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The riches of this museum are almost beyond computation; 10,000 polished stone hatchets and axes, the contents of 11 workshops one alone of which furnished 200 hatchets, 58 percoirs, 4,000 scrapers, 1426 arrow-heads, [[underline]] trenchant transversal.   [[/underline]] Fifty-one cases of bronze implements and ornaments, gold objects so numerous and valuable that kept, of course, during the day under lock and key, are taken out each night and stored for safety in an immense steel safe.
Stockholm has a National Museum devoted entirely to prehistories, for which the government has organized a bureau and erected a fine museum building with Messsrs. M.M. Hilderbrand and Montelieus as professors.
The University of Lund devotes the basement story to its prehistoric museum with Prof. Soderberg for its professor and lecturer.
The University at Upsala, one of the oldest and finest in all Europe, is engaged in the same direction.