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Danish people, who are very loyal in sending to it specimens they 

 may find. The Government itself is very wide awake to the im- 

 portance of such, work as is here done, and has acted vigorously 

 in the matter of preserving tumuli and other monuments of the 

 past. 



Anthropology is by no means neglected in Switzerland. With 

 men like Vogt and Kollman in physical anthropology, with mu- 

 seums of ethnography at Basel, Bern, and Zurich, it is still true 

 that the department of prehistoric archaeology leads the rest there. 

 This is quite natural, for every lake has its old village sites and 

 every town of consequence has its collection of " lake-dwelling " 

 antiquities. There are more than two score such, of some impor- 

 tance, in Switzerland. Certainly those at Bern and Zurich may 

 be taken as good examples. The former, under Dr. van Fellen- 

 berg, represents very fully all three of the great " ages " of the 

 archaeologist. The oldest lake-dwelling villages of Europe date 

 back to the age of stone (the neolithic period) ; many were of the 

 bronze age ; some were of the early part of the age of iron. Some 



of the sites were occupied 

 continuously from the older 

 to the later time, while 

 others represent only a sin- 

 gle period. At Zurich are 

 the collections upon which 

 Dr. Keller's work was based, 

 and very much valuable 

 and interesting material 

 from recent explorations 

 undertaken quite near the 

 city. Dr. Heierli, who 

 teaches prehistoric archae- 

 ology in the University of 

 Zurich, has still a largely 

 unworked field in Lake 

 Zurich. It is a mistake to 

 think of the lake-dwelling 

 sites as " worked out." 



Italy is very active in 

 anthropological work. At 

 Turin Prof. Guido Cora 

 conducts a geographical journal which contains much ethno- 

 graphic matter; in the same city Prof. Lombroso experiments, 

 writes books, and edits a journal, to which is due much of the 

 present interest in criminal anthropology. In Florence are 

 Mantegazza, Giglioli, and Regalia. At Perugia, Belluchi works 

 away at the stone age of Italy. In Rome is one of the great eth- 



Prof. Paolo Mantegazza. 



