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FOURTH MEETING.
THE fourth Triennial International Congress of Physiologists, held at Cambridge on August 23–27, was the largest assembly of the kind that has yet met. The third congress (Bern, 1895) defined the qualification for membership as “open to (1) professors and lecturers on physiology and their official assistants; (2) to members of the American Physiological Society; the Physiological Society, England; Société de Biologie, Paris; Physiologische Gesellschaft, Berlin; Physiologisches Club, Vienna; (3) to ladies and gentlemen proposed by their National Committee, and accepted by the International Congress Committee.” This rule was strictly observed for the present congress, and the number of members attending was two hundred and twenty-six. The press were not officially admitted to the meetings. The different nationalities represented were as follows:—Austria-Hungary and Germany, 33 members; Belgium, 9; Denmark and Sweden, 3; Egypt, 2; France, 29; Holland, 3; India, 2; Italy, 9; Japan, 4; Roumania, 2; Russia, 7; Switzerland, 9; United States, 16; Great Britain and Canada, 98.
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The Triennial International Congress of Physiologists. Nature 58, 481–486 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058481a0
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