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The fourteenth International Congress of Americanists 
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is to be held at Stuttgart, Germany, August 18 to 23'. Meetings 
are held alternate years. In 1902 a very successful session 
was held at the American Museum in Hew York. The Congress is 
patronized by European governments, and concerns itself with the 
problems of the native American races, their origin, distri- 
bution, history, physical characters, languages, inventions, 
customs and religions; with the monuments and archeology of 
America and with the history of the discovery and occupation 
of the Hew World, 
An exceptionally large number of American anthro- 
pologists will attend the Stuttgart Meeting-. W. H. Holmes will 
represent the Smithsonian Institution! as well as the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science and the national 
Geographic Society. 3Dr Eranz Boas and Professor M. H. Saville 
will represent Hew York institutions. Dr George A. "Dorsey 
represents the field Columbian Museum, Chicago, and Dr Charles 
W. Currier the Catholic University, Washington City, 
delegates are furnished with credent ials from the State De- 
partment, through the intermediary of the Smithsonian 
Institution. A movement is on foot to have the Meeting of 
1906 held in Washington, but the Argentine Republic is also 
urging the 
