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aged in their studies, either by the private correspondence or 
Sabiha works of the Smithsonian Institution. How many youn 
naturalists, and we speak from a nal experience, scattered over 
' the country, away from libraries and the stimulus of scientific inter- 
course, owe to this oP ri founded by the bequest of Jam 
Smithson, of England, ‘‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge 
among men,” a great part of their success in investigating natural 
Phenom: ena! 
No institution known to us, in any land, has by such a wise and 
economical management of its funds, done so much for the advance- : 
ment of all departments of science. or has been accomplished b 
the wide and generous distribution of its numerous publications, the 
use of its large and unique library of anit periodicals, its dupli- 
cates from the Museum of Natural History, and its loan, necessarily 
Apai of meteorological instruments, together with its ready aid to 
ucting original rer abt em and by its general sympathy 
with tie aaa scientific cultur 
The present volume, printed a distributed as a Congressional 
est at to of Man. 
Throughout the text are distributed numerous cuts illustrating the 
implements of the age of Stone, of Bronze and of Iron. The report of 
this able and cautious oi te —— out clearly the fact “that it — 
‘was the same people who inhabited our soil [Switzerland] during the 
ages of Stone, and of Prone, and up to the time of the invasion as 
Helvetians.” 
