198 The American Naturalist. * February, 
The French Exposition was immense. It was a great success from 
an artistic, educational, financial, and expositional standpoint. It- 
could scarcely be otherwise, for the French people and government 
were in perfect harmony, and thoroughly interested and determined in 
their efforts. They commenced with sufficient appropriations and in 
ample time to make it so. The total number of paying entries ex- 
ceeded 25,000,000 persons; the average entries upon ordinary days 
were from 140- to 160,000, while on /é¢e days, Sundays, extra music, 
illumination, fireworks, etc., the attendance ran up without effort to 
250,000 and even 350,000. 
I took with me 397 objects belonging to prehistoric America. One 
hundred and sixty-five were paleolithic implements which I had gath- 
ered up in the District of Columbia, a few weeks before sailing, for this 
purpose. I did not expect to bring these back, but I intended to use 
them for purposes of donation, exchange, etc. One hundred and 
eight of them were arrow- and spear-points, having the same destina- 
tion. Eleven specimens, and one box containing uncounted and 
unnumbered specimens, were chips and flakes from Flint Ridge, and 
obsidian from the Pacific Slope, intended as a donation to M. de Mor- 
tillet, who is making a collection of this material, and has obsidian 
flakes and cores from almost every part of the world. Forty-five were 
plaster casts of the peculiarly shaped Indian objects of the United 
States, which were denominated by Dr. Rau as ‘‘ Ceremonial.’’ There 
were also a series of casts of pipes. Seventy-one were objects from 
the collection of Mr. W. K. Moorehead, and represented the cele- 
brated discovery made last April in the Porter Mound, Roos County, 
Ohio. ‘Twenty-eight were impressions of pottery, showing the deco- 
ration. ‘Twenty-nine specimens were hard stone, and were intended, 
with the Moorehead collection, to be returned to me at Washington. 
The others were intended for gift or exchange. They proved exceed- 
ingly interesting to the prehistoric anthropologists who were in attend- 
ance upon the various congresses. I first endeavored to make a 
display of these objects in the halls used by the congresses, but found 
it to be unsuitable, and, by the advice of those who had the greatest 
knowledge and interest in the matter, I took them to the exposition, 
purchasing two glass-top cases, black in color, and respectable in ap- 
pearance, and there displayed the entire collection. This was in ac- 
cordance with the recommendation of Dr. Hamy, MM. Cartailhac, 
Boban, and others. 
I directed that at the close of the exposition the objects remaining 
were to be disposed of as follows: 
