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played special objects wliich, owing to their size and condition, could 

 not be properly displayed elsewhere. 



The first display seen on entering' is in the synoptical cases, which 

 are arranged geographically, chronologically, and in sequence; on the 

 left are six cases representing the prehistoric anthropology of the east- 

 ern hemisphere, so far as we have objects for that jjurpose. The first 

 two cases are occupied with the first epoch of the Stone Age, which 

 has been called ditt'erent names by different scientists corresponding to 

 the Chelleen Epoch of de Mortillet, the Cave Bear of Lartet, the Mam- 

 moth of Dupont, and the Alluvium of Solomon Reinach. I have divided 

 this epoch according to the localities from which the various objects 

 displayed have come. England is first represented, and the divisions 

 are made into southeast and southwest of that country; France is rep- 

 resented in divisions showing the northern, central, eastern, the south- 

 ern, the central western, and the northwestern ; Spain, Portugal, and 

 Italy have representatives; Africa has a most excellent representation 

 lent to us by Prof. Henry W. Haynes, of Boston, who was the original 

 discoverer, and here are displayed many of the original implements found 

 by him described and figured in his monograph entitled " Discovery of 

 Paleolithic Flint Implements in Upper Egypt." (Mem. Amer. Acad., 

 vol. X, Boston, 1881.) For this discovery Prof. Haynes was awarded a 

 bronze medal by the French Exposition of 1878, where he made the 

 first announcement of his discovery and his display of the objects. 

 Asia is represented by specimens from the laterite beds near Madras. 

 Each of these displays is accompanied by a map of the country on 

 which is marked the locality from which the objects come. There is 

 displayed in this synoptical case outline drawings of the various human 

 skulls found in different parts of Europe, belonging to the quaternary 

 geologic formation, supposed to be here represented, and along with 

 them reproductions and restorations of the various extinct animals 

 believed to have been contemporaneous with the man of that epoch. 



The succeeding epoch, that of the caverns according to the nomen- 

 clature of M. Eeinach, the reindeer of Dupont and Lartet, and that 

 of Moustier, Solutre, and Madeline of de Mortillet, is in two cases some- 

 what similarly divided, although the evidences of that epoch have 

 not been found so widely distributed as the former. Here are to be found 

 the first imi^rovement in industry and art, the fine chipping of the Solu- 

 treen leaf-shaped implement, the long flakes used as knives or saws, the 

 round-ended scraper, the flint graver, and the bone points, harpoons, 

 and needles. During this epoch these make their first appearance in 

 the civilization of the world. Along wath them are displayed the most 

 important specimens of the three or four hundred objects of art work 

 ^hich have been found principally in the caverns of France, showing 

 the artistic capabilities of the paleolithic man of this epoch. Tbese 

 specimens are necessarily all casts, the originals not being obtainable. 

 Tbf British Museum* Jias lately purchased the collection made by Mon- 



