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International Council of Scientific Unions: International Astronomical Union (Union Astronomique Internationale)

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THE International Astronomical Union consists primarily of twenty-seven separate commissions, each of which is concerned with a specialised department of astronomy. The present volume contains the reports of the Commissions for the Harvard meeting in September 1932, held under the presidency of Sir Frank Dyson, together with accounts of the discussions and the recommendations finally adopted. In many respects the volume is a record of the main lines of research undertaken since the Leyden meeting in 1928, and a storehouse of information on work in progress or planned on an international scale.

International Council of Scientific Unions: International Astronomical Union (Union Astronomique Internationale).

Transactions of the International Astronomical Union. Vol. 4: Fourth General Assembly held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 2 to September 9, 1932. Edited by F. J. M. Stratton. Pp. viii + 328. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 15s. net.

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International Council of Scientific Unions: International Astronomical Union (Union Astronomique Internationale). Nature 132, 332–333 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132332a0

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