AT the Sixth International Congress for Scientific Management to be held in July of next year, arrangements have been made for the discussion of many papers giving accounts of management in relation to a variety of problems. These include business forecasting, budgetary control, the inculcation of best methods of management, production control and technique, standardisation, the distribution problems of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, selective education and training for high administrative positions. Many international and national problems would be affected by the greater use of scientific method. The management of industrial and agricultural undertakings is gradually being based on more precise data and on improved techniques of management independent of the many and specific points on which scientific workers of different kinds—chemists, physicists, geologists and many others—are qualified to advise. Management consists in taking decisions with due regard to the multifarious factors of the organisation either within or without the control of the manager. The Congress is well supported by a large number of professional bodies and by eminent industrialists. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is the patron; the chairman is Sir George Beharrell. Dr. E. F. Armstrong and Sir Henry Fowler are among the chairmen of committees. The fuller programmes and membership forms will be available from Mr. H. Ward, 21 Tothill Street, London, S.W.1, at the end of October. The papers to be discussed will be printed in six volumes and be available to members before the Congress.