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THE Third Conference of the International Quaternary Association (INQUA.) was held in Vienna on September 1-8 under the patronage of Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, and Dr. Hans Pernter, Minister of Education. Dr. Otto Ampferer, director of the Geologisches Bundes-anstalt in Vienna, who is well known for his researches on the interglacial gravels of the Alps, presided over the Organization Committee, and Dr. Gustav Gotzinger was president of the meeting. To these latter and to the genial and multi-lingual secretary, Dr. Helmut Gams of the University of Innsbruck, the meeting owed its undoubted success. That the attendance far exceeded expectations may partly be ascribed to the opportunity of hearing the veteran Prof. Albrecht Penck, who acted as honorary president and spoke on most of the subjects discussed during the Congress.
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International Quaternary Association: CONFERENCE IN VIENNA. Nature 138, 692–693 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138692a0
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