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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.
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Ansari, S.M.R., Dick, S.J., Débarbat, S., Gurshtein, A., Nakayama, S., North, J.D. (1997). Commission 41: History of Astronomy/Histoire de L’Astronomie. In: Appenzeller, I. (eds) Reports on Astronomy. International Council of Scientific Unions / International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 23A. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5762-9_44
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