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the best intentions and the greatest care, or might under- or 
over-rate those noticed. 2 
Readers within the United States will be acquainted with 
these efforts, and it would serve no purpose to tell them what 
they already know. To avoid possible complications arising 
from unintentional omissions or misunderstood comparisons 
no statement of this work in the United States is attempted. 
Enlarging upon this question of the comparative want of 
interest on the part of the United States Government and 
people, I might remark the number of missions which have 
been sent out by these European governments in pursuit of 
this science. In 1884-85 France sent Dr. Poussie to Australia 
and India to make studies in ethnography, Le Bon to India to 
study primitive architecture, Jules Monsier to make archæo- 
logical researches in Caucausus, De Morgan to Armenia, Mon- 
sieur Brau to Malacca and Sumatra to make ethnographic 
collections, Gauthier to Turkey and Persia for researches in 
natural history and anthropology. Ernest Chantre, Curator 
of the Prehistoric Museum at Lyon, was sent by the Govern- 
ment to make anthropological researches in the Caucausus. 
He has published his report in five large volumes, quarto, 
with 446 figures and 140 chromo-lithographic or heliographic 
full page plates. M. Cartailhac was sent on a like mission to 
Spain and Portugal. His report is published in a large vol- 
ume with 450 engravings and four plates. The most exten- 
sive and complete works, with the finest illust 
our own country do sometimes come from the hands of these 
foreigners thus sent out. Weiner reports Peru, Lucien Briart 
the Aztecs, while the most comprehensive work on the subject 
entitled “ Prehistoric America,” is written by a Frenchman, 
Marquis Nadaillac. 
The Curators of European museums are being continually 
sent to visit and examine other prehistoric museums than 
their own. In a report published by the keeper of the 
National Museum of Antiquities at Edinburgh, Dr. Anderson 
and his assistant, Mr. Black, is to be found a note of some ‘of 
these visits. In connection with most of the principal arche- 
ological museums on the continent, provision has been made 
