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Present; Professor P Allen (Chairman); Mr A M Clarke; Professor J E Hemingway; Dr A lee; Dr T R Owen; Dr A J Smith; Dr E K Walton
Matters discussed;
1. Membership and Terms of reference
The Chairman reported that the British National Committee for Geology, at a meeting on 16 October 1964, made the following recommendation which was approved by Council of the Royal Society on 12 November 1964 (Minute 29(vii): 'that a subcommittee be appointed, with power to co-opt, to organise the VII International Sedimentological Congress to be held in Reading and Edinburgh in 1967, the subcommittee to consist of Professor P Allen and Dr A Lees (Reading), Dr E K Walton and Mr P McL Duff (Edinburgh). Proffessor J E Hemingway (Newcastle on Tyne), Dr T R Owen (Swansea), Dr A J Smith (University College London), Mr A M Clarke (National Coal Board), with Professor Allen as Chairman; and that Professor Allen be invited to attend meetings of the National Committee when business was appropropriate. '
The terms of the subcommittee were agreed as follows:
1. To organize the Vii International Congress of Sedimentology in Reading and Edinburgh in 1967.
2. To ensure that the Congress was financially solvent.
3. To report to the British NAtional Committee for Geology from time to time, otherwise to be free to act independently.
4. To keep the President of the International Association of Sedimentology informed of arrangements for the Congress.
2. Dates of Congress
It was agreed to hold the Congress between 7 and 19 August 1967, starting and finishing with excursions, the formal sessions to be between 11 and 15 August. It was noted in this connexion that the Edinburgh Festival was scheduled to begin on 20 August and that the International Carboniferous Congress would be held in Sheffield in September 1967. The Sedimentological Congress would stqrt in Reading, participants arriving on Monday, 7 August, and travelling to Edinburgh - it was hoped by chartered transport - on Sunday, 13 August.
It was also agreed that the dates of the Congress should be sent forthwith to Geotimes, Nature, Geological Society Circular, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, Sedimentology, International Union of Geological Sciences, and the British Commonwealth Geological Liaison Officer.
3. Draft Programme
4. Social Functions
5. Ladies Programme
6. Theme
7. Accommodation
8. Excursions
9. Secretariat
10. Finance
11. First ircular
12. Next meeting
It was agreed to hold the next eretiing of the subcommittee on Wednesday, 28 April 1965, at 10.30 am. |