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cate the difference when I say that the monuments belonging 
to the prehistoric age which are attached to the soil and part 
of the real estate, which have been purchased, restored and 
are now owned by the Government of France are to be num- 
bered by the hundred. 
The Department of Prehistoric Anthropology in the British 
Museum has for its curator a person, eminent in the ranks of 
the science, who receives a salary of fifteen hundred pounds per 
annum, equal to $7,500, a greater sum than is expended in any 
one year for my entire department. $6,000 are set aside yearly 
for purchase of specimens. 
The Museum of the Irish Academy of Dublin possesses a 
. greater value in prehistoric gold ornaments alone than it has 
cost the United States for our entire Museum with all its spec- 
imens, service, management and furniture. 
The Prehistoric Museum of Antiquities at Edinburgh, Scot- 
land, is also extensive. It is devoted exclusively to the ant- 
iquities of its own country and forms a complete museum of 
itself. It has for curator and staff, Prof. Anderson; Dr. Arthur 
Mitchell and Mr. Black, names that stand as high in their 
science as do any others of their country in any science. 
The Prehistoric Museum at Copenhagen is so extensive and 
rich that it might be classed as one of the wonders of the world. 
It occupies the entire Prinsens Palais, has eight exhibition halls, 
with a full corps of professors, curators, etc., who occupy the 
highest rańks in science. The riches of this museum are 
almost beyond computation; 10,000 polished stone hatchets 
and axes, the contents of eleven workshops, one of which 
alone furnished 200 hatchets, 58 perforators, 4,000 scrapers, 
1,426 arrow-heads, trenchant transversal. Fifty-one cases of 
bronze implements and ornaments, gold objects so numerous 
and valuable that kept, of course, during the day under lock 
and key, they are taken out each night and stored for safety | 
in an immense steel safe. 
Stockholm has a National Museum devoted entirely to pre- 
histories, for which the government has organized a bureau 
and erected a fine museum building, with Messrs. M. Hilder- 
brand as curator and M. Montelieus as assistant. 
