Description | ' At the eighth meeting of the British Committee for Co-operation with UNESCO in the NAtural Sciences, held in the rooms of the Royal Society on Wednesday, 25 April 1951 at 2.30 pm
Professor E D Adrian, Foreign Secretary R.S, chairman; Professor J D Bernal, Association of Scientific Workers; Mr W K Brasher, Institution of Electrical Engineers; Mr T Dewhurst, Parliamentary and Scientific Committee; Mr J F Foster, Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth; Dr O J Howarth, British Association; Dr J S Huxley, Royal Society; Sir Harold Spencer Jones, National Committee for Astronomy; Mr E Bolton-King, British Council; Professor H H Read, Royal Society; Sir Richard Southwell, National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mathematics; Dr R Stonely, National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics; Professor F J M Stratton; Mr R A R Tricker, Ministry of Education
Joint Secretaries; Dr D C Martin, Royal Society; Mr H C Rackham, Ministry of Education
Mr H L Verry attended in place of Sir Ben Lockspier, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr F R Cowell, Ministry of Education, also attended.
Matters discussed;
63. Minutes of the seventh meeting, held on 23 Ovctober 1950, were confirmed.
64. Matters arising from the minutes (a) Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind (b) Arid Zone Advisory Committee (c) Relations with International Non-Governmental Organizations (d) Coupon scheme for scientific instruments
65. International Research Laboratories
66. International Computation Centre
67. Arid Zone Reserch
68. UNESCO Programme for 1952
69. UK delegate to the VI Session of the General Conference
70. Translation of Russian Scientific Publications '
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