Abstract
By 1889, at the age of 37 years, Cajal had published two papers on neuroanatomy in the Revista trimestral de Histologia normal y patologica, which he had founded (and subsidised) the previous year. However, his ideas received hardly any attention from his colleagues and he became a ‘little alarmed by their silence’ (Ramon y Cajal, 1981). He admitted that most histologists had not read his papers since ‘it is true that Spanish is an unknown language to the educated’ and he thought that the ‘direct objective demonstration’ of facts would be more convincing. Therefore, he first translated his principal papers into French and then decided to show his histological preparations to scientific colleagues, in order to demonstrate his findings and ideas. To this end, Cajal applied for membership of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, asked his Rector for permission to travel, collected all of his savings and set out for Berlin, where the Anatomische Gesellschaft met in October 1889.
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