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THE report of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Scientific Unions for 1948 (from the General Sececretary, at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. Pp. vii+110. 5s.) forms the usual incspensable reference work on the work of the the Unions, listing as it does not only the membership of the Committee, and the adhering Organisations of the Council, but also the reports from the several Unions and Mixed Commissions and new statutes. This year's report gives the modification in the statutes of the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the new statutes of the International Union of Chemistry and the International Radio-Scientific Union. The report includes under the title of “Science and Peace"an analysis of the seventy replies to the two questions on this subject sent out to representative men of science as a result of the June 1948 meeting of the Commission for Science and its Social Relations (see Nature, 162, 237; 1948; and 163, 190; 1949). Among other points of interest in the report is the resolution sent by the Executive Committee to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and to adhering organisations and for which support from the General Assembly of the Council is being requested. This resolution stresses the importance of the unimpeded passage of scientific workers from one country to another for attending meetings of recognized scientific bodies, for visiting places of research or instruction or for other forms of international scientific contact. The Executive Committee offers its help in facilitating the work of consulates when in doubt about granting a visa by naming the national adhering body which is best qualified to certify that the applicant is a bona fide scientific worker and that his application is for a genuine scientific purpose. A- first report from the International Union for the History of the Sciences, formed on October 31, 1947, is included.
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International Council of Scientific Unions. Nature 164, 647 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164647b0
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