78 Me^norial of George Broivji Goode. 



The museum at Naples shows, sr far as a museum can, the history of 

 Pompeii at oue period. The museum of St. Germain, near Paris, exhibits 

 the history of France in the time of the Gauls and of the Roman occupa- 

 tion. In Switzerland, especially at Neuchatel, the history of the inhab- 

 itants of the Lake Dwellings is shown. 



American ethnological museums are preser\dng with care the memorials 

 of the vanishing race of red men. The George Catlin Indian Gallery, 

 which is installed in the room in which this society is now meeting, is 

 valuable beyond the possibility of appraisement, in that it is the sole 

 record of the physical characters, the costumes, and the ceremonies of 

 several tribes long extinct. 



Other countries recently settled by Europeans are preserving the 

 memorials of the aboriginal races, notably the colonies in Australia and 

 New Zealand. Japan is striving to preserve in its Government museum 

 examples of the fast-disappearing memorials of feudal days. 



Ethnographic museums are especially numerous and fine in the 

 northern part of Europe. They were proposed more than half a century 

 ago, by the French geographer, Jomard, and the idea was first carried 

 into effect about 1840, on the establishment of the Danish Ethnographical 

 Museum, which long remained the best in Europe. Within the past 

 twenty j'ears there is an extraordinary activity in this direction. 



In Germany, besides the chief museum in Berlin, considerable ethno- 

 graphical collections have been founded in Hamburg and Munich. Aus- 

 tria has in Vienna two for ethnography , the Court Museum (Hof- Museum) , 

 and the Oriental (Orientalisches Museum). Holland has reorganized 

 the National Ethnographical Museum (Ryks Ethnographisch Museum) 

 in L,eyden, and there are smaller collections in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, 

 and The Hague. France has founded the Trocadero (Musee de Tro- 

 cadero). In Italy there is the important Prehistoric and Ethnographic 

 Museum (Museo preistorico ed ethnografico) in Rome, as well as the col- 

 lection of the Propaganda, and there are museums in Florence and Venice. 



Ethnographical museums have also been founded in Christiania and 

 Stockholm, the latter of which will include the rich material collection 

 by Doctor Stolpe on the voyage of the frigate Vanadis around the world. 



In England there is less attention to the subject, the Christy collection 

 in the British Museum being the only one specially devoted to ethnog- 

 raphy, unless we include also the local Blackmore Museum at Salisbury. 



In the United States the principal establishment arranged on the 

 ethnographic plan is the Peabody Museum of Archaeology in Cambridge, 

 and there are important smaller collections in the American Museum of 

 Natural History in New York and the Peabody Academy of Sciences at 

 Salem. 



The ethnological collections in Washington are classified on a double 

 system, in one of its features corresponding to that of the European, in 

 the other like the famous Pitt-Rivers collection at Oxford, arranged to 



