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an appreciation of its work by Mr. 

 YVm. Harper Davis, of Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, one of the secretaries. The 

 articles following are addresses given 

 at the congress, which have not been 

 published elsewhere. 



International congresses have grad- 

 ually come to be a part of international 

 expositions. At Paris over a hundred 

 congresses were held, extending through 

 the summer, and the sessions and the 

 subsequent publication of the jjroceed- 

 ings form an important chapter in the 

 history of modern science. When the 

 managers of the St. Louis exposition 

 decided to make international con- 

 gresses a part of their scheme, they ap- 

 pointed a representative administrative 

 board, with President Nicholas Murray 

 Butler, of Columbia University, as 



chairman. This board adopted the 

 plan proposed by Professor Munster- 

 berg, of Harvard University, to hold 

 one congress of the arts and sciences 

 which should attempt to promote and 

 demonstrate the unity of science. Pro- 

 fessor Newcomb was appointed presi- 

 dent, and Professors Miinsterberg and 

 Small, vice-presidents, and at the same 

 time acted as a committee of organiza- 

 tion. 



All this is, however, told in Mr. 

 Davis's article. After giving the 

 praise and appreciation that is due, it 

 may be well to call atention to some 

 of the lessons of the congress. It was 

 a fine idea to have the whole range of 

 modern civilization represented in a 

 great international gathering of the 

 leaders in all departments of the sci- 



