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and the K. Museum fur Volkerkunde. In the former, tbe substances, 

 arts, evolution, and history predominate. It is the German South Ken- 

 sington. In the latter, topographical, ethnical concepts predominate. 

 Those two great museums are installed in beautiful new buildings 

 erected for the purpose, far away from the site of the National Gallery. 

 The Anthropological Museum is built on the corner of Zimmer-strasse 

 and Koniggratzer-strasse, in form of an irregular quadrangle, with an 

 entrance tower at the intersection of the streets. The building is four 

 stories in height besides the basement. In the first exhibition story is 

 installed with great effect the Schliemaun collections and the archaeo- 

 logical treasures. On the second story are to be seen the spoils of 

 Africa, Oceanica, and America. In the third story are the treasures 

 of Eastern Asia and in tbe fourth story the anthropological material. 

 To© much can not be said in praise of the richness of this museum. 

 The arrangement being simply by regions, by nationalities, or by tribes, 

 little attempt has been made to work out any of the finer problems of 

 ethnology. 



From Berlin the curator journeyed to Stockholm, where with un- 

 speakable pleasure he had the opportunity of examining the work of 

 Hildebrand and Moutelius in the National Museum. The lower story 

 of this vast building is given up to the history of Sweden during 4,000 

 years. A very small case near the entrance contains specimens repre- 

 senting palaeolithic Sweden. The neolithic period widens out into an 

 immense exposition of the most beautiful and finely wrought objects of 

 flint. The bronze age is carefully studied out and illustrated by mate- 

 rial that has excited the admiration of the world. There is an enor- 

 mous quantity of gold objects mixed with the bronze. In order to secure 

 all the precious metal found by men in excavating, the Government 

 takes the object at its bullion value, with an honorarium. This saves all 

 precious objects from the melting-pot. Next comes the Iron age, then 

 the Middle age, then modern Swedish history, closing with the coins, 

 medals, decorations, and monuments of the reigning family. There 

 does not seem to be a break in the 4,000 years. The ethnographic col- 

 lections are not separately installed, having formed a part of the nat- 

 ural history museum. . 



My next journey was to Copenhagen: the city of Thorwaldsen, 

 Nyerup, Thomsen, Worsaae ; and later of Sophus Muller, Herbst, Holm 

 and Bahnson. Especially interesting are two ancient log coffins, show- 

 ing the mortuary customs of the ancient Danes. As soon as you enter 

 the old Nordisk Museum you are at once brought into relation with 

 the shell-heaps or Kjokkenmoddings. In some of the vitrines the 

 long, graceful flint flakes are piled ten deep. The stone age of Den- 

 mark, as of Sweden, assumes the neolithic type. There is as yet no 

 palaeolithic age. As soon as you pass within, you are in the presence 

 of leaf-shaped blades, daggers, celts — the largest in the world: some 

 measuring over 16 inches in length — crescent-shaped blades, sharpen- 



