THE HISTORY OF THE CONGRESS 9 



the general object of the Congress and defining the scope of its work, and that 

 Mr. Small's plan be communicated to the General Committee as containing sug- 

 gestions as to details, but without recommending its adoption as a whole." 



DATE OF THE CONGRESS 



Your Committee is of opinion that, in view of the climatic conditions at St. Louis 

 during the summer and early autumn, it is desirable that the meeting of this 

 general Congress be held during the six days beginning on Monday, September 19, 

 1904, and continuing until the Saturday following. Special associations choosing 

 St. Louis as their meeting-place may then convene at such other dates as may be 

 deemed fit; but it is suggested that learned societies whose field is connected with 

 that of the Congress should meet during the week beginning September 26. 



The sectional discussions of the Congress will then be continued by these 

 societies, the whole forming a continuous discussion of human progress during 

 the last century. 



PLAN OF ADDRESSES 



The Committee believe that in order to carry out the proposed plan in the most 

 effective way it is necessary that the addresses be prepared by the highest living 

 authorities in each and every branch. In the last subdivisions, each section 

 embraces two papers; one on the history of the subject during the last one hun- 

 dred years and the other on the problems of to-day. 



The programme of papers suggested by the Committee as embraced in Pro- 

 fessor Miinsterberg's plan may be summarized as follows : 



On the first day four papers will be read on the general subject, and four on 

 each of the four large divisions, twenty in all. On the second day those four divi- 

 sions will be divided into twenty groups, or departments, each of which will have 

 four papers referring to the divisions and relations of the sciences, eighty in all. 

 On the last four days, two papers in each of the 120 sections, 240 in all, thus 

 making a total of 340 papers. 



In view of the fact that the men who will make the addresses should not be 

 expected to bear all the expense of their attendance at the Congress, it seems 

 advisable that the authorities of the Fair should provide for the expenses neces- 

 sarily incurred in the journey, as well as pay a small honorarium for the addresses. 

 The Committee suggest, therefore, that each American invited be offered $100 for 

 his traveling expenses and each European $400. In addition to this that each 

 receive $150 as an honorarium. Assuming that one half of those invited to deliver 

 addresses will be Americans and one half Europeans, this arrangement will involve 

 the expenditure of $136,000. This estimate will be reduced if the same person 

 prepares more than one address. It will also be reduced if more than half of the 

 speakers are Americans, and increased in the opposite case. 



As the Committee is not advised of the amount which the management of the 

 Exposition may appropriate for the purpose of the Congress, it cannot, at present, 

 enter further into details of adjustment, but it records its opinion that the sum 

 suggested is the least by which the ends sought to be attained by the Congress can 

 be accomplished To this must be added the expenses of administration and 

 publication. 



All addresses paid for by the Congress should be regarded as its property, and 

 be printed and published together, thus constituting a comprehensive work 

 exhibiting the unity, progress, and present state of knowledge. 



This plan does not preclude the delivery of more than one address by a single 

 scholar. The directors of the Exposition may sometimes find it advisable to ask 

 the same scholar to deliver two addresses, possibly even three. 



