22 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.S., ON THE 
I may also say that I have derived very great satisfaction from 
the services of your clerk, Mr. Montague, and I take this oppor- 
tunity of bearing testimony to his unwearied diligence in his 
duties, his great conscientiousness, his intelligence, and, above all, 
for his remarkable memory, to which I am often indebted, and 
which often saves me much trouble and research. 
I am directed to say that the Council at this meeting have 
passed a vote to increase his salary from the beginning of next year 
(Hear, hear.) 
Again I thank you for your kindness. (Applause.) 
The Presipent.—The last resolution contained a request that L 
should communicate that resolution to Mrs. Petrie. J have done 
so. She expressed the hope that it might appear in the forth- 
coming volume of our Transactions, but it was too late, because 
the sheets were already in the hands of the binder. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author :— 
“The Proceedings of the Congress for the History of Religions, 
Paris,” by Theophilus G. Pinches, Esq., M.R.A.S. 
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CONGRES INTER- 
NATIONAL D HISTOIRE DES RELIGIONS, held 
at Paris from the 3rd to the 8th of September, 1900. By 
THEOPHILUS G. PincHEs, LL.D., M.R.A.S.* 
ape all those who took part in the delightful little Congress 
of Religious History held this year in Paris, though he 
may not have paid much attention to the matter before, the 
thought must have come that this was the outcome—modest 
in its way, but of infinite value—of the great ‘‘ World’s 
Parliament of Religions,” beld at Chicago on the occasion 
of the great International Exhibition held in that progressive 
American city in 1893. But it was not only an outcome—it 
was also a contrast. The unique assemblage gathered 
together in the capital of Illmois consisted largely of the 
representatives of the principal religions of the world, who 
seem to have hailed the opportunity thus presented of 
placing their religious views before mankind, each claiming 
* Read, Monday, 3rd December, 1900. 
