[Academician Vilém Laufberger and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences].

Academician Vilém Laufberger participated in a significant way in the work of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He was one of its founders as a member of the preparatory commission for its establishment, an important official in its presidium, founder and director of one of its institutes and a permanent long-term critical observer and commentator of its activities. He greatly appreciated the steep rise of biomedical research at the beginnings of the Academy as a worthy development of the traditions of world reknown physiologists J. E. Purkynĕ and I. P. Pavlov. He evaluated favourably also its subsequent development. At the very beginning he drew attention to some shortcomings which during subsequent development influenced the activities of the Academy in an adverse way. Their elimination is a task for the present time.