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TitleMinutes of a Meeting of the British National Committee for Geology
Date10 December 1968
DescriptionPresent; Dr K C Dunham, Chairman; Dr W Bullerwell; Dr G F Claringbull; Professor T N George; Mr R Glossop; Mr W B Harland; Mr D C Ion; Dr P E Kent; Professor M J Lighthill; Dr W S McKerrow; Dr A C McLean; Professor T C Pjemister; Dr P A Sabine; Dr S H Shaw; Professor F W Shotton; Mr A H Stride; Sir James Stubblefield

1. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting on 12 July 1968 (NGL/15 (68) were confirmed.

2. 23rd Internatinoal Geological Congress

3. International Union of Geological Sciences
a. UK Delegate's Report
b. IUGS Subscripotion

4. International Geological correlation Programme
a. UK Contribution
b. Stratigraphy Committee
c. Application for grant

5. IUGS Commissions
a. Geochronology
b. Gondwana Subcommission of the Stratigraphy Commission
c. Upper Mantle Project
d. Geological Documentation
e. Meteorites

6. IUGS Newsletter

7. Symposium on Post-Glacial Rebounds of the Crust.

8. INQUA

9. International Association for Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
The minutes of Council Meetings of the IAGC held in Prague on 20 and 22 August 1968 (NGL/20 (68) were noted.

10. Silurian/Devonian Boundary

11. British National Committee for Geology

RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL

Minute 4 (c) that a grant of £250 be made to the Geological Society in 1969 towards the expenses incurred by Mr W B Harland in correlating stratigraphical material in the United Kingdom in connexion with the International Programme of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

Minute 8 that a block grant of £750 be authorized for travel grants for UK participants at the 7th International Congress of Quaternary Research (INQUA) to be held in Paris from 30 August - 5 September 1969, the grant to be allocated by the INQUA Subcommittee of the British National Committee for Geology.
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