124 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



At Leipzig I experienced the greatest disappointment in not being 

 able to inspect the Museum fur Volkerkunde, which contains the cel- 

 ebrated Klemm collection. More than 20 years ago the writer became 

 acquainted with Dr. Klemm's methods and motives, and presented a 

 resume of his work in the Smithsonian Annual Eeport for 1869. Shortly, 

 the Leipzig collection will be installed in the new building. The dis- 

 appointment of not seeing the Klemm collection was quite compen- 

 sated for in the profitable study of the Konigliches Zoologisches and 

 Antbropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum in Dresden. This is not 

 the largest, but it is one of the best administered museums in the world. 

 The steel case has been adopted, the arrangement of material is topical, 

 and the labelling is excellent. Worthy of the highest praise is the 

 series of little maps which accompany the specimens. The continental 

 areas are denoted by colors, and the location of each species is indicated 

 by a colored spot or line on the map. The monographs published 

 by the Museum, under the title "Publicationen aus dem Koniglichen 

 ethnographischen Museum zu Dresden," are of the greatest value. Dr. 

 Meyer greatly prefers the photolithograph to the old-fashioned colored 

 plates, because the latter are not truthful. The size of these mono- 

 graphs is too large, however, because it is inconvenient to file them 

 with other works of the same class. In Dresden the curator saw the 

 "human beast of burden" illustrated to perfection by woman. She 

 occurs in two roles, as the pack-animal and as the draft-animal. In 

 the former she wears a hamper holding about a bushel, which is flat 

 on the side next to her back. Two shoulder-straps pass from the upper 

 margin down in front of her shoulders and backward under two of the 

 frame-sticks of the basket, projecting an inch or two below the bottom. 

 The basket is carried like a knapsack. In the latter role she is hitched 

 to a little wagon in company with dogs. I counted five hundred of 

 these composite teams in a single morning in Dresden. The woman 

 seems to have the harder share of the work, for she has to pull, to hold 

 back, to steer the wagon, to dispose of the merchandise, and to attend 

 to household cares, while the dog sleeps. 



In Dresden I had a profitable interview with Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, a 

 lady deeply learned in ancient Mexico. Her present work is an exten- 

 sion of the " Throwing-Sticks " into the Mexican arena, where she has 

 been able to trace the apparatus in many various forms. 



From Dresden my journey was to Berlin, where, although missing the 

 great lights of anthropology, I had the pleasure of studying the collec- 

 tions. I need not speak of the Old Museum, and the National Gallery, 

 of the University, the Zoological Garden, and the great library. They 

 excite my admiration, but they were not especially anthropological. I 

 was extremely delighted with the evolutionary series of fire-arms and 

 artillery in the Zeug-haus. This is one of the best worked out historico- 

 techuic series I have seen. Two museums in Berlin are most attractive 

 to the anthropologist and to the historian, the Kunstgewerbe Museum 



