INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1874. cxv 



ing Sweden at the same time?" "The origin and history of 

 t]ie Bronze Age in Sweden?" "The Iron Age in Sweden?" 

 "Bjorko, and other old prehistoric towns of Sweden and oth- 

 er parts of Europe ?" " What are the anatomical and eth- 

 nical features peculiar to the prehistoric man in Sweden ?" 

 The association numbers 1550 members, of which nearly half 

 were present. The next meeting will be held at Buda-Pesth. 

 H. H. Ho worth, Esq., read a report on this Congress before 

 the Anthropological Institute, November 10,1874. 



The International Congress of Orientalists met in London 

 from the 4th to the 19th of September. Dr. Birch was chosen 

 president. The most noticeable features of the meeting were 

 the opening addresses of Sir Walter Elliot before the Turan- 

 ian Section, of Professor Max Miiller, before the Aryan Sec- 

 tion, of Mr. Grant Duff, before the Archaeological Section, and 

 of Professor Owen, before the Ethnological Section; and the 

 papers of Herr Brugsch Bey, before the Hamitic Section, on 

 the Exodus of the Israelites; and those of Professors Oppert 

 and Schrader, before the Semitic Section, on the Sumerian or 

 Accad, the language of ancient Chaldaea. Mr. Hyde Clarke 

 read a report on the ethnological papers of this Congress be- 

 fore the Anthropological Institute, November 10,1874. 



The British Association meeting at Belfast, commencing: 

 August 9th, was not unmindful of the subject of ethnology, 

 although the meeting at Stockholm drew away a great many 

 of the members of that section. F. W. Rudler, Esq., made a 

 report of the ethnology of this meeting, November 10, 1874, 

 to the Anthropological Institute. 



The following are a few of the prominent local associations 

 which contribute to knowledge on the subject of ethnology : 

 America : The Peabody Museum of American Archaeology 

 and Ethnology. 



The American Ethnological Society. 



The American Oriental Society. 



The Smithsonian Institution. 



The Palestine Exploration Society. 



Europe : 



The Imperial Society of Friends of Natural Sci- 

 ence, Anthropology, and Ethnography. 

 The Anthropological Society of Sweden at Stock- 

 holm. 

 .Ethnological Museums at Stockholm and Lund. 



