| Description | Professor R Meldola in the chair. Minutes of the War Committee indicating its absorption into the general Royal Society Council inserted. Committee business, including an account of the origin of the committee, and a decision to recommend to the Council that its existence now be made public, and issued with more powers; appointment of a Drugs Sub-Committee; a discussion on 'war work' badge issue; the committee's willingness to assist the National Physical Laboratory on the testing of munitions material; decision to submit a report on a proposed novocain substitute to [Sir Henry] Dale; decision to recommend Prof Frankland and Prof Pope as representatitves of a War Office working committee; a report on arrangements for the preparation of chloral formamide; a letter from Kilburn Scott on a three phase furnace. p16-18. |