Minutes of a meeting of the Royal Society UNESCO Committee, The United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO ' Minutes of the 15th meeting held at 2.30 pm on Tuesday 25 May 1971 at Overseas Development Administrtion, Eland House, Stag Place, London SW1E 5DH. Present: Sir Harold Thompson in the chair; Matters discussed; 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of the last (14th) meeting - NS(71)11 3. Matters arising from the minutes 4. Report of the meeting of Experts on Engineering Education - NS(1971) 9 5. Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Workers - NS(71) 18 6. Internatinal Gelologivcal Correlation Programme - NS(71) 10 7. The Future UNESCO Programme - NS(70) 28 8. The International Foundtin for Science - NS(71) 20 9. No item 9 listed 10. The Proposed International Institute of Microbiology - NS(71) 22 11. Intergovernmental Conference on the Establishment of a World Science Information System (UNISIST) - NS(71) 16 12. Non-Governmental Organisations and UNESCO 13. Possible Candidates to succeed Professor Buzzati-Traverso as Assistant Director-General, Natural Sciences Sector. 20. It was AGREED to postpone this item until the next meeting. 14. Consultative meeting on UNESCO activities in the field of Engineeering Science and Research - NS(71) 13 15. Any other business 22. There was no other business. 16. Date of next meeting 23 It was AGREED that a meeting should be arranged in June or July in order to consider the items that had been deferred. ' 25 May 1971