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Objects relative to the history of work in antiquity : Egypt, Assyria, 

 Phenicia, Greece, the Roman Empire, aud particularly Gaul, the ex- 

 treme Orient, aud tbe New World ; models, plans, etc., and character- 

 istic constructions; sculptures and paintings (originals and copies), 

 reproducing the manual art ; scientific apparatus aud material for 

 industrial art to the reign of Charlemagne ; specimens representing 

 the different phases of fabrication and collections of characteristic 

 products. 



I. GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 



The display of anthropology in general, was marvelous. A resume 

 of it shows that there were 115 busts or entire figures of races ; 77 

 pieces or casts of brains ; 15 of the hand ; 234 human skulls or their 

 casts, of which 48 were prehistoric or very ancient; a considerable 

 number of paintings, charts, etc., these being all furnished by 71 per- 

 sons, of which 24 came from foreign countries, among which are named 

 Great Britain, the United States of America, Brazil, Germany, Aus- 

 tria, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. 



On entering the building of Liberal Arts from the side facing 

 the Seine the first object which struck the eye in the section of the 

 Histoire Betrospectif du Travail was a gigantic gilt statue of the Jap- 

 anese Buddha — one of the grandest and largest known. It came from 

 the city of Nara, which was in the eighth century the capital of Japan, 

 and one of the great centers of the Buddhist religion. 



"Derrierele Grand Buddha" was the place of rendezvous for all anthro- 

 pologists during the Exposition. This was the entrance to the pavilion 

 of anthropological science. To the right of the Grand Buddha were 

 the three skeletons, in their original soil, found by Dr. Riviere in the 

 Grotte of Mentone, near Nice, with whom I had formed an interesting 

 acquaintance during my residence as consul at that point. The earth 

 was cut around the sides and at the bottom so as to lift them without 

 disturbance and then placed on blocks, and thus transported to Paris and 

 are now here displayed. The larger and most important of these skele- 

 tons is that at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. None of these have ever 

 been disturbed or taken out of their native soil as found in the caves. 



To the left were casts of the two Bushmen, who had been presented 

 to the Societe d' Anthropologic in October of 1886, in my presence. One 

 of the men was afterwards cast in full life. He died one month after 

 the casts were taken. 



On the outside of the paviliou, to the right and left, respectively, of 

 the Grand Buddha, were the two cases containing the objects from the 

 United States transported to Paris by me. When the various con- 

 gresses were in session during the Exposition and the members visited 

 the anthropological section of the Exposition each exponent was ex- 

 pected to be at his respective place to show his objects, to make such 

 explanations as might be needed, and answer such questions as might 

 be put. I spent the principal or a large part of the time during the 



