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halls of exhibition.  This restoration is being continued upon the other wing.  The work began in 1879 and is not yet completed.  The building is four stories high, and there are now twenty-five halls filled with prehistoric objects and open to the public.  One entire story is devoted each to the paleolithic and neolithic periods of the Stone Age, and one to the bronze age; while the basement contains the heavy stone, principally architectural monuments, of the Roman occupation.  Except the latter, the display made, the objects shown, the epochs, periods, or ages represented, are the same as those now crowded into my hall.  With all her wealth of antiquity, eighteen times greater than that of France, the United States devotes to the objects and implements of her prehistoric races less than one-eighteenth part of the museum space occupied by France.

In the management and direction of this museum and of matters pertaining to this new science, there exists about the same difference.