Abstract
In a reflective account of the third quarter century (1937–62) of the American Physiological Society (APS, the Society), Wallace Fenn (president, 1946–48) stated:
No scientific society can professionally be better than the members of which it is composed. Compared to the maintenance of this standard of excellence, all administrative disputes within the Society pale into insignificance. The important effort must be to make sure that the American Physiological Society is not outranked in high scientific quality by any other similar group (10).
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Saunders, J.F., Taylor, A.E. (1987). Membership. In: Brobeck, J.R., Reynolds, O.E., Appel, T.A. (eds) History of the American Physiological Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7576-7_9
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