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published his report in five large volumes, quarto, with 440 figures and 140 chromo-lithographic or heliographic full-page plates. H. Cartailhac was sent on a like mission to Spain and Portugal. His report is published in one large volume with 450 engravings and four plates. The most extensive and complete work, with the finest illustrations, concerning our own country do sometimes come from the hands of these foreigners thus sent out. Weiner report Peru, Lucien Briart of the Aztecs, while the most comprehensive work on the subject entitled "Prehistoric America," is written by a Frenchman, the Marquis Nadaillac.
The Curators of European Museums are being continually sent to visit and examine other prehistoric museums than their own. In a report just received, published by the keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities at Edinburgh, Dr. Anderson and his assistant, Mr. Black, is to be found a note of some of these visits. "In connection with most of the principal archaeological museums