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Rh of World's Congresses under the auspices of the Auxiliary, with the assistance of the leaders in all the chief departments of human achievement.

2. More particularly, to provide places of meeting and other facilities, for appropriate organizations of a kindred nature to unite in World's Congresses in Chicago, at a convenient time during the Exposition season of 1893, for the consideration of the living questions pending in their respective departments; and to arrange and conduct a series of Popular Congresses in which will be presented summaries of the progress made, and the most important results attained in the several departments of civilized life, voiced by the ablest living representatives whose attendance can be procured.

3. To provide for the proper publication of the proceedings of such Congresses, as the most valuable and enduring memorial of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

4. To bring all the departments of human progress into harmonious relations with each other in the Exposition of 1893; to crown the whole glorious work by the formation and adoption of better and more comprehensive plans than have hitherto been made; to promote the progress, prosperity, unity, peace, and happiness of the world; and to secure the effectual prosecution of such plans by the organization of a series of world-wide fraternities through whose efforts and influence the moral and intellectual forces of mankind may be made dominant throughout the world.

As far as practicable the several Departments of the World's Congress Auxiliary have been planned to bring to Chicago, during the time assigned to the Department, the largest number of kindred organizations for simultaneous or alternate sessions, thus enabling persons interested in several subjects of a kindred character reasonable opportunities to attend several Congresses, without a too prolonged stay at the Exposition.

The Government of the United States, recognizing the World's Congress Auxiliary as the proper agency to conduct a series of International Congresses, in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, has directed the Diplomatic and the Consular Officers of the United States in all countries to request "that a convenient number of the most eminent representatives of the various departments of human progress, be selected as delegates to attend the respective Congresses, by or under the direction of the Government to which they are respectively accredited, in addition to those who will come as the representatives of the leading institutions and societies of different countries; and to extend the assurance that the largest practicable participation of foreign peoples and Governments in the whole series of the Congresses is especially desired; and that such a co-operation on the part of other Governments will, it is confidently believed, tend in the highest degree to promote, strengthen, and extend those fraternal relations and mutual benefits which may now justly be regarded as the supreme objects of international intercourse, and as involving a higher civilization and a broader human progress."

In addition to such Governmental delegates, the World's Congress Auxiliary also most cordially invites the appropriate institutions and societies of other countries to create Committees of Co-operation, to appoint delegates and otherwise contribute, as far as may be in their power, to the success of