Minutes of a meeting of the British National Committee on Antarctic Research Present; Sir Miles Clifford, Chairman; Dr S Evans; Sir Vivian Fuchs; Dr E Hindle; Rear-Admiral E G Irving; Mr H H Lamb; Sir Raymond Priesteley; Dr G de Q Robin; Dr G Seligman; Mr A H Sheffield; Professor J E Smith; Dr H Stoneley Dr G D Robinson and Mr W D C Wiggins attended by invitation. The Chairman welcomed to the meeting Rear-Admiral E G Irving, the Hedrographer of the Navy, in succession to Rear-Admiral K St B Collins. Matters discussed; 1. Minutes of the meeting held on 9 June 1960 (NAR/14(60)) were confirmed. 2. Matters arising from the minutes (a) Minute 3(b) - Collectin of cosmic dust spherules (b) Minute 3(d) - FIDS Advertisements (c) Minute 3(i) - Proposed visit to England by Dr M M Somov (d) Minute 3(l) - Venue of 1960 SCAR Meeting (e) Minute 3(n) - Exchange of Information (f) Minute 3(q) - Anatarctic Atlas (g) Minute 8(a) - British Biological Stations (h) Minute 10 - Antarctic Treaty (i) Minute 11 - Antarctic Sea Ice (j) Minute 12 - SCAR Biological Symposium 3. Membership 4. FIDS Physics Unit 5. Conservation of Nature 6. Fourth SCAR Meeting (a) Minutes (b) UK Delegate's Report (c) Minutes of Plenary Session (d) Income and Expenditure Account (e) Working Group on Cartography (f) Working Group on Geology (g) Working group on Upper Atmosphere i. Ionospher ii Aurora and Airglow iii Geomagnetism iv World Magnetic Survey v Cosmic Rays vi Initerdiscipline Co-operaton vii Sunspot minimum programme (h) Working Group on Crustal Geophysics i. Seismology and the Upper Mantle project ii Gravity, geomagnetism and glaciology (i) Oceanography (j) Working Group in Biology (k) Working Group on Meteorology (l) Working Group on Communications (m) Working Group on National Reports (n) Working Group on Logistics (o) Working Group on Medical Research (p) Register of Scientists 7. SCAR Bulletins 8. Documents received 9. Date of next meeting Summary of recommendation to Council Minute 3 : that Mr J A Ratcliffe be appointed a member of the Committee in place of Dr R L Smith-Rose who had resigned. ' 28 November 1960