Abstract
The CIG, to use the authorized initials after the French name, Comité International de Géophysique, held its initial and organizing session at The Hague, November 4–6, 1959. Established by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in conjunction with four unions (IUGG, IAU, URSI, and IUPAP), the new committee is charged with “adequately terminating the work of the IGY and IGC‐1959” and with responsibilities relating to “continued international and inter‐disciplinary scientific cooperation in the fields of geophysics and related sciences.”At its first meeting the CIG considered the charter of its functions, composition, and procedures as drafted by the ICSU Executive Board on the basis of suggestions by CSAGI and others. It examined the question of bringing to completion the IGY and IGC‐59 endeavors, and then turned its attention to the future. Recommendations in the latter area, as well as the prospect that CIG provides a means for further international and interdisciplinary collaboration along the lines of the IGY, are perhaps of immediate interest to the scientific community. In effect, it is the successor body to ICSU's special committee for the International Geophysical Year—the CSAGI, which terminated on June 30, 1959.
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