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ences to the reproductions in rather more accessible form in this Pamphlet. The 

 portraits and other reproductions are very fine indeed : in the first volume there 

 are two photogravures of the founder, a view of the University, the general 

 architectural plan, the invitation to the festival, and facsimiles of some of the 

 letters received. The second and third volumes contain finely executed portraits 

 of the authors of the various inaugural lectures, and also one of the subject of one 

 of these lectures, Henri Poincare\ A half-tone reproduction of the same portrait of 

 Poincare is also given in No. 2 of Vol. I (191 5) of the Pamphlet (facing p. 133). 



The second volume contains : Rafael Altamira y Crevea, " The Problem of the 

 Philosophy of History" (265-87 ; 1915, 1, 256-78), "The Theory of Civilization" 

 (288-320; 191 5, 1, 279-311), and "The Methods of Extending Civilization among 

 the Nations" (321-46; 1915,1.312-37); Emile Borel, " Molecular Theories and 

 Mathematics" (347"77 ; IQ^, 1, 163-93), "Aggregates of Zero Measure " (378-98 ; 

 1917, 4, 1-21), and "Monogenic Uniform Non-Analytic Functions : The Theories 

 of Cauchy, Weierstrass, and Riemann" (399-429; 1917, 4, 22-52); Benedetto 

 Croce, "The Breviary of Esthetic " (430-517 ! 191 5, 2, 223-310) ; Hugo de Vries, 

 "Mutations in Heredity" (518-70 ; 1915, 1, 339-91), "Geographical Botany" 

 (571-95)) "Modern Cytological Problems" (596-614), and "The Ideals of an 

 Experiment Garden" (615-9); Sir Henry Jones, "Philosophical Landmarks, 

 being a Survey of the Recent Gains and the Present Problems of Reflective 

 Thought" (620-80; 1915, 1, 195-255). 



The third volume contains : Baron Dairoku Kikuchi, " The Introduction of 

 Western Learning into Japan" (681-725 ; 1915, 2, 55-99) ; John William Mackail, 

 "The Study of Poetry" (726-77 ; 191 5, 2, 1-52) ; Wilhelm Ostwald, "The System 

 of the Sciences " (778-867 ; 191 5, 2, 101-90), and "Principles of the Theory of 

 Education" (868-98 ; 1915, 2, 191-221) ; Vito Volterra, " Henri Poincare" (899- 

 928; 1915, 1, 133-62); Sir William Ramsay, "The Electron as an Element" 

 (929-46; 191 5, 1, 392-409), "Compounds of Electrons" (947-61 ; 191 5, 1, 410-24), 

 and "The Disruption of the so-called Elements" (962-80; 191 5, 1, 425-43) ; Carl 

 Stormer, "The Corpuscular Theory of Aurora Borealis " (981-1035); Vito 

 Volterra, " The Generalization of Analytic Functions " (1036-84 ; 1917, 4, 53-101), 

 and " On the Theory of Waves and Green's Method " (1085-100 ; 1917, 4, 102-17). 

 It may surprise some that such a large space is given to pure mathematics in 

 these lectures. But it seems particularly suitable that, in a large and rather 

 sparsely inhabited province of the United States where we should expect particular 

 attention to be paid to the practical sciences, a far-seeing President and Committee 

 should have laid stress on the great truth that science in general can only proceed 

 if the logical instrument for exact thought and exact expression is diligently culti- 

 vated. It is surely not a mere accident that two of those men among modern 

 mathematicians should be chosen as lecturers whose work is in the foremost line 

 of advance of pure mathematics and has also a very close connection with mathe- 

 matical physics. 



I will now attempt to pick out some of the points of scientific interest in some 

 of the lectures. 



Sir Henry Jones attempts to " indicate the manner in which the natural 

 sciences . . . must not only extend your mastery over the outer world, but rever- 

 berate within your inner selves, enriching and enlarging the powers of your 

 rational nature." The intercourse of Japan with the West began in 1543, and then 

 it was through the Portuguese. Not long afterwards came the English, the 

 Dutch, and the Spanish ; but Western medicine, surgery, and mathematics seem 

 to have been introduced by the Jesuits. Baron Kikuchi's short summary is 



