1980年9月1日～4日,英国诺丁汉大学在Sutton Bonington召开了“大气污染对农业与园艺的影响”的学术讨论会,参加者有英、美、德、法、意、日、加、瑞典、瑞士、荷兰、丹麦、比利时、波兰、匈牙利等15国代表106人,我国有余叔文、汪嘉熙二人应邀参加。会上有20个综合性的学术报告,是会议组织者在一年前预约了各个领域的知名学者作了充分准备的。这20个报告的题目是: From September 1 to September 4, 1980, the University of Nottingham held a symposium entitled “Impacts of Air Pollution on Agriculture and Horticulture” at Sutton Bonington. Participants included those from Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Poland and Hungary, with 106 delegates from 15 countries and Yu Shuwen and Wang Jiaxi from China were invited to participate. There were 20 comprehensive academic presentations at the conference that prepared well-known scholars in various fields a year prior to conference organizers. The topics of these 20 reports are: