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The international character of the institute 

 should also be fully recognized. Although 

 located in America, its iield of influence 

 woToId extend equally to all other countries 

 and it would develop a power for interna- 

 tionalism the value of which could hardly be 

 exaggerated. It is a serious misfortune that, 

 whereas there are thousands of organizations 

 devoted to local history, or to such auxiliary 

 branches as heraldry, genealogy and numis- 

 matics, there is nowhere a single one that is 

 dedicated to the historical study of that which 

 is the greatest common good to all mankind, 

 the excellent institute in Leipzig being devoted 

 exclusively to the history of medicine. It 

 would place the New World in another light 

 if there could be founded here, especially at 

 this time, an institute which might in the near 

 future become the cradle of new intellectual 

 movement, of a new humanism. 



There is already a gratifying interest in the 

 project. Two or three of the finest libraries 

 on the history of science and of its special 

 branches are likely to be given to the institute 

 if it is founded on the lines above set forth. 



The following scholars have written to ex- 

 press their interest and sympathy and most 

 of them have promised some kind of collabora- 

 tion: 



Joseph Sweetman Ames, Wilder Dwight Ban- 

 croft, Fr. Barry, Alexander Graham BeU, George 

 David Birkhoff, Trauz Boas, Marston Taylor 

 Bogert, James Henry Breasted, George Lincoln 

 Burr, Florian Cajori, WOliam Wallace Campbell, 

 Paul Carus, William Ernest Castle, James McKeen 

 Cattell, William Bullock Clark, Frank Wiggles- 

 worth Clarke, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 

 EusseU Henry Chittenden, William Thomas Coun- 

 cilman, Henry Crew, Harvey Cushing, Charles 

 Benedict Davenport, WUliam Morris Davis, Arthur 

 Louis Day, John Dewey, Leonard Eugene Dickson, 

 Henry Herbert Donaldson, Jesse Walter Fewkes, 

 Edwin Brant Frost, Fielding Hudson Garrison, 

 George EUery Hale, Granville Stanley Hall, Charles 

 Homer Haskins, Lawrence T. Henderson, T. Wil- 

 liam Francis HiUebrand, William Ernest Hock- 

 ing, K. F. Alfred Hoernle, William Henry Howell, 

 Edward Vermilye Huntington, Ellsworth Hunting- 

 ton, Morris Jastrow, Jr., David Starr Jordan, Loms 

 Charles Karpinski, Arnold Carl Klebs, George 



Frederick Kunz, Berthold Laufer, William Libby, 

 Frank Eattray Lillie, Ealph S. Lillie, William Al- 

 bert Looy, Jacques Loeb, Graham Lusk, Percival 

 Lowell [deceased], Franklin Paine Mall, George 

 Herbert Mead, Samuel James Meltzer, Albert Abra- 

 ham Michelson, Eobert Andrews Millikan, Edward 

 Caldwell Moore, Eliakim Hastings Moore, Ernest 

 Carroll Moore, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Al- 

 bert Noyes, William Fogg Osgood, George Howard 

 Parker, Ealph Barton Perry, Edward Charles Pick- 

 ering, Frederick Leslie Eansome, Theodore William 

 Richards, David Eiesman, James Harvey Robinson, 

 Julius Sachs, William Thompson Sedgwick, 

 Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, H. M. ShefEer, Paul 

 Shorey, James Thomson ShotweU, David Eugene 

 Smith, Edgar Fahs Smith, Edward Clark Streeter, 

 Henry Osborn Taylor, Harry Walter Tyler, Victor 

 Clarence Vaughan, Addison Emery Verrill, James 

 Joseph Walsh, Arthur Gordon Webster, William 

 Henry Welch, Edmund Beecher Wilson, James 

 Haughton Woods. 



In the matter of corespondence the under- 

 signed will act for those interested in the 

 movement rmtil it is seen whether a more 

 definite organization can be effected. 



George Sahton 

 Haevakd Univebsity, 

 Cambrtoge, Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



TECHNICAL AND MEDICAL EDUCATION 

 IN RUSSIA 



The London Times states that one of the 

 most striking features of recent educational 

 reform in Russia has been the unusual activ- 

 ity of Count Ignatiev, the ex-minister of edu- 

 cation. There has been great need of people 

 of higher education in Russia in two depart- 

 ments especially, the technical and the med- 

 ical. In ^November last Count Ignatiev 

 brought before the Duma a scheme for a new 

 imiversity statute introducing far-reaching 

 reforms. Meantime many new technical and 

 medical schools are already being provided 

 for. Ten new technical institutes of various 

 types are in process of organization, and in 

 this connection Count Ignatiev approached the 

 municipalities and Zemstva concerned, with a 

 view to sharing the expense. These technical 

 institutes are to be opened especially in the 

 east-ern part of the empire, in Saratov, Vyatka, 



