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THE question of the representation of primitive culture in our national museums is rapidly becoming an urgent one, not only on account of the growing importance of anthropology, but also because primitive culture itself is disappearing before civilisation. The wild man is dying out or being transformed, and the hours during which we may question him about himself are already limited. Those nations therefore which take the utmost advantage of the opportunities which remain will have something in the nature of a monopoly when primitive culture is actually extinct; and it is to them that the students of the twentieth century will have to apply for their facts.
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Ethnographical Collections in Germany. Nature 60, 461–462 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060461b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060461b0