Minutes of a meeting of the British National Committee for Geology Present: Sir Peter Kent, Chairman; Professor J C Briden; Mr A MA A Clarke; Mr J B W Day; Sir Kingsley Dunham; Dr W H C Ramsbottom; Dr W I Rolfe; Dr P A Sabine; Professor F W Shotton; Professor J Sutton; Professor Professor F J Vine; Dr W H Ziegler Matters discussed; 1. Minutes 2. Membership 3. International Geological Congress 1980 4. Palynology Conference 1980 5. Post-Geodynamics Project reserch programme 6. Geological Correlation Programme 7. IUGS Executive Committee 8. Survey of British Geologists 9. Nomenclature of Igneous rocks 10. Silurian Stratigraphy 11. North Atlantic borderlands 12. Solid Earth Sciences Education Committee 13. Engineering Geology Subcommittee 14. Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Subcommittee 15. History of Geological Sciences Subcommittee 16. Hydrogeology Subcommittee 17. Quaternary Research Subcommittee 18. European Geological Association 19. Coal Study 20. Next meeting It was agreed to hold the next meeting on 11 March 1980 at 2.30 pm. 25 June 1979