ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK IN EUROPE. 



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In America no French anthropologist is so well known as A. 

 -de Quatrefages, whose Human Species and Natural History of 

 Man are here widely read. Up to the very date of his death, 

 early in the present year, the old man lived among his books and 

 kept at work, although he was in his eighty-second year. A 

 zoologist by training, he was one of the few prominent workers 

 in that field who held out against Darwinism and other forms of 

 transforinist doctrine. His writings have been of the greatest 

 importance. With his assistant naturalist, Dr. Hainy, he wrote 

 Crania Ethnica, a standard work on the characteristics of race as 

 shown in skulls. His Migration of the Polynesians, Fossil and 

 Savage Men, and the Pygmies, are others of his works that are 

 well known. De Quatrefages was officially connected with the 

 Museum of Natural History, and under his directorship much of 

 the material in the Galerie d' Anthropologic was gathered, and 

 the Laboratory of Anthropology of the museum, perhaps the best 

 equipped and most convenient in the world, was established. 

 This laboratory is situated near the house where De Quatrefages 

 lived (which was, by the 

 way, the home of Buffon). 

 It contains office-rooms for 

 the corps of workers, Doc- 

 tors Hamy, Verneau, and 

 Delisle. Two large rooms 

 are supplied with tables, 

 instruments, and materials 

 for the use of students. An 

 excellent dark room for 

 photographic work, rooms 

 for preparation of material, 

 for modeling and casting 

 in plaster, are all provided. 

 A fair library for reference 

 is also connected with the 

 laboratory. The Galerie 

 d'Anthropologie of the mu- 

 seum contains a vast quan- 

 tity of varied and interest- 

 ing material, probably the 

 greatest collection in the 

 world. Thirteen rooms are 



too small for its suitable display. Over two thousand skulls be- 

 longing to the collection are packed away for lack of space for 

 them in the cases. One of the rooms is devoted to fossil men, and 

 here are many original pieces of great value and world-famous, 

 such as the Cro-Magnon skulls and the Mentone skeleton. 



Prof. G. de Mortillet. 



