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LAST July there met in the city of Nancy a congress of a somewhat novel kind (NATURE, vol. xii. p. 319) which, at the time, did not attract very much attention, but which, during its four days' sitting, did a considerable amount of work of varied value. This was the International Congress of Americanists, organised by a society recently formed in France under the designation “La Société Americaine de France.” The society itself appears to be French, though the congresses are intended to be international in their character, and among those who were members of the last congress (though not necessarily present) were many eminent men belonging to all parts of the world. Among English names we notice those ot Dr. Birch, Mr. Charles Darwin, Mr. Franks, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. R. H. Major, Prof. Max Müller, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Mr. Trübner, and others. Delegates from various countries were present at the congress, and although most of the papers were by Frenchmen, still a fair proportion were by foreigners, chiefly Americans and Scandinavians. Two thick octavo volumes1 contain the proceedings of the congress.
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International Congress of Americanists . Nature 14, 355–356 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014355a0
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