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The University of Laud devotes the basement story to its prehistoric 

 museum, with Professor Soderberg for its professor aud lecturer. 



The university at Upsala, one of the oldest and finest in all Europe, 

 is cu gaged in the same direction. 



The university at Cliristiania, Norway, has also the same kind of ar- 

 rangement. Rygh and CJudset are its professors. An idea can be had 

 of the importance with which prehistoric science is viewed in this coun- 

 try, when I s;iy that the numismatic museum of Christiauia possesses 

 a finer collection of United States coins and medals than does our Na- 

 tional Museum, and still their desire to keep their own antiquities is 

 so great that they refuse to exchange them for those of any foreign 

 country. 



The mention of these Scandinavian museums with the names of some 

 of their professors will give but a faint idea of the dignity which has 

 been accorded to the science of prehistoric anthropology in those coun- 

 tries and the attention which it has there received. These countries 

 are entitled to and they have maintained a leading place in the science. 

 So much so that he who was its acknowledged head in Europe and the 

 world, Worsaae, was taken into the King's cabinet and served the later 

 years of his life as minister of public instruction. 



I need not mention the great prehistoric museums of Germany: that 

 at Berlin with Virchow, probably the leading anthropologist of the 

 world, at its head ; that at Munich under the direction of Dr. Johannes 

 Rauke, and so on ; dotted over the country iu every city from the Bal- 

 tic to the Alps. 



Much might be expected from Switzerland, for it is the laud of the 

 prehistoric lake-dwellers; and she has not disappointed our expecta- 

 tions. Berne, the capital, has no less than three governmental prehis- 

 toric museums; one, belonging to the republic, was purchased by it 

 lately from Dr. Gross, of Neuveville, for the sum of 00,000 francs. The 

 canton and the city each own a museum of no mean extent, where are 

 gathered and displayed all objects found iu the neighborhood. The 

 other cities and cantons of Switzerland are equally alive to the im- 

 portance of this science and equally active iu its study and pursuit. 

 Geneva, with Dr. Gosse at its head, Lausanne, with Morel-Fatio, Yver- 

 don, Neuchatel, Bienville, Steen, Constance, Zurich, are all active, en- 

 ergetic, and industrious in gathering the objects in their vicinity and 

 in the general increase and diffusion of knowledge concerning their 

 prehistoric ancestors and people. 



The same story may be told with regard to Italy. Genoa, Pisa, Turin, 

 Milan, Verona, Vicenza, Parma, liegio, Bologna, Imola,Marzebotta, Flor- 

 ence, Arrezzo, Cortona, Perugia, Chiusi, Corneto, all possess extensive 

 museums, aud Rome has three or four great governmental establish- 

 ments, organized with presidents and professors, and approaching the 

 dignity of institutes and colleges, with museums attached, all devoted 

 to the study of antiquities almost if not quite prehistoric. 



