178 The American Naturalist. [February, 
The brains of the first five have been studied with care, and all their 
peculiarities described and written out. The brain of each has been 
accurately drawn, and by means of the stereograph they have been 
superposed, and drawings made comparing them. 
I do not know whether it-is by law or only by regulation, but the 
Laboratory of Anthropology has within the last few years received the 
bodies of all criminals executed in Paris, and there are to be now seen 
suspended from the usual ring in the top of the skull the articulated 
skeletons of these individuals, with their moulded brains laid upon the 
shelf beside them. 
There were displayed either the brain, the skulls, or the busts of the 
following assassins who have been executed : 
Lemaire, Menesclou, Prevost, Gagny, Marchandon, Rey, called 
Pas de Chance, Riviére, Pranzini, Barre, and two others, names un- 
known, one executed at Macon, the other at Montpellier. 
I do not pursue this subject, for it will take me immediately into a 
catalogue and description of the 5,000 skulls and the numberless casts 
and studies, with all their numerous examples of anatomy, osteology, 
craniology, anthropogeny, which served to form the Musée Broca. 
The Institute of Anthropology at the Paris Exposition.—At the Paris. 
Exposition of 1867 the science of anthropology was unrepresented. 
In that of 1878 the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, on the 
proposition of the Commissioner-General of the Exposition, decided 
upon a representation of anthropology, and confided its organization 
to the Society of Anthropology. It made a creditable, and for that 
time an important and instructive exhibit, but nothing to be compared 
with that in the Exposition of 1889. 
In the Exposition of 1889 the Minister of Public Instruction re- 
quested the Society of Anthropology to make such display as was pos- 
sible. A commission was organized, which made its appeal to its 
members in every part of the world, and to all kindred societies in 
France. I remember well in Paris, in the autumn of 1885, four years 
before the Exposition opened, the preparations which were being made. 
A family of bushmen from South Africa were being exhibited at a 
meeting of the society, under the management of Dr. Topinard. They 
were afterwards taken to the room for making plaster casts, and a cast 
of them made natural size. This was done in preparation for the Ex- 
position, and when I visited it I saw the plaster casts of this family. 
“he members and societies appealed to for assistance in the Exposi- 
tion of 1889 responded with alacrity, and, while the representation 
