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Information about several papers discussed at the U.S.-Japan Joint Conference on Arthropod-borne Plant Viruses that was held in Tokyo, Japan is presented. The aim of the conference was to have the direct exchange of information on the interactions between viruses and arthropods. The symposium featured several biologists including Paul W. Oman, Karl Maramorosch, and Teikichi Fukushi.

The article offers information on the symposium entitled "Review of Nuclear Proliferation Problems" organized by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and conducted in Tallberg, Sweden on June 15-18, 1973. The meeting delved into various topics including the spread of nuclear technology, nuclear developments, safeguards, cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy, military consequences of the proliferation of nuclear technology, the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, and security problems involving non-nuclear weapon countries. Delegates from India, Israel, Japan, USSR, Mexico, and the United States attended the gathering.

Outlines the program on the Fifth Far Eastern Meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Lists of discussants for International Trade, theory of economic growth and asset of markets; Presentation of papers on econometric studies; Symposium on economic planning and econometrics of education.

This article focuses on certain events related to sociology which are to be held. The American Documentation Institute has been incorporated on behalf of leading national scholarly, scientific and informational societies to develop and operate facilities that are expected to promote research and knowledge in various intellectual fields. First objective of the new organization will be to develop and apply the new technique of microphotography to library, scholarly, scientific and other material. It will be able to direct scholarly publication by various methods as required by co-operating organizations. The Japanese Sociological Society is now compiling a book in English on the development of sociology in Japan, which is to be presented to the members of the International Congress of Educationists who meet in Tokyo, Japan this Summer. It will contain a section on rural sociology prepared by professor Eitaro Suzuki. Professor Read Bain of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio will be the lecturer during 1937-38 in the department of sociology.

This article presents information on several meetings related to the field of sociology held in the U.S. and Japan. The annual meeting of Eastern Sociological Society was held at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York on April 3-4, 1954. President Ira DeA Reid addressed the group on "The Social Protest: Cue and Catharsis" at the annual dinner. Sections of the meeting included "Methods in Social Research," "Stratification and Occupation," "Social Structure," "Frontiers in Social Theory," and "Studies in Social Problems." The Japan Sociological Society held its 26th annual meeting on October 10-11, 1953, at the Tohoku University of Sendai, in northeastern Japan. Over four hundred sociologists and related scientists were present. Session topics included: Mass Communication and Social Psychology; Fishing Village Problems; Industry and Labor; Education and Crime; Sociological Theory; Rural Society; Population and Urban Society; Family and Marriage; Morals and Religion; and Race and Social Class. The Pacific Coast Sociological Society held its 1954 meeting at the campus of Oregon State College, at Corvallis, Oregon on April 22-23, 1954.

The article presents information on several meetings of societies and associations related to biological sciences. The "International Symposium on Animal Toxins" will be held on April 8-11, 1966 at the Dennis Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The "Eleventh Pacific Science Congress" of the Pacific Science Association will be held from August 22, 1966 in Tokyo, Japan, for a period of three weeks. A conference on the preservation of natural areas, in conjunction with the 16th Annual Meeting of U.S. Nature Conservancy, was held at the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York on September 11, 1965.

The article presents information on various meetings related to bioscience. The third international symposium on Bioastronautics and the Exploration of Space will be held on November 16-18, 1664 in San Antonio, Texas. The 23rd International Congress of Physiological Sciences will be held during September 1-9, 1965 in Japan. The fifth annual convention of the Underwater Society of America was held during June 17-22, 1964 in Mexico City. Eugenie Clark, Director of the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory at Sarasota, Florida, described how the captive sharks were taught to press a white square target in the convention. She listed 27 unprovoked shark attacks during the calendar year 1963 on humans in the world.

Information on the symposium on plant groups common to Japan and North America that was held from September 3-6, 1969 at the botanical facilities of Oregon State University in Oregon is presented. The symposium was sponsored by the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program of the National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.