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of ethuoiogy had been founded in Leipsic, not only for the benefit of 

 science, but for the greater progress of arts and industry, a great part 

 of the commissioners of the exposition were found ready, at the solicita- 

 tion of Doctor Obst, to assign to him whatever of their material was useful 

 for the purposes of the museum. In the first rank we must name the royal 

 Japanese Commissioners to the Exposition, from whom the museum, 

 through his excellency, Mr. Sano Tsunotami, minister resident in Vienna 

 of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, received a rich collection of objects 

 of all kinds, not only interesting but exceedingly valuable. For his 

 lively interest in the museum we are most profoundly obliged to Minister 

 Sano, after whom we not less acknowledge the service of Baron Alex, 

 von Siebold, secretary of the royal Japanese legation at Vienna, and of 

 Mr. Henry Jonkheer von Siebold, interpreter of the Austro-Hungarian 

 commission in Japan. Both of- them, as well by their means as by their 

 influence and solicitation, have been of great service to our enterprise. 

 Besides, the museum also received valuable gifts from the exposition 

 through Mr. Vladimir, Count Dzieduszycki, Baron Overbeck, the Austro- 

 Hungarian consul-general at Hong-Kong ; from Alois Klammerth, royal 

 porcelain-manufacturer in Znaim; from Villeroy and Boch, in Metlach; 

 as well as from His Excellency Count Fradesso da Silveira, and from 

 the Spanish and Italian commissioners to the exposition. All of these 

 honored donors will hereby please to accept our warmest thanks. 



Scarcely of less importance to the museum than these rich presents 

 are the numerous and indissoluble sympathies which have been created 

 in all lands, and the personal influences which have sprung up in favor 

 of the enterprise, through which the museum cannot fail to have a 

 prosperous future. 



As an especial sign of the importance of the museum, and of the favor 

 of which it may justly feel proud, it may be noticed that the general 

 administration of the Eoyal Museum in Berlin has offered to the Museum 

 of Ethnology duplicates of the ethnological objects in its collection. 

 We believe that a gift so extensive and costly will not fail to result by 

 its praiseworthy example very favorably for our cause. 



Finally, we are in prospect of receiving consignments from the dif- 

 ferent parts of Europe, from East India, China, Japan, Australia, 

 Africa, the South Sea, America, &c. The Smithsonian Institution 

 at Washington, the Ethnographical Museum at Leyden, as well as the 

 Society of Anthropology and Ethuoiogy in Moscow, have promised what- 

 ever they can spare to the Museum of Ethnology. In like manner, our 

 thanks are due to the honored mission of the brethren at Hernhut for 

 furthering our scheme. 



We cannot close without returning thanks to Professor Bastian in 

 Berlin, and to Counselor Dr. von Scherzer, royal Austro-Hungarian 

 general consul in Smyrna. With untiring interest from the very begin- 

 ning they have tried to further the aims of the society in every practi 

 cal way. 



