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Oxford. 



Fig. 70. 



Tae a feather cape from the Hawaiian Islands. Another was re- 

 ported at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. It was also learned 

 here that at Cirencester, Belfast and Dublin are Hawaiian imple- 

 ments in the museums, but time was too limited to explore these 

 localities. 



Another excursion was made to Oxford where the hospi- 

 tality of H. Balfonr, Esq., the well-known Curator of the ethno- 

 logical colle(5lions made that attra(5tive town still more interesting. 

 The Pitt-Rivers collecl:ion forms a large part of the Ethnological 

 Museum which is of great extent and value, but the arrangement, 

 while admirable for the study of comparative ethnology, renders an 

 ■enumeration of specimens from a given locality almost impossible 

 in a limited time. Thus the different methods of dressing the hair 

 all over the world might be grouped together; the musical instru- 

 ments, the projectile weapons, the means of generating fire would 

 form other groups and this would be possible onh' in a ver}^ exten- 

 sive colle(ftion. It is exceedingly fortunate that all museums are 

 not arranged on identical lines, for to one geographical contiguity, 

 to another racial characfteristics, while to a third the comparative 



