A number of meetings sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) were held or scheduled during the period under review: I) the newly-formed International Advisory Committee on Marine Sciences met for its first session in Tokyo on October 24 and 25, 1955 to discuss international cooperation in the field of oceanography; 2) biologists from nine countries attended a meeting in Paris from December 12 to 16, 1955, and recommended a plan of action to UNESCO which would encourage international or regional research on normal and abnormal cell growth; 3) a five-day meeting of experts from thirteen countries was held in Paris beginning February 6, 1956 to study the possible need for new international arrangements governing the exchange of publications to replace the existing Brussels Convention; 4) a group of educators met in Atlantic City, New Jersey from February 13 to 21, 1956, under the joint sponsorship of UNESCO and the American Educational Research Association, to discuss problems of educational research and international exchange of research information; 5) a group of scientists was scheduled to meet in Ceylon beginning March 19, 1956 to study problems of humid tropical regions; 6) a ten-day regional conference on the teaching of social sciences was held in Rio de Janeiro beginning March 5, 1956; and 7) the first international conference devoted exclusively to the question of the professional training of journalists was scheduled to be held in Paris from April 9 to 13, 1956.