| Description | Pressent at the meeting: Professor R V Jones in the Chair; Dr W H Brock; Dr R A Buchanan; Dr M P Crosland; MR K R Gilbert; Earl of Halsbury; Professor N Kurti; Dr J Neeham; Dr C E Newman; Dr J R Ravetz; Dr G J Whitrow
Matters discussed;
1. Membership of Committee
2. Minutes of meeting of 21 July 1970 and amendments
3. Expenses of IUHPS Commission and Committee members
4. Parliamentary Grant
5. University College London
6. Education
7. IX General Assembly, History of Sciences Division, IUHPS, 1971
8. Committee Report for the General Assembly
9. Harriot Papers
10. XV International Congress of the History of Science 1977
11. Copernicus celebrations - Council at its meeting on 14 January 1971 had accepted the recommendations of the first meeting of the ad hoc panel on 8 December 1970 to consider possible forms of commemoration in the Uk for the quincentenary of the birth of Copernicus in 1973
12. Parliamentary Grant
13. Technological Museums
14. Next meeting - 18 June 1971
Recommendations to Council;
Minute 1 - that the British Academy be invited to nominate a representative to serve on the British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Minute 6 - that the report on education in the history of science, medicine and technology in UK universities and technical colleges prepared by Professor A R Hall and Dr J R Ravetz from the completed questionnaires received, be printed for distribution to Vice-Chancellors of universities, the UGC, research councils, British Academy, the International Commission on Education, IUHPS, the scientific press and historians of science and that a grant of up to £60 from the Parliamentary Grant - International Reations (Committee's reports, administration etc) be made for this purpose
Minute 9 - that a grant of £1000 be made for the photcopying of the papers of Thomas Harriot (1560 - 1621) mathematician and scientist, at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library and at Petworth; one copy to be used for research in connection with the proposed publication of Harriot's Works and the other to be made generally available for historical research in a library to be named, the appliction for which is strongly supported by the British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.
Recmmended subsequently by the Chairman, Dr R A Buchanan and Dr J R Revie on behalf of the Committee;
i. Tha the UK delegation to the IX General Assembly of the Division of the History of Science, IUHPS, Moscow, 17 and 25 August 1971 be Mr F R Maddison (leader), Dr R A Buchanan, Dr A C Crombie, and Dr M P Crosland and that grants of up to £210 each be made from the Parliamentary Grant in aid (delegates) towards their expenses.
ii. That with reference to Council minute 38 (xv) of 8 October 1970 the grant from the Parliamentary Grant in Aid (Libraries assistance) to Dr R MacLeod, Sussex University, be increased by £70 to cover a subsequent increase in salary of the research student. |