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The functions of the Committee would be : 



(a) To arrange meetings of the Division both at the time and place of 

 the Annual Meetings of the Association, and elsewhere at other times, as 

 invited or otherwise arranged ; to appoint speakers, and to accept or 

 reject communications offered to the Division. 



(b) To furnish material for the information of the public. 



(c) To co-ordinate work dealing with the social relations of science, both 

 at home and abroad. 



(d) To be prepared to act in a consultative capacity and to supply 

 information, and to that end to establish relations with organisations and 

 persons engaged in practical administration. 



(For the furtherance of the above objects, the Committee, immediately 

 upon the establishment of the Division, should issue an announcement 

 thereof, together with a reasoned statement of its aims, to institutions and 

 other organisations and individuals known or likely to be interested in its 

 work.) 



(e) To set up sub-committees for executive purposes, or for research, 

 enquiry, or co-ordination. If any such sub-committee should require a 

 grant of money for its work, the Committee should be empowered to 

 apply for such grant to the General Committee or the Council in accord- 

 ance with the usual procedure relating to research committees. 



(/) To maintain close relations with the Sections of the Association and 

 their Organising Committees. In particular, there may be imagined 

 subjects which two or more Sections might be disposed to recommend 

 to the Division for discussion, in lieu of arranging joint meetings of the 

 Sections. The Committee of the Division, on its part, should be enabled 

 to invite the advice of the sectional organisations on all appropriate 

 questions. The Organising Sectional Committees should be kept 

 regularly informed of the activities of the Division. 



The Committee should meet regularly throughout the year, at intervals 

 determined by itself, and in particular it should hold a meeting at or near 

 the time of the joint meetings of Organising Sectional Committees in Jan- 

 uary, in order to assure the relations with the Sections referred to above. 



I'he Committee should report to the Council as and when necessary, 

 and annually through the Council to the General Committee. 



PROPOSAL FOR A QUARTERLY REPORT 



IN PLACE OF THE ANNUAL VOLUME PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. 



The following report was adopted by the General Committee at its Meeting 

 on August 24, 1938, excepting the portion enclosed in [brackets] and dealing 

 with the Journal, which was amended so as to admit of the retention of 

 abstracts, more strictly limited as to length, for use at the Annual Meeting 

 and subsequently for record if necessary. 



In November 1937 the Council directed the General Officers to con- 

 sider and report upon the format and printing of the Report of the 

 Association. Subsequently, the Committee which was appointed to 



