INTERNATIOJSTAL AECH^OLOGICAL COJ^GRESS: 



OEGANIZED BY THE AECH^OLOGICAL ACADEMY OF BELGIUM IN CON- 

 CERT WITH THE FEENCH SOCIETY OF AECH^OLOGY: ANTWEEP, 1866.'' 



PROGRAMME. 



ArcHjEologv. — 1. Do the discoveries of lacustrian habitations enable us to 

 assign precise chronological limits to the custom which led to the erection of 

 these constructions ? 



2. Do the dolmens of Ireland and Scotland modify the conclusions drawn by 

 French archaeologists from the study of monuments of the same aature existing 

 on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy, in regard to the destination of these 

 constructions ? 



3. Do the subterranean discoveries made within a few years in Denmark 

 modify the resvilts obtained by archaeological science in the southern and central 

 parts of Europe 1 



4. To what epoch may the tombs of lead be referred 1 By what characters 

 can their succession be recognized ? 



5. Do the discoveries of antiquities made thus far in Germany enable us to 

 determine, in a certain manner, the period during which the Romans occupied 

 that part of Europe 1 



* Regulations. — 1. The Congress will open August 12, 1866, and will terminate the 21st 

 of the same month. 2. It will be divided into two sections, which will transact business 

 alternately, in general assembly. 3. The central bureau, composed of four members of the 

 committee of organization, four of the committee of administration, and six foreign delegates, 

 will nominate, each day, for the sessions of the next, the president, vice-presidents and 

 members of the bureau of each section. Each day, the central bureau will prescribe, for 

 the following day, the hours of session of the sections and determine for them the order of 

 the day, which shall not be modified. 4. The secretaries of the sections will be nominated by 

 the central bureau, which will proclaim the names at the opening session. 5. No one shall 

 address the Congress during a session without permission from the president. 6. All discus- 

 sion respecting religion and modern politics is expressly interdicted. 7. The reading of no 

 memoir will be permitted. This interdiction does not apply to citations which the speakers 

 may have occasion to make in their discourses. 8. Written memoirs will be referred to the 

 central bureau, which will judge whether they merit insertion in the compte-rendu of the 

 sessions. 9. The members shall have the right of presenting other questions than those of 

 the programme, but these must have been previously laid, during session, upon the desk. 

 They will be examined, the same evening, by the central bureau, which will judge whether 

 they can be admitted. The result of the deliberation will be communicated next day to the 

 sections which they concern. 10. Scientific excursions will be in order during and after the 

 continuance of the Congress. 11. Those persons shall be members of the Congress who, 

 having accepted the invitation extended to them, shall have deposited in the hands of the 

 treasurer the sum of ten francs for the purpose of discharging in part the expense of printing 

 and engraving the compte-rendu of the labors of the session. 12. Each member of the Con- 

 gress shall be entitled to receive a copy of the compte-rendu, which will be published under 

 the superintendence of the general secretaries. 13. Each scientific association which shall 

 appear by representative shall receive gratuitously a copy of the compte-rendu. This does 

 not dispense with the payment by the delegates of the contribution mentioned in article 11, 

 and which gives them personally a right to the receipt of the volume. 14. Members pre- 

 vented from attending the Congress may, like others, present memoirs on the questions of 

 the programme. 15. Eepresentatives of the public journals will, on application to the central 

 bureau, have a special gallery assigned to them. 16. Any difficulty not foreseen in these 

 arrangements will be submitted to the decision of the central bureau without appeal. 



