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The University at Christiania, Norway, has also the same kind of arrangement.  Rygh and Undset are its professors.  An idea can be had of the dignity and importance with which this prehistoric science is viewed in this country when I say that while the numismatic museum of Christiania possesses a finer collection of United States coins and medals than does our National Museum, yet their desire to keep their own prehistoric objects is so great as that they refuse to exchange them for those of any foreign country.

The mention of these Scandinavian museums with the names of some of their professors will give but a faint idea of the dignity which has been accorded to the science of prehistoric anthropology in those countries and the attention which it has there received.  These countries are entitled to the priority of discovery of prehistoric man, and they have maintained a leading place in the science.  So much so that he who was its acknowledged head in Europe and the world, Worsaae,