| Description | ' At the sixth meeting of the British Committe for Co-operation with Unesco in the NAtural Sciences, held in the rooms of the Royal Society on Wednesday 8 March 1950
Present: Professor E D Adrian, Foreign Secretary R.S, chairman; Professor J D Bernal, Association of Scientific Workers; Mr W K Brasher, Institution of Electrical Engineers; Mr T Dewhurst, Parliamentary and Scientific Committee; Mr J F Foster, Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth; Dr O J Howarth, British Association; Dr J S Huxley, Royal Society; Sir Harold Spencer Jones, National Committee for Astronomy; Mr E Bolton-King, British Council; Professor H H Read, 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;
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, and Mr A Thompson, Ministry of Education, also attended.
Matters discussed;
49. Minutes of the fifth meeting, held on 24 May 1949, were confirmed.
50. Matters arising from the minutes
(a) International Institute of the Hylean Amazon
(b) International Conference of Science Abstracting
(c) Membership of the British Committee
(d) Finances of international scientific unions
(e) Report on the activities of UNESCO in the Natural Sciences
(f) Special topic for debate at Fourth Session
51. Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind
Resolved - that it is the hope of this Committee that work shall be prosecuted to see whether this valuable project could not be put into execution in the near future.
52. Proposed International Institute of the Arid Zone
53. Programme and Budget of UNESCO for 1951
54. Delegate to the 5th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO '
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