AMERIKA INSTITUT FORMED

Largely through the efforts of Professor Muensterberg during his service as Exchange Professor 1909-10, a so-called "Amerika Institut" has been founded in Berlin for the purpose of strengthening relations between Germany and America by serving as a bureau of exchange and inquiry, both public and personal. It is intended as an aid to both American students, professors, and officials in Germany, and to German scholars and travellers in this country. It already has a wide correspondence with persons seeking assistance for various scholarly purposes.

The Institut also acts in a semiofficial capacity in co-operation with the American Copyright Office and the Smithsonian Institution in facilitating foreign copyright and the exchange of documents.

Important among its undertakings is a library which already numbers 9200 volumes, on history, life, and conditions of the United States.