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THE Report of the Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference, June–July 1946, now issued in two handsome volumes, includes the speeches at the opening ceremony, the papers presented, and recommendations and notes on the discussions (see also Nature, July 27, 1946, p. 136). In addition to the "Notes on Current Scientific Researches in the United Kingdom"prepared by the Royal Society, various papers on the organisation of scientific research in the Colonies, in Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia give a very useful conspectus of the organisation of such research throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations. The volumes are admirably indexed, and the immense amount of information they contain is made accessible to the reader in a way worthy of the Royal Society and setting a standard that might well be followed widely. They constitute both a worthy record and a reference work on scientific research, information services and related topics in the Empire that should be valuable for several years to come.
Report. Vol. 1. Pp. 828. Vol. 2. Pp. 707. (London : Royal Society, 1948.) 2 vols., 42s. net.
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B., R. Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference, June–July 1946. Nature 162, 679 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162679d0
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