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THE German Scientific and Medical Association Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und?rzte-held its eighty-eighth meeting in Innsbruck, Austria, on September 21-27. Many former members are now technically foreigners, domiciled in places once Germany, now called by other names. Hence a curious sort of superimposed internationality on a German-speaking basis, a formal recognition of foreign members, and a need for passports. The Austrian embassies and consulates offered visas free of charge from Berlin, Rome, Prague, Belgrade, Budapest, Buckarest, Bern, Danzig, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Christiania. A very emphatic welcome was given in Innsbruck by the Austrian President, Dr. Hainisch, in the name of the republic, and by Dr. Schneider, Minister of Education, for the Government and by others. There were more than 7000 ticket-holders, including a very few Englishmen, among whom were Prof. G. H. Hardy from Oxford and Prof. G. Barger of Edinburgh. The organisation arrangements seemed excellent. The programme was a pamphlet of 24 quarto pages with a very long list of papers', well cross-referenced to joint sessions, and mutual invitations between the 33 separate sections. The ground covered was similar to that of a British Association plus a British Medical Association meeting. The professors of the University of Innsbruck have fitly inaugurated their new buildings. All who co-operated with them, not forgetting the schoolboys who handed out programmes or wore ribbons and met travellers at the station, are to be congratulated highly on the success of their efforts.
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The German Scientific and Medical Association Meeting at Innsbruck. Nature 114, 734–735 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114734a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114734a0