Minutes of a meeting of the British Committee for Co-operation with UNESCO in the Natural Sciences ' At the eighth meeting of the British Committee for Co-operation with UNESCO in the NAtural Sciences, held in the rooms of the Royal Society on Wednesday, 25 April 1951 at 2.30 pm 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; Mr R A R Tricker, Ministry of Education Joint Secretaries; Dr D C Martin, Royal Society; Mr H C Rackham, Ministry of Education Mr H L Verry attended in place of Sir Ben Lockspier, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr F R Cowell, Ministry of Education, also attended. Matters discussed; 63. Minutes of the seventh meeting, held on 23 Ovctober 1950, were confirmed. 64. Matters arising from the minutes (a) Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind (b) Arid Zone Advisory Committee (c) Relations with International Non-Governmental Organizations (d) Coupon scheme for scientific instruments 65. International Research Laboratories 66. International Computation Centre 67. Arid Zone Reserch 68. UNESCO Programme for 1952 69. UK delegate to the VI Session of the General Conference 70. Translation of Russian Scientific Publications ' 25 April 1951