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ASYMPOSIUM meeting of the Society for General Microbiology was held at Cambridge on July 5 and 6, 1945, the topic of the symposium being “The Effect of Environment on the Morphology and Activities of Micro-organisms”. The symposium occupied two sessions (afternoon and morning), the third session being (devoted to the reading of papers on a variety of topics ; there were also a number of interesting demonstrations. The aim of the organizers in choosing the wide topic for the symposium had been to provide opportunity for contributions from the many disciplines of microbiology in general, in order to foster one of the main objects of the Society, namely, to promote the advancement of microbiology by providing a common meeting-ground for those working in all the various specialized branches. In the event, the papers submitted at the symposium were weighted on the side of biochemistry, and there were fewer papers of more biological character than hacl been hoped. Perhaps this distribution reflects the present emphasis of active work in Britain, or it may be that authors who could have contributed valuably from other angles were too diffident. What- ever may have been the cause of the actual distribution of papers in the symposium, the Society will no doubt draw the necessary conclusions from its first venture, and continue in its endeavours to help weld together the various branches of microbiology, when organizing future symposia. The other contributions, both papers and demonstrations, were effective in restoring the balance of this two-day meeting, making it more representative of general microbiology.
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MICRO-ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT. Nature 157, 27–28 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157027a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157027a0