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ment Station. Following the meetings, there mill be an excursion on September 1 to some of the agricul- tural 'egions of New Jersey.

The meetings are being held in close cooperation with the third International Congress fo r Jlicrobiology, which will be opened on September 2. Those wishing information concerning the program ancl arrangements should communicate with R. L. Starkey, dgricultural Experiment Station, Kern Brunswick, N. J.

T H E S I X T H PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS

THE sixth Pacific Science Congrejs will be held from Jnly 24 to August 12 a t Berkeley, Stanford University and San Francisco, California, under the auspices of the National Research Council. The gen- eral arrangements are in charge of the Coininittee on Pacific Investigations of the conncll. Responsibility for perfecting the program and for local arrange-ments has been assigned to a committee on the sixth Pacific Science Congress. I n the detailed conduct of the congress, tlie coininlttees in charge will be repre- sented by an executive committee. Cooperating with these committees is the Department of the Pacific Area of the Golclen Gate Exposition, 1939, of which Dr. Ray Lyman JV~lbur, president of Stanford Uni- versity, is chairman, and Philip N. Woutz, director.

Stanford Cniversity and the University of California will be the host institutions fo r the congress. The Golden Gate International Exposition will assist and cooperate with them. The sessions of the first period, from Jnly 24 to August 5, vill be held mainly a t the Cniversity of California a t Berkeley, which will provide meeting places. The sessions of the second period, from August 6 to 12, will be held a t Stanford University.

Through the courtesy of the State Department of the United States, invitations to participate have been extended to forty-two countries which are either in- cluded in the Pacific area or have don~inions, colonies, territories or dependencies rvithin the area. Individual invitations have also been extended to many scientific men in these countries to contribute to the section pro- grams. The following reports of s tand~ng committees authorized by the fifth Pacific Science Congress mill be presented :

Oceanography of t7ze Pacafic, Thomas G. Thompson, c7zazrman, professor of chemistry and director of Oceanographic Laboratories, University of Wash ington.

?'olcanic Rocl;s, Patiick Marshall, clzairman, rice-president, Royal Society of New Zealand; testing officer, Public Worlrs Department. Wellington.

Blood Groups, L. T. Ride, chazrman, professor of physiology, University of Hong Icong.

P~otection of Nature, V.Miyoshi, chairman, professor of botany, emeritus, Imperial University of Tokyo;. and Carl Skottsberg, sec~,etary, professor of botany, University of Giiteborg, and director of the botanicaL gardens.

Sozl Sz~rcey and Classificatzon, Boris B. Polynov, chair-man, cominission for the aomenclature, classifica- tion and mapping of soils, International Soil Sci- ence Association, Groningen, Setherlands.

Classificafion and Dtilization of Land, W. C. Lowder-milk, clzairqnan, chief, Research Division, U. S. Soil Conservation Service.

Forest Resoz~rces, D. T. Lin, chairnlan, director of forestry, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Chunking, China.

Paczfic Economlc Entowtoloyy, Harry 8. Smith, chair- ??tan, professor of entomology in the Citrus Experi- ment Station and Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture of the rniversitv of California. River- side.

Motlnfain Sti.~tct~tres, I?. 1.Erouli-er, chairman, pro- fessor of geology and director of the ~eological Institute, University of Amsterdam.

Seismology, Ernest A. Hodgson, chairman, seismolo-gist, Dominion Obser~ atorv. Canada.

The special program is divided into eight sections a s follow-s:

The Pacific Basin ; st1 ucture and dynamics : geology and geophpics.

The Pacific Ocean; properties, dynamics, life: ocean-ogmphy and marine biology.

Pacific climates, past and present. Man and culture ill the Pacific region; characteristics,

dispersal and development. objectiTes and resu11ts of research: anthropology, human geography and ethno-botany.

Terrestrial fauna of the Pacific islands and bordering lands; characteristics, origin, distribution, human relations : animal sciences.

Terrest~ial flora of the Pacific islands and bordering lands; characteristics, origin, distribution and hunlan relations; plant sciences.

Public health and nutritional problenls of the Pacific region; tropical medicine and nutrition.

Soil problenls of the Pacific islands and bordering lands; characteristics, utilization, conservation.

The public sessions that have been arranged include one to be addressed by Dr. Beno Gutenberg, professor of geophysics and meteorology, California Institute o f Technology; another by Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill, pro- fessor of botany a t Harvard University, and a third by Dr. H. 'CT. Sverdrup, director of the University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography a t La Jolla. A number of excursions are planned to points of scientific interest.