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AT a meeting held in Paris on October 1, the need for an international organisation to promote spectrochemical analysis was discussed. The meeting followed the eleventh congress of the Groupement pour 1'Avaueement des Méthodes d'Analyse Spectrographique des Produits Métallurgiques. Besides the members of the French committee, spectroscopists representing groups in England and Switzerland were present, with others from Holland and Belgium. Discussion originated in an Italian proposal to form an international society of spectroscopists based on individual membership, and on a French proposal to form an international federation of regional or national societies of spectroscopists. It was reported that the International Council of Scientific Unions might sponsor a mixed commission on spectroscopy to co-ordinate the activities of physicists and astronomers interested in spectra, but that this body is not likely to concern itself with applied spectroscopy. After considering all these proposals, those present decided that in the first place it would be wise to work for a fuller interchange of information and speakers simply between societies in various countries organised to deal with emission or absorption spectra as applied to analysis. A list of such societies or groups and of their secretaries is to be compiled, and will be published in Spectrochimica Acta. This journal, which during 1946-49 was published in the Vatican City, is to be published in London from 1950 onwards. The editor, Ernest van Someren, of 4 Churchfields, Broxbourne, Herts, England, would like to receive the names of spectroscopic societies and of their secretaries, and hopes to be of service in keeping them in touch with the activities of other similar groups.
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Proposals for International Collaboration in Applied Spectroscopy. Nature 164, 991 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164991a0
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