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Nach Eingang der in Aussicht gestellten 

 Bestlmmungen und Vorschlage bitten wir eine 

 Erklarung iiber die Beschickung der Wiesbaden 

 Conferenz unter Mittheilung der Namen der 

 Delegirten an unser oben angegebenes Bureau 

 gelangen zu lassen. 



D1EL6, 

 Der vorsitzende Secretar. 



PLAN FOR THE FOUNDATION OF AN INTERNA- 

 TIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, 

 SUBMITTED BY THE ACADEMIES AT BERLIN, 

 GOTTINGEN, LEIPZIG, MUNICH AND VIENNA. 



1. The formation of an International Asso- 

 ciation of the larger learned Societies of the 

 world is regarded as expedient and as likely to 

 prove of service to the advancement of science. 



2. The object of this Association is to sup- 

 port scientific enterprises undertaken or recom- 

 mended bj' the united Societies in common, or 

 by a group of the same, or by any individual 

 Society, and, further, to make arrangements 

 for facilitating international scientific inter- 

 course. Each Society shall, as regards any 

 particular undertaking, reserve to itself the 

 right of deciding whether it will participate or 

 not. 



3. At the conference to be held at Wiesbaden 

 the organization of the Association and its 

 business details will be more fully discussed, 

 deciding at the same time, whether periodical 

 meetings say every three or five years, shall be 

 held, or whether such meetings shall take place 

 at irregular intervals, as occasion requires. 



4. The resolutions of the Wiesbaden Confer- 

 ence will be submitted to the individual So- 

 cieties for their approval and sanction. The 

 Societies will then, by the end of the year 1899, 

 definitely inform some central authority ap- 

 pointed by the Conference, whether they intend 

 or not to join. 



5. Each Society is free to withdraw from the 

 Association at any time. 



6. The Royal Academy of Sciences (Berlin), 

 in conjunction with the Royal Society (London), 

 has invited the following bodies (here arranged 

 in alphabetical order) to attend the Wiesbaden 

 Conference : 



1. Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 

 at Gottingen. 



2. Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaf- 

 ten at Leipsic. 



3. Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 

 at Munich. 



4. Academic des Sciences at Paris. 



5. Academic Imperiale des Sciences at St. 

 Petersburg. 



6. Reale Accademia dei Lincei at Rome. 



7. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 

 at Vienna. 



8. National Academy at Washington. 



7. The question of the eventual admission of 

 other Societies will be discussed at the Wies- 

 baden meeting. 



8. Each body will exercise its own judgment 

 concerning the number of representatives to be 

 sent to Wiesbaden. At the voting the represent- 

 atives of each Society will have but a joint vote. 



9. The language to be used at the Conference 

 will be optional : the minutes will be drawn up 

 in English, French and German. 



10. The Royal Society proposes that the first 

 ofiicial meeting of the Association be held in the 

 year 1900, in Paris. 



All communications referring to the Wies- 

 baden Conference are to be directed to the 

 ' Bureau der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissen- 

 schaften,' Berlin, N. W., Universitatsstrasse 8. 



PLAN FOE THE ORGANIZATION OP AN INTERNA- 

 TIONAL SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION PRESENTED 

 BY SIR MICHAEL FOSTER AND DR. H. P. BOW- 

 DITCH. 



1. The members of the National Academies 

 mentioned in the ' plan for the foundation of an 

 international association of learned societies ' 

 (Berlin, June, 1899), together with those of 

 such other Academies as may be chosen by a 

 majority vote of the Academies represented at 

 the pi-eliminary conference in Wiesbaden in Oc- 

 tober, 1899, shall constitute an International 

 Scientific Association. 



2. The first meeting of the Association shall 

 be held in Paris in 1900, and its subsequent 

 meetings shall be held at such times and places 

 as may be then or thereafter determined. 



3. By a two-thirds vote of the Association, 

 each Academy voting as a unit, representative 

 Academies of other nations may be admitted to 

 membership in the Association. 



