News Note 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 
10th PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS 
The National Academy of Sciences-Na- 
tional Research Council and the Bishop Mu- 
seum, at whose invitation the 10th Pacific 
Science Congress of the Pacific Science Asso- 
ciation will meet in Hawaii in August-Sep- 
tember 1961, have appointed the following 
to be members of the Executive Committee 
of the Congress: 
President of the Congress: Dr. Laurence H. 
Snyder, President of the University of Ha- 
waii, Honolulu, Hawaii 
Secretary- General: Harold J. Coolidge, Exec- 
utive Director of the Pacific Science Board, 
N.A.S.-N.R.C., Washington, D.C. 
Members 
From the U. S. mainland 
Knowles A. Ryerson, National Academy of 
Sciences representative on the Council of the 
Pacific Science Association and Dean of the 
College of Agriculture, University of Cali- 
fornia, Berkeley, California 
Dr. G. P. Murdock, Professor of Anthro- 
pology, Yale University, New Haven, 
Connecticut 
Dr. Harry Wexler, Director, Office of Sci- 
entific Services, U. S. Weather Bureau, Wash- 
ington, D.C. 
From Hawaii 
Dr. Cyril E. Pemberton, Bishop Museum 
representative on the Council of the Pa- 
cific Science Association and Entomologist 
Emeritus of the Experiment Station of the 
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Hono- 
lulu, Hawaii 
Dr. Robert W. Hiatt, Dean of the Graduate 
School and Director of Research, University 
of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 
Dr. Alexander Spoehr, Director, Bernice P. 
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii 
The Executive Committee has overall re- 
sponsibility for the organization and opera- 
tion of the Congress. A preliminary schematic 
organization of the Congress program has 
been drawn up and President Snyder is ap- 
pointing organizers for the program sections. 
The scientists selected to organize the pro- 
gram will be getting in touch with Standing 
Committees and with other scientists in the 
participating countries. 
At the request of the Secretary- General all 
Congress enquiries should be addressed to 
him as follows: 
Secretary-General 
10th Pacific Science Congress 
Bishop Museum, Honolulu 17, Hawaii 
CHAIRMEN, STANDING COMMITTEES 
OF THE PACIFIC SCIENCE 
ASSOCIATION 
The President of the Ninth Pacific Science 
Congress, Air Marshal Muni M. Vejyant- 
Rangsrisht, has now received confirmation of 
his appointments of Standing Committee 
Chairmen. The list of Chairmen is presented 
herewith: 
Animal Improvement 
Professor T. J. Robinson, Department of 
Animal Husbandry, The University of Syd- 
ney, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 
Anthropology and Social Sciences 
Dr. Bernard P. Groslier, 4, rue Toricelli, 
Paris 17e, France 
Botany 
Dr. F. R. Fosberg, Pacific Vegetation Project, 
c/o National Research Council, 2101 Con- 
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