The Tenth International Congress of Zoology

Abstract

IF, as many contened value of these international gatherings is that they bring into personal touch the seattered worlers in a single field or the larger number of worlers in diferse but allied fields, then the tenth Congress of Zoologists, held in Budapest on Sept. 3–10 must be pronounced distinct success. In spite of the clash with the Congress of Geneticists at Berlin, the British Association, and the meeting of Swiss Naturalists, there were registered no fewer than 862 members, though not all actually attended; those who did came from every civilised country north of the equator, and included delegates from 183 universities, academies, museums, and learned societies. The Governments of 24 of those countries were represented by 48 official delegates, those of Great Britain and China being apparently alone in declining the invitation. So far as the British Empire was concerned, the situation was saved by the appointment of Lieut.-Col. R. B. Seymour Sewell, I.M.S., to represent the Government of India.Considering that the Congress was opened in the presence of the Minister of Education, Count Kuno Klebelsberg, and the Ministers or other official re-presentatives of the leading Powers, and considering that on subsequent occasions selected delegates were received and entertained by the Regent and by Count Klebelsberg, it did seem to the British zoologists present that they might have been placed by their Government on a level with their distinguished col-leagues from Turkey and Czechoslovakia.