Science: National Academy

Last week the exclusive National Academy of Sciences acknowledged the recent contributions of western scientists by holding its 67th annual meeting in Berkeley, Calif., the Academy's first visit west of the Mississippi. Some 100 members attended sessions divided among three of California's famed research centres : University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University at Palto Alto, California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. Some points made in speeches:

Rising Sierra. Study of the records of eleven seismograph stations taken during an earthquake last Thanksgiving day in Nevada and California indicated that the Sierra region...

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