| Description | ' At the fifth meeting of the British Committee for Co-operation with UNESCO in the Natural Sciences, held in the rooms of the Royal Society on Tuesday, 24 May 1949 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; Dr C H Desch, Royal Society; Professor H J Fleure, National Committee for Geography; Professor H Munro Fox , National Committee for Biology; Dr E Hindle, British Association; Dr O J Howarth, British Association; Dr J S Huxley, Royal Society; Sir Harold Spencer Jones, National Committee for AStronomy; Mr E Bolton, British Council; Dr N B Kinnear, Ministry of Education; Dr J Needham, Royal Society; Professor H H Read, Royal Society; Sir Edward Salisbury, Secretary, the Royal Society; Sir Richard Southwell, National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mathematics; Dr R Stonely, National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics; Professor F J M Stratton; Dr A E Trueman, Advisory Council on Scientific Policy
Joint Secretaries; Dr D C Martin, Royal Society; Mr W D Pile, Ministry of Education
Mr H L Verry attended in place of Sir Ben Lockspier, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr F R Cowell, Ministry of Educatin, and Mr A H Waterfield also attended.
Matters discussed;
38. Minutes of fourth meeting, held on 19 October 1948, were confirmed subject to the addition of the name of Dr O J R Howarth among those present.
39. Matters arising from the minutes
(a) International Institute of the Hylean Amazon
(b) International Research Laboratories
(c) International Conference on Science Abstracting
40. Membership fo the British Committees
41. Report on the activities of UNESCO in the natural sciences during 1948
42. Relations of UNESCO to the applied sciences
43. UNESCO programme for 1949
44. Proceedings of the National Commission, 11-12 April 1949
45. Working Parties on (a) Food and People, and (b) Arid Zone
46. Fourth Session of the General Conference, Paris, 19 September 1949
47. Association for the advancement of science, and National Research Councils
48. Date of next meeting
it was agreed that the next meeting of the Committee should take place at the Royal Society at 2.30 pm on Friday, 9 September 1949.
Summary of recommendations to Council;
1. That working parties on (a) Food and People and (b) Arid Zone, be set up as recommended in Minute 45.
2. That a Sub-committee consisting of Professor J D Bernal, Dr E Bolton King, Dr J Needham, And Professor F J M Stratton, with Professor Adrian in a consultative capacity, be formed to collect information and report back to the Committee on the special topic for general debate at the 4th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO to be held in Paris in September 1949. The special topic being the duties of the state in regard to education, science and culture as referred to in the letter dated 21 May 1949 from the Minister of Education and paper Nat. Com 49/9. '
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