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to the museums and remains, nor to speak of the works which he has 

 published upon the civilization and the arts of Sweden in the middle 

 ages, studies with which he seems to have been most occupied in the 

 last years. 



A worthy colleague of Mr. Hans Hildebrand is Mr. Oscar Montelius, 

 whom we have also mentioned already ; he is to-day first curator of the 

 museum of Stockholm. By numerous works he has contributed to the 

 knowledge of tlie antiquities of the North and of other countries of Eu- 

 rope. In 1872, '73, he published (in the Antikvarisl' Tidsskn'ft) an ex- 

 tended memoir on the relics of the age of bronze, discovered in the 

 northern and central parts of Sweden, with comparative dissertations 

 upon the bronzes of the North and those of central Europe. Since 

 then, he has continued his studies upon the bronze age in the North, 

 and has published a series of them, seeking to throw some light upon 

 that remarkable epoch by profound researches upon the bronze age in 

 central and southern Europe. Recently (in 1885), he has pnblished his 

 definite conclusions upon this pre-historic age in a great work which our 

 next article will discuss in detail. Among his numerous other works 

 we must mention his atlas : Svenska fornsal'er, 1872-'77, a French edi- 

 tion of which appeared in 1873-'75 — Antiqiiites Snedoises, arrangees et 

 detrites par 0. Montelius (Swedish antiquities, arranged and described 

 by O. Montelius), with 058 figures ; of the text corresponding to tbis 

 atlas there has ax)peared only the first part, Stenalderen (the age of 

 stone) 1874. An abridged collection of tfie results of Swedish archae- 

 ology has been given by him in his book on Prehistoric Sweden, Stock- 

 holm, 1874. (A French translation from the Swedish original, of 1873. 

 A German edition, much enlarged, appeared in 1885, at Berlin, under 

 this title: Die KuUur Schwedens in vorchristlicher Zeit.) In the Antik- 

 varisk Tidsskri/t, v, he published, in 1880-82, a great comparative study : 

 ISpannenfriin bronsalderen, etc. (Fibula^ of the age of bronze and of the 

 first age of iron); a study which is the result of extended travels, and 

 which treats in a very detailed manner especially of the Italian fibulae 

 del prima eta del J'crro (of the first age of iron). A succinct resume of 

 this memoir is inserted in the Materiaux pour Vhistoire de r/tow/we (Ma- 

 terials for the history of man, 1880, pp. 583-589). In the works of 

 Messrs. Hildebrand and Montelius a peculiar method of research, typo- 

 logy, with which we shall occui)y ourselves in our next article, jdays a 

 prominent part.* 



Other arch geologists attached to the museum of Stockholm are to be 

 mentioned, — Messrs, Stolpe and Eckhofi". Both have made valuable in- 

 vestigations and have published reports of them, Mr. Stolpe especially, 

 u])on the famous findings of Bjorko, of the second age of iron. Mr. 

 Eckhoft', vsince 1880, has published the description of the antiquities of 

 the Bohusliin, a model of the archaeological topography of a country. 



* We cannot refrain from calling attention to a review of Mr. Ilildebraiul's Scandi- 

 navian archseology, which appeared in the Revue d'anthropologie in 1873, p. 523. 



