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OWING to local difficulties, the twenty-sixth session of the International Congress of Americanists, which should have taken place in 1934, at Seville, was postponed; and at one time it was thought that no meeting would be possible before 1936. Arrangements, however, have been made for the Congress to opon at Seville on October 12 next. A programme is being arranged by the Organising Committee, of which S. Gregorio Maranon, president of the Geographical Society, is chairman. The topics selected for discussion include the. relations of the individual and the State in the early Spanish expeditions of discovery, conquest and colonisation; types of cities in Spanish America in the colonial period, and the functions of ‘the Hispano-American municipality; social and juridical conditions of the Indians in the Spanish colonial period: the critical study of the scientific work as regards geographical knowledge of Spanish America accomplished by the Supreme Council and the “Casa do Contratacion” of Seville; and fundamental problems in the archæology, ethnography and philology of pre-Columbian America. The subscription has been fixed at 25 pesetas. All communications relating to the Congress should be addressed to S. Joso Maria Torroya, General Secretary, calle del Leon, 21, Madrid.
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International Congress of Americanists. Nature 136, 332–333 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136332f0
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