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THE death is announced on August 4 last of Dr. Santiago Roth, head of the department of palseontology in the Museum of La Plata, Argentina. Dr. Roth was born in Switzerland and emigrated to Argentina nearly half a century ago, where he became especially skilled in collecting fossil skeletons of mammals from the pampas. He sold many fine specimens to the museums of Zurich and Geneva, and some also to the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. When the Museum of La Plata was founded, he was employed by the late Dr. F. P. Moreno to collect similar pampean skeletons for that institution, and he was soon appointed to take charge of the fossils. Dr. Roth added much to our knowledge of the pampean formations, which he studied extensively and in great detail, and he also described many of the mammalian remains.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 114, 618 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114618a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114618a0