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of primitive languages; Rene* BASSET, for his work on 

 Hametic languages, and FAIDHERBE, MASQUERAY, and 

 MOTYLYNSKY on Berber, should be mentioned. 



Instruction. Anthropological instruction is offered at 

 the College de France under CAPITAN, who gives courses 

 on Mexican archaeology; at the Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, under VERNEAU, on the prehistoric races of 

 Europe; at the ficole Pratique des Hautes Etudes a la 

 Sorbonne, under MANOUVRIER, on physical anthropology, 

 and under RAYNAUD, on the religions of pre-Columbian 

 America; and at theEcole d ' Anthropologie, under A. DE 

 MORTILLET on ethnography, MAHOUDEAU on zoological 

 anthropology, PAPILLAULT on sociology, VINSON on linguis- 

 tics, HERVE on ethnology, CAPITAN, and MANOUVRIER. 



Mention should be made also of the Oriental schools 

 at Cairo, in Egypt; at Saigon, in Cochin China, and in 

 Cambodia. 



Field work in prehistoric archaeology is available, as 

 in no other place in the world, in the river-drift and cave 

 deposits of France. French investigators in this field 

 have always shown a cordiality and welcome to foreign 

 investigators. In taking into account the opportunities 

 for work in prehistoric archaeology, it should be noted 

 that, whereas formal instruction is seldom offered any- 

 where except in Paris, the extensive work of the scientific 

 societies, which will be discussed later, is available to 

 all properly accredited students. 



Museums. France has more archaeological and an- 

 thropological museums than any other country in the 

 world. In addition to the famous Musee des Antiquites 

 Nationales, at Saint-Germain, there is the Musee 

 d'Ethnographie, at the Palais du Trocadero; the Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle; the department of Archeologie 

 Celtique et Gauloise, at the Louvre; and the Musee de 



