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THE fifth International Congress Genetics, held in Berlin on Sept 11–18 was very important and successful meetings. The opening addresses of welcome were given in the auditorium of the Berlin Medical Society in Luisenstrasse while all the other sessions were held at the University (Unter den Linden). Members of the Congress were welcomed by Prof. E. Baur, chairman of the committee of arrangements, as well as by the German Minister of the Interior, the Prussian Minister of Agriculture, the head of the Berlin Medical Service, and Prof. Kniep, representing the University of Berlin. At this meeting an address was given by Prof. R. von Wettstein on the problem of evolution. Prof. S. Navashin, the distinguished cytologist of Moscow, was elected president of the Congress, a fact which is significant of the fundamental part which cytology has played in the modern development of genetics. The membership of the Congress numbered more than 1000. Mornings were devoted to general addresses, while in the afternoon the Congress met in six sections and about 135 papers were read.
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GATES, R. International Congress of Genetics. Nature 120, 495–496 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120495a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120495a0