ACHIEVEMENTS IN ANATOMY

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29189, 27 April 1960, Page 19

ACHIEVEMENTS IN ANATOMY

Russian Contribution Assessed

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN. April 26.

“Russian scientists have not made the same progress and achievements in anatomy as they have in physics,” said Professor W. E. Adams, head of the department of anatomy at the University of Otago Medical School, who returned to Dunedin tonight after attending the seventh International Congress of Anatomy in New York. . . Professor Adams, who was joint chairman of one of the sections of the conference, said there were 16 Russians among the 1800 anatomists and wives who attended. The Russians stayed at a auferent hotel from the other delegates and did not take a major part in the proceedings. They travelled mostly in a group, and many of the papers which were to be delivered by some of them were not presented. This may have been because of misunderstandings about which room the appropriate session was being held in. One Russian astounded the neurological session, for instance. by presenting a paper on the gall bladder. He had heard, he said, that the Russian anatomists were most impressed by what had been done in their field in the United States —particularly by means of elec-tron-microscopy. Many of the important contributions to the conference were too technical to be translated for the lavman, Professor Adams said. The next conference, held every five years, would be in Vienna.