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under certain conditions, which the directors did not think 

 best to accept. At the death of Mr. Way, however, it passed 

 into the possession of Mr. Charles Granville Way, himself an 

 artist of merit, who has in turn offered it to the same estab- 

 lishment without condition other than that it is to be kept 

 in a room by itself, and to be called the Way Collection. 

 This stipulation was gladly agreed to, and the collection ac- 

 cepted by the trustees, and its treasures will doubtless before 

 long be opened to the public. Boston Advertiser, June 29, 

 1872. 



GERMAN CENTRAL MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY. 



Several months ago we announced to our readers the offer 

 for sale of the celebrated ethnological collection of the late 

 Dr. Gustavus Klemm, of Dresden. This cabinet had obtained 

 a world-wide celebrity from its richness in illustrations of 

 dress and ornaments, household utensils, furniture, warlike, 

 fishing, and hunting implements, etc., extending from the ear- 

 liest times down to the immediate present. It was in the 

 market for a long time, and could have been purchased for 

 $10,000; and it is a matter worthy of great regret that it 

 was not secured to the United States. We now learn that 

 this collection has been purchased by subscription, and trans- 

 ferred to Leipsic, where it forms the nucleus of the new Ger- 

 man Central Museum of Ethnology, and around which is to 

 be grouped whatever additional material can be procured in 

 illustration of the general plan. An earnest appeal is made 

 by the officers and others interested in this enterprise to their 

 countrymen and others in the United States for contribu- 

 tions, and we doubt not this will be responded to liberally. 

 It will occupy the place in Germany of the great Archaeolog- 

 ical Museum of Copenhagen ; of Mr. Blackmore at Salisbury, 

 in England ; of the Museum of St. Germain, near Paris, un- 

 der direction of M. Mortillet ; and of the Smithsonian and 

 Peabody Museums in the United States. Circular. 



STRANDING OF A JAPANESE JUNK ON THE ALEUTIAN 



ISLANDS. 



As an illustration of one way in which distant and unin- 

 habited lands may become peopled by the human race, it is 

 stated that during the past summer a Japanese junk, which 



