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THE preliminary programme of the International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held at Zürich on August 9-11, has just been issued. The first general meeting of the congress will be held at nine o'clock on the morning of Monday, August 9, in the Aula of the Zurich Polytechnicum. M. Poincaré will commence the proceedings with a paper on the relation between pure analysis and mathematical physics. The next item on the programme is a report of the committee on the object and organisation of the congress; and this will be followed by a paper, by Prof. Dr. A. Hurwitz, on a development of the general theory of analytical functions. The afternoon and evening of Monday will be given to a banquet, a river excursion, and a soirée. On Tuesday, August 10, the congress will meet at 8 a.m. in six different sections, dealing respectively with papers on algebra and theory of numbers, analysis and theory of functions, geometry, mechanics and mathematical physics, astronomy and geodesy, history and bibliography. On Wednesday, August 11, the second general meeting will be held. The organisation of mathematical congresses will then be discussed, and the date and place of the next meeting will be decided upon. On the same day an address will be given by Prof. F. Klein, on the question of higher mathematical instruction, and one by Prof. G. Peano, of Turin, on “Logica mathematica.” It is requested that mathematicians who propose to take part in the congress will communicate with Prof. Dr. A. Hurwitz, Falkengasse 15, Zürich, before August 1. A ladies' committee has been formed to look after the comforts of lady visitors while the congress is in session.