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THE twelfth International Geographical Congress, after several days in London devoted chiefly to social functions, met in Cambridge on July 17–25 for the communication and discussion of papers. The president was General N. Vacchelli, and the vice-presidents were General Gomez Nuñez and Prof. N. Yamasaki. Three commissions appointed by the International Geographical Union at a previous congress presented reports. These were on: (1) the International map on the scale of 1: 1,000,000; (2) rural habitation; and (3) Pliocene and Pleistocene terraces. The first of these has completed its work, but the other two have still a considerable amount of work to undertake, that on terraces comprising only a study of certain European seaboards. Another report presented was on internal drainage areas, which was accompanied by a map prepared by Prof. E. de Martonne and L. Aufrere. The papers were grouped into six sections. Some of the sections were very full, while others, notably biological geography, had few papers.
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The Twelfth International Geographical Congress. Nature 122, 187 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122187a0
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