‘Contribution of the Products of Aborigines to the Industrial Exhibition of 1851’ [letter], The Athenaeum (1850)

Universality in regard to contributors, and completeness in regard to the objects to be contributed, are striking characteristics in the plan of the Exhibition of 1851. Men and women, too, from all nations are invited to it. In the series of objects connected, it will be important to have models of cemeteries, mausoleums, and graves of all kinds from all parts. The Pyramids of Egypt, the cemeteries and the catacombs of the ancient and modern world, the collection of dried bodies in the cells of the Canary Islands, the funeral rites of the South Seas, and the picturesque tombs of the New Hollanders all plainly belong to the same human family, and may be grouped together with good effect. Their presence would rouse public sympathy in their favour; and they would return excellent instructors of their people.