Meeting of the Southern Zone Research Committee Present: Sir Maurice Yonge (Chair); Professor A R Clapham; Dr G F Claringbull; Sir George Deacon; Mr N L Falcon; Dr G Fryer; Professor A J Haddow; Dr R N Laws; Lt Cdr Mc Andrew Present by invitation: Professor E C Amoroso (item 22 only); Sir Vivian Fuchs; Dr D R Stoddart Matters discussed: 1.) Previous minutes confirmed 2.) Membership 3.) New Hebrides 4.) The Great Barrier Reef expedition 5.) Phoenix Islands 6.) Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands 7.) Pacific Science Association 8.) Cold temperate of South America 9.) Tristan da Cunha 10.) The Cayman Islands 11.) Dominica 12.) The Antarctic 13.) Aldabra 14.) Seychelles 15.) Diego Garcia 16.) Proposal for Wallace station 17.) Taxonomy review committee of ABRC 18.) Coconut breeding 19.)Plant genetic resources 20.) International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources 21.) Cocos-Keeling Islands 22.) International centre for manatee research 23.) UNESCO man and biosphere programme Summary of Recommendations Signed C M Yonge and noted that there is an additional page with ammendment tominute 9b. Document reference SZR/10(75) [C/89(75)] 23 April 1975