| Description | Present: Professor J H Taylor, Chairman; Professor O M B Bulman; Professor K C Dunham; Mr N L Falcon; Professor T N George; Professor L Hawkes; Professor G Hibberd; Professor R G S Hudson; Mr D C Ion; Dr A S Laughton; Dr A C McLean; Dr P A Sabine; Dr S H Shaw; Professor F H Stewart; Dr C J Stubblefield; Professor L R Wager
Matters discussed;
1. Membership
2. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 18 December 1963 were confirmed (NGL/1 (64)
3. British Mesozoic Committee
4. UNESCO Education Report
5. VII International SEdimentological Congress, 1967
Resolved - to appoint a subcommittee of the British National Committee for Geology to orgnize the VII Internatinal Sedimentological Congress to be held in Reading and Edinburgh in 1967, the subcommittee to consist of Professor Professor P Allen and Dr A Lees (Reading), Dr E K Walton and Dr P M D Duff (Edinburgh), Profesor J E Hemingway (Newcastle on Tyne), Dr T R Owen (Swansea), /Dr A J Snith (University college London), Mr A M Clark (National Coal Board), with Professor Allen as Chairman, with power to co-opt. It was agreed to invite Professor ALlen to meetings of the National Committee when business was appropriate.
6. Future Organization of Geology in the United Kingdom
Resolved - to recommend to Council that, when appropriate, the following proposals shoudl be made to the Government :
1. That membership of the proposed Council for Scientific Policy should include at least one earth scientist.
2. That membership of any proposed Natural Environment Research Council should adequately represent the sciences that it covers and
3. That the name of the new Council called at present the Natural Environment Research Council be changed back to the Earth Sciences Research Council.
7. XXII INternational Geological Congress Travel GRants Subcommittee
8. Internatinal Geological Congress, T.I.C.E. Symposium Subcommittee
9. IGC - UK Delegation
10. IGC Council Agenda - Briefing of UK Delegation
1. Relation between the Congress and the International Union of Geological Sciences
2. Voting procedure
3. Statutes of Congress
4. Venue of the XXIII Session of the Congress
5. Publication and Circulation of papers
6. Commissions
11. IGC Commission for the Geological Map of Europe
12. IUGS Circular Letter No. 12
13. IUGS Council Agenda - Briefing of UK Delegates
14. VII International Congress of INQUA [International Association for Quaternary Research}
RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL
Miute 6. That, when approporiate, the following proposals should be made to the Government: (1) That membership of the proposed Council for Scientific Policy should include at least one earth scientist, (2) That membershp of the proposed Natural Environment Research Council should adequately represent the sciences it covers, and (3) That the name of the new Council called at present the Natural Environment Research Council be changed back to the Earth Sciences Research Council.
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