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A THREE-DAY conference on geophysical subjects, organised by toe Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research, of the University of the Wit-watersrand was held in July in Johannesburg. It was atteaued by some seventy-five scientific workers, mainly from the Witwatersrand and Pretoria, but including visitors from universities and other organisations in the Cape and Natal, and one or two from Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo. Thirty-eight papers were presented in two sessions running simultaneously. These covered the fields of meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, lightning, the ionosphere, gravity and geophysical prospecting methods, the last of which aroused much interest. Some interesting papers were read on behalf of members of the staff of the Department of Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. All these papers dealt with unpublished, or recently published, work by the authors, and some were accompanied by demonstrations of instruments, equipment, etc. The convention gave a good picture of the flourishing state of geophysical science in southern Africa, and of the considerable interest taken in the application of it to practical problems. Its success has led to the intention of repeating the venture in a few years time.
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Geophysical Conference in South Africa. Nature 164, 520 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164520a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164520a0