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On August 12 a conference began in Belém, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon, which carried a stage further the proposal, made to the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation last year, that inquiries be made into the possibility of setting up an international institute for investigating as a whole the enormous rain-forest area of tropical South America. Apart from the Antarctic continent, this area is less known than any other in the world; and data in all subjects, from physical geography to anthropology, are few in spite of the classical expeditions of Humboldt, Wallace, Bates and their successors. It includes the greater part of northern, central and western Brazil and parts of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, and British, French and Dutch Guiana, and is conveniently called by Humboldt's name, the Hylean (forested) Amazon.
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A Projected International Institute for Amazonian Studies. Nature 160, 427–428 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160427d0
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