DISCOVERERS OF THE ART OF IRON MANUFACTURE — BELCK. 521 



given the metal by the inventors of ironworking migrated along with 

 the metal to very many peoples, and philologians could therefore 

 render valuable help in the search for the earliest iron industry. 



I can not close this discussion without referring with special satis- 

 faction to von Luschan's lucid and thorough treatise on African iron- 

 working and the furnace apparatus and blowing apparatus employed 

 by the Negroes. 1 A continued comparison of these utensils with 

 those in use among peoples of other continents, will doubtless yield 

 some important conclusions as to the age and peculiarity of iron- 

 working among the Negroes as well as among other peoples. Simi- 

 larly, we gratefully hail the investigations of Olshausen, Grosse, 

 Busse, Krause, and Giebeler 2 of the quarrying of iron in prehistoric 

 time, especially in Germany, which are valuable contributions to our 

 question. Although I can not agree with these investigators on 

 every point, I am glad to state that on the principal questions there 

 is general agreement. In the near future I hope to present a separate 

 study on the chemico-technological side of the quarrying of iron and 

 of metals in general in antiquity. 



» Zeitschr. Ethnol., 1909, pp. 22-53. « Zeitscnr. Ethnol., 1909, pp. 60-101. 



