Report of the General Assembly

Abstract

Edited by Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, general secretary, the Reports of Proceedings of the Fourth General Assembly of the International Council of Scientific Unions, held in London during July 22–24, 1946 (see Nature, August 17, 1946, p. 227), has now been published (London: Camb. Univ. Press, 1946). It includes the presidential address of Prof. H. R. Kruyt and of the proceedings at the general assembly, together with the reports of the international unions. Appendixes include a list of delegates, the report of the executive committee and the draft agreement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the financial report, the statutes of the International Council of the Scientific Unions and the scientific unions themselves. The names of the members of the mixed commissions and of the officers of the international unions are also given, making the report a useful reference book; while in addition to the report of the Committee on Solar and Terrestrial Relationships, there is also reprinted the report of the Committee on Science and its Social Relations on the public attitude of scientific bodies with regard to the problems raised by recent applications of science.