EMS, a town and watering-place of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, situated on the Lahn, 11 m. E. from Coblenz on the railway to Cassel and Berlin. Pop. There is some mining industry (silver and lead). Ems is a water ing-place, its waters—hot alkaline springs—being used both for drinking and bathing. A funicular railway runs up to the Malberg (I ,000 ft.), where is a sanatorium and whence extensive views are obtained over the Rhine valley. In 1786 Ems was the scene of the conference of the delegates of the four German archbishops, known as the congress of Ems, which issued (Aug. 25) in the famous joint pronouncement, known as the Punctuation of Ems, against the interference of the papacy in the affairs of the Catholic Church in Germany (see FEBRONIANISM).