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complete monograph on the subject which has yet appeared. Dr. Montelius, Keeper of the National Museum at Stockholm, was sent throughout Europe to study the fibula of the bronze and iron ages. Sweden and Norway each set aside $560,00 annually for similar purposes. The report of Dr. Anderson which I have just mentioned, was the result of sundry voyages made throughout Scotland, visiting the local archaeologic museums, for the expenses of which an annual appropriation of $200.00 has been made.
The closer we examine and the more we study the policy of the European government, and compare their actions and those of their people and institutions with the government and kindred institutions of the United States, the greater the contrast. Take the laws of the various European governments for the preservations of, by obtaining title to, mounds, earthworks, caves, dolmens, and other prehistoric monuments. The most of the European countries have passed such laws. In England,