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THE first "Confèrence Internationale pour la protection contre les catamitès naturelles" is to be held at the Paris Exhibition on September 13-17. The following titles of sections of the Conference indicate its scope: vulcanology and seismology, meteorology, zoology and epidemiology, economic and social crises (fires, famines), assurances. The organizers of the Conference are the Commission Francaise d'etudes des calamitès, one of a dozen such national commissions which owe their existence to the initiative of the editorial board of the scientific periodical, Matèriaux pour I'ètude des calamitès, established in 1924 by M. Raoul Montandon. In that year the Italian commission was formed. Its president is Giovanni Ciraolo, who is also president of the Union Internationale de secours founded by the League of Nations in 1927, when the French commission was formed. Later, similar bodies were established in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Czechoslovakia. Greece, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland. Others are in course of formation in Russia and Yugoslavia. The opening session will be presided over by the Under-Secretary of State for Scientific Researches and the closing session (to be followed by a reception at the Hotel de Ville and a banquet) by the Minister for the Colonies. Admission to membership of the Conference involves payment of a fee of 100 francs, exclusive of the charge of 40 francs for participation in the banquet. Membership will carry the right of free entry to the Exhibition during the Conference. The address of the secretariat is: Laboratory of Applied Entomology, 45 bis, rue de Buffon, Paris, 5e. The secretariat will, if desired, reserve bedrooms for members.
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Conference on Protection against Natural Disasters. Nature 140, 273 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140273e0
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