CONGRESS OF ARTS AND SCIENCE. 9 



tember must now be sketched in broad outlines and the details of the 

 performance indicated by the barest reference to a few cases which 

 may be taken as typical. Here the writer, lacking an adequate grasp 

 of the whole, must be Limited for illustration to the parts of the pro- 

 gram with which lie happens to be somewhat familiar. 



Most of the members of the congress reached St. Louis on the 

 morning of Monday, the nineteenth, registering in the exposition's 

 Hall of Congresses, reserved as the official headquarters. The foreign 

 guests were largely accommodated within the grounds in the dorrai- 

 tories of Washington University. The expenses of all the principal 



Plt'ARD. 



Moore. 



Maschke. 



Professor E. H. Moore of the University of Chicago presided, and M. Emile Picard of the 

 Sorbonne and Professor H. Maschke of the University of Chicago gave the Addresses before 

 the Section of Algebra and Analysis. 



