CROUP OF SCIENTIFIC LECTURERS 



The International Congress of Arts and Science presents men renowned in 

 almost every branch of Science, leading professors of the greatest institutions 

 of learning, astronomers, surgeons, technologists, economists, pathologists, an- 

 alogists, physicists famous specialists and scientists from all quarters of the 

 globe. 



The present group includes a number of these celebrities. In the front 

 row, from left to right, we have the full-length portraits of Prof. J. G. Hagen, 

 S.J., of the Georgetown University, which was founded by the Jesuits in 1788; 

 Dr. Carl Beck, Professor of Surgery in the New York Post-Graduate Medical 

 School ; Dr. Wil'helm Waldeyer, Professor of Anatomy, University of Ber- 

 lin ; Dr. Simon Newcomb, President of the Congress and Dean of American 

 Scientists ; Dr. Oscar Backlund, Astronomer of the Imperial Academy of 

 Science, St. Petersburg; Dr. Ormond Stone. Professor of Astronomy, Univer- 

 sity of Virginia ; and Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford, 

 Jr., University, in California. In the second row on the extreme left, we have 

 the portrait of Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, and on the extreme right stands Dr. Eugen von Philippovich, Pro- 

 fessor of Political Economy, University of Vienna. 



