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A RECENTLY received report of the National Research Council of Japan (2, No. 8) covers the period April 1938–March 1939. In addition to particulars of the serial publications issued, the report includes summarized accounts of the annual general meeting and of the various divisional and committee meetings, with notes on the thirteenth conference of the International Union of Chemistry and the Tenth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry and other international meetings at which the Council was represented. Besides details of the officers, members and committees of the Council, the report includes a long obituary notice of Baron J. Sakurai by Dr. N. Matsui (see also NATURE, Aug. 5, 1939, p. 234), reviewing not only his scientific work but also his work in promoting research activity in Japan and her international cultural relations. Appendixes list serial publications received from abroad and tabulate those of the Council already issued.
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National Research Council of Japan. Nature 144, 1008 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441008e0
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