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<h2>Acta Crystallographica Section A</h2><h3>Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography</h3><h3>0567-7394</h3> <h2>international union of crystallography</h2> Volume 35 Part 6 Pages 1068-1083 November 1979 <h2>Report of Executive Committee for 1978</h2> 1068 Acta Cryst. (1979). A35, 1068-1083 International Union of Crystallography Report of the Executive Committee for 1978 Personal Notes Professor Dr Fritz 1-I. Laves died on 12 August 1978. He was a member of the Union's Executive Committee between 1957 and 1963 and served as a Vice-President between 1969 and 1972. He also represented the Union on the IUPAP Commission on the Solid State for several years. An obituary has been published [Acta Cryst. (1979), A35, 343]. Eleventh General Assembly and Congress By invitation of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Eleventh General Assembly and International Congress of Crystallography were held at the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland, 3-12 August 1978. A report, including a detailed report of the proceedings of the General Assembly, has been published in this journal [Acta Cryst. (1979), A35, 1021-1067] and will be sent to the National Committees for Crystallography. The meetings were attended by approximately 1516 scientists of whom 319 were from Poland and the remainder from 37 other countries. Professor N.