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This list might be extended indefinitely. Austria, Hungary, Poland, 

 Russia, are all interested iu this new science, and are devoting them- 

 selves to the spread of its knowledge and to the increase of their 

 museums. 



I have failed largely iu my purpose if before this time I have not 

 convinced the reader that the United States, both government and peo- 

 ple, have not been aroused to an appreciation of this new science, and 

 have not attached to it the importance to which it is entitled and which 

 it receives iu other countries. 



The International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Arch- 

 aeology holds its tenth session in Paris during August (1889). These 

 congresses were organized and have been holding their regular meet- 

 ings since 1865 or 1867. They have had members, delegates, from all 

 adjoining countries; they have usually met in the capital of the coun- 

 try, and never twice consecutively in the same country, with a number 

 of members varying from 500 to 1,500, according to the contiguity of 

 the place of meeting. Their bulletins formed volumes of several hun- 

 dred pages, that at Stockholm over a thousand, yet no scientific organ 

 ization from the United States has ever had any representative, and 

 since the meeting at Paris in 1878 there has not been a single American 

 present, in any capacity, at any of the meetiugs. The same comparison, 

 continued with regard to the means of instruction in the different 

 couutries, America aud Europe, would make about the same showing. 

 Each of the countries of Europe may, I think, fairly claim that they are 

 equal to, if not ahead of, the United States iu their appreciation of aud 

 assistance to the science of prehistoric anthropology ; even little Switz- 

 erland, with a territory of 16,000 square miles, would say she was not 

 behiud us. Frauce, with her area of 204,000 square miles, would un- 

 doubtedly claim superiority over the United States. The area of the 

 United States is greater by far than that of all Europe, aud its archae- 

 ological area, acre for acre, is equally rich in specimens, and would 

 afford a proportionate number and a proportionately good opportunity for 

 the study of the history of the prehistoric man ; and yet, I repeat, every 

 country in Europe, if it but knew the exact status in the United States, 

 would claim that it was superior in interest and study of the scieuce of 

 prehistoric anthropologj\ 



In the means of education in this new science the same comparison 

 holds good between Europe and the United States. In the societies of 

 the different countries, established for the advancement of science, a 

 section is devoted to anthropology, as is done in the United States. 

 But the ten different countries of Europe make ten different societies 

 there against one in America. In Fiance, Germany, Italy, Denmark, 

 Sweden, Scotland, and possibly in England, though 1 can not say cer- 

 tainly, there have been courses of lectures organized and conducted iu 

 connection with the societies of anthropology and the museums (such as 

 comprise my department) in nearly all the principal cities. I may men- 



