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CMB - Committee minute books of the Royal Society
- 45 - International Association of Academies Committee

RefNo	CMB/45/11
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the International Scientific Organizations Committee
Date	20 June 1919
Description	Present at the meeting: Sir Frank Dyson in the chair; Sir Richard Glazebrook; Mr J H Jeans; Colonel H G Lyons; Sir William Pope; Professor A Schuster, Secretry of the Royal Society 1. Minute of Council appointing the Committe on 19 June 1919 was read 2. Discussed expenses of the delegates to the forthcoming Brussels meeting 3. Discussed appointment of delegates - for Geodesy and Geophysics, choice by National Committee for Geophysics; for Astronomy, choice to the National Committee for Astronomy; for Chemistry, choice by the Federal Council for Pure and Applied Chemistry; for Engineering, Sir Dugald Clerk, Sir Robert Hadfield and Mr James Swinbourne to be appointed, and it was further resolved to ask the British Engineering Standards Association to nominate a representative; for Biology, Professor C Sherrington and Professor E H STarling, and delegastes for Zoology referred to Professor Schuster and Mr Hardy. Also reported by Professor Schuster that 'the question of an International Council for the investigation of the North Sea Fisheries was likely to be discussed at the Brussels meeting; that the Board of Fisheries had recently appointed a Committee with Mr Hardy as Chairman to consider the subject; and that a representative of this Committee would probably attend the Brussels meeting. '
Extent	1p
Format	Typescript
AccessStatus	Open

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