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Editorial. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     October,  1904. 
University  of  Gottingen ;  Prof.  Ronald  Ross,  School  of  Tropical 
Medicine,  University  College,  Liverpool ;  Sir  Lander  Brunton, 
London ;  Sir  Felix  Semon,  Physician  Extraordinary  to  His 
Majesty,  the  King,  London ;  Prof.  Theodore  Escherich,  University 
of  Vienna. 
There  were  over  400  American  men  of  science  and  letters  who 
took  an  active  part  in  the  meeting.  We  select  the  names  of  a  few, 
viz.:  Prof.  Josiah  Royce,  Harvard  University ;  President  Woodrow 
Wilson,  Princeton  University ;  President  William  R.  Harper,  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  ;  President  Ide  Wheeler,  University  of  California  ; 
Prof.  Francis  A.  March,  Lafayette  College ;  Prof.  John  W.  Mallet, 
University  of  Virginia ;  Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott,  University  of  Michi- 
gan ;  Prof.  W.  O.  Atwater,  Wesleyan  University ;  Prof.  Russell  H. 
Chittenden,  Yale  University  ;  Prof.  Edward  C.  Pickering,  Director  of 
Harvard  Observatory ;  Dr.  Abbott  L.  Rotch,  Blue  Hill  Observatory; 
Prof.  William  G.  Farlow,  Harvard  University;  Prof.  C.  O.  Whitman, 
University  of  Chicago ;  Prof.  William  K.  Brooks,  Johns  Hopkins 
University ;  Prof.  Frederick  W.  Putnam,  Harvard  University ;  Dr. 
Edward  C.  Spitzka,  New  York  City ;  Prof.  William  Osier,  Johns 
Hopkins  University ;  Prof.  William  T.  Sedgwick,  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  ;  Dr.  George  M.  Gould,  Philadelphia  ;  Prof. 
Abraham  Jacobi,  Columbia  University;  Prof.  Michael  I.  Pupin,  Co- 
lumbia University ;  Prof.  Liberty  H.  Bailey,  Cornell  University ; 
Hon.  William  T.  Harris,  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Education  ;  Presi- 
dent Arthur  T.  Hadley,  Yale  University ;  Prof.  Hugo  Muenster- 
berg,  Harvard  University. 
At  the  opening  meeting  of  the  Congress,  addresses  were  made 
by  President  Francis,  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  ;  Dr. 
William  R.  Harper  and  Dr.  Frederick  J.  V.  Skiff,  members  of  the 
Administrative  Board  of  the  Congress ;  Prof.  Simon  Newcomb, 
President  of  the  Congress,  and  the  several  Vice-Presidents  of  the 
Congress. 
All  of  the  addresses  and  communications  in  each  department  will 
be  collected  and  published  in  a  special  volume. 
Any  one  who  attended,  day  after  day,  this  "  six-day  Autumn 
school,"  as  it  was  termed  by  Professor  Muensterberg,  could  not  help 
but  catch  the  prevailing  note  of  the  Congress,  as  expressed  by  Pro- 
fessor Harper  in  his  address  on  the  opening  day,  viz.,  the  unification 
of  knowledge.    "  Let  us,"  he  says,  "  confidently  assure  ourselves 
