Minutes, meeting of the Physiology and Medical Sciences Committee Sir Joseph Barcroft in the chair. Committee business, including the suggestion of Sir Joseph Barcroft that a meeting should take place to investigate 'man under extreme conditions of physical stress' and establish a research programme to hand over to Sir Edward Mellanby; recommendation to Council that the development of microbiology, epidemiology and the physiology of pregnancy were important subjects to encourage; agreement that some steps shold be taken to ease the administrative burden of departmental Heads at large universities by establishing two chairs of physiology and biochemistry. p4-5. 20 September 1945