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AMONG the distinguished scientific men of science who have left Vienna since the Anschluss is Prof. Sigmund Freud, who has taken refuge in London. Prof. Freud celebrated his eighty-second birthday on May 6 last. His name will always be associated with the development of psycho-analysis, and the significance of his contributions to psychology was acknowledged by his election in 1936 to foreign membership of the Royal Society, but Prof. Freud had not hitherto been able to sign the roll of membership. Although now resident in London, Prof. Freud was prevented by infirmity from attending the Society's rooms for this purpose, and although the charter book is rarely removed from Burlington House except when it is taken to Buckingham Palace for the signature of the King as patron of the Society, it was decided to extend the privilege to Prof. Freud. Accordingly, on June 23, Sir Albert Seward, foreign secretary, and Prof. A. V. Hill, one of the secretaries, accompanied Mr. J. D. Griffith Davies, who as assistant secretary has custody of the charter book, to Prof. Freud's residence, where the roll was duly signed by Prof. Freud in the presence of his daughter, Dr. Anna Freud, and Princess Marie of Greece, who was a pupil of his and received him when he left Austria. On behalf of the Royal Society, Sir Albert Seward presented to Prof. Freud an inscribed copy of a facsimile of the Society's charter book.
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Prof. Sigmund Freud, For. Mem. R.S. Nature 142, 64 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142064c0
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