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International Congresses 



International Congress for the Unity of Science: 



I. Paris 1935 



II. COPHENHAGEN 1936 



III. Paris 1937 



International Congresses of Sociology: 



I. Torino 1921 



II. Vienna 1922 



International Congresses of Statistics: 



I. Bruxelles 1853 



II. Paris 1855 



III. Vienna 1857 



IV. London 1860 

 V. Berlin 1863 



IV. Cambridge 1938 

 V. Cambridge, Mass., 1939 (Isis 32, 340-44) 



III. Roma 1924 



IV. Panama 1926 



VI. Florence 1867 

 VII. The Hague 1869 

 VIII. St. Petersburg 1872 

 IX. Budapest 1876 

 X. Paris 1878 



In 1885, the International Statistical Institute was founded with organized bi- 

 ennial sessions, Roma 1887, etc. 



The Belgian Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) was the president of the first of 

 these congresses, of the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and the 

 eighth; he could not preside over the second congress because of illness, and over the 

 ninth because he had died in the meanwhile. This is a unique example in the inter- 

 national organization of science; it proves that Quetelet was really recognized as the 

 founder and the great master, without peer (Isis 23, 10). Quetelet did not origi- 

 nate only the congresses of statistics, for the example which he had given was fol- 

 lowed gradually by the representatives of other studies {see table p. 292); he may 

 be called tlie founder of international scientific congresses. 



International Congresses of Surgery: 



I. Bruxelles 1905 

 II. Bruxelles 1908 



III. Bruxelles 1911 



IV. New York 1914 

 V. Paris 1920 



VI. London 1923 

 VII. Roma 1926 



VIII. Warsaw 1929 

 IX. Madrid 1932 

 X. Cairo 1936 

 XL Bruxelles 1938 

 XII. London 19471" 

 XIII. New Orleans 1949 



International Congresses of Toponymy and Anthroponymy: 



I. Paris 1938 III. Britxelles 1949 



II. Paris 1947 

 For more information see the journal Onomastica which began to appear in 1947 

 under the direction of Albert Dauzat, 10 rue de I'Eperon, Paris 6. The interna- 

 tional center is now at the University of Louvain. 



International Congresses of Veterinary Medicine: » 



Weights and Measures: 



The Commission internationale du metre met in Paris 1869, 1870, 1872. 



The Comite international des poids et mesures met yearly in Paris from 1875/76 

 on. No meetings in 1893, 1896, 1898. 



The Congres international povir I'unification des poids et mesures met in Paris 

 in 1878. 



123 xhis rnight be called Congress of the Philosophy of Science. Of course, every Congress 

 of Philosophy devotes at least one of its sections to the Philosophy of Science. 



i^* The London meeting replaced a meeting planned to be held in Stockholm 1941. The 

 Stockholm meeting did not materialize; a meeting was held in that year 1941 in Boston, hers 



