DOCUMENT I OF THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 BRAIN COMMISSION (Br. C). 



In the spring of 1906, the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna issued to the 

 Associated Academies a report on the condition of the interacademic institutes for 

 brain study. This report appeared in two documents (A) and (B), the former of 

 which (A) contained the earher correspondence relating to the institutes for brain 

 study, the names of those at that time members of the Central Commission for 

 brain study, and the provisional order of business and program proposed for the 

 meeting of the Brain Commission (Br. C.) to be held in Vienna at the end of May, 

 1906. 



Document (B) gave a brief historical review of the progress thus far made in the 

 establishment of Interacademic Institutes for brain study. 



I now add a report on the further course of affairs and especially on the first 

 session of the Brain Commission, together with a report of the meeting of the Com- 

 mittee of the Associated Academies. 



The meeting, called conjointly by the undersigned and the President of the 

 Vienna Academy, took place on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of 

 May at Vienna. All the members of the Brain Commission were invited. There 

 were present besides the undersigned, the Messrs. Donaldson (Wistar Institute, 

 Philadelphia), Ehlers (Gottingen), Flechsig (Leipzig), Langley (Cambridge, 

 England), v. Monakow (Zijrich), Hermann Munk (Berlin), Obersteiner 

 (Vienna), and G. Retzius (Stockholm), GoLGi (Pavia), Dr. Greenman, Director 

 of the Wistar Institute, was present at the deliberations. Detailed minutes of the 

 proceedings were taken by Dr. Marburg, of Vienna. These are in the possession 

 of the President of the Central Commission for brain study. (The President at 

 that time, and until 1909 inclusive, being Dr. Waldeyer, Berlin, N. W. 6, 56 

 Luisenstrasse, Anatomisches Institut). These minutes are, however, open to 

 inspection by the several academies, as well as by the institutes for brain study and 

 the members of the Commission. 



At these sessions there was drafted a constitution, together with an order of 

 business, and later this was revised for publication by the undersigned, with the 

 approval of the Executive Committee. This appears as Document II of the present 

 report, and in its revised form must be presented for final acceptance and ratifica- 

 tion at the next meeting of the Brain Commission (Br. C), which will occur in the 

 spring of 1909, previous to the next session of the Committee of the Associated 

 Academies Moreover, the paragraphs in this document which regulate the rela- 

 tions of the Brain Commission tothe Association of Academies, must also be ratified 

 at the regular meeting of the Association of Academies at Vienna in the spring of 

 1907. In the meantime, the undersigned President, with the cooperation of the 

 Executive Committee, will conduct the business in accordance with the provisional 

 constitution, as given in Document II. 



The accompanying Document III contains information concerning the relation 

 of the Brain Commission to the Association of Academies. 



