TWELFTH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY Delegates: (Brussels, Belgium, August 25-29, 1935) Charles A. Ellwood, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Duke Uni- 1 Dwight Sanderson, Ph.D., Department of Rural Social Organization, New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; P. A. Sorokin, D.Soc., Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twenty countries were represented at the Congress by official delegates: Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Switzerland, United States of America, and Yugoslavia. The work of the Congress consisted in the presentation and discussion by the various delegates of more than 80 papers relating to sociological science and scientific social research. These papers have been published in La Revue Internationale de Sociologie and Archives de Sociologie and may be obtained through Professor G. L. Duprat, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, who served as Secretary General of the Congress. Professor Charles A. Ellwood, of Duke University, was formally installed as President of the Congress. The work of the Congress, through the international exchange of ideas, promoted international understanding and was considered particularly valuable in bringing about the recognition of the work of scholars of the various countries by their colleagues. The next Congress of the International Institute of Sociology will be held at Paris during the first week of September 1937, in connection with the International Exposition of Paris. 'Did not attend. 125027-37-3 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF POPULATION PROBLEMS (Berlin, Germany, August 26-September 2, 1935) Delegate: Frank H. Hankins, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Sociology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Ten countries were represented at the Congress by official delegates, although the representatives of Sweden and the United States of America took no active part in the program itself. The work of the Congress was divided into four sections: (1) Population statistics; (2) Population biology and race hygiene; (3) Social, economic, and psychologic population problems: (4) Medicine, hygiene, and anthropology. The papers presented under these four sections have not yet been printed. The French delegate invited the International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems to meet in Paris,. France, in 1937. FIFTH TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL Delegates: (Brisbane, Australia, August 27–September 4, 1935) E. W. Brandes, Ph.D., of Michigan, Head, Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture; C. A. Browne, Ph.D., D.Sc., of New York, Supervisor of Research, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture. Approximately 30 delegates attended the Conference, representing Australia, British West Indies, Cuba, Fiji Islands, Hawaii, India, Java, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and United States of America. The Conference was divided into six sections: (1) Manufacture; (2) Agriculture; (4) Entomology; (6) Quarantine. The first five days of the Conference were devoted to sectional meetings, where papers were presented by the delegates. On the last day of the Conference, at a plenary session, the constitution of the International Society was amended, officers were elected, resolutions were adopted, and the place and date of the next meeting were determined. The resolutions were of a personal nature, consisting of votes of thanks and resolutions of respect and regret. The publications of the Conference may be obtained from the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, Brisbane, Australia. It was agreed that the next meeting of the Internațional Society of Sugar Cane Technologists would be held at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1938. SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE UNIFICATION OF PENAL LAW Delegates: (Copenhagen, Denmark, August 30-September 3, 1935) Richard Hartshorne, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Essex County, New Jersey, East Orange, New Jersey; Blanche LaDu, Chairman of the State Board of Control of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; 1 1 North Winship, Counselor of Legation, American Legation, Copenhagen, Denmark. Approximately 100 delegates from 37 countries attended the Conference. In addition to the official delegates, there were present at the sessions a number of representatives of international and judicial institutions. The subjects of the Conference were divided into four groups and were discussed in the following four sections: (1) Legal definition of political crimes; (3) International regulation of the right to reply to and receive (4) Terrorism. The four sections were independent and the delegates participated in the discussions of the different sections at will. Each section presented its decisions on the subjects under consideration to the General Assembly of the Conference for investigation and action. 1 Did not attend. The aim of the Conferences for the Unification of Penal Law is to formulate texts destined to serve as bases for internal legislation in matters of penal law. In view of the complexity of the problem the previous conferences voted certain resolutions. The mission of the Sixth International Conference for the Unification of Penal Law was to review these different resolutions, to harmonize them, and to establish the texts necessary in order that the problems of penal law might be seen in all their aspects and that wise and beneficial internal legislation might be formulated. Resolutions, which are in reality drafts of unified texts on the various questions to be used by the legislators of the different countries when they revise their penal legislation and which are too numerous to discuss here, were considered and adopted by the Conference. These resolutions will be published by the International Bureau for the Unification of Penal Law, which has its seat in Paris. The Conference adjourned without determining the place and date of the next meeting. Cairo, Lisbon, and Bucharest were proposed by the delegates from Egypt, Portugal, and Rumania, but it was decided that the International Bureau should announce the plans for the next meeting at a later date. SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON COMMERCIAL EDUCATION SIXTH Delegates: 1 12 (Prague, Czechoslovakia, September 1-6, 1935) . 1 Lee Galloway, Ph.D., Secretary and Director, Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York, New York, Chairman of the Delegation; Ray Abrams, Principal, Samuel J. Peters High School of Commerce, New Orleans, Louisiana; Basil D. Dahl, of Wisconsin, Acting Commercial Attaché, American Legation, Prague; 2 1 Sigismond Diettrich, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Business Ad- J. S. Noffsinger, Ph.D., Director, National Home Study Council, H. A. Rositzke, R. H. Rositzke and Associates, Management Consultants, New York, New York; Charles H. Sherrill, LL.D., New York, New York; Annie C. Woodward, Head of Commercial Department, Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts. 1 Did not attend. Shortly after the close of the Congress Mr. Dahl returned to his post at Stockholm, Sweden, where he is United States Trade Commissioner, Department of Commerce. Approximately 200 delegates, representing 20 countries, were present at the Congress. The Congress was organized into 13 groups dealing with: (1) The teaching of commercial subjects in non-commercial schools; (2) The teaching of commercial subjects from the standpoint of methods of active schools; (3) The economic sections of newspapers and economic reports; (5) The means of procuring materials for teaching purposes; (7) The Case system; (8) The use of radio, gramaphone, films, etc., for teaching pur poses; (9) Courts of arbitration in business matters; (10) Present-day problems in the training of teachers of commercial subjects; (11) Occupations which should be reserved for the graduates of commercial schools; (12) Task and aims of economic linguistics; (13) Actual business practices, before joining the school and during school attendance. Papers were presented and discussed by each group, and a plenary session was held each day for a general discussion of these papers. The program of the Congress was published by the Czechoslovak group of the International Society for Commercial Education, Prague II, Resslova 8, Czechoslovakia. Delegates: SIXTH INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS (Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2-7, 1935) Elmer Drew Merrill, Sc.D., Director in Chief of the New York Botanical Garden, New York, New York, Chairman of the Delegation; Albert Francis Blakeslee, Ph.D., D.Sc., Acting Director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.; G. H. Coons, Ph.D., of Michigan, Principal Pathologist, Department of Agriculture; T. P. Dykstra, of Oregon, Assistant Pathologist, Department of Agriculture; |