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AN outline of plans for the eighteenth session of the International Geological Congress was given in Nature, August 7, p. 232. The proceedings lasted in all for a period of seven weeks during August and September. Much of the time was occupied by a series of thirty-seven long geological excursions, which visited important localities throughout Great Britain and eastern Ireland. Some 250 British geologists acted as organisers, directors and secretaries for these excursions and for an extensive series of additional short excursions centred on London. Despite indifferent weather, the excursion programme was extremely successful ; it was clear that the excursion parties, which consisted predominantly of geologists from abroad, found interest and enjoyment in visiting the classic areas and type localities of the British Isles under the guidance of British specialists.
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Eighteenth Session of the International Geological Congress. Nature 162, 663 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162663a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162663a0