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director of the museum, classifies etlmograpliic objects iuto twelve 

 groups such as relate to (1) Food, Drink, etc. ; ('-?) Clothiug ; (3) 

 House-furnishing ; (4) Fishing and Hunting ; (5) Agriculture ; 

 (6) Domestication of Animals ; (?) Trading ; (8) Manufactures ; 

 (9) Weapons and War: (10) Government and Society; (11) Toys, 

 Music, Theatre, etc. ; (12) Religion, Science, and the like. This 

 scheme of classification runs through the whole arrangement of 

 the museum. Dr. Serrurier is fortunate in having associated with 

 him as conservator Dr. J. D. E. Schmeltz. 



There are in the university faculty several men who, without 

 being professional anthropologists, have more or less directly done 

 work of importance to anthropological science. Such are the fa- 

 mous Sanskrit scholar, Prof. Kern ; the Sinologue, Prof. Schlegel, 

 and Dr. Thiele, of the theological school. The latter has contributed 

 much to the present scientific study of religions. Prof. Schlegel's 

 Chinese Dictionary is far more than a " word-book," and is a 



treasury of ethnological 

 material to which all stu- 

 dents must refer. With 

 M. Henri Cordier, of Par- 

 is, Prof. Schlegel is edit- 

 or of an interesting bi- 

 monthly journal devoted 

 to Asiatic subjects Toung 

 Pao. The university has a 

 chair of Ethnology, which 

 was for several years ably 

 filled by Prof. George 

 Wilken, whose death a few 

 months since was a seri- 

 ous loss to the institution. 

 Prof. J. J. M. de Groot 

 has been appointed to the 

 position. 



Prof. Kern and Prof. 

 Schlegel, with other 

 workers in ethnography 

 in various countries, form 

 an editorial committee of the Internationales Archiv fur Eth- 

 nographic, a journal appearing at Leyden under the very capable 

 direction of Dr. J. D. E. Schmeltz. Dr. Schmeltz is a rare worker. 

 Born in Hamburg, his first important work in the field of eth- 

 nography was done upon the famous Godeffroy collection, from, 

 the South seas. The result of his work was the well-known illus- 

 trated catalogue of that collection, which is the first work that 

 the student of the South-sea cultures must know. Dr. Schmeltz 



Dr. Rudolf Virchow. 



