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Palaeontology of the University of Pennsylvania, which is main- 

 tained by an independent organization the University Archeeo- 

 logical Association. This department covers a broad field. It. 

 Las had an expedition for two years in Babylonia; it contributes 

 annually to the Egyptian Exploration Fund.; and has carried on 

 explorations in various parts of the United States. In two years 

 it has established a museum in four sections American, Baby- 

 lonian, Egyptian, and Ori- 

 entalwith remarkably full 

 collections in each. It has 

 just opened a loan exhibi- 

 tion of objects used in wor- 

 ship, intended as the first of 

 a series of such special ex- 

 hibitions of an educational 

 character in which the re- 

 sources of the museum and 

 of private collections will 

 be made accessible and dis- 

 played." 



An unusual number of 

 active societies exist in Phil- 

 adelphia, which more or less 

 directly assist anthropolog- 

 ical science. Such are the 

 American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, Numismatic and An- 

 tiquarian Society, and the 

 Oriental Club. In all of 

 these, so far as anthropological work is concerned, Dr. Daniel G. 

 Brinton is a moving spirit. Dr. Brinton scarcely needs an intro- 

 duction to American readers ; no one has done more to make an- 

 thropology known to the people and to raise up other workers. 

 His writings upon American religions are delightful reading. For 

 several years he has edited a most important work, the Library of 

 American Aboriginal Literature ; of this some eight volumes have 

 appeared. Each volume is devoted to some one literary produc- 

 tion of the American race. The original text is printed in full ; 

 and a translation, critical notes, and a vocabulary make the subject 

 available to the student. Dr. Brinton has lately issued two little 

 volumes Races and Peoples and The American Race of popular 

 but scholarly character. The other workers in Philadelphia who 

 are best known are the curators of the departments of the Univer- 

 sity Museum, Dr. C. C. Abbott, Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Mrs. Cor- 

 nelius Stevenson, and Mr. Stewart Culin. Dr. Jastrow is one of 

 the best Semitic scholars in America. Mrs. Stevenson is perhaps 



Major J. W. Powell. 



