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Non-tentative and Economie Method of Solving Equations, President 
J. W. Nicholson, A. M., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 
Significance of the Realistic Movement in Art and Literature, L. J. 
Block, LL. D., Chicago. Ethical Aspects of Pessimism, Miss Louise 
Hannum, Ph. D., Ithaca, N. Y. Insufficiency of the So-called Cosmic 
Philosophy, Professor Geo. H. Howison, University of California, 
Berkeley, Cal. Is there a Science of Psychology? Professor Paul 
Shorey, Ph. D., Chicago University. The Illuminati, Mrs. Mary H. 
Wilmarth, Chicago. Idea and Purpose of Plato’s Republic, Professor 
H. K. Jones, Jacksonville, Ill. The Duty of Philosophy, Paul Carus, 
Ph. D., Chicago. Common Sense, Science and Philosophy, Professor 
B. C. Burt, M. A., Ann Arbor, Mich. The Notion of Duty in Modern 
Ethics, President J. G. Schurman, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Philosophy of Education, Professor J. E. Bushnell, Kee Mar College, 
Hagerstown, Md. 
Tur Coneress ow Psycutcan Scrence.—August 2st.—Ellicott 
Coues, M. D., Chairman. Richard Hodgson, LL. D., Vice-Chairman. 
Ernest E. Crepin, Lyman J. Gage, D. Harry Hammer, D. H. Lamb- 
erson, J. H. MeVicker, Hirman W. Thomas, D. D., B. F. Underwood, 
General Committee on a Psychical Science Congress. 
Addresses of welcome, by the President of the World’s Congress 
Auxiliary and others. Responses in behalf of different Congresses and 
countries. Opening Address by the Chairman, Professor Elliott Coues. 
Human Testimony in Relation to Psychical Phenomena, Richard 
Hodgson, LL. D. A Brief Critical History of the Spiritualistic Move- 
ment in America since 1848, Giles B. Stebbins. Spiritualistic Inter- 
pretation of Psychical Phenomena, Rev. Minot J. Savage. A Descrip- 
tion of Psychical Phenomena in Brazil, Professor A. Alexander. 
Elementary Hints on Experimental Hypnotism, Walter Leaf, Litt. D. 
Contributions to the Bibliography of Periodical Literature Relating to 
Psychical Science, Spiritualism, ete., Benj. B. Kingsbury. Personal 
Investigations in Psychical Science, M. C. O’Byrne. 
August 22d.—Outline of a Project for a General Union for Experi- 
mentation in Psyehical Phenomena, Dr. Xavier Dariex. Exper- 
imental Thought-Transference, Frank Podmore, M. A. The Question 
of Phantasmal Apparitions, L. Deinhard. Programme for Exper- 
imental Occultism, Baron Carl Du Prel. Psychism amongst the 
Ancient Egyptians, Rev. W.C. Winslow. Psychic Facts and Theories 
Underlying the Religions of Greece and Rome, Dr. Alexander Wilder. 
Veridical Hallucinations as a Part of the Evidence for Telepathy, Pro- 
