xxth GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IUGG VIENNA (AUSTRIA)

IAGA NEWS N0.29
the public image of the Association. The President
reported that Dr W Schroder, Chairman of the
InterDivisional Commission on History, had agreed to act
as coordinator of public relations for IAGA, with Coles
providing scientific backup. The President will discuss
with Coles the production of an illustrated booklet (10
20 pages) for issuing at the General Assembly. The
President noted that the Local Organizing Committee had
kindly agreed to take care of Schroder's registration
fee and expenses. The Executive Committee welcomed
Schroder's acceptance.
The Secretary General reported that several nominations
for long-service medals had been received. The Executive
Commit tee reviewed the procedure for these and agreed
that there were three distinct stages: first, nomination
sent to the Secretary General by the national body of a
member country; second, selection and assessment by the
Chairman of Division V, ex officio; finally,
consideration of the candidates by the Executive
Committee before making the awards. The Executice
Committee expressed its deep appreciation of Dr W F
Stuart's initiative leading to the awards being
established in the first place and to his chairing the
first round of awards.
The Executive Committee took note of a misprint in the
text of statute 14 published in 1987 [ IAGA News No. 26,
page 50] in which the weighting of Chief Delegates'
votes according to category of membership (which applies
in votes on questions of a financial nature) was
mistakenly given as applying also to votes on que stions
of an administrative nature. The correct text of the
statute is:
14. On questions of an administrative nature the voting
shall be by Member .Countries, each Member Country
having one vote cast by its Chief Delegate (or that
person's representative in accordance with the By­
Laws).
V IAGA Sponsorship
The Executive Committee received an oral report on the
International Symposium on Geomagnetism held in Shanghai
(China) on 17-19 April , 1990. The Secretary General
reported that he had not receive d a report suitable for
publication in IAGA News.
The Executive Committee recommended that the rules
governing sponsorship of the meetings by IAGA be
reprinted in the next issue of IAGA News [see page 58].
It was noted that requests for sponsorship should be
made in good time and normally this would be at least a
year ahead of the meeting. Th ere are two principal
reasons for sponsorship: the first is to apply the "seal
of approval" of the Association to the aims and
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