910 The American Naturalist. [October, 
Collections of Archzologic specimens by Dr. Bovallius during his 
visit of exploration in Nicaragua, were here displayed, as well as the 
same in the Antilles by Dr. Hjalmarson. Norway presented but a 
small display, the principal and most attractive item of which was a 
model of the great Viking ship which had been excavated from the 
tumulus of Godhav’n, now on display in the Archzologic Museum at 
Christiania, a smaller model of which is in the National Museum. 
Denmark had a modes? display, considering her Archzeologic riches, 
but she was bound by the condition governing this, that, though but a 
novel and interesting departure, her display was confined almost exclu- 
sively to the discoveries made by the Danes through Iceland upon the 
Atlantic Coast, and so here was to be found a good representation of 
Greenland and Eskimo life from that country. Accompanying this 
Greenland display, were maps, charts, publications of every sort relat- 
ing to the early discovery of America by the Norsemen. The maps, 
real or imaginary, of Massachusetts Bay and the coast of New Jersey, 
with the supposed voyages of the discoverers of the X and XI Century, 
at least in completeness. Whatever of relics that could be gathered 
were here displayed, and, altogether, it was the most satisfactory 
argument in favor of the discovery of America anterior to Columbus 
that has ever been made. 
Germany.—The German representative was Dr. Ed. Seler, and he 
presented, in the hall allotted to him, the riches of the German Museum 
as they have been gathered during the many enterprising voyages of 
scientific investigation which his country has started throughout the 
Western Continent. Dr. Seler’s investigations and discoveries in 
Guatemala, Honduras and the Mosquito Coast were here exhibited 
the form of a plaster or pulp reproduction of a score or more great 
Aboriginal monuments of those countries, so strange and wonderful, so 
little known. The investigations of Reiss and Stiibel in Peru and 
representatives of the great collection made by them—first, of painted 
and decorated pottery, and second, of the polochromatic textile fabrics, 
was much to be admired. 
United States of Colombia.—This country had but a small display. 
It was visited by me two or three times, each time with increased inter- 
est. Although I saw other objects during my first visit, my attention 
was soon attracted to the display of gold objects which this country 
possesses from the interior Province of Antioquia. 
The National Museum possesses 20 or 30 of these gold ‘specimens of 
this country, and feels that it already possesses a sufficient number and 
must decline to increase that number by purchase. Imagine my sur- 
