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woman from Lau^sol, believed to be 25, 000 years old, in the collections of 

 M. Lalanne, who has just ])resented beautifully executed casts to the 

 American iNIuseum. The next four days were spent in Paris, among the 

 museums, rounding out the work of the earlier four days,. Professor 

 Osborn paid special attention to the ancient Museum of Palaeontology in 

 the Jardin des Plantes, where he saw the newly discovered skeletons be- 

 longing to the Neanderthal race, which have greatly added to current 

 knowledge of this race. From Paris, he went to the Megalithic region on 

 the southern coast of Brittany centering around the little coast town of 

 Carnac and the neighboring Gulf of Morbihan, where he saw a most 

 wonderful collection of monuments of the New S one Age. Here the 

 hosts were ]\I. Louis Marsille, of the charming little iMuseum of Vannes, 

 and J\I. Rousic, of the Museum of Carnac. Fortunatel}^ a Brittany 

 pardon (religious and agricultur 1 fc te) was in progress, and the windows 

 of the inn at Carnac overlooked the little town square and ancient village 

 church, where the peasants flocked to early service. 



After three memorable days in this wonderful region, President and 

 Mrs. Osborn took a small American-made motor car, a Dodge, directly 

 north across Brittany to the old fortified town of St. j\Ialo, on the north- 

 ern coast of Brittany, thence to j\Iont St. IVIichel on the border between 

 Brittany and Normandy, which is the most remarkable monument of 

 medieval times in the world, and on through Avranches to join the 

 " Olympic ' ' at Cherbourg, September 14th, for the homeward journey. • 



The object of the Neolithic tour was not only to study the ancient 

 Neolithic territory, which is chiefly in northern France, Denmark and 

 Scandinavia, but also to make new friends at every point for the Ameri- 

 can Museum, with a view to enlarging and enriching our collection of 

 European archaeology, which is now under the able care of Dr. Nels C. 

 Nelson. A few materials were actually brought back and there is 

 promised a great deal more which in the end will enable the American 

 Museum to present the complete prehistory of the early cultures of our 

 ancestors of western Europe. This, as the readers of Museologist know, 

 is left out of American history almost entirely and must be taken up from 

 the other side, because American archaeology begins, or is generally 

 believed to begin, with the early Neolithic or New Stone Age. 



The da}' before the opening of the Eugenics Congress, which was held 

 at the ^Museum from September 22nd to September 28th, President and 



