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t ion that of Paris as the most extensive and complete, yet the others 

 are of no mean proportion. In Paris the organization comprises seven 

 lecturers, and they provide one lecture each day during the entire col- 

 lege session, from October until June, each being on the subject of an- 

 thropology. The lecturers are paid for their services, and they carry 

 on their work with an earnest diligence for which we can find no par- 

 allel in the United States. The good effects of these lectures and of 

 this education is manifest in the interest taken in the society, which 

 numbers at Paris near seven hundred members, with an annual income 

 of 20,000 or more francs, and with a capital of over 00,000 francs. 



Enlarging upon this question of the comparative want of interest on 

 the part of the United States Government and people, I might remark 

 the number of scientific missions which have been sent out by these 

 European governments in pursuit of this science. lu 1884-85 France 

 sent Dr. Poussie to Australia and India to make studies in ethnology, 

 Le Bon to India to study primitive architecture, Jules Monsier to make 

 archaeological researches in the Caucasus, Monsieur Bran to Malacca and 

 Sumatra to make ethnologic collections, Gauthier to Turkey and Per- 

 sia for researches in natural history and anthropology. Ernest Chan- 

 tre, curator of the prehistoric museum at Lyons, was sent by the gov- 

 ernment to make anthropological researches in the Caucasus. He has 

 just published his report in five large volumes, quarto, with 440 figures 

 and 140 chromo lithographic or heliographic full-page plates. M. 

 Cartailhac was sent on a like mission to Spain and Portugal. His re- 

 port is published in one large volume, with 450 engravings and four 

 plates. The most extensive and complete works, with the finest illus- 

 trations concerning our own country, do sometimes come from the 

 hands of these foreigners thus sent out. Wiener reports Peru, Lucien 

 Briart the Aztecs, while the most comprehensive work on the subject, 

 entitled ''Prehistoric America," is written by a Frenchman, the Mar- 

 quis Nadaillac. 



The curators of European museums are being continually sent to visit 

 and examine other prehistoric museums than their own. In a report 

 just received, published by the keeper of the National Museum of An- 

 tiquities at Edinburgh, Dr. Anderson, and his assistant, Mr. Black, is 

 to be found a note of some of these visits. "In connection with most of 

 the principal archaeological museums on the Continent provision has 

 been made for enabling the officers and attaches of the museum (who 

 had been at their occupation as experts) to enlarge their knowledge in 

 the lines of their specialties by travel and research." In 1842-45 Wor- 

 saae was sent from Copenhagen through Sweden, Norway, North Ger- 

 many, and Russia; in 1*40-47 to (heat Britain: and the result was the 

 publication of his "Danes and Northmen in Britain," which is still the 

 standard work. Mr. I'ndset, a young attache of the ( Mirisriania Museum, 

 was sent to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, and Britain, as a result 

 of which he published his Norse Antiquities. Since then he has traveled 



