| Description | Professor P F Frankland in the Chair. Committee minutes including reports on previous business; results of an enquiry on the employment status of J D M Ross; a decision to see that the list of chemists 'available for chemical work of national importance' kept by the Royal Society be brought up to date; a report that badges had been withdrawn from all except those engaged in tar testing 'who had not attained the age of 23 and who were classed as fit for general service'; a letter from Professor Irvine requesting permission to take out provisional protection 'for certain processes described in his Report on the production of dimethyl and diethyl sulphates'; requests from firms for information on the production of orthoform neu; consideration of a draft report on the supply of essential drugs. p55-6. |