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APPENDIX I. 
ORDER IN COUNCIL CONSTITUTING A COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY 
COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND AN 
ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUS- 
TRIAL RESEARCH. 
AT THE CourT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 
The 28th day of July, 1915. 
PRESENT: 
THE Kinc’s Most ExcELLENT MAJEstTy IN COUNCIL. 
It is this day ordered by His Majesty in Council that the Lord President of the 
Council, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary for Scotland, the President 
of the Board of Trade, the President of the Board of Education, and the Chief Secretary 
for Ireland, respectively, for the time being, the Right Honourable Viscount Haldane 
of Cloan, K.T., O.M., F.R.S., the Right Honourable Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland, and 
the Right Honourable Joseph Albert Pease, M.P., be, and they are, hereby appointed 
a Committee to direct, subject to such conditions as the Treasury may from time to time 
prescribe, the application of any sums of money provided by Parliament for the organ- 
isation and development of scientific and industrial research.* 
It is further ordered that during His Majesty’s pleasure the President of the Board 
of Education shall preside over the said Committee in the absence of the Lord President: 
Moreover, it is further ordered that, for the purposes aforesaid, there shall be an 
Advisory Council (consisting of such number of persons holding office for such term 
as the Committee shall from time to time determine) to which shall stand referred, for 
their report and recommendation, proposals— 
(i) for instituting specific researches; 
(ii) for establishing or developing special institutions or departments of existing 
institutions for the scientific study of problems affecting particular 
industries and trades; and 
(iii) for the establishment and award of Research Studentships and Fellowships. 
The said Council may itself initiate such proposals and may advise the Committee 
on such matters, whether general or particular, relating to the advancement of trade 
and industry by means of scientific research as the Committee from time to time deter- 
mine. 
And it is ordered that the following shall be among the first Members of the Advisory 
Council :— 
Sir William Symington McCormick, LL.D. (Administrative Chairman); 
The Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh, O.M., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.; 
George Thomas Beilby, Esquire, LL.D., F.R.S., 
William Duddell, Esquire, F.R.S.; 
Professor Bertram Hopkinson, F.R.S.; 
Professor John Alexander McClelland, F.R.S.; 
Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S.; and 
Richard Threlfall, Esquire, F.R.S. 
* By supplemental Order in Council of 23rd May 1916 the Secretary of State for the Colonies for 
the time being was appointed a member of the Committee. 
