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THE thirty-seventh annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies will be held in London, at the Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, W.I, on June 1–4, under the presidency of Dr. R. E. Mortimer Wheeler. The presidential address, on “Field Archseology in Great Britain”, will be delivered in the evening of the first day of the Congress. The sections, their presidents, and the subjects of the presidential addresses are as follows: archæology, Dr. W. E. St. L. Finny, “Medieval Games and]Gaderings”; botany, Mr. J. Ramsbottom,“Fungi as Scavengers”; geology, Prof. H. L. Hawkins, “The Structure of the South-East of England”; zoology, Mr. Hugh Main, “The Camera as a Naturalist's Recorder”; regional survey, Mr. G. L. Pepler, “Town and Country Planning”. Evening lectures will be delivered by Sir Arthur Thomson, on “The Drama of Animal Life”, and by Capt. Guy Dollman, on “Great Game Animals of Africa”. There will be an exhibition of regional survey material under the supervision of Miss E. W. Spear; and a number of excursions of specialised interest, as well as others of more general appeal, have been arranged. The honorary general secretary of the Congress is Mr. E. A. Martin, 14 High View Close, Norwood, London, S.E.19.
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South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. Nature 129, 755–756 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129755d0
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