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Commission 41: History of Astronomy/Histoire de l’Astronomie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

S. M. Razaullah Ansari

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The membership of the Commission stands, with the election of 18 IAU members and 12 historians at the XXII GA (1994), at 155 presently (Sept. 1996). Note the increase in membership, which is 24% and which hopefully may go to 30-35% by XXIII GA (1997). The Commission has put a message on WWW for all IAU members/presidents of various commissions to join the Commission 41 in a big way, so that it can extend its scope of activities further. Besides holding a Joint Discussion of its own (No. 17), Commission 41 is co-supporting JDs 8, 20 and 23.

Type
Commissions not attached to a Division
Information
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 603 - 605
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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