532 PKOGRESS OF ANTIlKOrOLOGY IN 1S!)0. 



of JScienct' met duriii<;- the cnrieut year at Limoges, August 7-15. In 

 this associatiou is a section devoted exchisively to authiopokigical 

 subjects. 



The twenty-first meeting of tlie German Anthropoh^gical Association 

 was hehl at iNIuiister, \Vest[)halia, August 11-15. At each one of these 

 annual meetings it is customary to explore thoroughly the anthro- 

 pological resources of tlie region. Professor llosius this year read a 

 paper on the geognostic structure of Westphalia, tlie prehistoric sta- 

 tions and the remains of quaternary animals found there, and Professor 

 Nordhort" followe'l up this communication with one u[)on the urns and 

 the weapons fouml in tiiis state. 



The German Association of Naturalists and physicians (Versammlung 

 deutscher Naturforscher irnd Aertzte) must not be confounded with 

 the General Antliro[)ological Society of the empire and Austria. The 

 first named held its sixty-third meeting in liremen, 15-20th September. 



The Russian Association of Xatnralists and i)hysicians held its 

 eighth meeting in St. Petersburg, January 8-1!). In the 70 sessions 

 2,200 took part and over 400 communications were made. One of the 

 ten sections was devoted to geography, ethnography, and anthropology. 

 The subjects discussed were, migrations, history of primitive culture, 

 anthropometry, local arclneology, and the ethnography of llnssia. 

 Upon this last point the opportunities of study are unparalleled and 

 the Russian ethnographers have not failed to make use of them. 



There is no better illustration of the rapidity with which the seience 

 of anthropology has asserted itself than the museode la Plata, a sketch 

 of which is here given (Plate I). The capital of the province of Buenos 

 Ayres, the city of La Plata, was founded in 1882, to replace as a seat of 

 provincial authority the city of Buenos Ayres declared in 1880 to be the 

 cai)ital of the republic. In the brief space of time intervening, under the 

 energetic nianagi-ment of Signor Francisco P. Moreno, a fully equipi)ed 

 museum is couj[)leted. The anthropological jxirtion owes its existence 

 almost entirely to the director. It is especially rich in niaterial illus- 

 trating the aboriginal life of the lepublic. (Plate II.— Ground-plan of 

 Museum.) 



In the summary of last year a brief account was given of the manner 

 in which the science of man is covered in the institutions of Paiis. 

 Dr. Sophus Miiller contributes the following li^t for Copenhagen: 



(1) lloyal Museum of Northern Antiquities. Devoted to early Den- 

 mark, including the stone, the brotze, the iron, and the historic jteriod, 

 until ]G(;o. 



(2) The Folk Museum, general liistoric museum, trom lOUO to 1800. 

 Will be united with the Museum of Northern Antiquities under one 

 direction in a new building. 



(3) llosenburg Castle, the collections to illnstrate tlie lileaiid liistory 

 of the present dynasty. 



(4) The Fredericksburg Castle Collection, g«'neriil Danish hi.-^tory 

 from 1000-1800. 



