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American ethnological museums are preserving with care 
the memorials of the vanishing race of red men. The 
George Gatlin Indian Gallery, which is installed in the room 
in which this Society is now meeting, is valuable beyond 
the possibility of appraisement, in that it is the sole record 
of the physical characters, the costumes, and the ceremonies 
of several tribes long extinct. 
Other countries recently settled by Europeans are pre- 
serving the memorials of the aboriginal races, notably the 
colonies in Australia and New Zealand. Japan is striving 
to preserve in its government museum examples of the 
fast disappearing memorials of feudal days. 
Ethnographic museums are especially numerous and fine 
in the northern part of Europe. They were proposed more 
than half a century ago, by the French geographer, 
Jomard, and the idea was first carried into effect about 
1840, on the establishment of the Danish Ethnographical 
Museum, which long remained the best in Europe. Within 
the past twenty years there is an extraordinary activity in 
this direction. 
In Germany, besides the chief museum in Berlin, con- 
siderable ethnographical collections have been founded in 
Hamburg and Munich. Austria has in Vienna two for 
ethnography, the Court Museum (Hof-Museum), and the 
Oriental (Orientalisches Museum). Holland has reorgan- 
ized the National Ethnographical Museum (Ryks Eth- 
nographisch Museum) in Leyden, and there are smaller 
collections in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague. 
France has founded the Trocadero (Mus^e de Trocadero). 
In Italy there is the important Pre-historic and Ethnogra- 
phic Museum (Museo preistorico ed ethnografico) in Rome, 
as well as the collection of the Propagando, and there are 
museums in Florence and Venice. 
Ethnographical museums have also been founded in 
Christiania and Stockholm, the latter of which will include 
the rich material collection by Dr, Stolpe on the voyage of 
the frigate ‘‘Vanadis” around the world. 
In England there is less attention to the subject, — the 
