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Stuttgart. W'egner in Frankfort, Salomon and his tirst assistant in 

 Heidelberg. Schuchart in Berlin and Herr Lindig in Weimar. 



From Germany the trip led to Bohemia where, to facilitate the work, 

 a special representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Novak, 

 together with Professor IMatiegka, gave personal guidance to various 

 museums as well as to the great ossuary at Melnik and especially to 

 that at Sedlec, where many thousands of crania and bones from the 

 time of the Hussites ai'e tastefully arranged in the form of a most 

 impressive, spacious subterranean chapel. Under the same guidance 

 visits were paid to the great ^Moravian caves which have yielded and 

 probably still contain remains of early man as well as those of the cave 

 bear (six complete skeletons) and Quaternary beaver (upwards of 

 20 finely preserved skulls with many bones) ; to the Provincial ^luseum 

 at Brno which harbors the valuable remains of the Pfedmost mammoth 

 hunters, and to the monastery of Alendel, still full of reminders of the 

 student-monk, including his library and garden. A number of inter- 

 esting details were learned about Mendel from the excellent abbot of 

 the monastery, among them the fact that Mendel was a IMoravian and 

 spoke both the languages (Czech and German) of the country. 



The following stage of the journey was to Vienna, where the rich 

 prehistoric and anthropologic collections of the former Hoff-Museum 

 were examined under the guidance of Professor Szombathy. 



From Vienna Dr. Hrdlicka with some of his students proceeded to 

 Zagreb in Croatia, where in company with Professor Gorjanovic- 

 Kramberger they re-examined the very valuable Krapina remains and 

 visited the locality where they were discovered. This is situated at 

 the head of the very beautiful but little-known Krapinica Valley, and 

 indications were seen that there may be additional sites of ancient 

 man in the vicinity of the original discovery. 



From Zagreb the journey led over northern Italy to Lyons where 

 the collections of the University were examined in company with 

 Professor Mayet ; this was followed by an excursion under the 

 guidance of Professors xA^rcelin and Mayet to the prehistoric site of 

 Solutre. Here existed some 15,000 years ago a large paleolithic 

 settlement, the duration as well as the size of which may be seen from 

 the fact that its refuse accumulations are estimated to contain, aside 

 from implements and other objects, the bones of approximately 

 200.000 late Quaternary horses. New explorations have just recom- 

 menced at this site, and they led within three days of the visit to the 

 recovery of no less than five prehistoric Solutrean or Upper Aurigna- 

 cian skeletons, some in a very good state of jireservation. 



