Appendix 1. List of Abbreviations 



ACIGY — Advisory Council of the International Geophysical 



Year. 



CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee. 



CETX Inter- Union Committee on Contamination by Extra - 



Terrestrial Exploration. 



CIG Comite Internationale de Geophysique (International 



Geophysical Committee) . 



COMSAT Communications Satellite Corporation. 



COSPAR Committee on Space Research. 



CSAGI Bureau du Comite Special de l'Annee Geophysique 



Internationale 1957-58 (Special Committee for the 

 International Geophysical Year). 



FAGS Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Services. 



FPY First International Polar Year. 



IATME International Association of Terrestrial Magnetism 



and Electricity. 



IAU International Astronomical Union. 



ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions. 



IGU International Geographical Union. 



IGY International Geophysical Year. 



IMU International Mathematical Union. 



INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Consor- 

 tium. 



IUB International Union of Biochemistry. 



I UBS International Union of Biological Science3. 



IUCr International Union of Crystallography. 



IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. 



IUHPS International Union of History and Philosophy of 



Science. 



IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 



IUPAP International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. 



IUPS International Union of Physiological Sciences. 



IUTAM International Union of Theoretical and Applied 



Mechanics. 



IWDS International World Days Service. 



MCI Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere (or, Joint Com- 

 mission on the Ionosphere). 



NSF National Science Foundation. 



SCAR Special Committee on Antarctic Research. 



SCG Special Committee for Inter-Union Cooperation in 



Geophysics. 



SCOR Special Committee on Oceanic Research. 



SPY Second International Polar Year. 



TPY Third International Polar Year. 



UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 



Organization. 



URSI Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (Interna- 

 tional Scientific Radio Union). 



USNC-IGY United States National Committee for the IGY. 



WMA World Meteorological Association. 



WMO World Meteorological Organization. 



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