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small proportion of space may be devoted, according to 

 the importance that may be attached to it. In accordance 

 with the plan already sketched out for other departments, 

 the following would be a fair representation of Ethnological 

 science. 



The chief well-marked races of man should be illus- 

 trated either by life-size models, casts, coloured figures, 

 or by photographs. A corresponding series of their crania 

 should also be shown ; and such portions of the skeleton 

 as should exhibit the differences that exist between 

 certain races, as well as those between the lower races and 

 those animals which most nearly approach them. Casts 

 of the best authenticated remains of prehistoric man should 

 also be obtained, and compared with the corresponding 

 parts of existing races. 



The arts of mankind should be illustrated by a series, 

 commencing with the rudest flint implements, and passing 

 through those of polished stone, bronze, and iron showing 

 in every case, along with the works of prehistoric man, 

 those corresponding to them formed by existing savage 

 races. Implements of bone and of horn should follow the 

 same order. 



Pottery would furnish a most interesting series. 

 Beginning with the rude forms of prehistoric races, and 

 following with those of modern savages, we should have 

 the strangely -modelled vessels of Peru and of North 

 America, those of Egypt, Assyria, Etruria, Greece, and 

 Rome, as well as the works of China and of mediaeval and 

 modern Europe. 



The art of sculpture and mode of ornamentation should 

 be traced in like manner, among savage tribes, the 

 Oriental nations, Greece, and Rome, to modern civilization. 

 Works in metal and textile fabrics would admit of similar 

 illustration. Characteristic weapons should also be 

 exhibited ; and painting might be traced in broad steps, 

 from the contemporary delineation of a Mammoth up to 

 the animal portraiture of Landseer. 



This comprises a series of Ethnological illustrations 

 that need not occupy much space, and would, I think, 

 be eminently instructive. The clothing, the houses, the 

 household utensils, and the weapons of mankind, can 



