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AT a meeting of the Council of the Institute for the Study of Animal Behaviour on October 16, at the Zoological Society of London, Dr. E. Hindle, scientific director of the Zoological Society, was elected president in succession to Dr. E. S. Russell, who had resigned and who was made an honorary member and re-elected a member of Council. The following were also re-elected members of Council: Mr. R. J. Bartlett, Dr. J. T. Edwards, Mr. J. W. B. Douglas (Hon. Asst. Editor), Mr. J. M. McC. Fisher, Dr. J. Hammond, Dr. E. Hindle, Dr. J. Huxley, Dr. G. Lapage, Dr. W. H. Thorpe, Dr. A. Walton, Prof. A. N. Worden (Hon. Secretary-Treasurer), Prof. S. Zuckerman (Hon. Editor). Dr. A. Landsborough Thomson, Prof. James Gray, Dr. B. W. Tucker and Mr. David Lack were invited to attend to discuss Dr. W. H. Thorpe's proposal that a small field station for work on bird behaviour be initiated under the lirection of the Institute. This proposal was welcomed, and Dr. Thorpe was entrusted with the preparation of working details of his scheme. The future of publication in Europe of matter relating to animal behaviour was discussed also in the light of a communication from Dr. N. Tinbergen, of the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Leyden. The Council agreed to support any claims for the financing of work on behaviour among domestic animals, for example, on grazing behaviour in ruminants and on sexual behaviour in bulls. It was agreed to hold the next scientific meeting of the Institute early in 1946.
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Institute for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Nature 156, 566 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156566b0
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