Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011: Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...of La Plata 16. Mr. JoUe Moreno. r, . Dr. Ai.er A. Davis, Director of the Argentine e, tlorological PAdoau. 1. Engi.er EScardo Agulrre, .ofessor of Glology of the National University of Buenos Aires. 19. Mr. Luis Maria Torres. Director of the Section of the Mitre Musosm. 20. Mr. Daniel Moreno. 21. Mr. Clemente Onelll, Director of the Zoological Garden. 22. Mr. EScardo Moreno. 23. Dr. Juan Jose Biedma, General Recorder of the Nation. 24. Mr. Ruflno Varela. a. Dr. hstano, lao S. Zeballos, Founder and ex-.esident of the Argintine Scientific Society and of the Argentine Glogrageic Institute. 26. Dr. Florentlno Ameg.no, Director of the National Musosm of Natural History. He also referred to the fact that the approaching sessions of the International American Scientific Congress to be held during the centennial year (1910) in the Argentine capital will be followed in the ensuing year by the Washington meeting. In this interchange of visits between the scientists of North and South America, Doctor Moreno foresees one of the most potent portents of the mutual interests which shall animate the future relations of the Continent, and he expresses the hope that thoroughly representative men may be chosen for participation at both gatherings. Doctor Moreno has made extensive explorations in the Andean region and in Patagonia, his journeys covering many thousands of miles of practically unknown country, in the course of which many new rivand were ers, lakes, mountains discovered. Of particular interest is his discovery of the remains of the Pampean Mylodon, or Giant Ground Sloth, at Last Hope Inlet in 1897. The remarkable state of preservation in which the remains of this supposedly extinct mammal were discovered led investigators to credit the belief tha