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RefNo	CMB/62/1/4
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Travelling Expenses Committee
Date	28 January 1949
Description	Present at the meeting: Professor E D Adrian in the chair; Professor H Munro Fox; Sir Cyril Hinshelwood; Sir Thomas Merton; Professor R A Peters; Professor H H Read; Sir Edward Salisbury; Sir Richard Southwell; Dr R Stoneley; Professor F J M Stratton; Dr H G Thornton; Professor J Z Young 1. Confirmed minutes of meeting on 23 April 1948 2. Matters arising from the minutes 2a ' Council directive; Arising form minute 3 of 23 April 1948 the Committee received a directive note from the Council [Paper T/10 (48)] which on 10 June 1948 rescinded its resolution of July 1945 to allocate £20,000 from the Yarrow Fund for travelling expenses, and from 6 October 1948 agreed to set aside not more than £400 a year from the Yarrow Fund to be allocated by the Travelling Expenses Committee for promoting small ad hoc conferences and visits to laboratories abroad for specific purposes such as the studying of new techniques. After much discussion of the terms and effect of this directive, it was Resolved, that the Council be informed that the Travelling Expenses Committee had before it at this meeting sixteen applications totalling over £1300, the majority of which were deserving of serious consideration and might have been recommended for grants had funds been available; and that this Committee is of the opijnion that such applications should be encouraged and hopes that the Council will reconsider the position and allocate larger funds for this purpose. 2b Report from Mr Minkoff presented on his visit to the USA in September 1948 3. Grants for travelling expenses - discussed applications as circulated in paper T/1 (49), and reported that A R Miller's application had been withdrawn, and the applications from Professors Born and Professor Feather had been reduced from £400 to £250, and from Professor Oliphant and Professor Peierls form £500 to £226.17.9. Consideration therefore given to 16 applications totalling £1318,1,11, Agreed that the four applications listed in Section III of paper T/1 (49) were ineligible for consideration under the new terms of reference. Resolved; a. Recommendations to Council i. that the two applications from Professor Andrade for travelling expenses amounting to £49.8.5 to attend the International Conference on the Physics of Metals (Amsterdam, July 1948) and the International Rheological Congress (Delft, September 1948) be favourably considered and grants made when funds are available from the Scientific Congresses Grant in aid. ii Grants to be made from the Yarrow Fund - (a) £79 to Miss B M Walshe to enable her to visit the Freshwater Biological Laboratory of the University of Copenhagen in July - September 1949 (b) £10.10.0 to W M Lomer towards his expenses to read a paper to the Societe Francaise de Metallurgie in Paris, October 1948 (c) £10.10.0 to J F Nye towards his expenses in connexion with the same meeting (d) £30 to Miss R E H Nicholas towards the expenses of her visit to the Association of Scandinavian Biochemists and Clinical Physiologists at Ed near Gothenberg in June 1948 b. that consideration of the application by Professor Born and Professor Feather be deferred to the next meeting of the Committee, when further information should be available concerning a parallel appliction made to the British Council c. that the application from Professor Oliphant and Professor Peierls, Dr H Frohlich, Dr C F Powell, Mr Winterbottom and Mr Yoffe be declined. d. that no consideration be given to the applications from Professor Guggensheim, Professor Robertson, Dr Steven and Dr Whitorw 4. Date of next meeting at 2.30 pm on Friday 29 April 1949 to consider applications received by 31 March. '
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Format	Typescript
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