In Sweden the Antropologiska Sällskapet of Stockholm began a Tidsskrift in 1875; but it affords little assistance to the Americanist except in comparative study.[1944]
The student will find some suggestions in a little tract by J. J. A. Worsaae, De l’organisation des musées historico-archéologiques dans le Nord et ailleurs. Traduit par E. Beauvois (Copenhagen, 1885), which is extracted from the Mémoires de la société royale des antiquaires de Nord, 1885.
There has begun recently in Leyden an Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie. Herausg. von Krist. Bahnson, Guido Cora [etc.] (Leiden, 1888).
In Italy the Archivio per l’Antropologia et la Etnologia was begun at Florence in 1871, and was later made the organ of the Società Italiana di Antropologia di Etnologia. There is an occasional paper in the Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, published at Rome.
In Spain the Sociedad Antropológica Española began at Madrid the publication of its Revista de Antropologia in 1875.
The session of the Congrès des Américanistes at Madrid in 1881 gave a new life in Spain to the study of American archæology and history, and out of this impulse there was begun a Biblioteca de los Americanistas, publícala D. Justo Zaragoza; Editor D. Luis Navarro; and the series has been begun with the Recordacion florida, discurso del reino de Guatemala, an hitherto unpublished work (1690) of Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, edited by Justo Zaragoza; and with the Historia de Venezuela, being a third edition of the work of José de Oviedo y Baños, edited by C. F. Duro.
The Museo Nacional in Mexico has grown to have a proper importance,[1945] since the Mexican government has prevented the further exportation of archæological relics. It was founded in 1824 by Fathers Icaza and Gondra, but it owes its creation largely to the skill of Professor Gumesindo Mendoza, its curator, by whose death it lost much.[1946] There is a tendency to draw to it other collections. There was a beginning made to publish illustrations of the relics in the museum sixty years ago, but it came to little,[1947] and it was not until recently the publication of Anales del Museo Nacional de Méjico was begun that there seemed to be a proper effort made. The periodicals Revista Mexicana (1835), and Museo Mexicano (1843-45) have done something to illustrate the subject,—not to name others of less importance. The principal periodical source farther south, the Registro Yucatéco, only ran to four volumes, published at Merida in 1845-46.
The most conspicuous archæological repository in South America is that of the National Museum at Rio de Janeiro, whose published Mémoires contain important contributions to Brazilian Archæology.