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IN his presidential address to the Royal Society on December 1, Sir Robert Robinson referred to the establishment of the Defence Research Policy Committee and the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy as the most interesting development in the relationship of science and administration during the past year, and as the fruition of insistent demands for scientific consultation at the highest levels. The Select Committee on Estimates in its Third Report for the Session 1946–47 (London : H.M. Stationery Office, 1947), on expenditure on research and development, not only made it clear that it looked to this development to secure in the future a better balance in the distribution of the nation‘s expenditure on research, but also to improve departmental administrative defects in the utilization and direction of research. This development has, however, been accompanied by uneasiness with regard to possible infringement of freedom of research by some form of planning of control, and to detrimental effects on the informal relations and collaboration between the Government and the Royal Society and other bodies.
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The Deployment of Scientific Effort in Britain. Nature 161, 1–3 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161001a0
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