THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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The Library of Columbia University. 



are now our two main scientific cen- 

 ters, there being in each city about 

 five hundred men engaged in research 

 work. The first of the convocation 



ton four years ago, with an attendance 

 estimated at 1,500 members, and there 

 is good reason to suppose that the 

 present meeting will be even larger and 



week meetings was held in Washing- i more wide reaching in its effects on the 



The School of Mines, Columbia University. This building has just been completed. 

 In the foreground is the house used by the Faculty Club. 



