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THE report of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation on the work of its fifteenth plenary session, which contains extracts from the general report of the director of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, indicates the work done in this field, alike in the service of the various States, of the League of Nations, and of intellectual activities for their own sake, the service of ideas, of the mind. During the year, the Institute has continued to concentrate on the collaboration of qualified experts or competent international committees. Thus, arising out of Prof. ShotwelPs proposal, a preliminary inquiry has been commenced on collective security and on the collection of data regarding the progress in various countries towards the encouragement of the study of legal, social and political sciences, which should issue in a scientific contribution to the work of the League. The material required for the publication of a repertory of scientific laboratories has been collected. The committee of experts dealing with the co-ordination of scientific terminology has examined in detail various terms responsible for misunderstanding or controversy between chemists and physicists, and established definitions which will be communicated to the International Unions of Physics and Chemistry and to the International Council of Scientific Unions for final approval. Technical recommendations relating to neologisms have also been formulated and various steps taken towards collaboration between science museums, including the publication of a periodical information bulletin, Scientific Museums, while the inquiry on documentation has been vigorously pursued.
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International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. Nature 132, 887 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132887b0
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