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These figures refer to the year 1864, and if duplicates and broken specimens were counted, M. Herbst thinks that the number would have been between 11,000 and 12,000. He has also had the kindness to estimate for me the numbers in private and provincial museums, and, on the whole, he believes we shall be within the mark if we consider that the Danish museums contain 30,000 stone implements, to which, moreover, must be added the rich stores then at Flensborg and Kiel, as well as the very numerous specimens with which the liberality of Danish archæologists has enriched other countries, for there is scarcely any important collection in Europe which does not possess some illustrations of the Danish stone implements.

The museum of the Royal Irish Academy includes (1865) 512 celts, more than 400 arrow-heads, and 50 spear-heads, besides 75 "scrapers," and numerous other objects of stone, such as flakes, slingstones, hammers, whetstones, querns, grain-crushers, etc. Again, the museum at Stockholm is estimated to contain between 15,000 and 16,000 specimens.

In addition to those cases in which large numbers of stone implements have been found on spots which were