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THE International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology, which opens at Lisbon on the 19th inst, promises to be an interesting one. On the mornings of the 21st, 23rd, 25th, and 27th, questions relative to Portugal will be discussed— Cut Flints of the Tertiary, Characteristics of the Palæolithic or Quaternary Age, the Neolithic Period, Kitchen-middens, Sepulchral Caves, Age of Metals, & c. Among the papers to be read on the afternoons of these days are the following:—M. Arcelin, Antiquity of Man in the Valley of the Saone; M. E. Catailhac, Recent Prehistoric Discoveries in the South of France; M, Ernest Chantre, an Exploring Journey in the Caucasus; M. Hildebrand, the State of Prehistoric Studies in Sweden; M. Schaffhausen, Prehistoric Man, & c. Several interesting excursions have been arranged for. Perhaps the most Important question to be brought before the Congress will be that of the worked stones said to have been found by M. C. Ribeiro in the Tertiary. The Local Committee have opened numerous cuttings between Carregado and Cereal, and in that distance of twenty kilometres it is stated that worked stones will be met with at every step in the Miocene deposits. The railway companies of Spain and Portugal will issue tickets at a reduction of one-half to members of the Congress.