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Tidsskrift for Sverige : Studier i jdmnforande fornforshiing. Bidrag til 

 spdnnets historia. (Studies in comparative archaeology: materials to 

 be used for the history of the fibula.) In this excellent work the author 

 classifies for the first time the principal groups of finds of the bronze and 

 the iron age in central Europe ; he describes them in their peculiari- 

 ties and their geographical extension and insists particularly upon the 

 two great groups of tiie pre-Koman iron age, which he designates under 

 the names of the Hallstadt group and the Zene group, after the most 

 celebrated localities of these finds. Though this work has ueyer been 

 translated in its entirety into a foreign language, it has nevertheless 

 been of great importance in the development of the science, and has 

 formed an epoch in comparative prehistoric archaeology. We have 

 seen how Mr. Worsaae, many years before, had already undertaken to 

 compare the archteological data of the north with those of other coun- 

 tries; but it is Mr. Hildebrand who possesses the merit of having sought, 

 almost the first, to give a systematic epitome, a complete classification of 

 all the material pertaining to a certain archaeological age, in this case 

 the one nearest the beginning of historic times in southern and central 

 Europe. Geologically speaking, it is the principal stages and the most 

 remarkable formations of the tertiary i)eriod of pre-historic time, which 

 are separated and characterized in this work for the first time. The 

 principal conclusions of this memoir, whether they be essentially modi- 

 fied by the increase of materials or not, will always be of great impor- 

 tance as the point of departure of a new phase in the progress of this 

 pre-historic science. Another memoir of Mr. Hildebrand has the same 

 tendency : Sur la division dti Nord de VEurope en provinces archeolo- 

 giques pour Vdge de la pierre polie. (On the division of the north of 

 Europe into archaeological districts for the age of polished stone.) Re- 

 port of the Congress of Brussels, 1872. In 1873-'80, he published a great 

 work: Be forhistorislca folken i Uuropa (the pre-historic peoples in 

 Europe), in which — exhibiting vast erudition — he treats of all the paleo- 

 ethnological materials then existing in Europe. Among his other 

 works must be mentioned here a memoir upon les Cassiterides et Vetain 

 dans Vantiquite (the cassiterides and tin in antiquity). In the Antik- 

 varish TidssTcrift, 1878, two works upon the " Finds discovered by Mr. 

 Schliemaun in Troas" (Stockholm, 1878) "and at Mycenae" {ibidem, 

 1882); then two memoirs treating of comparative ethnology. Folkens 

 troom sina doda (the ideas of peoples about their dead ; Stockholm, 

 1874), and JDe lagre naturfolJiens konst (art among primitive peoples). 

 The latter, which is concerned especially with the sculpture and carv- 

 ing on bone of the aurochs, the Eskimos and the men of the quaternary 

 period, forms a part of the work of Mr. Nordeuskjold : Resultats de mes 

 voyages dans le haitt Word (results of my travels in the far north). In 

 1879, Mr. H. Hildebrand was appointed antiquary of the kingdom of 

 Sweden. He has shown himself an energetic administrator. This is not 

 the place to dwell upon the dispositions of the Government with regard 



