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It is proposed to ask the Royal Society and the principal scientific and professional 
associations, societies and institutes to undertake the function of initiating proposals 
for the consideration of the Advisory Council, and a regular procedure for inviting and 
collecting proposals will be established. The Advisory Council will also be at liberty 
to receive proposals from individuals and themselves to initiate proposals. 
All possible means will be used to enlist the interest and secure the co-operation of 
persons directly engaged in trade and industry. 
8. It is contemplated that the Advisory Council will work largely through Sub- 
Committees reinforced by suitable experts in the particular branch of science or industry 
concerned. On these Sub-Committees it would be desirable as far as possible to enlist 
the services of persons actually engaged in scientific trades and manufactures dependent 
on science. 
g. As regards the use or profits of discoveries, the general principle on which grants 
will be made by the Committee of Council is that discoveries made by institutions, 
associations, bodies, or individuals in the course of researches aided by public money 
shall be made available under proper conditions for the public advantage. 
10. It is important in order to secure effective working that the Advisory Council 
should be a small body, but it is recognised that even if full use is made by the Council 
of its power to work through reinforced Sub-Committees, its membership may be found 
inadequate to do justice to all the branches of industry in which proposals for research 
may be made or to the requests of other Government Departments for assistance. It is 
therefore probable that it will be found necessary to strengthen the Council by appoint- 
ing additional Members. 
The first Members of the Council will be— 
The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., LL.D. 
Mr. G. T. Beilby, F.R.S., LL.D. 
Mr. W. Duddell, F.R.S. 
Prof. B. Hopkinson, F.R.S 
Prof. J. A. McClelland, F.R.S. 
Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S. 
Mr. R. Threlfall, F.R.S. 
With Sir William S. McCormick, LL.D., as administrative Chairman. 
11. The Advisory Council will proceed to frame a scheme or programme for their 
own guidance in recommending proposals for research and for the guidance of ‘the 
Committee of Council in allocating such State funds as may be available. This scheme 
will naturally be designed to operate over some years in advance, and in framing it the 
Council must necessarily have due regard to the relative urgency of the problems 
requiring solution, the supply of trained researchers available for particular pieces of 
research, and the material facilities in the form of laboratories and equipment which are 
available or can be provided for specific researches. Such a scheme will naturally be 
elastic and will require modification from year to year; but it is obviously undesirable 
that the Council should live “from hand to mouth” or work on the principle of “first 
come first served,” and the recommendations (which for the purpose of estimating they 
will have to make annually to the Committee of Council) should represent progressive 
instalments of a considered programme and policy. A large part of their work will be 
that of examining, selecting, combining, and co-ordinating rather than that of origina- 
ting. One of their chief functions will be the prevention of overlapping between 
