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ANTHROPOLOGY: A. HRDUCKA 
One of the main objects of the whole work was to bring together a 
comprehensive, instructive and harmonious exhibit relating to the 
natural history of man. Such exhibits have been attempted with more 
or less success at a number of former expositions, from that in Paris 
(1878) to those in Chicago (1892) and Dresden (1911); but all these 
efforts, while reaching creditable and useful results, suffered from the 
inclusion of archeological and other exhibits, as well as from defects 
due to heterogeny or lack of material, and especially to the impossi- 
bility of carr3dng out a uniform and necessarily costly plan. 
In undertaking the preparation of the exhibits for San Diego, the 
whole subject of Anthropology or Man's Natural History, was divided 
into four sections. These were (1) Man's Evolution (Phylogeny); 
(2) Man's Development and Growth (Ontogeny); (3) Man's Variation; 
and (4) Man's Decline and Elimination. To these it seemed necessary 
to add a subdivision dealing with the modern means by which anthro- 
pology works and including a comprehensive library. In accordance 
with this plan, a stipulation was made for five connected moderate sized 
halls, to accommodate in logical progression the five sections. The 
exhibits were to be, furthermore, as far as possible original and of per- 
manent museum value, so that they could serve if circumstances per- 
mitted as a nucleus or an important part of a future permanent anthro- 
pological museum on the Pacific Coast. 
As mentioned in the former paper, only three years were available 
for the carrying out of the above large program. Illness among the 
staff, the European war, and other conditions interfered. Not a few 
of the links or specimens needed were not to be found or purchased; 
and other difficulties developed. In consequence, the results are not 
as complete and perfect as they might be; yet it is safe to say that in 
richness, instructiveness, and harmony, they surpass considerably any- 
thing attempted before in this line. These facts seem to justify the 
present remarks which call attention not so much to the existence of the 
collection at San Diego as to the material progress accomplished in a 
branch of science in which exhibits are particularly scarce and difficult. 
The five moderate sized halls which harbor the exhibits occupy a 
special building marked 'Science of Man.' 
The first hall is devoted entirely to Man's Evolution. It contains 
one of the largest existing series of accurate, first-hand casts of the 
most important authentic skeletal remains of early man. Added to 
this are numerous attempted reconstructions of the generally defective 
early crania. On the walls above the specimens are illustrations showing, 
in good sized photographic enlargements or colored charts, the locali- 
