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PMB Doc 532.	Transactions (British Solomon Islands Society for the Advancement of Science and Industry, Honiara), Vols. I-III, 1952-1956. 
1 reel. (Available for reference.)

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PMB Doc 532-1

Transactions (British Solomon Islands Society for the Advancement of Science and Industry), Vol. I (1951-2), Honiara, 12 Jun 1952. 
Contents:  
Office bearers for 1951-52, p.3
List of members for 1951-52, p. 4-5
[Presidential address by W.H. McDonald, and J.C. Grover, ‘Earthquakes, seismic seawaves and hurricanes in the South Pacific’are listed in Table of contents on p.2,  but  are not included; they had apparently been posted  separately to members in 1952.] 
Torben Wolff, ‘The Danish Oceanographic Expedition of 1950-1952’, p. 6- 9.
John R. Wrightson, ‘Population of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate’, p. 10-15.
R.A. Dethbridge, ‘Timber resources of the Solomons’, p. 16 -21
C.J. Austin, ‘Leprosy in the Pacific’, p.22-27
Raymond Firth, ‘Anthropological field work in the Solomons, p. 28-31
W.H. G. Poggendorff, ‘Rice growing and the prospects of growing it on the Guadalcanar Plains, p. 32-35.’
Rules of the British Solomon Islands Society, p. 36-37.

PMB Doc 532-2

Transactions (British Solomon Islands Society for the Advancement of Science and Industry), Vol. II (1952-1954),  Honiara 26 Sep 1965.
Contents:
List of office bearers, p. 2.
D.A. Donald, Presidential address 1952, p. 3-9.
Rev. Sister Veronica, ‘The destruction of Tangarare Mission in the great storm of February 1952’ p. 10—13
J.C. Grover, ‘The submarine volcano in the New Georgia group’ [This is the title given in Table of contents, p.1. The paper is actually headed ‘The submarine volcano in the Western Solomons’], p. 14 –16.
G.F. C. Dennis, ‘Nature notes on the Solomons’, p. 17 – 25.
J.C. Grover, ‘A concise history of the search for gold in the Solomons’, p. 26—36.
D.A. Donald, ‘President’s report of session 1952-1954’, p. 37.
[There is also on p.1 a list of five other addresses to the Society for which texts not available; also included for some reason is copy of J.G. Sloman, ‘Hansen’s Disease in New Guinea’, The Medical Journal of Australia, 2p.]

PMB Doc 532-3

Transactions (British Solomon Islands Society for theAdvancement of Science and Industry), Vol III (1954-1956), Honiara Jun 1956. 
Contents:
J.C. Grover, Presidential address, 1954, p. 3-12.
Sir Robert Stanley, ‘A recent tour of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands’, p. 13 -14.
J.C. Grover, ‘The important developments in microseismic techniques of detection and prediction of hurricanes, and a proposal for research in the islands of the Southwest Pacific’, p. 15-31.
Ron. A. Dethridge, ‘Crocodile hunting in the British Solomons’, p. 32-37.
J.C. Grover, ‘Prospects of mineral wealth in the Isles of Solomon’, p. 38-46.
N.H. Fisher, ‘Volcanoes’, p. 47.
J.C. Grover, ‘Savo volcano – a potential danger to its inhabitants’, p. 48-54.
C.E. Fox, ‘The Solomons fifty years ago and how they have changed’, p. 55-67.
[There is also a list of details of other meetings, including film screenings, for which no papers are available, p.1]

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