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The recent discussions on this topic affords an opportunity to seek help in finding a possible publication of the proceedings of a workshop held in 1979. So far I have not been able to identify any such publication. he conference for which I am trying to find a publication, if any, was announced in the IBRO Newsletter for March, 1980 (vol. 8). The gist of the notice is: Brain Dissection Workshop Neuroscientists from around the world met at Vienna, Austria, in September, 1979 for a 2-day workshop.... sponsored by the NINCD and the NIMH. The workshop was organized because lack of standardization in dissection techniques - and even in the definition of key brain areas - has made reliable comparison of reports from different laboratories difficult if not impossible. The Workshop's aim, therefore, was to develop a consensus that will lead to the establishment of world-wide standards for the collection, processing, storage, and distribution of brain specimens. An important result of the Meeting is expected to be the development of a dissection atlas of the human brain Was a dissection atlas of the human brain prepared, and were there other notices or proceedings about the workshop? I would be grateful for any information sent to <lmarshall@mednet.ucla.edu> Regarding Burt Wilder, I can mention my own short article: "More on Burt Green Wilder at Cornell," in The Physiologist, 26: 361-363, 1983. Also, look for the forthcoming posthumous publication from Swets and Zeitlinger of "American Neuroscience in the 20th Century" by Horace W. Magoun. The manuscript has a section called Brain Watchers in which Wilder (and Papez) are discussed in Magoun' great style. Hoping for feedback, Louise H. Marshall, Ph.D. Scholar in Residence, Neuroscience History Archives Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles.