1892.] Prehistorie Anthropology. 809 
IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENCE AND OF THE 
DEPARTMENT OF PREHISTORIC 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
By Tomas WItrson. 
(Continued from page 689.) 
The International Congress of Anthropology and Prehis- 
toric Archeology held its Eleventh session in Moscow during 
August, 1892. This Congress was organized and has been 
holding its regular sessions since 1865 or 67. It has had del- 
egates from all neighboring countries; they have usually met 
in the capital of the country, and never twice consecutively in 
the same country, with a number of members varying from 
500 to 1500, according to the contiguity of the place of ineet- 
ing. Their bulletins have formed volumes of several hun- 
dred pages (that at Stockholm over a thousand), yet no 
scientific organization from the United States has ever had 
any representative, and since the meeting in Paris in 1878 
there have not been three citizen representatives of the United 
States at any one of the meetings. The same comparison 
continued with regard to the means of instruction in the dif- 
ferent countries, America and Europe would make about the 
same showing. Each of the countries of Europe may, I 
think, fairly claim that they are equal to, if not ahead of, the 
United States in their appreciation of and assistance to the 
science of Prehistoric Anthropology ; even little Switzerland, 
with a territory of 16,000 square miles, would say she was not 
behind us. France, with her area of 204,000 square miles, would 
undoubtedly claim superiority over the United States. The 
area of the United States is greater by far than that of all 
Europe, and its archeologic field, acre for acre, is equally 
rich in specimens, and would afford a proportionate number 
and a proportionately good opportunity for the study of the 
history of the prehistoric man, and yet I repeat, every country 
in Europe, if it but knew the exact status in the United States, 
