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gest, but it is one of the best admini[[strikethrough]] s  [[/strikethrough]] ^[[n]]tered museums in the world. The steel case has been adopted, the arrangement of material is topical, and the labeling is excellent. Worthy of the highest praise is the series of little maps which accompany the specimens. The continental areas are denoted by colors, and the location of each species is indicated by a colored spot or line on the map. The monographs published by the museum under the title "Publicationen aus dem Koniglichen ethnographischen Museum zu Dresden" are of the greatest value. Dr. Meyer greatly prefers the phololithograph to the old fashioned colored plates, because the latter are not truthful. The size of these monographs is too large, however, because it is inconvenient to file them with other works of the same class. In Dresden the curator saw the "human beast of burden" to perfection ^[[,]] she occurs in two roles, the pack animal and the draught animal. In the former she wears a hamper holding about a bushel, which is flat on the side next ^[[t]]o her back. Two shoulder straps pass f from the upper margin down in front of her shoulders and backward [[strikethrough]] to hoot [[/strikethrough]] under two of the frame sticks of the basket projecting an inch or two below the bottom. The basket is carried like a knapsack.