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number 720 members, showing an increase of 44 during 

 the year 1880, and which is forming a museum on a most 

 extensive scale ; and, finally, the School of Anthropology, 

 founded by the illustrious Broca, whose untimely death last 

 year, instead of paralysing, seems to have stimulated the 

 energies of colleagues and pupils into increased activity. 

 In this school, supported partly by private subscriptions, partly 

 by the public liberality of the Municipality of Paris, and of 

 the Department of the Seine, are laboratories in which all the 

 processes of anthropological manipulation are practised by 

 students and taught to travellers. Here all the bodies of 

 persons of outlandish nationalities dying in any of the hospitals 

 of Paris are dissected by competent and zealous observers, who 

 carefully record every peculiarity of structure discovered, and 

 are thus laying the foundation for an exhaustive and trust- 

 worthy collection of materials for the comparative anatomy 

 of the races of man. Here, furthermore, are lectureships on 

 all the different branches. Biological and anatomical anthro- 

 pology, ethnology, prehistoric, linguistic, social, and medical 

 anthropology are all treated of separately by eminent professors 

 who have made these departments their special study. The 

 influence of so much activity is spreading beyond the capital. 

 The foundation of an Anthropological Society at Lyons has 

 been announced within the present year. 



In Germany, although there is not at present any in- 

 stitution organised like the school at Paris, the flourishing 

 state of the Berlin Ethnological Society, which also reports 

 a large increase in the number of its members, the various 

 other societies and journals, and the important contributions 

 which are continually being made from the numerous in- 

 tellectual centres of that land of learning, all attest the 

 interest which the study of man excites there. In Italy, in 

 the Scandinavian kingdoms, in Kussia, and even in Spain, 

 there are signs of similar activity. A glance at the recent 

 periodical literature of America, especially the publications of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, will show how strongly the 

 scientific work of that country is setting in the same 

 direction. 



It is true that a very great proportion of the energies of 



