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region, the river fed by glaciers, the apple orchard in full blossom, 

 and the snowy peaks of the Jungfrau range rendered competition 

 hard even in the case of so interesting a museum. Dr. Ed. von 

 Fellenberg, the Curator was absent, but he has since kindly sent 

 to me a biographical sketch of Waber. 



Next in order came Paris the home of Broca and once the 

 chief dwelling place of Anthropology and Ethnology. Paris is 

 still rich in the material with which these two sciences are illus- 

 trated and studied, but unfortunately for your direcflor the time 

 was not propitious for his visit. At the Jardin des Plantes the 

 collections were being removed to a new building and at the Tro- 

 cadero the division of Oceanic was not yet in order for public in- 

 specftion in spite of the efforts of the distinguished Director M. 

 Hamy. The first collection visited was that installed in an 

 attic of the Palace of the Louvre, — the Musee de Marine. Here 

 everything is utterly without scientific arrangement, and the 

 rich treasures are scattered here 

 and there, sometimes arranged in 

 rosettes on the ceiling where they 

 cannot be studied, or as trophies 

 on the walls where military, domes- 

 tic and musical instruments are 

 grouped together for effedl, and 



equallv useless to the student. ^. 



Fig. 47. 

 Without an opera glass one could 



not examine those on the ceilng, so they are left out of the follow- 

 ing enumeration If all the choice articles from the Pacific scat- 

 tered simpl}- as curiosities through the Parisian museums could be 

 brought together in one properly arranged building it would indeed 

 be a rare collection demanding the repedlful attention of every 

 ethnologist. 



Hazi'aiian Islands. 



Helmet with five knobs on the partly detached crest (Guimard). 



Fig. 47. 2 Common helmets, featherless. 2 Helmets with elab- 



