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THE British Council was formed in 1934. Under its charter, its object is denned as the promotion of a owider knowledge of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the English language abroad, and the development of closer cultural relations between the United Kingdom and other countries. The Council has already established many institutes abroad, and has active departments concerned with fine arts, music, drama, education, films, foreign visitors and students, books and other subjects. It has now formed a Science Committee under the chairmanship of Sir William Bragg. The other members of the Committee are Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, Prof. J. D. Cock-croft, Sir Robert Robinson, Dr. C. F. A. Pantin, Sir Edward Mellanby, Surgeon Rear-Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Sir William Larke, Sir Edward Appleton, Dr. A. P. M. Fleming, Mr. C. D. Le Maistre and Prof. R. V. Southwell.
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The British Council Science Committee. Nature 147, 800 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147800a0
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