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THE first congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies was held in April 1896 at Tunbridge Wells ; it is therefore appropriate that, in the year of its jubilee, the annual congress should return to Tunbridge Wells. During the War one-day congresses were held to preserve continuity, and the Union is marking the return to normal procedure and also its jubilee by a five-day congress, July 9-13, under the presidency of Prof. J. D. Bernal, whose address will be entitled ” The Place of Scientific Societies in the New World”. The sectional presidents are Mr. E. Yates (archaeology), Prof. W. H. Pearsall (botany), Dr. J. C. M. Given (geology), and Dr. E. Hindle (zoology). The Alexander Pedler Lecture of the British Association will be delivered on July 11 by Dr. O. J. R. Howarth, who will speak on “Charles Darwin's Life at Downe, Kent”. In order to mark the jubilee of the Union, Miss M. S. Johnston has prepared a brief account of its history; and a survey, "Royal Tunbridge Wells, Past and Present", edited by Dr. J. C. M. Given, which includes chapters on Wealden geology, history of the neighbourhood, the Wealden iron industry and local natural history, will be available (Pp. 183. Courier Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 5s.)
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South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. Nature 157, 870 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157870d0
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