INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1875. cliii 



The State Archaeological Association of Indiana held a 

 meeting on September 29th and 30th, to take measures for 

 preserving the monuments of the state. Other states of the 

 Mississippi Valley are engaged in the same laudable work. 



Dr. N. Joly has an article in La Nature (January 23, 1875) 

 on " L'Homme Primitif Americain." 



In Revista de Antropologia, Madrid, February and May, 

 1875, is an article entitled "De las Armas offensivas y de- 

 fensivas cle los Primitivos Americanos." 



Mr. Hyde Clarke has just published, through Triibner & 

 Co., in pamphlet form, his article in the Journal of the An- 

 thropological Institute entitled "Researches in Prehistoric and 

 Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology, and Archae- 

 ology in Connection with the Origin of Culture in America, 

 and the Accad or Sumerian Families." The author attempts 

 to utilize the latest investigations of cuneiform inscriptions 

 in unveiling the mysteries of American colonization. 



The eighth Annual Report of the Peabody Museum con- 

 tains an account of the Swallow Collection, the Collection 

 of Professor Wyman in Florida, and reports of smaller North 

 American donations. 



The "Congres International des Americanistes" was held 

 at Nancy from July 19th to 22d. The programme was as 

 follows : 



First Meeting. History of Ancient America, and ante-Co- 

 lumbian relations with the Old World. President, M. Torres 

 Caicedo, San Salvador. 



Second Meeting. Ethnology. President, Professor Hynes, 

 Boston. 



ThirdMeeting. Language. President,Waldemar Schmidt, 

 Copenhagen. 



Fourth Meeting. Archaeology. President, Fr. von Hell- 

 wald. 



The following gentlemen presented papers : 



M. Gravier. The Dighton Rock inscription. 



M. Foucheux. The Relation of the Buddhists with America 

 at the commencement of our era. 



M. Lucien Adam. The legend of Hoei-Chin, and the claims 

 of Mexico to be the Fou-Sang of the voyagers. 



The legends of the lost Atlantis, of Phoenician voyagers to 

 our shores, and of Phoenician inscriptions, met with little fa- 



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