi specimens; as there are none of these in the U.S., he urges Carnegie to talk with the Belgian king (Le?opold II) to obtain an Okapi, as well as a model of Iguanodon bernissartensis (a large lizard) in exchange for the gift of a Diplodocus. Holland relates an amusing exchange with the king about the possibility of obtaining insect specimens from the Congo Free State.