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The Director of the museum is a member of the institute and approximates in the dignity and importance of his position to that of the Secretary and the Director of our entire National Museum.  The work of our Bureau of Ethnology is committed into the hands of a commission of savants of which M. Henry Martin, the great French historian, was, and M. Gabriel de Mortillet, Depute, is the Chief.
I shall not attempt to compare the work of this commission with its representative in the United States, but I may indicate the difference when I say that the monuments belonging to the prehistoric age, which are attached to the soil and part of the real estate, which have been purchased, restored, and are now owned by the government of France, are to be numbered by the score, if not by the hundred.
The department of prehistoric anthropology in the British Museum has for its Curator an eminent in the ranks of the science who receives a salary of £1500 per anum, equal to $7,500; a