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THE Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (published by the National Research Council) at its twelfth annual meeting, on April 30–May 1, 1931, appeared in June. This promptness, due to the able organisation of the secretary, Dr. J. A. Fleming, and to the use of direct reproduction from typescript, much enhances the value of the report. From its 227 pages geophysicists elsewhere can obtain a rapid and comprehensive view of the large amount of work in this field now being done in the United States and, to a certain extent, in Canada and Mexico. The general assembly was mainly devoted to a symposium on time-signals; most of the work of the meeting is done in the seven sectional meetings. In seismology, the papers related chiefly to the development of new or unproved instruments; in meteorology, to the work of the International Polar Year; in terrestrial magnetism and electricity, including radio work, the papers were very numerous and covered a wide range of subjects; in oceanography, the reports of many institutions on their past work were the main subject of discussion; hydrology forms a separate section, and had a long and varied programme; and there were a few papers on volcanology.
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American Geophysical Union. Nature 129, 231 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129231c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129231c0