SOCIETÀ ITALIANA PER IL PROGRESSO DELLE SCIENZE - S.I.P.S. Atti della Società Italiana per il Progresso delle Scienze 1st Meeting, Parma, September 1907 - XXV Meeting, Venice, 1937]
Rome, 1908-1937, various printers.
34 vols. in-4to mm. 270 x 180, + several scattered booklets, almost all with numerous plates. f.t. Publisher’s paperbacks.
Almost complete series of the XXVI meetings of the Italian Society for the Progress of Sciences held between 1907 [Parma] and 1937 [Venice], when in the early years of the twentieth century they wanted to revive the tradition of the congresses of Italian scientists held in the Risorgimento period , opened in 1839 and interrupted a few years after the Unification. The idea took shape on the initiative of the Italian Society of Natural Sciences, which met in Milan in 1906, while almost simultaneously the prof. Vito Volterra from Rome proposed the establishment of an Italian Association for the Progress of Sciences; thus was born the SIPS, which held its first congress in Parma in 1907, to overcome the barriers between natural sciences, earth sciences, physical-mathematical sciences, chemistry, biology, archeology, etc., up to the traditional "human sciences", in the ideal of a large "scientific community" without barriers.
XXVII meetings were held until the outbreak of World War II [the last in Rome in 1939], which saw the best men of science of the time confront each other, such as Enrico Fermi, Augusto Righi, E. Majorana, Roberto Almagià, A. Issel , A. Mattirolo, and many others. Note also the conspicuous presence, up to 1937, of scientific exponents of the Italian Jewish world, then "purged" with the racial laws. The series was interrupted in 1939, there was still a meeting in Rome in 1942 [the documents were destroyed due to war], and the activity resumed only in 1959 [the Company is still operating, under the aegis of the C.N.R.]. We also remember that from S.I.P.S. the Italian Glaciological Committee and the Thalassographic Committee were born. We list the volumes available:
Meeting I [1907]. 1 vol .; Meeting II [1909], 1 vol .; Meeting III [1909], 1 vol .; Meeting IV [1910], 1 vol .; Meeting V [1911], 1 vol .; Meeting VI [1912], 1 vol .; Meeting VII [1913], 1 vol .; Meeting VIII [1915], 1 vol .; [Meeting IX -1917; Meeting X [1919], 1 vol. + 1 issue; Meeting XI [1921]; Meeting XII [1923]; Meeting XIII [1924]; Meeting XIV [1925]: 1 vol .; Meeting XV [1926], 1 vol .; Meeting XVI [1927]. 1 vol .; Meeting XVII [1928]. 1 vol .; Meeting XVIII [1929]. 2 vols .; Reunion XIX [1930], 2 vols .; Meeting XX [1931], 2 vols. in 3 volumes; XXI meeting [1932], 5 vols .; Meeting XXII [1933], 4 vols .; Meeting XXIII, 4 vols. [1934]; Meeting XXIV [1935], 5 vols. in 12 issues; Meeting XXV [1936]: we have only the first 5 issues; Meeting XXVI [1937]: we only have the first 4 issues. The Indices of the First Series are added [vols. I-IX - 1907-19], and the Yearbook of the Society for 1931.