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THE eighth international congress of zoologists has been a most enjoyable one, even though it has not been marked by any striking pronouncement. No president could have carried out Ihe arduous duties of his office more successfully than Prof, von Graff. To him in a large measure was due the representative character of the meeting. The committee under his presidency worked hard to ensure the comfort of the visitors and the smooth conduct of the meetings. That this was no small task may be judged from the fact that some five hundred members and participants came to Graz on August, 14 and 15, and that in the five days of the congress more than 100 papers had to be read. One disadvantage of this abundance of communications was the limitation of discussion, which might have been surmounted had the members exercised the art of compression. As it was, papers, were frequently read in extenso, and valuable time was thus lost. Some confusion was caused by the carrying over of papers from one day to the next, but the committee must be congratulated on the manner in which they organised the proceedings and surmounted difficulties, which in most cases were caused by the very success of the congress.
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The International Zoological Congress at Graz (August 15–20, 1910). Nature 84, 318–320 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084318b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084318b0