RESEARCH COMMITTEES, ETC. Iv 



SECTIONS D, E, K.— ZOOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, BOTANY. 



To assist in the preservation of Wicken Fen. — Prof. F. T. Brooks, F.R.S. 

 {Chairman), Dr. H. Godwin (Secretary), Prof. F. Balfour-Browne, Dr. H. C. 

 Darby, Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., Mr. J. A. Steers, Dr. W. H. Thorpe, 

 Dr. D. Valentine. £50. 



SECTIONS D, I, K.— ZOOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, BOTANY. 



To aid competent investigators selected by the Committee to carry on definite 

 pieces of work at the Zoological Station at Naples. — Prof. E. W. MacBride, 

 F.R.S. (Chairman and Secretary), Prof. Sir J. Barcroft, C.B.E., F.R.S. , Dr. 

 Margery Knight, Dr. J. Z. Young. £50. 



SECTIONS D, J.— ZOOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY. 



To conduct field experiments on bird behaviour. — Dr. J. S. Huxley, F.R.S. 

 (Chairman), Mr. F. B. Kirkman (Secretary), Prof. F. Aveling, Dr. C. S. 

 Myers, C.B.E., F.R.S., Dr. E. S. Russell. £40. 



SECTIONS D, K.— ZOOLOGY, BOTANY. 



To aid competent investigators selected by the Committee to carry out definite 

 pieces of work at the Freshwater Biological Station, Wray Castle, Winder- 

 mere. — Prof. F. E. Fritsch, F.R.S. (Chairman), Dr. E. B. Worthington 

 (Secretary), Prof. P. A. Buxton, Miss P. M. Jenkin, Dr. C. H. O'Donoghue 

 (from Section D) ; Dr. W. H. Pearsall (from Section K). £75. 



Co-ordinating committee for Cytology and Genetics.— Prof. F. T. Brooks, 

 F.R.S. (Chairman), Dr. D. G. Catcheside (Secretary), Mr. E. B. Ford, Prof. 

 F. A. E. Crew, Dr. C. D. Darlington, Prof. R. A. Fisher, F.R.S., Prof. R. R. 

 Gates, F.R.S., Dr. C. Gordon, Prof. Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan, G.B.E., 

 Dr. J. Hammond, Dr. J. S. Huxley, F.R.S., Dr. T. J. Jenkin, Mr. W. J. C. 

 Lawrence, Dr. F. W. Sansome, Dr. W. B. Turrill, Dr. C. H. Waddington, 

 Dr. D. M. Wrinch. £5. 



SECTION E.— GEOGRAPHY. 



To prepare a scheme for a projected National Atlas of Great Britain and Northern 

 Ireland. — Prof. E. G. R. Taylor (Chairman) , Dr. S. W. Wooldridge (Secretary) , 

 Dr. H. C. Darby, Prof. F. Debenham, Mr. C. Diver, Prof. H. J. Fleure, F.R.S., 

 Mr. D. L. Linton, Brig. M. N. MacLeod, Prof. E. J. Salisbury, F.R.S., 

 Prof. A. G. Tansley, F.R.S. £10. 



To collect and record information on demography and seasonal activities in 

 relation to environment in Inter-Tropical Africa. — Prof. P. M. Roxby 

 (Chairman), Prof. A. G. Ogilvie, O.B.E. (Secretc^ry), Mr. S. J. K. Baker, 

 Prof. C. B. Fawcett, Prof. H. J. Fleure, F.R.S., Prof. C. Daryll Forde, 

 Mr. R. H. Kinvig, Mr. J. McFarlane, Prof. J. L. Myres, O.B.E. , Mr. R. A. 

 Pelham, Mr. R. U. Sayce. £2. 



To consider and report upon ambiguities and innovations in geographical 

 terminology. — Prof. E. G. R. Taylor (Chairman), Dr. S. W. Wooldridge 

 (Secretary), Mr. H. King, Mr. R. H. Kinvig. 



To co-operate with bodies concerned with the cartographic representation of 

 population, and in particular with the Ordnance Survey, for the production 

 of population maps. — (Chairman), Prof. C. B. 



Fawcett (Secretary), The Director General of the Ordnance Survey, Col. Sir 

 Charles Close, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., F.R.S., Prof. H. J. Fleure, F.R.S., 

 Mr. A. C. O'Dell, Mr. A. Stevens, Mr. A. V. Williamson. 



SECTION G.— ENGINEERING. 



To review the knowledge at present available for the reduction of noise, and 

 the nuisances to the abatement of which this knowledge could best be 

 applied. — (Chairman) , Wing-Commander T. R. 



