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THE fourth general meeting of the International Astronomical Union, attended by representatives of twenty-four countries, was held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 2–9, under the presidency of Sir Frank Dyson. At the opening session the Union was welcomed by the Hon. C. F. Adams, Secretary for the Navy in the United States cabinet, and by Dean Bernice Brown, head of Radcliffe College. The members of the Union were for the most part accommodated in the dormitories of the College, a very convenient arrangement giving every opportunity for the informal discussions in small groups which add so much to the real value of the meeting. The full meetings were held in the Alice Longfellow Hall of Radcliffe College, and the commissions met in the various lecture rooms. All the arrangements for the meeting were made with a thoroughness and completeness, which it would be difficult to equal, by a local committee with Prof. Harlow Shapley as chairman and Mr. L. B. Andrewes, following the late Miss Adelaide Ames, as secretary.
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International Astronomical Union. Nature 130, 569–570 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130569a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130569a0