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Rh are of direct scientific interest. Far surpassing all the rest in this respect is, however, the Congress of Arts and Science, to which we have already called attention. Instead of congresses devoted to each special science, such as have met in connection with other expositions, one great congress has been planned to represent the total accomplishment and unity of science. It is easy to object to certain details of classification and method; but it is evident that a large idea has been conceived and is likely to be successfully realized. The original plan is due to Professor Hugo Münsterberg. The members of the committee visited Europe during the summer to extend invitations to foreign men of science, and at St. Louis during the meeting of the American Association the list of American speakers to be invited was completed.

 Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, New Haven, Conn., Vice-president for Social and Economic Science.

About 125 of the most eminent foreign men of science and scholars have accepted the invitation, and there will doubtless be an equally cordial response from Americans. Professor Münsterberg in an article on the congress in The Journal of Philosophy says: "Almost every one of these European scholars has in his own field brought about a certain synthesis of widely separated elements of thought, and has devoted not the smallest part of his work to the fundamental conceptions and methods of his science. The addresses which they will deliver thus lie essentially in the line of their own best thought, and yet it is most probable that the greater part of these addresses would never have been written had not the outer occasion of our