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Onward to Berlin where I hoped to have more time to study 

 the great Museum fiir \'olkerkunde, in which I saw so much and 

 learned so much on my former visit. This is naturally the depot 

 for the collections of the frequent Government exploring expedi- 

 tions, and I had expected to find many new things. New things 

 there doubtless were in the museum, but — Dr. Adolf Bastian, the 



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distinguished Director who welcomed me in 1896, had passed away 

 in the fulness of years, and my friend Dr. Felix von Luschau, then 

 Curator of African and Polynesian Ethnology, had left the museum 

 and taken the chair of Anthropology in the University of Berlin. 

 I, however, met him in the rotunda of the museum and he explained 

 that the very riches had in a degree stifled the museum : they 

 could neither show nor exchange ; the cases were packed too full 

 to allow the contents to be studied, or, in some cases, to be seen. 

 The prehistoric department and Dr. Schliemann's Trojan coUec- 



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