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votive figures, now in the British Museum. The great bringing 
together of the world’s products in 1851 powerfully influenced him ; 
and he more and more collected the arms and implements of rude 
and primitive tribes. In 1852, and also in the following year, he 
carefully visited Denmark, Sweden, and Norway; and the Collec- 
tions of Scandinavian antiquities at Stockholm and Copenhagen 
matured and gave a positive form and character to his investigations 
in the close resemblance between the lost races of primitive man and 
the savage life of our time, and in establishing that humanity has 
in its incipient stage exhibited a singular harmony of expression, 
not only in its habits and wants, but in the fashioning and orna- 
mentation of its weapons and utensils, quite irrespective of zone and 
clime. His cabinet—especially formed to elucidate this truth, and 
in which the relics of the Drift and of the Rock-dwellings of the 
Dordogne, the lacustrine discoveries from the Swiss Lakes, the anti- 
quities of Scandinavia and of Mexico—in a word, the most varied 
products of the Flint of Europe and the Obsidian of America—are 
collated with the handiworks of modern barbaric life, is without a 
rival. 
In 1853 he visited Germany, and made a lengthened stay at Venice 
with Mr. Cooke, R.A. In 1856 he made an extensive tour through 
the British North American Possessions and the States, closely exa- 
mined Cuba, and, there meeting Mr. E. B. Tylor, proceeded to 
Mexico,—the result greatly adding to his store of knowledge and to 
the riches of his cabinet. Mr. Tylor’s ‘ Anahuac’ (London, 1861) 
describes their Mexican travels, with life and humour, and is full of 
interesting details of the natural features of the region, of the 
remnants of ancient Aztec buildings and works of art, and of the 
peculiarities of the Indian and Spanish populations. In 1863 
Mr. Christy visited Algeria, reaching the Atlas, and visiting Car- 
thage. He was received with marked distinctions, and greatly aided 
in his object, by the Governor, the Maréchal Duc de Malakoff. 
On the 16th April last, he left for Belgium, on a scientific explo- 
ration, with some English geologists, and during the hot weather 
caught a severe pulmonary cold in a cave. On reaching Paris, 
though far from well, he set off for La Palisse, in the Maconnais 
district, with his friends M. and Mme. Lartet, though entirely 
unfit for travelling. ‘There he was attacked with inflammation of 
the lungs, and, in spite of the care of an eminent Paris physican, 
Dr. Foville, who did not leave his bedside for a week, he fell a vic- 
tim to an energy which pooh-poohed all obstacles, and which wore 
out his bodily frame on the 4th ult. 
In association with his friend M. E. Lartet, of Paris, Mr. Christy 
had devoted much time and labour to the exploration of the caves 
in the Vezére Valley in Dordogne, and to a scrupulously careful col- 
lection of the relics of the prehistoric people that had sheltered 
therein; and he spared no expense in forwarding this undertaking, 
which already had resulted in the accumulation of thousands of 
specimens, all sorted and distinctly labelled. Many selected examples 
of these cave-deposits have been distributed liberally to various 
Scientific Societies and Institutions at home and abroad, and many 
