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institute at the Sorbonne a chair of anthropology. This thought is 
excellent, and I hope that it will sooner or later be realized. It is still 
possible that other chairs of the same nature will be established at the 
College of France and in certain faculties of the provinces. But no 
matter how many of such single or isolated chairs of anthropology we 
may have, they will never respond to the needs of education. Good 
to instruct and to interest the public auditor, and consequently of 
great utility, they will never serve the needs of the student. If the 
course is to be accomplished in one or two years, it will be superficial. 
If it should last for five or six years, like that at the museum, it can be 
complete and excellent ; but then it will be necessary for students to 
consecrate to the study of anthropology more time than for law or for 
medicine. Anthropology is not yet a profession, it does not lead to 
any public or scientific career, it has no hopes for the future ; it will 
be rare to find scholars or students who are sufficiently impressed: with 
this science to persevere to the end. They must also be rich.in money, 
that they may maintain so long an initiation, It is necessary to form 
a school of anthropology where each of the principal branches can 
have a chair and a professor, to the end that the entire science can be 
taught each year in a simultaneous course, by men specially trained 
therefor.’’ 
This was a vast programme, and presented enormous difficulties, but 
they did not daunt Broca. His indomitable will, seconded by his 
ardent love for his science, caused him to push his endeavors until he 
arrived at a happy result. If it was necessary to obtain authorization 
from the government, he obtained it; subscribers, he gathered them ; 
money, he found it. Carried away by his convictions, he took as 
founders around him Bertillon, Chudzinski, Collineau, Mortillet, Top- 
inard, Manouvrier, Hamy, etc. The government of France, the De- 
_ partment of the Seine, and the city of Paris combined to furnish each 
a part of the money needed for the establishment of this School of 
Anthropology. A generous scientist, Dr. Jourdanet, himself provided 
the expense of one of these c 
On the 30th of October, be everything was completed, and the 
ministerial authorization received, The 15th of November following, 
the course of lectures and teaching commenced. Broca’s pride was 
Satisfied when he said, upon that occasion, ‘the foundation of a School. 
ar Anthropology at Paris enables us to state with pride that anthropol- 
ogy is a science altogether French.” 
Other countries might have established chairs of anthropology and 
aught it in their educational establishments before this, but this was 
anuary.—6 
` Am, Nat.—J 
