New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-14
luERTcINISTS IN CONGRESS.
EARLY AMERICAN TOPICS DISCUSSED AT corEN'
HAGEN.

EARLY AMERICAN TOPICS DISCUSSED AT coPEN'
HAGEN.
The fifth acknowledgements was heid IN
Conorboyen the Danish capital, last month Danish
napers report the proceedings at length ForV-h'e
foreign members atended-representauyeS OF germany
England Belgium, Brazil, SPAIN France ltaly huss
Sweden and Norway, the Argentine Republic ana lhe
Colombian Confederation The United states was rep
resented by Dr. Daniel G.. Brinton. OF Philadelphia
wIckhom Hoffman and Thomas Schmidt, the DANISH
Vice-Consul In New-YorE. Eight years ago the hIs'
congress was held at Nancy French saVants having
owen the start to the movement torenecuNe cooperate"
among learned men of all nations In the study OF inc
nrebisorc past OF this continent The copenhagen con-
oss vas opened on August 81 in the great hall OF the
university in the presence OF the King and Queen oil Den
mari and the Princess Of Wales. The proceedings were
conducted chiefly in the French language Dr. Brntoh
was elected vice-president for the Uniteu STATES
President Worsaal the celebrated archaoioRst III MS
opening speech complimented America ON ts gigah''c
strdes of progress in that threatened 10 leave
ENRIQUE I'm the rear Though the science OF comparative
archaeology was new, it had proved most important ny
the discovery that America must have been peoped rom
time immemOria and by similarity between the oldest
stone weapons and tools found in Asia. America anu
Europe that establishes almost without oouOt INC o'
that they had a common origin.
Tho four days session was relieved by round OF fes-
tytes The members Of the alternately ban
nueted with the royal family and raernized Win the
students at their cubrOons The serious work Oh tho
convention was, however, not forgotten 1t dealt main
" with the early colonization Of America by the Morse
men paper by Dr. Loefner, Professor OF Geography
AZ the Copenhagen University reviewed the evidence on
this polnt and established the fact that Nnland, which
the speaker held be Virginia rather than Aassachu-
se or Rhode Island reached in tho year 1000 rom
Greenland by way Of Labrador and Nova Scotia Later
I'm 1921 Bishop Erck Ewent from Greenland to Ninsnd
and I'm the middle OF the fourteenth century ycsels
md Mgutinn
~ the matter by Adam OF Bremen shows that long after
the VOYAGES had ceased they were talked Of IN Denmark
The absence OF monuments or evidence OF these visits
on the American coast was not strange. Nhen ~ was re-
embered that the yOyagcs were never real coonss mt
merely visited the coast 10 get lumber tus ana grapes
The famous DiShton Rock IN Mas5aenustt's Wts uh-
Lucien Adam and other French delegates protested
strongly against theory advanced py LIssIo ~
eaL6 gtnh1s had len its trace on the Aztec worship
In the sign OF the and the white robes OF the priests
the hypOthesis was rejected by Tue congress Ola maps
that were sent by Nordenskod presented 30 correct
cy odfhe east coast OF Greenland, taken In 1927 that
IN was agreed that the coast which Is now nircessUle
must then have been much eer FROM ice The opinion that
tb Atlantis of the ancents tue c1ntiHeut OF America
WAS SET forth aud discussed by the congress hereto
Tore Tnpubsncd letter by the Norwegian priest Hador
written between 1886 and l27l was submitted IN sup
port OF tue theory OF an open Polar sea u spoke OF
Voyages Of discovery made norhWard ny tue Norsemeh
In Jnv when locality that evidently Was sulllhs
sound was reached The sailors found large open bay
but could go ashore on account oil the beers flo-
iess0r steensiTap and Admiral luuingeis demonstrated
that Frisaudn on the Zeuo Brothers map published At
Vence i'm 5- was Iceland and not the Faroc Islands,
and Eu yroueland not Greenland, hut North tristan
marshland Therefore tho leuo Brothers were not Ia
Greenland and did not know any part OF the American
continent so years before COluWbls's time.
Tts of broken perforated pottery from the Rio san
Imam valley in Southern Utah, that had evident been
u.ed by the abOTignes ornaments Tor tue neck and
ezra we're submitted by Edwin A. BaTb,r Papers w'ro
T.,I that the Esquimuur language has no
necton with the other North American tongues and tn
dicates a different origin OF the race. map " tho
,,h Mission Society outlining the waudcriuL, Of tho
Indian tribes on the North american continent Aimee -
coouizatOu SHOWN. On august "a the couErs, ad-
OF the King