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To commemorate the seventieth birthday, of Prof. Ilmari Bonsdorff, for more than thirty years director of the Finnish Geodetic Institute, Helsinki, No. 36 of the veröffenthungen (1949) of the Institute is idedicated to him. It contains twenty-six articles by Finishing and foreign geophysicists written in tribute to prof. Bonsdorff. He began his long scientific career as an astronomer at the observatory of Poulkovo, near Leningrad, where he worked on astrometry and geodesy. In 1918 he returned to his home country to take up the directorship of the Geodetic Institute at Helsinki, where he conducted and inspired a long series of valuable researches. He took also a prominent part in international geodetic co-operation, both through the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and through the Baltic Geodetic Commission, which was established on his initiative and was served by him as secretary-general throughout the whole period of its existence. Among the non-Finnish contributors to this collection of articles may be noted E. C. Bullard, B. Gutenberg, K. D. P. Rosen, P. Tardi and F. A. Vening Meinesz.
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Finnish Geodetic Institute: Prof. I. Bonsdorff. Nature 164, 214 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164214a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164214a0