512 ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETINGS 



ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETINGS 



The Washington Academy of Sciences will hold a joint meeting with 

 the Philosophical Society on December 4 at 8.15 p.m., in the Cosmos 

 Club Assembly Hall. Prof. Jean Perrin, Professor of Physical Chem 

 istry at the University of Paris will address the Academy on Brownian 

 movement and molecular reality. 



NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS, WASHING- 

 TON, D. C, OCTOBER 5 TO OCTOBER 10, 1914 



Preliminary notice 



Pursuant to arrangements made at the Eighteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, in London, 1912, the Nineteenth Congress 

 will meet in America in 1914 in two Sessions, the first at Washington, 

 D. C, and the second at La Paz, Bolivia. 



The Session at Washington will be held under the auspices of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, in cooperation with the George Washington 

 University, Georgetown University, the Catholic University of Amer- 

 ica, the Anthropological Society of Washington, and the Washington 

 Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. 



During the Session an excursion will be made to the highly interest- 

 ing aboriginal quarry and workshop at Piney Branch, D. C; 

 and following the Congress it is expected that two excursions will 

 be arranged, one to Ohio for the examination of ancient mounds, the 

 other to New Mexico for the study of ancient ruined pueblos and 

 cliff-dwellings, as well as of the present Pueblo Indians in their native 

 environment. 



To avoid delay in announcements, and to facilitate the organization 

 of the Session, those who desire to become members are urged to com- 

 municate as soon as practicable with the Secretary, giving the titles of 

 papers which they ^vish to present before the Congress, together with 

 a brief summary of each. 



Ales Hrdlicka, Secretary, 



U. S. National Museum, 



Washington, D, C. 



