Move To Join Royal Society
The Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand is to apply for membership of the Royal Society of New Zealand. This was decided at the annual meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Christchurch on Saturday. Mr G. A. Eiby, a vice-presi-dent of the society, said that the Royal Society had been the senior scientific body in New Zealand for many years. It was the spokesman for New Zealand science: the body which related this country’s science to government: and the body responsible for New Zealand's international relations in science.
Any organisation with scientific pretensions had to have as full a relationship as possible with the Royal Society; the idea that the Royal Society was a great and lofty body for specialists only, was false, he said. Mr F. M. Bateson, the president of the Royal Astronomical Society, said that the aur tonomy of member bodies of the Royal Society was not Interfered with. The Royal Society could give considerable assistance in the advance of amateur astronomy in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31223, 22 November 1966, Page 9
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174Move To Join Royal Society Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31223, 22 November 1966, Page 9
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