Exposition Universelle (Paris) de 1900.
There will be held, in connection with the Exhibition at Paris next summer, a Folklore Congress, the arrangements for which are in progress and will be announced later.
There will also be held a Congrès International d'Histoire des Religions from the 3rd to the 9th September. The president of the Commission d'Organisation is M. Albert Réville, and the secretaries are M. Marillier and M. Jean Réville. The Congress will be divided into eight sections, dealing respectively with —
I. Uncivilised Religions and those of pre-Columbian America.
II. Religions of the Further East.
III. Religions of Egypt.
IV. Semitic Religions: Judaism, Islam, Assyro-Chaldean, &c.
V. Religions of India and Iran.
VI. Religions of Greece and Rome.
VII. Religions of the Germans, Celts, and Slavs, and, as bearing on them, the prehistoric archæology of Europe.
VIII. History of Christianity.
Some of these subjects are of the highest interest and importance to students of folklore. Discussions will be arranged in Section I. on totemism, the functions of sacrifice, and the condition of souls after death as viewed by savage and barbarous races. Totemism in Arab paganism will also be discussed in Section IV. The worship of ancestors in India, and the grounds of justification for the Solar Myth and allied theories in the Vedic hymns, are prominent in Section V. Recent excavations in Greece and the controversy about the origin of the myths in the Eddas will afford matter for important conferences in Sections VI. and VII.
Copies of the programme and further information can be obtained from the secretaries of the Commission, a la Sorbonne, Paris.
