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 EPILOGUE. 277 and its beauties, we shall find in one of its vast halls a treasure which is of much greater value still, of a value for science, the praise of which cannot possibly be exaggerated. It is a collection of skulls and skeletons found in Greece, dating from all periods — the prehis- toric, that is, the period of Mykense, the archaic, the classical, the Roman, and the Christian — and in order to make comparisons with these ancient skulls there are also skulls of our times from different sections of the country. The founder and conservator of this collection, which is more important than any collection in any other museum in the world, is Dr. Klon Stephanos, the author of a scientific work en- titled " La Grece au point de vue naturel, eth- nologique, anthropologique, demographique et medical" (Paris, 1884). Each and every one of these skulls and other parts of the skeleton have come to light through the official excavations of the Greek government and the Archaeological Society, under the strict- est control of men of science who hold them- selves responsible to the government and to the world of science. Many of the skulls were taken by Dr. Klon Stephanos himself at the moment of their excavation. The skulls and skeletons are