Minutes of a meeting of the British National Committee on Antarctic Research Present: Sir Miles Clifford, Chairman; Dr R J Adie; Dr S Evans; Sir Vivian Fuchs; Mr H H Lamb; Mr J Payton; Sir Raymond Priestley; Mr J A Ratcliffe; Dr G de Q Robin; Dr G Seligman; Mr A H Sheffield; Professor F W Shotton; Dr R C Sutcliffe ' Commander H Hunt attended by invitation The Chairman welcomed Dr R J Adie, who had been appointed a member of the Committee by Council at its meeting on 15 December 1960 1. Minutes The minutes of the meeting held on 28 November 1960 [NAR/21(60)] were confirmed subject to the following amendments; Minutes 6(g), (ii), and (iv), p.5 and 6 to read: (ii) Aurora and Airglow (iii) Geomagnetism (iv) World Magnetic Survey Minute 69k), p7 line 36 - Replace 'Southern Hemisphere' by 'Southern Oceans' Minute 6(k), p7 line 8 2. Matters arising from the minutes (a) Minute 2(a) - Collection of Cosmic Dust Spherules (b) Minute 2(b) - FIDS Advertisements (c) Minute 2(e) - Exchange of Information (d) Minute 2(f0 - Antarctic Atlas (e) Minute 2(g0 - British Biological Station (f) Minute 2(j) - SCAR Biological Symposium (g) Minute 4 - FIDS Geophysical Unit (h) Minute 5 - Conservation of NAture (i) Minute 6(p) - Register of Scientists (j) Minute 6(g) (iv) - World Magnetic Survey 3. FIDS Scientific Programme 4. New Non-Magnetic Hut at Halley Bay 5. Sus Spot Minimum Ionospheric Programme 6. Seimological Observations at FIDS Bases 7. Surface Ozone Records From Halley Bay 8. Communictions 9. Logistics 10. Medical Research 11. Mr J T Hollin 12. The Trans-Antarctic Association 13. Fifth meeting of SCAR 14. UK Subscription to SCAR 15. SCAR Bulletin 16. Automatic Weather Stations 17. Congress on Recent Results of Exploration of the Polar Regions 18. Belgium 19. Ice-Probability Charts 20. List of documents received No. 3 21. Date of Next meeting It was agreed that the next meeting should be hjeld on Friday 21 July at 2.30 pm. ' 28 April 1961