12 THE HISTORY OF THE CONGRESS 



In addition to the foregoing recommendations, Professor Miinster- 

 berg was requested at his earliest convenience to furnish each member 

 with a revised plan of his classification, which would reduce as far as 

 possible the number of sections into which the Congress was finally 

 to be divided. 



With the adjournment of the Board on January 19 the Congress 

 may be fairly said to have been launched upon its definite course, 

 and such changes as were thereafter made in the programme did not 

 in any wise affect the principle upon which the Congress was based, 

 but were due to the demands of time, of expediency, and in some 

 cases to the accidents attending the participation. The organization 

 of the Congress and the personnel of its officers from this time on 

 remained unchanged, and the history of the meeting is one of steady 

 and progressive development. The Committee on Plan and Scope 

 were discharged of their duties, with a vote of thanks for the 

 laborious and painstaking work which they had accomplished and 

 the thoroughly scientific and novel plan for an international congress 

 which they had recommended. 



It was determined by the Administrative Board to keep the serv- 

 ices of three of the members of the Committee on Plan and Scope, 

 who should act as a scientific organizing committee and who should 

 also be the presiding officers of the Congress. The choice for President 

 of the Congress fell without debate to the dean of American scientific 

 circles, whose eminent services to the Government of the United 

 States and whose recognized position in foreign and domestic sci- 

 entific circles made him particularly fitted to preside over such an 

 international gathering of the leading scientists of the world, Dr. 

 Simon Newcomb, retired Professor of Mathematics, United States 

 Navy. Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, of Harvard University, and Pro- 

 fessor Albion W. Small, of the University of Chicago, were designated 

 as the first and second Vice-Presidents respectively. 



The work of the succeeding spring, with both the Organizing Com- 

 mittee and the Administrative Board, was devoted to the perfecting 

 of the programme and the selection of foreign scientists to be invited 

 to participate in the Congress. The theory of the development of 

 the programme and its logical bases are fully and forcibly treated by 

 Professor Miinsterberg in the succeeding chapter, and therefore will 

 not be touched upon in this record of facts. As an illustration of the 

 growth of the programme, however, it is interesting to compare its 

 form, which was adopted at the next meeting of the Organizing 

 Committee on February 23, 1903, in New York City, with its final 

 form as given in the completed programme presented at St. Louis 

 in September, 1904 (pp. 47-49). No better illustration can be given 

 of the immense amount of labor and painstaking adjustment, both 

 to scientific and to physical conditions, and of the admirable adapt- 



