Finding Aid for the Paul Dell Collection of Documents Pertaining to IBRO (International Brain Research Organization) Biomed.0142
Finding aid prepared by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2014.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Business Number: 310-825-4988
Fax Number: 310-206-1864
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Paul Dell collection of documents pertaining to IBRO (International Brain Research Organization)
Creator:
Dell, Paul Charles
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0142
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(1 carton)
Date (inclusive): 1961-1972
Abstract: Internationally known and respected neuroscientist Paul Charles Dell, M.D., was intimately connected with the founding and
growth of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), an independent non-governmental organization with UNESCO affiliation.
This collection covers IBRO documents and correspondence from 1961 to 1972, with the bulk from 1969 to 1971, the years in
which Professor Dell was its Executive Secretary. Included are minutes and reports of IBRO governing bodies and committees
and a great deal of correspondence.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English, French and Russian.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
The collection was deposited in the UCLA Neuroscience History Archives, which transferred it to History & Special Collections
for the Sciences, UCLA Library Special Collections, in 2013.
[Identification of item], Paul Dell collection of documents pertaining to IBRO (International Brain Research Organization)
(Collection 142). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles.
Processed by Biomedical Library staff.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating
existing description of our materials that contains language
that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they
could be described more accurately, by filling out the form
located on our website:
Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special
Collections.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9973749873606533
Paul Dell, M.D. (1915-1976) was an internationally respected neurophysiologist whose major research focused on the brainstem
reticular formation and its autonomic and humoral regulatory mechanisms. After graduation from the Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg,
he served as an army doctor in 1939-1940. After four years of physiological research in Lyon he joined the Faculty of Medicine
in Strasbourg. 1949-1950 saw him in Chicago working with Warren McCulloch and Horace W. Magoun, and in 1951 he returned to
Paris to join the C.N.R.S., where he rose to be Director of Research. In 1967 he moved to the Division of Neurobiological
Research of I.N.S.E.R.M. in Marseille, to become its director.
Dr. Dell was one of a group of neuroscientists who, through discussions at the newly founded International Federation of Societies
for Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, and at the important Colloquium of Electroencephalography and Higher
Nervous Activity (known as the "Moscow Colloquium") in 1958, articulated the need for a multidisciplinary organization to
facilitate international collaboration and communication in basic brain research, and presented a resolution to form such
a body. These discussions and resolution led eventually to the formation of the International Brain Research Organization
(IBRO). The first governing body of IBRO met in Paris in 1960, and the association was incorporated in 1961 as an independent
non-government organization affiliated with UNESCO. (An excellent early history of IBRO was published in "Neuroscience" 72(1):283-306,
1996).
Dr. Dell was active in the formation of IBRO, and he served the organization faithfully until the end of his life. He was
part of the original governing council, co-organized an early IBRO-sponsored symposium in 1962 (The Neurochemical Regulators
of Brain Activity), was appointed Deputy Executive Secretary in 1962 for a time, and served as Executive Secretary from 1969
to 1971. He also was a consultant for brain research to UNESCO for many years, and advised IBRO on its relationship with UNESCO.
He was one of the founding members, and an editor in neurophysiology, of the journal "Experimental Brain Research".
The collection consists entirely of documents and correspondence related to the founding and growth of IBRO (International
Brain Research Organization), an independent non-governmental organization with UNESCO affiliation. Included are minutes and
reports of IBRO governing bodies and committees and a great deal of correspondence. The bulk of the material dates from 1969
to 1971, the years when Dr. Paul Dell was Executive Secretary; the outgoing correspondence from his office during those years
may be represented in its entirety. For the earlier years there are fewer letters and reports, but the activities of the Executive
Committee and the Central Council are well covered. The names and contents of the folders are those of the original binders.
UCLA Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, Manuscript Collection #143, "Heinrich Waelsch collection
of documents pertaining to IBRO" contains similar [and sometimes overlapping] documents and correspondence, for 1961-1965.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Societies, Scientific -- Collected Correspondence
Societies, Medical -- Collected Correspondence
Neuroscientists -- Archival resources
Neurosciences -- History
International Brain Research Organization -- History
Dell, Paul Charles -- Archives
box 1, folder 1
box 1, folder 2
box 1, folder 3
box 1, folder 4
IBRO Executive Committee and Central Council. 1964-1965.
box 1, folder 5
IBRO Executive Committee and Central Council. 1966.
box 1, folder 6
IBRO Executive Committee and Central Council. 1967.
box 1, folder 7
IBRO Executive Committee and Central Council. 1968.
box 1, folder 8
IBRO Executive Committee and Central Council. 1969.
box 1, folder 9
box 1, folder 10
box 1, folder 11
box 1, folder 12
box 1, folder 13
box 1, folder 14
IBRO Central Council Sub-Committee on Education. 1968-1970.
correspondence, participants lists, and reports, for: 1. "Neurochemical and Neuroendocrinological Methods in Brain Research"
Visiting Workshop, Karachi, Pakistan, 1968; 2. "Neurophysiological Techniques Related to Behavior", Visiting Workshop, Kotor,
Yugoslavia, 1969; 3. "Synaptic Mechanisms" Visiting Workshop, Kiev, USSR, 1970
box 1, folder 15
box 1, folder 16
The Application of Brain Research to Problems in Education and Social Sciences. 1968--1971.
box 1, folder 18
box 1, folder 19
box 1, folder 20
box 1, folder 21
box 1, folder 22
box 1, folder 23
Obituaries. 1977.