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AT the invitation of the Council of the Royal Society, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Army Council, the Air Council and the Ministry of Supply have appointed representatives on a Defence Services Research Facilities Committee. The terms of reference of the new Committee are as follow : "To consider proposals for the use of Service facilities and personnel for assisting scientific research, and to make recommendations to the Council of the Royal Society, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Army Council and the Air Council". The Committee has been constituted as follows : Chairman, Sir Geoffrey Taylor ; Royal Society, Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Dr. A. C. Menzies, Mr. F. S. Russell ; Admiralty, Vice-Admiral A. G. N. Wyatt (hydrographer), Mr. F. Brundrett (C.R.N.S.S.) ; War Office, Lieut.-General Sir Kenneth "Crawford (D.C.I.G.S.), Dr. O. H. Wansbrough-Jones (scientific adviser to the Army Council) ; Air Ministr Air Vice-Marshal C. E. N. Guest (assistant chief of Air Staff-Operations), Mr. G. S. Whittuck (head of S.6) ; Ministry of Supply, Dr. F. J. Wilkins (principal director of scientific research—defence), Mr. H. M. Garner (principal director of scientific research—air).
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Defence Services Research Facilities Committee. Nature 163, 203 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163203d0
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