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I will not attempt to complete the comparison of labors performed and interest in the science of Prehistoric Anthropology between the two countries, Europe and America, any list of, labor in, or the part taken by our own country.  That will be known by the American readers without citations.  I make two remarks concerning American investigations and publications, that with a few exceptions are easily recognized.  The work has been done by piecemeal, a little here and a little there, devoted to a single one locality or a single view of the subject, isolated, divided, without connection or harmony, either in investigation, publication, or comparison---without any comprehensive or general system by which the workers, each performing his own labor, should assist.

In all the investigations and publications made by or in the United States concerning prehistoric man, the almost sole object of their investigation or report has been the American Indian.  It was Indian first, last, and all the