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126 the Congresses to be held at Chicago in 1893. Individuals eminent in any department of human progress are also particularly and cordially invited to attend the Congresses in which they are respectively interested.

However great may be the honor and advantage which any nation will derive from a participation in the magnificent material exhibit already assured, it is not too much to say that a higher glory and more lasting benefits may be secured by sending its eminent men and women to take part in the World's Congresses of 1893.

The World's Congresses of 1893 will be held in the Permanent Memorial Art Palace, erected on the Lake Front Park, through the co-operation of the Art Institute of Chicago, the City of Chicago, and the Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition. This "World's Congress Art Palace" will have two large audience rooms arranged to seat about three thousand persons each; and more than twenty smaller rooms, which will accommodate from three hundred to seven hundred persons each. Meetings of such a character as to draw a large popular audience will be held in the main audience rooms, while meetings of Chapters or Sections of different Congresses for the discussion of subjects of a more limited interest, will be held in the smaller rooms. It will thus be possible to have two General Congresses and twenty Special Congresses or Conferences in session at the same time, and to have three times as many meetings within a single day by arranging different programmes for morning, afternoon, and evening sessions; but it is not anticipated that so many daily meetings will be required in any Department of the World's Congress work; nor that, as a general rule, any Congress or Section will desire to meet more than once or twice in a given day.

The Committees of the Auxiliary are actively engaged, with the assistance of their Advisory Councils and Committees of Co-operation, in arranging the Programmes for the different Congresses, and much progress in this direction has been made. It is expected that most of the Programmes will be ready for announcement before the close of the present year. In these Programmes the dates of the various Congresses of the several Departments will be more specifically announced.

The foregoing consists chiefly of extracts from the General Circular of Information issued by Hon. C. C. Bonney, President of the Auxiliary, and signed by the General Secretary of the Exposition. The following points are deserving of special attention, although any one deeply interested would gain by carefully reading the whole, so as to see on how thorough and generous a plan the Exposition has provided for the success of the whole enterprise covered by the World's Congress Auxiliary. Notice should be taken

First. Of the three departments found in each Congress: –

(a) The

(b) The

(c) The

Those wishing to co-operate can best do so by noting the place and function of each one of these departments.

Secondly. It is important that provision is made for the "publication of the proceedings of Congresses," so that the philosophical work done in Chicago, which, it may be presumed, will be of a very high character, will be put at once in a form permanent and most available for further usefulness.