Preface [to “Transactions of 1943”]

Abstract

The American Geophysical Union was established in 1919 as the American Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and its Executive Committee on Geophysics of the National Research Council. The objects of the Union are to promote the study of problems concerned with the figure and physics of the Earth, to initiate and coordinate researches which depend upon international and national cooperation, and to provide for their scientific discussion and publication. In the accomplishment of these objects, the Union is divided into Sections following the plan of organization of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. There are now eight Sections, namely, (a) Geodesy, (b) Seismology, (c) Meteorology, (d) Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity, (e) Oceanography, (f) Volcanology, (g) Hydrology, and (h) Tectonophysics. A Section of Geophysical Chemistry was discontinued May 31, 1924, as the international Union had failed to provide such a Section. The Section of Hydrology was established November 15, 1930—matters pertaining to scientific hydrology referred to the American Geophysical Union had been previously Locked after by special committees on Hydrology. The Section of Tectonophysics was established April 9, 1940, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging research of fundamental importance to our knowledge of Earth‐structure not covered in any one of the other Sections of the Union.

Crude Penicillin Filtrate for Local Treatment

“…The therapeutic value of partially purified penicillin has been established in this country (Florey and Florey, 1943;Fleming, 1943;Report to War Office, 1943;Christie and Garrod, and others, 1944) and in the United States (Keefer et al, 1943), but the use of untreated filtrate of cultures of Penicillium notatum has been very little noticed, although successful results have been obtained with gauze impregnated with the living mould (Hobson and Galloway, 1944). This communication gives' the results of the local use of the untreated filtrate in 24 patients.…”