History of Astronomy

Abstract

Members stood for a few moments to honor the memory of the late Dr. Per Collinder, and then elected J. Dobrzycki (Poland) as President, M.A. Hoskin (UK) as Vice-President, and S.M.R. Ansari (India), W. Hartner (GFR), P.G. Kulikovsky (USSR) and O. Gingerich (USA) as members of the Organizing Committee together with O. Pedersen (Denmark) as representative of International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. The president expressed his gratification that a large number of former consulting members of Commission 41 had now been nominated for full membership of the IAU by their respective national committees: Z. Horsky, H.D. Howse, J. North, R. Taton, V. Thoren, and J. P. Verdet. Other new members of the Commission include D. Heggie, G. Jackisch, G.S. Khromov, K. Lang, J. Merleau-Ponty, J. Rybka, and W. Sullivan. It was then resolved that “The members of Commission 41 wish to thank our Soviet Colleagues for their regular publication of Bibliography of Books and Papers Published in the History of Astronomy, and urge the continued publication of this valuable aid to research”, and that “The members of Commission 41 recommend to the General Secretary that this Bibliography be listed as an official IAU Publication”.