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IN order to ensure the continuance of the fullest co-operation of scientific workers with the Government in the national war effort, the Lord President of the Council, after discussion with the Royal Society, has, with the approval of the Prime Minister, appointed a Scientific Advisory Committee with a secretary from the Cabinet Secretariat. The terms of reference of the committee are: (a) to advise the Lord President on any scientific problem referred to them; (b) to advise Government departments, when so requested, on the selection of individuals for particular lines of scientific inquiry or for membership of committees on which men of science are required; (c) to bring to the notice of the Lord President promising new scientific or technical developments which may be of importance to the war effort.
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Science and the National War Effort. Nature 146, 485 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146485a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146485a0