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relics (paleolithic age), objects belonging to the neolithic age and to the bronze period, and specimens of Etruscan and Roman origin. The whole collection, the value of which ^[[can]] hardly [[strikethrough]]can [[/strikethrough]] be over-estimated, contains 10297 articles, and the entries nearly fill a volume of the catalogue. It would be impossible to give in the limited space of this report a statement in detail of the collection, but at the same time something more than the brief abstract above given, is due both to the donor and to the collection. Where every specimen is of importance, it is hard to discriminate, but worthy of special mention are the objects from the well known caves of Southern France, the articles from the Dolmens in Brittany, ^[[and]] a fine series of implements of stone, bone and horn, including a number of clay vessels