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SCIENCE. 



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(2) Tlie Congress at large, divided into 

 eight section, as follows: 



General Theory: Section A, Mathematical, Ex- 

 perimental. 



Applications: Section B, General Applications, 

 Section C, Electrochemistry; Section D, Electric 

 Power Transmission; Section E, Electric Light 

 and Distribution; Section F, Electric Transporta- 

 tion; Section G, Electric Communication, Section 

 H, Electrotherapeutics. 



The president of the committee of organiza- 

 tion is Professor Elihu Thomson, of Lynn, 

 Mass. The vice-presidents are B. J. Arnold, 

 Professor H. S. Carhart, Professor W. E. 

 Goldsborough, C. P. Scott and Dr. S. W. 

 Stratton. 



Three hundred and forty-three official invi- 

 tations were issued some months ago to well- 

 kno\vn workers in electricity, inviting papers 

 for the congress. 168 of these invitations 

 were issued to persons residing in countries 

 outside of North America. As a result of 

 these invitations, 105 American and 59 foreign 

 specially prepared papers are promised to the 

 congress. Up to June 30, 1,787 adhesions to 

 the congress had been received, of which about 

 1,300 have paid their subscriptions of $5.00 

 each. Of these, 391 are from countries outside 

 of North America. The following societies 

 will cooperate with the congress at St. Louis, 

 by holding simultaneous conventions and joint 

 sessions : 



The American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



The American Electrochemical Society. 



The American Physical Society. 



The American Electrotherapeutie Association. 



The Association of Municipal Electricians. 



The following societies will cooperate with 

 the congress by appointing delegates: 



The National Electric Light Association. 



The Association of Edison Illuminating Com- 

 panies. 



The Soci#tg Internationale des Electriciens. 

 . The Schweizerscher Eleotrotechnischer Verein. 



It is expected that various other European 

 societies will also cooperate. Fourteen thou- 

 sand six hundred invitations have been issued 

 to persons interested in electricity all over the 

 world, inviting them to join the congress. It 

 is expected that the ' Transactions ' of the 



congress will attain two or three large volumes. 

 Persons interested in electricity and who desire 

 to join the congress should apply to the gen- 

 eral secretary. Dr. A. E. Kennelly, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. Each member 

 of the congress is entitled to receive one set 

 of the ' Transactions.' It is intended to issue 

 the ' Transactions ' of the congress, when 

 printed, to libraries and non-members for 

 $10.00 per set. 



AMERICAN AND GERMAN UNIVERSITIES. 



It is interesting to note that of the 37,692 

 students enrolled in the German universities 

 for the term now drawing to a close, 3,093 were 

 foreigners, of whom 986 were Russians. Fe- 

 male students to the number of 1,314 were 

 enrolled for the term. 



These figures do hot include such students 

 as are merely guests (hospitants), of whom 

 there are always quite a number. These enjoy 

 all the privileges of the regular students, but 

 they can not be graduated. If these be added 

 to the others, it is safe to say that fully 10 

 per cent, of those attending German tmiver- 

 sities are foreigTiers. Almost one thousand 

 Russians, or nearly one third of the foreign 

 element, were matriculated last winter. Next 

 come the Austrians and Hungarians, num- 

 bering 601, or about 20 per cent. Switzerland 

 furnished 322 regular students, and there were 

 324 Americans enjoying the same opportun- 

 ities. 



The number of foreign students, especially 

 of those coming from Russia, has steadily 

 grown, but a careful study of the attendance 

 at the German universities seems to show that 

 Americans have not been adding to this in- 

 crease. Thus, if we look over the reports of 

 the winter half-year of 1899-1900, we find 

 that the total attendance at German univer- 

 sities during that period was 32,834 regular 

 students, of whom 2,369, or about 7 per cent., 

 were foreigners; and that 607 of these were 

 Russians, 455 Austrians, 265 Swiss, and 317 

 Americans. Thus there were only seven more 

 Americans enrolled last winter than there were 

 four years ago. 



During the nineteenth century German uni- 

 versities led the world in erudition and scien- 



