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archaeologic riches, acre for acre over the same area, is equally rich in specimens, and would afford a proportionate number and a proportionately good opportunity for the study of the history of the prehistoric man, and yet, I repeat, every country, each country, in Europe, if it but knew the exact status in the United States, would claim that it was superior in interest and study of the science of Prehistoric Anthropology.
In the means of education in this new science the same comparison holds good between Europe and the United States. In the societies of the different countries, established for the advancement of science, a section is devoted to anthropology, as is done in the United States. But the ten different countries of Europe make ten different societies there against one in America. In France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, and, possibly in England, though I cannot say certainly, there have been courses of lectures organized and conducted in connection with the