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In addition, reports were made on the Neurobiological Institute of the Bedin 

 University, under the direction of O. VoGT, and on the condition of affairs in 

 Norway, Sweden, Holland, England, Italy and Hungary. 



In Sweden, Professor Lenmalm is ready to undertake work of this sort. 



In Norway, Professor Guldberg is prepared to utilize his Institute for the same 

 purpose. 



In Holland, Professor Winkler has taken steps to organize there an Institute 

 for brain study. Assent has also come from Italy and Hungary. The Imperial 

 Academy at St. Petersburg has also reported to the undersigned that the proposition 

 for the establishment of an Institute for brain study will be favorably considered 

 there. Finally, Messrs. Bechterew and A. Dogiel in St. Petersburg, and 

 Messrs. Darkschewitsch in Kasan, and Roth in Moscow, have announced their 

 willingness to place their laboratories or clinics at the service of this cause. 



The question whether or not a Central Imperial Institute should be organized in 

 Germany, was considered at the session of the Associated Academies in Gottingen 

 in October, 1906. For various reasons such a Central Institute for the united 

 German Empire was rejected by the authorities, who much preferred to leave the 

 organization of the Institutes for brain study to the individual states. This, however, 

 does not prevent the larger states from establishing Central Institutes as well as 

 local Institutes. As previously stated, the Institutes under the direction of Flech- 

 siG and of Edinger, have been already recognized as Interacademic Institutes for 

 brain study. 



The Institute in Berlin, directed by O. VoGT, has not yet become connected with 

 the Brain Commission. 



As regards the recognition as Interacademic Institutes for brain study, see section 

 xvii of the constitution. In regard to the Central Institutes and their recognition 

 and arrangement, see section xxi. 



It is not to be expected that immediately upon their inception the proposed 

 organizations shall at once exhibit a complete activity, but by degrees, a closer union 

 of the separate Institutes will develop, and through experience, that form of organi- 

 zation will be found which will make possible effective cooperation. 



In accordance with Professor Langley's proposal, made at the meeting of the 

 Central Commission, one of the first steps taken will be towards the further revision 

 of the nomenclature, with the purpose of obtaining international uniformity. 



Moreover, we beg the Academies still to lend their powerful support to this 

 undertaking which has developed through their initiative, for without such support 

 we shall find it hardly possible to induce the several governments, in view of the 

 many demands made upon them, to grant with the desired promptness, the means 

 necessary for the establishment of specially planned and suitably arranged Institutes 

 for brain study. 



Finally, we beg the above mentioned Institutes, in accordance with the constitu- 

 tion, to furnish the Central Commission with the necessary reports as to their con- 

 dition and activities, and at the same time, to assist one another through an inter- 

 change of material and publications. 



By this means, in the course of time, the Institutes may hope to attain the 

 desired completeness in the matter of collections and reference libraries. 



(Signed) WALDEYER, 



President of the Brain Commisston, 



