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the Secretary of the Institution in the new building of the National 

 Museum on the evening of December 29. 



This highly successful and important congress was attended by 

 approximately 100 official delegates from the 21 American Eepublics, 

 and 60 by special invitation, or representing societies or universities. 

 The United States was represented by approximately 1,000 unofficial 

 delegates or members. 



NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. 



The Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists, which 

 was to have been held at Washington on the invitation of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in October, 1914, w^as postponed on account of 

 the war in Europe until a more favorable time for an international 

 gathering. When it became evident that a fully attended meeting 

 would be out of the question in the near future, it was decided to 

 hold the congress in affiliation with the section of anthropology of 

 the Second Pan American Scientific Congress and jointly with the 

 American Anthropological Association, the American Folk-Lore 

 Society, the American Historical Association, and the Archaeologi- 

 cal Institute of America. In consequence the date of the meeting 

 was definitely fixed for December 27-31, 1915. 



Mr. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, former minister to 

 Mexico and Eussia, ex-president of the Washington Society of the 

 Archaeological Institute, etc., served as president of the congress. 

 The honorary presidents were the Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution; Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia; and Prof. 

 William H. Holmes, of the National Museum. Mr. Clarence F. 

 Norment, of Washington, served as treasurer, and Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 

 of the National Museum, as secretary of the Congress. There was 

 a long list of honorary vice presidents, a general (honorary) com- 

 mittee, associate foreign secretaries, and an organizing committee 

 (with the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution as chairman). 



Official representatives of foreign Governments were in attendance 

 from Austria, Chile, Cuba, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guate- 

 mala, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, Sweden, and Uruguay, and about 

 100 official delegates from various learned societies and universities 

 in the United States and foreign countries. 



The headquarters of the congress were at the National Museum, 

 and most of the sessions were held there. 



Nearly 100 papers relating to the study of somatology, arche- 

 ology, ethnology, folklore, history, and linguistics were read at the 

 sessions of the congress, among them papers by several members of 

 the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology and of the National 

 Museum. 



