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Abstract

THE subject of an International Congress of Electricity, to be held at Chicago in connection with the World's Fair, continues to attract much attention in America. A report about the matter has been presented to the Director-General of the Exhibition by Mr. J. Allen Hornsby, secretary of the department of electricity. During a recent visit to Europe, Mr. Hornsby discussed the question with several leading men of science in England and on the Continent, and he was encouraged by them to believe that, if certain conditions were complied with, the success of the Congress would be certain. They all agreed that the Congress should be held under the auspices of the U. S. Government. Invitations, they thought, should be issued by the Government to individual scientific men through the Governments of the countries to which the individuals belong. “This course of action,” says Mr. Hornsby, “in the opinion of the authorities whom I consulted, will insure an official character to the proceedings of the scientific Congress, and will virtually pledge the various Governments to a recognition and adoption of the standards created.”