seven volumes by P. S. King and Son, Limited, 14 Great Smith Street, London, England. The Congress adopted the following resolution: To collaborate with the International Labor Office in Geneva by providing a committee of six experts to sit in a consultative capacity with six representatives of the International Labor Office and give technical advice in the field of personnel management. It was decided that the Seventh International Congress for Scientific Management would be held in the United States in 1938. INTERNATIONAL (EUROPEAN) FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL Delegates: (London, England, July 16-30, 1935) Elizabeth Burchenal, Executive Chairman of the National Committee on Folk Arts of the United States and President of the American Folk Dance Society, New York, New York, Chairman of the Delegation; 1 Jacqueline Dorminy, President of the Dancing Masters of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; G. Virginia Gollatz, Member of Associated Dancing Teachers of Southern California, Pasadena, California. The Festival, which was held under the joint auspices of the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the British National Committee on Folk Arts, was purely social and ethnographic in character. It was designed to promote understanding and friendship between nations through the common interest of folk dance, to demonstrate the value of folk dance in the social life of today, and to further the comparative study of folk dances. The following countries were represented at the Festival by official delegates: Egypt, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and United States of America. The American delegates, however, acted only as observers. The Festival was divided into (1) public performances and (2) conference sessions. Five public performances were given in which folk dances were presented by dance groups from 18 countries, the performers numbering about 500. These dance groups did not represent their countries officially. Five conference sessions were held at which papers were presented by 14 speakers from 11 countries. In some instances talks were illustrated by films, slides, and dance demonstrations. Three of the speakers, although presenting papers as private individuals, were also delegates to the Festival. The report of the proceedings of the Festival has been printed in the 1935 issue of the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, N.W. 1. FOURTH MEETING OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE HIGH COMMISSION FOR REFUGEES COMING FROM GERMANY (London, England, July 17, 1935) Representative: Walter T. Prendergast, of Ohio, Secretary of Embassy, American Embassy, London. In addition to the United States of America, the following countries were represented at the meeting: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia. As a result of the meeting the Governing Body adopted the following recommendations and resolutions: (1) Resolution concerning passports and visas; (3) Resolution concerning expulsion of refugees; (4) Recommendation concerning documents of identity and travel; (5) Recommendation concerning certificates of good conduct; (6) Recommendation concerning the document of identity and travel delivered to German refugees by the Governing Commission of the Saar Territory. In addition, the hope was expressed that the League of Nations would take over this work for refugees and allow the High Commission to terminate its activities. A report of the meeting was published by the Office of the High Commissioner, Sentinel House, Southampton Row, London, W.C. 1. TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LEGAL MEDICINE AND SOCIAL MEDICINE (Brussels, Belgium, July 17-20, 1935) Delegate: Claude C. Pierce, of Tennessee, Medical Director, United States Public Health Service, in Supervisory Charge of Service Activities in Europe, American Embassy, Paris. The following countries were represented at the Congress: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Iran, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Sweden, United States of America, and Venezuela. Thirty-five official delegates were present, and physicians and university professors participated unofficially in the sessions of the Congress. Papers on the following subjects were presented and discussed: (1) The abnormal and the penal law; (2) The diagnostic characteristics of wounds made before or after death; (3) The cause and diagnosis of wounds observed on drowned persons; (4) Masked suicide; (5) The complications resulting from amputations and the appliances used and the value of appliances in restoring usefulness of those amputated upon; (6) Electro-prognosis of lesions of peripheral nerves; (7) Histological lesions following cerebral and cerebellar injuries; (8) Accidents following blood transfusion, from a medico- (9) The common law and compensation law in relation to (12) Psychotic traumatisms; (13) Crimes of passion among persons having injuries to the head; (14) Compensation psychosis; (15) A case of traumatic general paralysis; (16) Amount of alcohol in putrified blood and tissues; The proceedings of the Congress were printed in the Annales de Médecine Légale, for November 1935, December 1935, and January 1936, published in Paris by Ballière et Fils, 19 rue Hautefeuille. The Twenty-first International Congress of Legal Medicine and Social Medicine will be held at Paris, France, in 1937. ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDHOOD Delegates: (Brussels, Belgium, July 18-21, 1935) J. Warren Bell, M.D., Department of Health, Cattaraugus County, Olean, New York; C. E. Turner, D.P.H., Department of Biology and Public Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachu setts. Approximately 300 delegates from 28 countries attended the ses:sion, the work of which was divided into the following sections: (1) Medical Section; (2) Legal Section; (3) Educational Section; (4) Social Section. Addresses under the above sections were printed in full in advance of the meeting. SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL Delegates: (Brussels, Belgium, July 22–26, 1935) Claude C. Pierce, of Tennessee, Medical Director, United States Public Health Service, in Supervisory Charge of Service Activities in Europe, American Embassy, Paris, Chairman of the Delegation; Fred H. Albee, M.D., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York; Francis D. Donoghue, M.D., Medical Adviser to the Department of Industrial Accidents of the State of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts; Emery R. Hayhurst, M.D., Chief, Division of Hygiene, State Health Department, Columbus, Ohio; Francis D. Patterson, M.D., Chief Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William G. Rice, Jr., S.J.D., of Wisconsin, Technical Adviser, Division of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor. The Conference was organized in two sections: one on industrial accidents and one on occupational diseases. The topics discussed under these two general headings were as follows: (1) Industrial accidents (a) Mixed question of pain; (b) Injuries caused by electricity; (c) Remote consequences of skull injuries; (d) Hand and finger injuries. (2) Occupational diseases— (a) Combating industrial dusts; (b) Silicosis; (c) Pathological effect of gases escaping from fiery seams. A complete report of the proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases has been published in three volumes by Imprimerie Jean Bromans, 45rue Sans-Souci, Brussels. Approximately 650 delegates, speakers, and associate members from 40 countries attended the conference. The next meeting will be held in Rome, Italy, in 1937. MEETING TO CONSIDER APPLICATION OF THE REVISED DOCKS CONVENTION ADOPTED AT THE CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION IN 1932 (London, England, July 22-27, 1935) Delegate: P. C. Grening, of New York, Director for Europe of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation, Department of Commerce. The following countries were represented: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Irish Free State, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and United States of America. The meeting, which opened at the British Home Office, was called to discuss the possibility of arriving at some degree of uniformity in the application of the Revised Docks Convention adopted by the International Labor Conference in 1932. The meeting was principally concerned with the question of tests and examinations of hoisting machines and gear on board ship, and upon that question the following topics were discussed: (1) Use of spring and hydraulic balances and permissibility in certain circumstances; (2) Pitched chains and chain blocks-alteration of tests; |