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Abstract

THE Fourth International Congress of Physiologists held its meetings with great success at Cambridge last week from Tuesday, August 23, to Friday, August 27, inclusive. It was probably the largest assembly of the kind that has yet met. Prof. Michael Foster was President. The following nationalities were represented: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Roumania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. The offer of Profs. Mosso (of Turin), and Golgi (of Pavia), for the reception of the Fifth Congress in Italy in 1901 was cordially accepted. The Organising Committee for the Fifth Congress was elected, to consist of the following names: Angelo Mosso (Turin), President. Chr. Bohr (Copenhagen), H. P. Bowditch (Harvard), A. Dastre (Paris), M. Foster (Cambridge), L. Fredericq (Liége), P. Grützner (Tubingen), P. Heger (Brussels), H. Kronecker (Eern), W. Kuhne (Heidelberg), C. S. Sherrington (Liverpool), and W. Wedenskij (St. Petersburg). The place of meeting that has been chosen for 1901 is the Physiological Institute of the University, Turin, and the time the latter half of. September. The local arrangements for the present Congress proved very satisfactory. The opinion was generally expressed that the simultaneous session of the sister Congress of Zoologists at Cambridge, far from proving inconvenient, considerably enhanced the pleasure of the meeting.