The International Congress of Americanists

Abstract

THE eighteenth session of the International Congress of Americanists will be held in London, with Sir C. R. Markham as President, from May 27 to June 1 of the present year, at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. The object of the Congress is to promote scientific inquiry into the history of both Americas and of their inhabitants. It will be divided into six sections—Palæoanthropology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnology and Archæology, General Ethnology, and Colonial History. This meeting, which has been organised under the invitation of the Royal Anthropological Institute, has already received the patronage of the universities and leading scientific societies both at home and abroad, which will be represented by delegates. The programme of papers already contains contributions from the best known authorities on the history and ethnology of the vast region over which its operations extend. It may be hoped that the many persons interested in prehistoric America will assist in the work of the Congress, and that collectors will contribute specimens of antiquities to the exhibition which will be organised in connection with it.