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I>i*oca pcrsrvcri'tl tliit»iii;li il all ami, on the l.")tli Dccom- 

 licr, 1S7C>. tlu' Sijiool of Anthroj)oloj,^y was (»J)(ih'(1 l>y liiin 

 Avitli a (lisi'oursc entitled "Tlie Pro^rainineor Aiitliropolo.iiV,'' 

 wliieh lia.s been translated into many lan^nages. " Tt was."' 

 says Pozzi, "an eloquent plea pj'o c/onjo sif'," and eerlaiidy 

 it was his own edifice, the school wliich he opened that day. 

 Unlike most institutions in I'^-ancc, it had heen estahlished 

 ■without the aid <»r the jj,overnnient, and l)y the personal 

 eflorts of the founder alone. Some time later, so brilliant 

 was the success of the new school, the Municipal Council of 

 Paris, and the Council-General of the Seine, spontaneously 

 allotted it an annual .subsidy of twelve thousand francs. 



Still the ministry maintained its old position of distrust 

 and almost hostility, livery year, it was necessary to apply 

 for a new authorization which it re([uired n-newed efforts 

 and influence to obtain. It was even then ;j;ranled only for 

 another year, and individually ; that is to .<ay, each profes.>;or 

 was authorized, by name, to teach, but they were forbidden 

 to call themselves a .school, as indicating their solidarity. 

 At length, the election of 1S78 con.solidated the republic 

 and placed all institutions, contending for progress, in their 

 rightful position. The School of Anthropology was <luly 

 and permanently authorized. I'urther, the Chambers voted 

 it an annual subsidy of twenty thousand francs, which 

 joined to its other resources, raised its annual income to 

 thirty-four thousand francs, or nearly $7,000. 



The Society of Anthropology, the Laboratory and the 

 School, all united in the same locality, t'ormed, thus, a con- 

 federation known as the Anthropological Institute. The 

 students from the school were admitted to the laboratory, 

 where measurements and dissections weic ma<le under the 

 direction of Paul Topinard, assistant director, and of Chud- 

 zinski and Kuhll, eurators. In the neighborhood is the 

 important library of the Society, and the finest anthropo- 

 logical museum in the world. Since the death of its founder, 

 it has been appropriately named La Musee Broca. 



It may be imagined with what .sitisfaction Broca wit- 

 nessed the completion of his labors to establisii his favorite 



