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Alaska, which is perhaps the best collection from the Tlingits ; 

 the Sturgis collection from the South Seas, recently purchased by 

 the museum, and far larger than any other in America, and sur- 

 passed by few in Europe. Besides these collections belonging to 

 the museum, and on display, there are in the building two remark- 

 able and extensive series belonging to private collectors men of 

 wealth Mr. James Terry and Mr. Andrew E. Douglass. The 

 Terry collection is mainly the personal gathering of the owner, 

 and is particularly rich in Pacific coast specimens. The Douglass 

 collection is made up of exceedingly choice stone implements 

 from every part of the United States, and it is unsurpassed in the 

 number of rare and beautiful objects banner-stones, bird and bar 

 amulets, hematites, and grooved axes. These two collections will 

 no doubt ultimately become the property of the museum. Not- 

 withstanding its treasures in material collections, the museum 

 has never published one line of contribution to anthropological 

 science, nor has it under- 

 taken, apart from a few 

 lectures to its membership 

 any educational work in the 

 subject. 



In Philadelphia a vast 

 amount of work has been 

 done by a few individual 

 workers, with no pecuniary 

 return, and with but very lit- 

 tle financial backing. What 

 is there has been brought 

 about by truly heroic work 

 from love of the cause. The 

 work is mainly done at the 

 Philadelphia Academy of 

 Science or at the University 

 of Pennsylvania. At the 

 academy is the Morton col- 

 lection of crania, gathered 

 by our earliest great anthro- 

 pologist, and at that time 



one of the largest in the world ; here, too, are the collections in 

 archaeology gathered by Poinsett, Vaux, and Haldeman. For 

 several seasons, including the present one, Dr. D. G. Brinton has 

 presented at the academy courses of lectures upon some ethnologi- 

 cal subject. The most active work in Philadelphia at present, 

 however, is at the university. In reference to it, Mr. Culin, who 

 is one of its heartiest supporters, writes us : 



" The chief center is the new Department of Archaeology and 



Prof. Edward S. Morse. 



