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THE Royal Society has appointed a delegation of six of its Fellows to attend the Seventh Pacific Science Congress to be held at Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand, during February 2-22. The programme of the Congress will provide for contributions and discussions on scientific topics of special significance to the Pacific area, and of importance for the welfare of Pacific peoples. Problems depending for their solution on co-operative studies by two or more sciences will be presented for discussion in symposia. Public lectures will be given, and local excursions will be made to places of scientific interest near Auckland and Christchurch. The delegates are : Dr. G. E. R. Deacon, of the "Discovery" Committee, Colonial Office, and the Royal Naval Scientific Service (also representing the Admiralty) ; Sir Norman Haworth, professor of chemistry and director of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Birmingham since 1925 until retiring last October ; Prof. H. D. Kay, research professor of biochemistry, University of Reading, and director, National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading ; Prof. G. W. Robinson, professor of agricultural chemistry, University College of North Wales, Bangor ; Sir Geoffrey Taylor, Yarrow research ‘professor of the Royal Society ; Prof. C. M. Yonge, regius professor of zoology, University of Glasgow. At the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, Sir Norman Haworth and Sir Geoffrey Taylor will spend some time in Australia visiting university laboratories before they return to Great Britain.
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Seventh Pacific Science Congress : Royal Society Delegates. Nature 163, 17 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163017a0
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