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Sunday, June 2nd, we left Amsterdam at 8 a.m., arriving at 

 Hamburg late in the afternoon. The Ethnographic Museum had 

 been removed from the attic where I saw it last and had a new 

 home as well as a new Director, Professor Doctor G. Thilenius. 

 The building was certainly imposing externally, but we only saw 

 the contents of the former museum piled on the floors of the as yet 

 unarranged chambers. When we visited this building we were 

 courteously shown all that could be seen, but unfortunately for us 

 there was some colonial congress in session in the audience hall 

 which seemed the only finished portion of the fine building, and 

 Dr. Thilenius was engaged: I had hoped to congratulate him on the 

 new quarters but was disappointed. The Deutsche Gescllschaft fur 

 Anthropologic, Ethnologic und Urgeschichte, to whom the museum 

 belongs, was founded in 1870 and publishes Archiv fur Anthro- 

 pologic (since 1866), Correspondenzbla It (since 1870), Priihistorische 

 Zcitsch rift (since 1909). The old building in the Stein-Tor-YVall 

 was still occupied by the Natural History Museum, which has 

 very large collections but at present is rather crowded. It was 

 noteworthy for many excellences ; the skeletons of the animal 

 were often placed by the side of the mounted skin ; the human 

 skeletons of various races were of great interest, but as an exten- 

 sive rearrangement was in progress (the museum was closed to 

 the public) it would hardly be worth while to describe the collec- 

 tions more fully. As might be supposed, Hamburg is well situated 

 for a museum of natural history, and it was a matter of deep regret 

 that we could not have seen both of these museums at their best. 



We found that there was now an organization by the "Freie 

 und Hansestadt" Hamburg including most of the higher scientific 

 institutions called Wissenschaftliche Anstalten des S/aatcs Hamburg , 

 which took charge of the publication exchanges, and which, as I 

 understand, has erected the building occupied in common by the 

 chief collections of a scientific character in Hamburg. I was sorry 

 not to have time (within open hours) to see again Dr. Justus 

 Brinckmann and his fine collection in the Museum fur k'uust und 

 Gewerbe. A short drive through the residential portion of this 

 great and prosperous free city disclosed many very beautiful private 

 residences certainly more attractive than any palaces I saw. My 

 friend Dr. Edw. Anting, well known on these Hawaiian Islands 



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