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THE arrangements for the Fourth International Congress for the History of Science, to be held in Prague on September 22-27, are proceeding. The President of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Eduard Benes, has agreed to give his patronage, and with him are Dr. Em. Franke, Minister of Education, Dr. Kamil Krofta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Josef Zadina, Minister of Agriculture, the rectors of the Czecho slovak universities and corresponding schools, the presidents of the academies of science and of the scientific societies of Czechoslovakia, and the Chief Mayor of Prague. On the Committee of Honour, prominent leaders in industry and science in Czecho slovakia are represented. For the plenary meetings lectures have been promised by Prof. B. Nemec, formerly rector of the Charles University, president of the National Research Council of Czechoslovakia; Prof. O. Grosser, formerly rector of the German University in Prague; Prof. K. Studnicka, of the Charles University; Prof. Gino Loria, of the Uni versity of Genoa, formerly president of the Inter national Academy for the History of Sciences; Prof. Abel Rey, of the Sorbonne, director of the Institute for the History of Sciences and Technics. About a hundred papers, from Czechoslovakia and from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia, have already been received. Members of the Congress will enjoy reductions on the railways of Czechoslovakia and of the other countries interested. Further information can be obtained from the general secre tary of the Congress, Prof. Fr. Ulrich, Albertov 6, Praha II.
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International Congress for the History of Science. Nature 139, 1049 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391049a0
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