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The principal portion of the paleolithic specimens were to go to the 
Musée of St. Germain, though several individual objects were to be 
given to MM. de Mortillet, Cartailhac, Capitan, d’Acy, and Boban. 
The plaster casts of the ceremonial and other curious objects peculiar 
to the United States will go to the Trocadero Museum in charge of 
Dr. Hamy. 
I do not know whether any of these objects will figure in the cata- 
logues of the exposition, but I was assured that all inspection and 
visits by the jury for the award of prizes had been made before my 
display was set up.— Thomas Wilson. 
British Museum.—wWe landed in England on the 4th day of 
September, and spent the rest of our time until the 2d of October 
there and in Ireland. I visited the British Museum, and had several 
conferences with Mr. Franks, who is the Curator of the Department of 
Ethnology and Prehistoric Archeology. I had known him before, and 
my visit was very satisfactory. His department is being enlarged, and 
he will have room for a better and finer display. That portion of his 
department relating to prehistoric man has fewer objects than the same 
department in the National Museum; but it occupies greater space, 
and is consequently displayed to better advantage. 
Mr. Franks receives an annual appropriation for the purchase of 
specimens for his department of £1,200, equal to $6,000, besides a 
fund left by Mr. Christy, of which Mr. John Evans and Mr. Franks 
are trustees, the income of which, however, I do not know. ‘The 
Christy fund has furnished many of the objects in the Museum. It, 
with some aid from the Museum, I believe, has lately purchased the 
magnificent collection of Mons. Peccedeau de Lisle, of Toulouse, 
France, comprising a full series of the cavern implements and objects 
of France, and including his great find at the cavern of Bruniquel, 
being the largest part of the known examples of sculptured and en- 
graved bone and horn and ivory objects belonging to the paleolithic 
period. I did not wish to ask the prices paid for this collection, but 
when I examined it at Toulouse the lowest price at which it could have 
been purchased was 40,000 francs, equal to $8,000. It is now dis- 
played in the paleolithic room at the head of the stairs in the British 
Museum. It contains the three well-known and unique sculptures in 
the round, of ivory and reindeer horn, two representing a reindeer and 
the other a mammoth. There are many other drawings and engrav- 
ings etched or engraved upon bone or stone, some of which show 
great artistic power. The report of this department in Parliamentary 
