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Mixed papers relating to the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) British Group, chaired by Robert Joseph Gardner-Medwin, including minutes and agenda. Also papers relating to a the proposed International Seminar on Regional Planning and Development to be held in The Hague in 1957. Includes a report on ICRPD relations with the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning (IFHTP) - in French

Scope and Contents Organisational and conference papers relating to the the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development held at Bedford College, London from 28 September to 2 October 1955. These include: Regional Planning and Development Newsletter No 4 ( 1955) , conference preparatory committee papers, a file of press-clippings, a conference programme, the conference's interim report and typescripts of the...

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Papers relating to the International Seminar on Regional Planning and Development, organised by Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation on behalf of the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) and held in The Hague 1-6 July 1957. The file includes the programme, a list of participants and typescripts of the papers presented.

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Buck sends Christmas greetings to the Ewarts and reminisces about their meeting at the Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia. He writes that the Board of Maori Ethnological Research has been busy and that they have established a Maori Improvement Fund to promote practical and higher education among the Maori people. He also reports that the Government has granted him leave to accompany an American scientific expedition into Polynesia.

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Ewart writes that the account for the sheep from Cheltenham has already been paid. He tells Elwes to make a note of anything interesting on his travels, and if Elwes is back by March they may meet at the Zoological Congress in Monte Carlo. He reports that Elwes' two fat-rumped sheep and a dozen more ewes seem to be in lamb to the fat-tailed ram, and that the cloth Elwes sent is much admired. Now that Ewart's lectures are over for the winter he hopes to get some writing done.

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Le Souef reminds Ewart of their meeting at the Pan-Pacific Congress in Sydney and writes that he will shortly be visiting Edinburgh to see the Zoo and the 'Psoa' sheep that Ewart has been experimenting with.

Scope and Contents Le Souef wonders if Ewart has published anything concerning the small South American dogs that he considered as progenitors to the terriers. He has been trying to get the small racoon-like dog from Japan but they are very scarce, and he hopes someone can prove that they are the ancestors of the Pekinese type before they become extinct. He asks whether there was ever a Professor Ridgeway at the University of Edinburgh. He writes that the new large aquarium in Taronga Park is proving...

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Frobisher thanks Ewart for giving an address to the Imperial Wool Research Conference in Edinburgh the previous week.

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Prawochenski regrets that Ewart will not be present at the 1925 International Congress of Agriculture in Warsaw and hopes that they may meet if Ewart is planning to visit Poland again.

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Prawochenski thanks Ewart for the trouble he has taken in arranging his paper for publishing and apologises for his bad English. He confirms that Ewart's paper concerning wool which was sent for the International Congress of Agriculture in 1925 will be published.