Communications of tLe ,Jnstitut International 



d'Embryologie** 



(EQibryoIogical Section of the l.U.B.S.) 



The I. I.E. announces with deep regret the death of its member J. D. Boyd 

 (Cambridge). 



A General Assembly of the I. I.E. was held on September 6, 1968, during the 

 Vlth International Congress o[ Embryology, held in Paris, September 1 — 7. A 

 number of important decisions were taken: 



1 ) A proposal was accepted to change the name of the organization into 

 "International Society of Developmental Biologists". This change will be 

 effected soon. 



2) The next International Congress will be held in 1973. This will put the 

 Congresses out of phase with other international meetings of a similar nature. 



3) The I. I.E. (or I.S.D.B.) shall sponsor small symposia devoted to impor- 

 tant problems in developmental biology. It is hoped to have at least one of 

 these each year. 



The composition of the Board for the next term (1968 — 1973) is as follows: 



President A. Monroy, Italy 



Past President Et. Wolff, France 



Secretary-Treasurer E. Zwilling, U.S.A. 



Vice Presidents L. Gallien, France 



E. Hadorn, Switzerland 

 T. Yamada, U.S.A. 

 Members M. Abercrombie, U.K. 



J. D. Ebert, U.S.A. 

 J. J. Pasteels, Belgium 

 L. Saxen, Finland 



Adj. Secretary-Treasurer P. D. Nieuwkoop, Netherlands 



The I. I.E. at present has 373 members; 59 new members were accepted by 

 the Board in 1968. The latest membership list is to be found in the twelfth 

 main issue of this periodical ( 1 967, p. 265 ) . A new list will be published in the 

 thirteenth main issue (1969). The Board should like to see the membership 

 become much more broadly and widely representative of developmental biology, 

 and therefore earnestly solicits proposals as well as spontaneous applications 

 for membership. The procedure is as follows: 



a) Candidates for membership can be proposed or supported by two 

 members at any time. The Board screens the applications once or twice a year, 

 and decides about acceptance by simple majority of votes among its members. 



