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There were similar charts and statistics relating to Germany, by Dr. 

 Schaaffhauseu, of the University of Bonn; of A. B. Meyer, of Dresden. 

 Prof. Virchow presented his great chart on the color of the eyes, hair, 

 and skin of 2,000,000 of school children in Germany, taken daring the 

 year 1875, showing the percentage of blonds, of brunettes, of brown 

 eyes to blue eyes, of brown hair to blond hair, and of gray eyes to light 

 eyes. 



There were also anthropologic charts from the British Islands, show- 

 ing practically the same classifications, prepared by Dr. John Beddoe, of 

 Bristol, England. 



The same for Norway, by C. Arbo ; of Switzerland, by Dr. Kollman. 



Also ethnographic charts of Caucasus, by Monsieur Einil Ohantre ; of 

 south oriental Europe and of Dobrusha, by M. A. Rosny ; of Asia, by M. 

 Deniker, librarian at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, together 

 with his proposed classifications of the human race based on their 

 affinities and anthropologic characters. He groups the people of Asia 

 into twenty-six grand divisions, and these again, according to locality, 

 into two hundred peoples or tribes. 



The two systems of representation were shown, that of Drs. Topinard 

 and Beddoe, and the other that of Professor Virchow. The first was 

 represented by the charts of Beddoe, Bertillon, Collineau, Arno, Arbo, 

 and the other by the charts of Virchow and Kollman. In the first, adults 

 only were reported ; in the second, children. 



The prehistoric skulls or their casts on exhibition numbered forty- 

 eight. Among these were all the principal ones, or their duplicates, 

 Neanderthal, Olino, Canstadt, Brux, Meutone, Solutre, Cro-Magnon, 

 Langerie Basse, Spy, etc. 



Those from Spy were taken from their pedestals and exhibited by 

 their discoverers before the congress of anthropology, and the necessary 

 descriptions were given. 



Monsieur Tramont exhibited a series of comparative anatomy of verte- 

 brate animals, consisting of thirteeu skeletons. They were arranged to 

 show the relationship between man and these animals, and, beginning 

 with the higher and going downward, they were, a man, a chimpanzee, 

 an ourang, a monkey of the ancient continent, one of the new conti- 

 nent, a limure,a bat, a lion, a kangaroo, a reptile, and two fish. Along 

 with it was another series of five pieces showing the evolution of the 

 brain from the fish to the mau. The same of the foot and hand, show- 

 ing the series from man down — five pieces. Another of the brain rep- 

 resented by twenty-six pieces, ten of which showed the structure of 

 the brain, two its exterior part, and eleven its convolutions. Dr. Capi- 

 tan presented an exceedingly interesting series relating to prehistoric 

 trepanation. There were a number of prehistoric skulls bearing evi- 

 dences of trepanation ; oue, a human, bore upon its right side a deep 

 circular groove, from which the circular piece was intended to be taken 

 out; another, a modern human skull, in which the processes of pre- 



