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A CERTAIN measure of co-ordination and cooperation in science was achieved during the war by Great Britain, France, America, and Japan, with results which were far-reaching in importance. Men of science in Australia felt that something of the sort would also be productive of good results in that continent, which until recently was represented in the world of science solely by independent State Royal Societies. The climax was reached in 1919, when the International Research Association meeting in Paris invited the co-operation of Australian men of science. No representative scientific body, with the exception of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, which had not met since 1913, was in existence at that time, so the matter was referred to the Melbourne meeting of the association, held on January 5–11 last (NATURE, May 26, p. 408). There it was decided that an Australian National Research Council should be formed and organised on lines similar to those adopted by countries already working under the International Research Council. A scheme of organisation was drawn up and approved by the Australasian Association, which provided for a council of a hundred members representative of pure and applied science.
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The Australian National Research Council. Nature 108, 227–228 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108227a0
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