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so as to show man's progress from the oldest age of stone to the 

 present time, and so as to present pictures of life in various exist- 

 ing tribes of savage or barbarous men. Nothing is here done in 

 physical anthropology, but lectures are given in ethnography and 

 culture history, and these are exceedingly popular. Dr. Grossed 

 work is unobtrusive, but it is sure to be far-reaching. 



Much of the value of collections is lost by bad arrangement. 

 Nowhere is there such pains taken in display as at Copenhagen. 

 The results are beautiful, 

 although nowhere have 

 greater disadvantages had 

 to be overcome. The Eth- 

 nographical Museum is the 

 oldest in existence, having 

 been founded in 1847 In- 

 spector Steinhauer, now 

 seventy-five years of age, 

 has had the arrangement 

 in charge. Dr. Kristian 

 Bahnson, a specialist in 

 American ethnography, is 

 his assistant. To Inspec- 

 tor Steinhauer was given 

 an old palace, with many 

 small rooms, not at all 

 adapted to the housing of 

 a great museum. He has 

 done wonders ; not an inch 

 of space is lost, and great 

 ingenuity is displayed in 



making available what must at first have looked like useless wall- 

 room and passage-ways. The collections are arranged first by 

 countries or tribes, and the material from any one region is rigidly 

 classified into groups : (1) Religion; (2) Men ; (3) War; (I) House; 

 (5) Industry and Art ; (6) Amusement. Within the cases them- 

 selves the objects are arranged with the greatest care so as to pro- 

 duce the most pleasing effect possible. In the same building is the 

 Museum of Northern Antiquities, under charge of Dr. Sophus 

 Mtiller. Denmark is classic ground for the prehistoric archa?olo- 

 gist. Scarcely a foot of its surface but what has yielded relics. 

 Its peat-bogs, kitchen-middens, and tumuli are famous. Here are 

 found the finest flint-chipping in the world, the most interesting 

 of bronze implements, the finest gold ornaments of the bronze 

 age, and vast quantities of specimens illustrating the early age 

 of iron. No student can afford to neglect this collection. The 

 Museum of Northern Antiquities is exceedingly popular with the 



Dr. Richard Andree. 



