ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK IN EUROPE. 



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has been Conservator of the Ethnographic Museum at Leyden 

 for more than ten years. When the Archiv fur Ethnographie 

 was established, a little more than four years ago, he was in- 

 trusted with its management. The journal is a quarto in form, 

 appearing once in two months, and the articles, which are always 

 of great value, are in French, Dutch, German, and English. 

 Every number is illustrated, and many of the plates are hand- 

 somely colored. We have laid considerable stress upon this jour- 

 nal because of its great value, and because it is far too little 

 known in this country. 



We have let Leyden stand as the type of work done in Hol- 

 land, but it is not the only center. Considerable ethnographic 

 museums, with good workers, are located at Rotterdam, Haarlem, 

 The Hague, and Amsterdam. 



Germany is full of workers in every line of anthropological 

 study. To describe what is done at Leipsic, Halle, Berlin, Dres- 

 den, Munich, Heidelberg, 

 and Freiburg will give 

 some idea of the aims and 

 methods of the work. And 

 first we will consider the 

 work in physical anthro- 

 pology. At Leipsic we find 

 Dr. Emil Schmidt, ex- 

 traordinary professor at 

 the university. He offers 

 in three successive years 

 three courses of lectures to 

 the students general eth- 

 nology, prehistoric archae- 

 ology, and physical an- 

 thropology. Dr. Schmidt 

 is a critical and careful 

 worker, and, notwithstand- 

 ing the profound abyss 

 separating German and 

 French workers, he is well 

 spoken of in France. His 



little book, An thropologische Methoden, is the best hand-book 

 for the student in the laboratory or the field that is accessible. 

 Although a man past middle life. Dr. Schmidt is an active work- 

 er, and he has just returned from a trip to India and Ceylon, 

 where he did extensive field work. In his laboratory he has a 

 private collection of over a thousand skulls, many of them of 

 his own gathering. Dr. Schmidt is ingenious in suggesting new 

 methods of work and study. He is the originator of the cranial 



Prof. Johannes Eanke. 



