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THE Report for the year 1933-34 of the National Research Council of Japan contains the resolutions passed at the Fifth Pacific Science Congress held in Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver in June 1933. Steps were taken to secure more accurate information as to the depth, salinity and temperature of the ocean, the life conditions of halibut, salmon and whales in it and to prevent the discharge of oil from vessels on it. Plant diseases and parasites of the cereal crops and timber grown on the coasts and mountain ranges bordering them are to be studied more thoroughly, atmospheric circulation is to be investigated by pilot balloons, and the necessity of continuing magnetic, electric and oceanographic work by means of a new non-magnetic ship to replace the lost Carnegie was emphasised. Seismological information is to be spread by wireless as soon as it is available.
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The Pacific Science Congress. Nature 137, 653 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137653a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137653a0