THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS there come together a group of 

 OF ARTS VND SCIENCE scholars whose average performance is 



j so great, and it is a matter for legimate 



Tins number of The Popular Sci- national pride that this assemblage 



ENCE Monthly is given to the St. Louis should have gathered in the United 



Congress of Arts and Science, which is States. The objects of the congress were 







Festival Hall, in which the Opening Exercises of the International Congress 



of Arts and Science were held. 



■certainly an event in the history of ' described by Professor Newcomb, the 

 science deserving special commemora- j president, in the September issue of 

 tion. Never before in the world have ' the Monthly, and there is given above 

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