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THE programme of symposia, organised with the help of Unesco by the International Union of Biological Sciences, started in November 1947 with a symposium on trace elements in plant physiology, held at Rothamsted (see Nature, 161, 364 ; 1948). The report of this Conference is in the press at Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass. The second symposium of this series was held during June 14–19, 1948, at Utrecht ; it dealt with the theoretical basis of botanical nomenclature and systematics. The full report will also be published by the Chronica Botanica Co. A third symposium was the first International Congress on the Physio-Pathology of Animal Reproduction at Milan ; it lasted two days (June 21–22, 1948) and its theme was : "Interactions between Eggs and Sperm". The full report is to be published by its secretary, Prof. T. Bonadonna, Via Fratelli Bronzetti 17, Milan. A symposium on Terminology of Cytogenetics and Genetics was held at Stockholm during July 15–16, 1948. This symposium carried further the work done at the pre-war symposium held in London during August 14–15, 1939. A committee has been formed to supervise the preparation of the full report, which probably will be published as a separate number of Bibliographia Genetica. Finally, a fifth symposium was held at Stockholm during August 5–7, 1948, which discussed the scientific foundations of an international organisation for combating agricultural pests. A programme for further work on the subject has been drawn up; and the report of the meeting will be published by the general secretary of the International Union, Prof. P. Vayssière, Musèum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
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International Union of Biological Sciences. Nature 162, 989–990 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162989e0
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