The AAAS at Berkeley.

The article reports on issues and topics discussed during the 1954 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the University of California in Berkeley. Of the 3,000 papers read and discussed in 300 sessions, most were concerned with the specialized maze of minutiae. Early in the AAAS meeting, Farrington Daniels of the University of Wisconsin chemistry department chairman, reviewed the factors depleting the world's reserves of fossil fuels, which had been produced through photosynthesis. He cited the growing population, industrialization, and growing demands for power and higher living standards as factors contributing to pressures for finding fossil fuel substitutes.