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the Business and Commercial College Congress 

 met during July 25-28, and at the same time the 

 National Educational Association, the American 

 Association of Educators of Colored Youth, and 

 the National Geographic Society held special 

 meetings. 



10. Department of Engineering, under the 

 presidency of E. L. Cortheil, met during the week 

 beginning July 31. It included congresses in 

 Civil Engineering, in charge of the American So- 

 ciety of Civil Engineers ; Mechanical Engineer- 

 ing, in charge of the American Society of Me- 

 chanical Engineers; Mining Engineering, also 



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Metallurgical Engineering, in charge of the 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers ; En- 



S'neering Education; Military Engineering ; and 

 arine and Naval Engineering. Also an Aerial 

 Navigation Conference and a Water Commerce 

 Congress met during Aug. 1-5. 



11. Department of Art held congresses during 

 the week beginning July 81 on Architecture, 

 Photography, Ceramic Art, Painting and Sculp- 

 ture, and Decorative Art, with contemporaneous 

 meetings of the American Institute of Archi- 

 tects. 



12. Congresses on Jurisprudence and Law Re- 

 form, with Henry W. Rogers as chairman ; on 

 Civil Service Reform, with Leroy D. Thoman as 

 chairman ; on City Government, with Walter Q. 

 Gresham as chairman ; on Suff fage, with Thomas 

 W. Palmer as chairman ; and on Arbitration and 

 Peace, with Josiah Quincy as chairman, were 

 held during the week beginning Aug. 7. 



13. Congresses on Africa, with James E. Roy 

 as chairman ; on Dentistry, with Dr. L. D. Shep- 

 ard as chairman ; on Medical Jurisprudence, 

 with Clark Bell as chairman : on Horticulture, 

 with P. J. Berckmans as chairman, were held 

 during the week beginning Aug. 14. 



14. Department of Science and Philosophy, 

 including congresses on Psychical Science, with 

 Elliott Coues as chairman ; on Philosophy, with 

 R. N. Foster as chairman ; on Geology,* under 

 the auspices of a committee of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 with Thomas C. Chamberlain as chairman ; on 

 Pharmacy, under the auspices of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association ; on Chemistry, un- 

 der the auspices of the American Chemical 

 Society and the chemical section of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, with Harvey W. Wiley as chairman ; Mete- 

 orology, Climatology, and Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 with Mark W. Harrington as chairman ; on 

 Electricity, under the chairmanship of Henry A. 

 Rowland ; and on Mathematics and Astronomy, 

 with George W. Hough as chairman ; on An- 

 thropology, with Daniel G. Brinton as chairman; 

 on Zoology, with Stephen A. Forbes as chairman, 

 met during the week beginning Aug. 21. 



15. Congresses of the Jewish Denomination, 

 with B. Bettman as chairman ; on Social and 

 Economic Science, with John H. Gray as chair- 

 man ; on Labor ; on Single Tax, with Joseph T. 

 Ripley as chairman, met during the week begin- 

 ning Aug. 28. 



16. Religion. Beginning with the Jewish 

 Church Congress on Aug. 27, there were subse- 

 quently held congresses of the following de- 

 nominations: Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic, 

 Colored Catholic, Jewish Women, Congregational 

 Church, Lutheran General Synod, Universalist 

 Church, Disciples of Christ, New Jerusalem 

 Church, United Brethren Church, Advent Chris- 

 tian Church, Reformed Episcopal Church, Lu- 

 theran Women, Theosophists, Seventh-Day Bap- 

 tist, Presbyterian Church, Unitarian Church, 

 Friends, Christian Scientists, Free Religious 

 Association, Reformed (Dutch) Church, African 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, Friends (orthodox) 

 Church, German Evangelical Synod of North 

 America, Methodist Episcopal, Swedish Evan- 

 gelical Mission Covenant, Buddhists, Cumberland 

 Presbyterian Church, Evolutionists, Sunday 

 Rest, Ethical Societies ; besides which, and in con- 

 junction with the proper denominations or sects, 

 meetings were held of the Catholic Truth Socie- 

 ty, Societies of St. Vincent de Paul, German 

 Catholic Young Men's Guilds, Catholic Benevo- 

 lent Legion, Catholic Young Men's National 



