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- 55 - Post-war needs Geophysics Committee

RefNo	CMB/55/2
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Post-War Needs in Geophysics Committee
Date	17 April 1944
Description	Present at the meeting: Professor G I Taylor (Acting Chairman); Dr E B Bailey; Dr E C Bullard; Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell; Sir Alfred Egerton (Physical Secretary); Dr H Jeffreys; Dr A O Rankine; Professor C E Tilley 1. Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham's letter declining to act as chairman of the committee from ill-health read by the Physical Secretary 2. Resolved Professor G I Taylor to act as chairman of the committee for this meeting 3. Minutes of previous meeting confirmed 4. A report on the action already taken by the oceanographical sub-committee of the British National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics was made by Sir John Edgell. and it was resolved that the Council be asked to instruct the British National Committee to make available to the Post-War Needs in Geophysics Committee and the Post-War Needs in Geology Committee the report of the oceanographical sub-committee 5. Recoommendations made; 5.1 That the Colonial Survey Committee of the Colonial Office be asked to consider the practicability of applying radar to geodetic survey work. 5.2 That there be established at the National Physical Laboratory if possible, a department of geophysics for the development and testing of instruments for geophysical investigations, and that geophysical work be included in the activities of the Geological Survey. (It was agreed that this recommendation be brought to the notice of the Gassiot Committee) 5.3 That there be established, before the end of the war, a commiittee, representing the Royal Society, the instrument industry and the services supply departments, to consider the question of the disposal of surplus instruments. 5.4 That up to 1,000 tons of surplus government explosives be reserved for seismological work, and that at the appropriate time a committee be set up to advise on the use of these explosives. 5.5 That adequate funds be made available for the maintenance of the International Seismological Summary ( the estimate given by Dr H Jeffreys being approved) and that in the future the work be carried out at Cambridge. 5.6 That in a few cases where the results are likely to be specially valuable magnetic and meteorological observatories in the British colonies be equipped with seismological instruments. 5.7 That the proposals for extending the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge be approved; and that the section of applied geophysics at Imperial College be revived and strengthened. 5.8 That funds be made available for the maintenance of research students at both places. 5.9 That facilities ought to be made available to enable research in British Universities. 5.10 That facilities be made available to enable British research students to carry out research abroad.
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Format	Typescript
AccessStatus	Open

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