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SIR JOHN ANDERSON has accepted the office of honorary president of the General Organising Committee for the eighteenth session of the International Geological Congress, which is to be held in Great Britain this summer, and will welcome the delegates and members at the first meeting of the General Assembly. Prof. H. H. Read, president of the Geological Society of London, has succeeded the late Sir Thomas Holland as president of the General Organising Committee and president-designate of the Congress. More than a thousand geologists from countries overseas are expected to attend the Congress ; the total attendance, including British geologists, is likely to approach two thousand. Twenty-eight Governments and about 160 universities and scientific institutions have already accepted invitations to be represented by official delegates. The meetings of the Congress will be held during the period August 25-September 1 in the Royal Albert Hall and the lecture theatres of the Royal Geographical Society and the Imperial College of Science and Technology. Sir Edward Bailey and Prof. O. T. Jones will deliver special addresses on the structural history of Britain.
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International Geological Congress. Nature 161, 88 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161088b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161088b0