International Intellectual Relations

Abstract

to confer on means of forming an international union which should, in fields of humanities, correspond to recently organized International Research Council, which concerned itself with sciences and technology, and which would supplant former International Association of Academies, organized about 1900 on German initiation. The American scholars who attended conference thus called (Paris, May 15-17, 1919) were Charles H. Haskins of Harvard University and James T. Shotwell of Columbia University, who represented respectively American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Historical Association. At this preliminary conference it was agreed that a meeting for definitive organization should be held in Paris in following October. Meanwhile, in United States, on joint initiative of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Historical Association, a conference was held in Boston (September 19, 1919) which was attended by representatives of ten organizations,2 and which expressed opinion that the American learned societies devoted to humanistic studies should participate as a group in Union Acad6mique. The conference then proceeded to tentative organization of participating group under name of American Council of Learned Societies, and to 1 American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society, American Oriental Society, American Numismatic Society, American Philological Association, Archaeological Institute of America, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Modern Language Association of America, American Historical Association, American Economic Association, American Philosophical Association, American Anthropological Association, American Political Science Association, Bibliographical Society of America, Association of American Geographers, American Sociological Society, American Society of International Law, College Art Association of America, History of Science Society, Linguistic Society of America, Mediaeval Academy of America, Population Association of America. 2 American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society, American Oriental Society, American Philological Association, Archaeological Institute of America, Modern Language Association of America, American Historical Association, American Economic Association, American Philosophical Association. 83