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The International Congresses of Physiology and PsychologySource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 35, No. 5 (Nov., 1932), pp. 471-473Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/15413 .
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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND
PSYCHOLOGY THIRtEE years ago the International
Congresses of Physiology and Psychol- ogy met in the United States-the physi- ologists at Harvard University and the psychologists at Yale University. Now the congresses have againl met, this time widely apart the physiologists at Rome and the psychologists at Copenhagen.
The Quirinal ancd the Vatican united
to make welcome the Fourteenth Inter- national Congress of Physiology, wvlhic met at the beginning of September. Premier Mussolini presided over the opening session; and the members of the Congress were later received in audience by Pope Pius XI.
The Cong,ress was held under the Dresidenev of Professor FilinDo Bot-
PROFESSOR IVAN P. PAVLOV AT THE MEETING OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHYSIOLOGY IN ROME, PROFESSOR PAVLOV WAS ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE CONGRESS WHICH WILL MEET IN
RUSSIA IN 1935. 471
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PROFESSOR FILIPPO BOTTAZZI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES, UNDER WHOSE PRESIDENCY THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
PHYSIOLOGY WAS HELD.
tazzi, of the University of Naples. The principal address was given by Pro- fessor A. V. Hill, of University College, London, who spoke on the physiology of muscular action. Another address of outstanding interest was given by Pro- fessor Ivan P. Pavlov, who celebrated his eighty-third birthday on September 26. He had also the week before ad- dressed the psychologists at Copenhagen. Among the papers read in the sectional meetings was a series on the chemistry of muscular contraction.
The United States was well repre- sented at the Congress, with a delegation of about one hundred, including Dr. W. H. Howell, president of the preceding Congress. The next International Con- gress of Physiology will be held in Russia in the summer of 1935, under the presidency of Professor Pavlov.
The psycbologists decided to meet in Copenhagen largely to do honor to Pro- fessor Harald Hdffding, one of the lead- ers in the foundation of modern psy- chology, who, however, died at the age
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HARALD HoFFDING WHOSE DEATH PREVENTED HIM FROM FILLING THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE TENTH INTER-
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY.
of eighty-eight years before the time of the meeting. Professor Edgar Rubin, of the University of Copenhagen, was chosen to succeed him.
The King of Denmark presided at the opening exercises, and there were nu- merous. receptions and entertainlments, such as can be provided to special ad- vantage at Copenhagen or Stockholm- perhaps the two most civilized cities in the world. One of the receptions was held in the beautiful house and park given to the Danish Academy of Sci- ences as a residence for one of its dis- tinguished members. It had been occu-
pied by Professor Hoffding and is now assigned to Professor Niels Bohr.
The scientific program included 157 papers, and there were about 500 mem- bers in attendance, 98 of these from America, including Dr. J. McKeen Cat- tell, president of the preceding Con- gress; Dr. C. E. Seashore, chairman of the delegation appointed by the United States Government, and Dr. W. R. Mfiles, president of the American Psychological Association. The next Congress is to be held four years hence in Madrid under the presidency of Professor L. Myra, of the University of Barcelona.
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