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THE German Association of Men of Science and Physicians (Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte) is modifying its policy with the view of over coming excessive specialisation. It is proposed to emphasise the tasks and problems common to many or all branches of science and medicine, and to pro mote discussion on these common topics on the widest possible basis. The annual meeting of the Association will last not more than three and a half days. The Council of the Association will only arrange the general sessions, the main group and joint sessions, and popular evening lectures. The general sessions will be devoted to topics in which some definite results have been reached or to problems of immediate importance. If discussion does not follow these addresses by selected speakers, the same theme may be handled more freely in joint sessions of sections. The Council will abandon the attempt to arrange meetings of the separate sections, leaving them to deal individually with the local committee. It has been the custom for some years past that allied and associated societies should meet at the same place, and either before or after the formal meetings of the Association. This custom is to be continued at the next meeting in Hanover (Sept. 16-20, 1934), and with the help of the local committee. An innovation is the Zweckverband of German scientific and medical congresses, the aim of which is to maintain contact between these congresses so that whilst specialisation goes forward they shall not be shut off from each other. The purpose of this union is to publish the dates, places and programmes of these congresses; for example, various medical congresses take place in April and May next.
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German Association of Men of Science and Physicians. Nature 133, 492 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133492c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133492c0