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two Conventions were held, one at London in October, 1918„ 

 and another a month later at Paris. At these Conferences 

 many resolutions of a very important nature were passed. 

 One of the resolutions was to the effect that it was desirable 

 that the nations at war with the central powers should with- 

 draw from existing conventions relating to international 

 scientific associations, and that new associations deemed to 

 be useful to the progress of science and its applications, 

 should be established without delay by the nations at war 

 with the central powers, with the eventual co-operation of 

 neutral nations. A list was prepared of the countries which 

 would be eligible to send represen tati ves to an International 

 Research Council. It was suggested that in each of these 

 countries a National Research Council should be estab- 

 lished, and that representatives from these Councils should 

 comprise the International Research Council. Early in 

 February, 1919, a letter was received by this Society from 

 the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Inter- 

 national Research Council, which apparently had been 

 established on the lines suggested. The letter was addressed 

 to this Society as the senior scientific society of the 

 Commonwealth, with a request that steps should be taken 

 to establish some organisation in Australia which would 

 act as a National Research Council. Action was immedi- 

 ately taken by this Society, with the result that a con- 

 ference was held at Sydney on the 21st August, 1919, for 

 the purpose of forming an Australian National Research 

 Council. At this Conference, a provisional council was 

 appointed to hold office until a Council would be appointed 

 at the next meeting of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in January, 1921. At the meeting 

 of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, held in Melbourne in January, 1921, the following 

 resolutions were passed: — 



