Séance du 5 juin 49^2. 
valions or déterminations or recorded by instruments, suck 
request may by complied ivitfi. 
2. T/iat tlie section of Medical Sciences of tlie contemplated 
International Union of Biological Sciences shall be independently 
developed into an inteiiiational Union of Medical Sciences and 
a spécial committee be appointed for tlie purpose of drafting tlie 
Statutes of tlie neiv Union. 
Elle décide de repousser les deux propositions présentées par 
la Suède : 
1. Tliat tlie Statutes of tlie International Research Council be 
altered as soon as possible so as to permit of tlie admission of ail 
Nations to tlie Council and ils Unions. 
2. Tliat by an alteration in tlie rules for voting tlie small 
Nations may obtain a somewliat more favourable position in that 
Council. 
La Classe examine ensuite les deux propositions présentées 
par les États-Unis : 
1. Iliât in order to secure effective coopération between tlie 
International Research Council and the separate Unions, and 
further to develop local interest in International and Scientific 
affairs, it is advisable that, while retaining the legal seat ofthe 
international Research Council at Brussels the executive Com¬ 
mittee be authorised to arrange for the holding of the triennial 
meetings at sucli places as may seem most advantageous. 
2. That the International Research Council should organise 
International research projects requiring the coopération of men 
representing several branches of sciences. They suggest investi¬ 
gation of the energy supply of the ivorld (fuel, solar energy, etc.) 
as a promising field of research. 
Pour ce qui concerne la première, elle décide de défendre le 
maintien intégral de l’art. 2 des Statuts (prescrivant que les 
Assemblées générales se tiendront à Bruxelles); elle se rallierait 
éventuellement à une modification de l’art. 15, permettant de 
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