Report on the International Paleontological Symposium on Corals (and other Coelenterata)

Abstract

This symposium was held in August, 1971 at Novosibirsk as the first international symposium by coral specialist with more than a hundred attendance from thirteen countries. It was well organized by the Academy of Sciences of USSR directed by the Academician Dr. B. S. SOKOLOV, and very successful in discussing about many different subjects on various groups of fossil coelenterates. About eighty papers, which were contributed from eleven countries, were read in six days.
Two specialists from Japan, Drs. M. MINATO and T. HAMADA, took part in the symposium, and honoured the chairmanship of the sessions on the tetracorals and tabulate corals, respectively. The present reporter was strongly impressed that it was quite necessary to organize a certain kind of working group in our country as soon as possible to follow the international tendency in cooperating with the world specialists in this field of science.