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The American department of this vast collection is exceedingly 

 valuable. There is but little from the Indians of the United 

 States ; from ancient Mexico and Peru, from the modern South 

 American tribes, and from the Northwest coast the representation 

 is magnificent. The culture of Eskimos, of Tlingits, Haidas, and 

 Bilgulas are fully shown. Some very choice Mexican antiquities 

 collected by Humboldt are here. Here, too, are three of the ex- 

 ceedingly rare and interesting mosaics from Mexico made by 

 overlaying forms of wood with bits of turquoise, obsidian, and 

 shell. Perhaps a score such are known in European museums : 

 seven are at London, three at Berlin, two at Copenhagen, and five 

 at Rome. They are among the most curious and interesting Az- 

 tec objects. There are fine series of pottery from Mexico and 

 Yucatan. The collection of Peruvian pottery is wonderfully com- 

 plete, and is no doubt the finest on public display in the world. 

 Reiss and StubePs great collections, upon which their famous 

 work, The Necropolis of Ancon, is based, are here, and include 

 the finest general series of Peruvian antiquities on exhibition 

 especially rich in wrapped mummies, fine cloths, and household 

 goods. As for modern ethnography, there are series of objects 

 from almost every tribe from the Caribbean Sea to Cape Horn. 

 All this wealth of materials is under the care of Dr. Edward Seler, 

 whose special work upon Mexican subjects has made him known 

 to Americanists. 



The men at Berlin are all hard workers. Dr. F. von Luschan, 

 curator of the African department, exemplifies this. Himself a 

 specialist in biblical archaeology, and frequently in the field over- 

 seeing excavation, he allows no opjwrtunity to pass unimproved 

 for gathering anthropological material of every kind. In addi- 

 tion to his regular work he has, while in the field, taken photo- 

 graphs and anthropological measurements of more than three 

 thousand persons, some of them among barbarous and little-known 

 tribes a work which alone would not represent an idle life. 



We can refer to but two more of the German workers Dr. 

 Richard Andree and Dr. E. Grosse. Richard Andree, of Heidel- 

 berg, has the heartiest admiration for our American ethnogra- 

 phers and their work, and it is certain that they reciprocate. His 

 writings are always clear and direct. His latest work perhaps is 

 his Ethnographische Parallelen a good example of his style and 

 ability. As editor of the geographic journal Globus, Dr. Andree 

 is known the world around. At the old University of Freiburg, 

 in the most picturesque part of the Rhine mountain country, is 

 in progress one of the most hopeful works in anthropology in 

 Europe. Dr. E. Grosse is there developing a museum and a de- 

 partment of anthropology. No effort is made to collect a great 

 mass of material, but carefully selected specimens are arranged 



