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weeks of the meeting of the Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology 

 engaged in this and similar duties. 



Entering the pavilion we come at once to the subject of anthropol- 

 ogy and the anthropological sciences. Dr. Topiuard attended on every 

 other day, at 10 o'clock in the morning, to give instructions and answer 

 questions. The public were invited to be present at the conferences, 

 and they were attractive and interesting as well as instructive. 



In the entrance to this pavilion was the exhibit of Mr. Carl Lum- 

 holtz, the Norwegian traveler and anthropological investigator in Aus- 

 tralia and among the Australians. His display consisted of Indian 

 relics from the mounds of Ohio and Minnesota. 



Possibly no better understanding could be given of the science of 

 anthropology, as it is taught in France, than by a description of the 

 charts and tables displayed by Dr. Topinard and used by him before 

 the Ecole d'Anthropologie. The following were displayed : 



(1) Place of anthropology in science. 



(2) Place of man in the classification of mammals. 



(3) Genealogical tree of the animals up to man, according to Lamarck. 



(4) The distance of man from the anthropoides as determined by the 

 weight of the brain and capacity of the skull. 



(5) Composite sterographic representation of different races. 



(6) An example of the variation of character in a single human group, 

 taken from measurements of the cephalic index of 3,000 Parisians. 



(7) The average weight of brain of man in his ordinary condition but 

 at different periods of his life. 



(8) The same, divided the same way, of men in peculiarly good con- 

 dition, as of professional men, those of leisure, etc. The excess over 

 the former is 10 per cent. 



(9) The same of woman. The difference against woman when com- 

 pared with the ordinary man is 4 per cent. 



(10) The curved lines representing the average variation of the weight 

 of the brain in man from 15 years of age until his death. Average 

 taken from 1,551 cases. 



(11) Classification of the cephalic index by uuits and also by 5 units, 

 according to the quinary nomenclature. 



A series of anthropologic charts, sixteen in number, forming a single 

 work, relative to the color of eyes and hair of persons in France, and 

 giving full statistics. 



There were the same kind of charts prepared by other persons. Drs. 

 Colliueau, Bertholon, and Lelarge, gave the division and classifica- 

 tion for France, Tunis, and Corsica, showing the index cephalic, the 

 nasal index, the height according to departments and given localities. 

 All these showed the extremes as well as the average of each charac- 

 teristic. 



There was a chart of the same kind, showing the divisions of the 

 Berber race in Tunis. 



