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Paris." But it is a distribution of knowledge rather than a 

 sale, as all is given gratuitously. 



The third great scientific benefaction of the Prince has no 

 relation to oceanography, but may be mentioned briefly in 

 order to complete the record. It is the " Institut de 

 Paleontologie Humaine " at Paris, where again, as at 

 Monaco, there is a museum and a laboratory with a staff of 

 professors devoted entirely to the investigation of one 

 subject — the early history of man. The Prince's personal 

 interest in prehistoric archaeology has been shown for many 

 years by the explorations he has conducted or promoted at 

 the Grimaldi caves near Monaco, and at other caverns and im- 

 portant sites in France and Spain, along with Professor Boule, 

 the Abbe Breuil and others, and the results, as in the case of 

 the oceanography investigations, have been pubhshed at his 

 expense in princely style. It has been reported in the daily 

 press since his death that he has bequeathed a million francs 

 as further endowment to each of these research institutions. 



Of recent years, since the war, he has played a prominent 

 and most helpful part in promoting international co-opera- 

 tion for oceanographic work. He formed a natural centre 

 in organization and leader in work, and was appointed 

 president at various international conferences, such as that 

 held recently at Rome. In his independent position he stood 

 apart from aU international rivalries and showed only a 

 single-minded devotion to the pursuit of truth. His death 

 in Paris in June, 1922, is a great loss to the cause he did so 

 much to promote — the advancement of the science of the sea. 



No one who has worked with him at a conference or been 

 his guest at Monaco will be likely to forget his constant 

 courteous hospitahty, his evident interest in all the scientific 

 questions raised and his desire to secure co-operation between 

 the different nations in the further exploration of the oceans. 

 And he did it all because he loved it, and modestly disclaimed 

 praise — " Je n'y ai aucun merite. Je n'aurais pas ete 

 heureux sans cela," he said. 



