688 The American Naturalist. [August, 
The University of Lund devotes the basement story to its 
prehistoric museum, with Prof. Soderberg for its professor and 
lecturer. 
The University of Upsala, one of the finest and oldest in all 
Europe, is engaged in the same direction. 
The University at Christiana, Norway, has the same kind of 
arrangement. Rygh and Undset are its professors. An idea 
can be had of the importance with which this prehistoric sci- 73 
ence is viewed in this country when I say that while the 
Numismatic Museum at Christiana possesses a finer collection 
of United States coins and medals than does our National 
Museum, yet their desire to keep their own antiquities is so 
great that they refuse to exchange them for those of any q 
foreign country. q 
The mention of these Scandinavian museums with the ` 
names of some of their professors will give but a faint idea of : 
the dignity which has been accorded to the science of prehis- i 
toric anthropology in these countries, and the attention which 
it has there received. These countries are entitled to the pri- ; 
ority of discovery of prehistoric man, and they have main- 
tained a leading place in the science. So much so that he who — 
was its acknowledged head in Europe and the world, Worsaae, 
was taken into the King’s Cabinet and served the latter years 
of his life as Minister of Public Instruction. ‘ 
I need not mention the great prehistoric museums of Ger- e 
many. That at Berlin with Virchow, probably the leading 
anthropologist of the world, at its head, Dr. Johanas Rankeat 
Munich, and so they are dotted over the country in every city 
from the Baltic to the Alps. 
Much might be expected from Switzerland, for it is the land 
of the prehistoric lake dwellers, and she has not disappointed i 
our expectations. Bern, the capital, has no less than three i 
4 governmental prehistoric museums; one belonging to the 
Republic was purchased by it lately from Dr. Gross, of Neuve- 
ville, for the sum of 60,000 francs. The canton and the city 
each own a museum of no mean extent, where are gathered 
and displayed all objects found in the neighborhood. The 
other cities and cantons of Switzerland are equally alive to 
