The following pages have been written with a view to complying, in some measure, with a request that an early account of the Fourth International Congress of Actuaries should be prepared for the information of those connected with the Faculty of Actuaries who had not an opportunity of attending the meetings and of becoming acquainted with the proceedings. The exceptional length of the programme of the Congress, and the limitations of this occasion, conspired to render impracticable any attempt to present epitomes of more than a comparatively small number of the papers and discussions. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that no fragmentary and unannotated compilation, such as this perforce is, can take the place or claim the authority of the full revised official reports, which have yet to be issued.