Following the meeting of the Union of Geodesy and Geophysics at the Congress in Rome in September additional meetings took place to decide on the nature of the Union’s participation in the proposed International Year. The Commission on Snow and Ice had already, at the Brussels Congress in 1951, proposed that glaciological observations should be made during the year. At the Rome meetings Professor G. Manley and Professor R. Haefeli were nominated as representatives of the Hydrology Association, in which the Commission on Snow and Ice is included, to attend the post-Congress meetings dealing with the proposals of the Union. These meetings took place on 27 and 28 September.,

Later, the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (C.S.A.G.I.) met from 30 September to 4 October to coordinate the proposals from the different Associations of the Union. These proposals have now been circulated to the National Committees concerned. They include a report from the Working Group on Glaciology suggesting various ways in which glaciological work should be carried out during the International Year. A more detailed report will be made available later.