10 THE HISTORY OF THE CONGRESS 



The Committee recommends that full liberty be allowed to each section of the 

 Congress in arranging the general character and programme of its discussions 

 within the field proposed. 



As an example of how the plan will work in the case of any one section, the 

 Committee take the case of a neurologist desiring to profit by those discussions 

 which relate to his branch of medicine. This falls under C of the four main 

 divisions as related to the physical sciences. His interest on the first day will 

 therefore be centred in Division C, where he may hear the general discussion of 

 the physical sciences and the relations to the other sciences. On the second day 

 he will hear four papers in Group 18 on the subjects embraced in the general 

 science of anthropology; one on its fundamental conceptions; one on its 

 methods and two on the relation of anthropology to the sciences most closely con- 

 nected with it. During the remaining four days he will meet with the represent- 

 atives of medicine and its related subjects, who will divide into sections, and 

 listen to four papers in each section. One paper will consider the progress of 

 that section in the last one hundred years, one paper will be devoted to the 

 problems of to-day, leaving room for such contributions and discussions as may 

 seem appropriate during the remainder of the day. 



COOPERATION OF LEARNED SOCIETIES INVOKED 



In presenting this general plan, your Committee wishes to point out the diffi- 

 culty of deciding in advance what subjects should be included in every section. 

 Therefore, the Committee deems it of the utmost importance to secure the advice 

 and assistance of learned societies in this country in perfecting the details of the 

 proposed plan, especially the selection of speakers and the programme of work in 

 each section. It will facilitate the latter purpose if such societies be invited and 

 encouraged to hold meetings at St. Louis during the week immediately preceding, 

 or, preferably, the week following the General Congress. The selection of speakers 

 should be made as soon as possible, and, in any case, before the end of the present 

 academic year, in order that formal invitations may be issued and final arrange- 

 ments made with the speakers a year in advance of the Congress. 



CONCLUDING SUGGESTIONS 



With the view of securing the cooperation of the governments and leading 

 scholars of the principal countries of Western and Central Europe in the proposed 

 Congress, it seems advisable to send two commissioners to these countries for this 

 purpose. It seems unnecessary to extend the operations of this commission out- 

 side the European continent or to other than the leading countries. In other 

 cases arrangements can be made by correspondence. 



It is the opinion of the Committee that an American of world-wide reputation 

 as a scholar should be selected to preside over the Congress. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



(Signed) SIMON NEWCOMB, 



Chairman; 

 GEORGE F. MOORE, 

 JOHN B. MOORE, 



HUGO MiJNSTERBERG, 



ALBION W. SMALL, 

 WILLIAM H. WELCH, 

 ELIHU THOMSON, 



Committee. 



