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that of France, the Uuited States devotes to the objects and implements 

 of her prehistoric races less than one-eighteenth part of the museum 

 space occupied by France. 



In the management and direction of tbis museum and of matters per- 

 taining to this new science there exists about the same difference. 

 The director of the museum is a member of the institute and approxi- 

 mates in the dignity and importance of his position to that of the Secre- 

 tary and the Director of our entire National Museum. The work of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology is committed into the hands of a commission of 

 savants of which M. Henry Martin, the great French historian, was, 

 and M. Gabriel de Mortillet, Depute, is, the chief. 



I shall not attempt to compare the work of this commission with its 

 representative in the United States, but I may indicate the difference 

 when I say that the monuments belonging to the prehistoric age, which 

 are attached to the soil and part of the real estate which have been 

 purchased, restored, and are now owned by the Government of France, 

 are to be numbered by the score, if not by the hundred. 



The department of prehistoric anthropology in the British Museum 

 has for its curator an eminent man of science, who receives a salary of 

 £1,500 per annum, equal to $7,500. 



The Museum of the Irish Academy of Dublin possesses a greater 

 value in prehistoric gold ornaments alone than it has cost the United 

 States for our entire Museum, with all its specimens, services, manage- 

 ment, and furniture. 



The Prehistoric Museum of Antiquities at Edinburgh, Scotland, is 

 also extensive. It is devoted exclusively to the antiquities of its own 

 country, and forms a complete museum in itself. It has at its head for 

 curator, and for assistant and secretary, Professor Anderson and Dr. 

 Arthur Mitchell, names which stand as high in their science as do any 

 others of their country in any science. 



The Prehistoric Museum at Copenhagen is so extensive and so rich 

 that it might be classed as one of the wonders of the world. It occu- 

 pies the entire palace of the Prince, has eight exhibition halls, with a 

 full corps of professors, curators, etc., who occupy the highest ranks in 

 science. The riches of this museum are almost beyond computation 5 

 10,000 polished stone hatchets and axes, the contents of 11 workshops, 

 one alone of which furnished 200 hatchets, 58 percoirs, 4,000 scrapers, 

 1,426 arrow-heads, trenchant transversal', 51 cases of bronze imple- 

 ments and ornaments; and gold objects so numerous and valuable that, 

 though kept on exhibition during the day (under lock and key, of 

 course), are taken out each night and stored for safety in an immense 

 steel safe. 



Stockholm has a national museum devoted entirely to prehistorics, 

 for which the government has organized a bureau aud erected a fine 

 museum building, with Messrs. M. M. Hildebrand and Montelieus as 

 professors 



