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Abstract

THE celebrated ethnological collection of the late Dr. Gustavus Klemm, of Dresden, which had obtained a world-wide celebrity from its richness in illustrations of dress and ornaments, household utensils, furniture, warlike, fishing, and hunting implements, &c, extending from the earliest times down to the immediate present, has been purchased by subscription, and transferred to Leipsic, where it forms the nucleus of the new German Central Museum of Ethnology, and around which is to be grouped whatever additional material can be procured in illustration of the general plan. An earnest appeal is made by the officers and others interested in this enterprise to their countrymen and others in the United States for contributions. It will occupy the place in Germany of the great Archseological Museum of Copenhagen: of that of Mr. Blackmore at Salisbury, in England; of the Museum of St. Germain, near Paris, under direction of M. Mortillet; and of the Smithsonian and Peabody Museums in the United States.