| Description | ' At the fourth meeting of the British Committee for Co-operation with Unesco in the Natural Sciences, held in the rooms of the Royal Society on Tuesday, 19 October, 1948, at 2.30 pm.
Present; Professor E D Adrian, Foreign Secretary R.S, chairman; Professor J D Bernal, Association of Scientific Workers; Mr Ritchie Calder, Ministry of Education; Mr T Dewhurst, Parliamentary and Scienctific Committee; Professor H J Fleure, National Committee for Geography; Dr E Hindle, British Association; Dr O J Howarth, British Association; Mr E Bolton, British Council; Dr J Needham, Royal Society; Professor J Proudman, National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics; Professor H H Read, Royal Society; Sir Richard Southwell, National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mathematics; Sir Robert Watson-Watt, National Committee for Scientific Radio
Joint Secretaries; Dr D C Martin, Royal Society; Mr W D Pile, Ministry of Education
Mr E H E Havelock, Mr F J C Herrald and Mr H L Verry attended in place of Sir John Fryer, ARC, Sir Edward Mellanby, MRC, And Sir Edward Appleton, DSIR, Mr F R Colwell, Ministry of Eduction also attended.
Dr Pierre Auger, Head of the Natural Sciences Division of UNESCO attended by invitation.
Matters discussed;
27. Minutes of last meeting held on 25 May 1948 were confirmed.
28. Arising from the minutes of 25 May 1948
(i) Scientific Documentation
(ii) Hylean Amazon
(iii) Public Relations of the British Committeee
(iv) Dr Needham's Report
(v) International Scientific Unions
(vi) 3rd General Conference of Unesco
(vii) International Research Laboratories
29. Address by Dr Auger
Dr Auger, head of the Natural Sciences Section of UNESCO, spoke on the work of the Natural Sciences Section during the coming year. He said that the greatest assistance which the National Committees could affort UNESCO was to give cler and definite instructions to the delegates to geneal conferences. Where a clear programme had been given action had usually been effective. He dealt with two main items;
(i) Field Science Co-operation Officers
(ii) Grants-in-aid Policy
30. Agenda of the Programme Commission of the Third Session of the General Conference
31. Programme of Unesco for 1949
32. Field Science Co-operation Offices (resolution 6.1)
33. Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind (resolution 6.7)
34. Facilities available to British scientists for visits overseas
35. International Conference on Scientific Abstracting
36. Informal meeting of scientists in 1949
37. Educational Diagrams and Purchase Tax '
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