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6. What influence has been exerted on the arts, and especially on architecture, 

 in the Iberian peninsula by the occupation of the Moors 1 



7. What state has the study of runic inscriptions attained ? 



8. To determine the characters of Carlovingian architecture and its influence 

 on the progress of the art of building. To explain the influence of the Normans 

 on this art, after Charlemagne. 



9. What classifications may be adopted for the discoveries made in Belgium 

 and neighboring countries of objects anterior to the Carlovingian era 1 Are the 

 divisions adopted by the Abbd Cochet admissible elsewhere than in Normandy? 



10. What is the true symbolical interpretation of the box or coff"er, the glass 

 or poculum, and the cloth mcippa, in the funeral representations of the Gallo- 

 Roman epoch ? 



11. Did the architecture of Greek temples borrow its forms from constructions 

 in wood % A discussion of the opinion of M. Violet-Leduc on this subject. 



12. Is the ogival style to be considered as the natural and complete develop- 

 ment of the Eomau style? On the contrary hypothesis, might not this last be 

 reinstated in practice and apjjlied to the requirements of the present age ? 



13. There existed in France, in the twelfth century, several schools or 

 systems of architecture, in determinate regions. Can the same fact be recog- 

 nized in Germany and the Netherlands during the eleventh and twelfth cen- 

 turies 1 If so, what was the geographic distribution of those schools, and in what 

 did they differ from on<- another? 



14. What were the mechanical means employed by the primitive races in 

 moving the immense blocks serving for the construction of dolmens, peulvans, 

 menhirs, and structures styled halls of the giants 1 An examination should be 

 made of the opinions pronounced on this subject. See the memoir of his 

 Majesty Frederic VII, king of Denmark, inserted in the publications of the 

 Society of Antiquaries of the North, (1850, 1860.) 



15. What is conclusively known respecting the different kinds of horseshoes 

 found in Gallo-Roman mines, and the manner of using them? 



16. What is the point to which the study of hieroglyphics, and other modes 

 of writing adopted by the ancient Egyptians, has attained ? 



17. Are the ancient heaps or mounds which exist in southern Gaul itinerary 

 landmarks, tombs, or monuments of some other kind ? 



18. To ascertain the origin of the ogival style, and explain how it was intro- 

 duced into the Netherlands, Germany, and Eugland. 



19. To determine the special causes which have contributed to modify the 

 ogival style in France, England, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. 



20. To determine by texts and respectable authorities the honorary value of 

 the ornaments which certain representations of Roman warriors show to have 

 been in use. 



21. What degree of certainty has been attained by studies directed to the 

 deciphering of the ciuieiforras ? 



22. The strongholds encompassed with stones or palisades of wood, repre- 

 sented on the column of Trajan, evidently aflPord the point of departure of our 

 feudal castles of the tenth and eleventh centuries. What documents and texts 

 exist showing the system used in the intermediate period, that is to say, under 

 the Merovingians and Carlovingians, for abodes of opulent propriettn-s living in 

 the country? 



23. What rules should be adopted in the different countries of Europe : 1st, 

 for constructing methodical archaeological charts; 2d, for classifying systemati- 

 cally each principal epoch ? 



24. Should churches be made to front towards the east ? 



25. In churches, what is the best situation that can be given to organs and 

 baptismal fonts ? 



