74 The American Naturalist. [January 
I cannot do better than to quote from some of those who were his 
contemporaries and assisted in that discovery a short sketch thereof. 
In the year 1859, or rather in November of 1858, was organized the 
Societe d’Anthropologie at Paris. It did not get into working order 
until the beginning of the year 1859. There were six members at the 
first reunion ; when it was completed and perfected there were nine- aa 
teen. M. Philip Salmon, in his article on the Societe d’ Anthropologie | 
in the Dictonaire d’ Anthropologie, gives their names: MM. Anthelme, 
Beclard, Bertillon, Broca, Brown-Sequard, de Castelneau, Dareste, Del- 
asiauve, Fleury, Follin, Isidore-Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Godard, Gra- 
tiolet, Grimaux-de-Caux, Lemercier, Martin- Magron, Rambaud, Robin, 
Verneuil. They commenced their work much the same as our own | 
society, and with much the same success. In 1862 they numbered 102 — 
paying members. This society passed through much the same stages 
_ of growth as has our own. It limited its active members to its own neigh- — 
borhood,—the city of Paris,—and made certain distinctions between 
active and associate members. In the year 1863 they did what we — 
have just done,—abolished such distinctions,—and it was in that year — 
that the society entered upon the successful course which has marked 
its history to the present time. Broca early conceived the idea of the 
establishment of a laboratory of anthropology in connection with the 
society. He had already organized such a laboratory, which was in- 
stalled in the ancient church of the Cordeliers, in which was instaled 
the Musée Dupuytren. He had brilliant hopes for this society, cand 
desired to attach to it a series of public scientific lectures. This he 
called the Ecole d’Anthropologie. Of this I will speak further < pe 
There was such success in this establishment that the cit 
d’ Anthropologie transferred itself from the Faculty of Medicine, W 
it was first installed, to the Musée Dupuytren, 15 Rue de l'Ecole 
Medicine, where it is now established. This change was made, in the 
year 1876, and here were established the three organizations, t 
Society of Anthropology, the School of Anthropology, and the Lab 
_atory of Anthropology, to which is now to be added, by reason O° © 
legacy of Broca, the collection of his lifetime relating to anthrop 
and called the Musée Broca. These organizations were princi 
work of Broca. He was the head and front, the organizer, the 
To the director ; yet he never held any higher office than t 
S . It was his hope, and afterwards his pride, to 5¢° © 
= [Paizations established and united, and it was a part of his pie 
~ Call them the Institut d’Anthropologie. Broca died the gth of 
-a - after the society had been organized twenty-one years: 
