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societies of anthropology and the museums (such as comprise my department) in nearly all the principal cities. I may mention that of Paris as the most extensive and complete, yet the other are of no mean proportion, nor are they lacking in dignity and importance. In Paris the organization comprises seven lecturers; all being on the subject of anthropology, and they provide one lecture each day during the entire college session, from October until June. The lecturers are paid for their services and they carry on their work in a serious manner. Compared with these efforts in behalf of this science of anthropology, the efforts of the United States stand practically at zero. The good effects of these lectures and of this education is manifest in the interest taken in the Society of Anthropology, which numbers at Paris nigh 700 members, with an annual income of 20,000 or more francs and with a capital of over 50,000 francs.
Enlarging upon this question of the comparative