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WHILE not on so extensive a scale as, nor with vv the Imperial significance of, the Australian meeting in 1914 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the second triennial Pan-Pacific Science Congress, which has just met in Melbourne and afterwards in Sydney, may mean very much to the development of organised knowledge of, and in, countries bordering upon the Pacific Ocean. The first gathering of the kind was held in Honolulu in 1920, and as a matter of fact it was really the sequel to ideas that originated during the British Association visit to Australia and later were warmly fostered by Prof. W. M. Davis (Harvard), Prof. H. E. Gregory (Yale), Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan (U.S. Geological Survey), Mr. A. H. Ford, and others. The Pan-Pacific Union, a wide organisation with the general aim of promoting harmonious relations between the peoples of the Pacific, stood behind the Honolulu Congress, but future Science Congresses will undoubtedly all be under the general direction and control of the National Research Councils of the countries concerned.
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RIVETT, A. Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Australia, 1923. Nature 112, 378–379 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112378a0
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