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FAVOURED by the continued fine weather, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte held its ninety-third meeting on September 16-20 in Hanover, well-known as the home of Leibniz. The attendance of some four thousand found a wide range of topics awaiting their consideration, for thirty allied societies also took part in the proceedings. Among these may be mentioned the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, which contributed half a dozen papers, including one from Prof. The Svedberg on the applipations of the ultra-centrifuge, and the Kolloid-Gesellschaft, which for its tenth general meeting devoted two very full days to “Rontgeno-skopie und Elektronoskopie von dispersen Systemen, Faden, Filmen und Grenzsehichten”. In addition to the more specialised discussions within the two main divisions of natural science and medicine, there were combined discussions and discourses of wider appeal addressed to the meeting as a whole, after the manner of the British Association. Among the last-mentioned, particular interest was aroused by Prof. W. Heisen-berg's lecture, “Wandlungen der Grundlagen der exakten Naturwissenschaften in jxingster Zeit”, in much the same field as that covered by Sir James Jeans's address at Aberdeen. An exhibition of apparatus, preparations and scientific books was held in the Ausstellungshalle, one of scientific films in the Tierarztliche Hochschule, and another, the travelling exhibition of the Dresden Museum of Hygiene, “Leben und Gesundheit”, in the Kunstler-haus, while lighter moments were provided for by the Opera House and theatre and the usual excursions to neighbouring centres of attraction.
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German Association of Men of Science and Physicians. Nature 134, 489 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134489b0
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