SZ/ACSP/9/2 - Documents
Reference code
SZ/ACSP/9/2
Level of description
File
Title
Documents
Date/s
1951-1955
Quantity & Format
3 sub-files
Scope and content
The Committee was established in November 1950 under SZ’s chairmanship "to examine the recommendations of the Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference, 1946, and to advise on the need for the expansion of facilities for research, in the biological and allied sciences, other than medicine". Many of the papers are concerned with education in the biological sciences, and the demand for, and supply of, qualified personnel, but they also touch on the role of the Nature Conservancy and ecological studies generally, chemical microbiology and the production of novel foodstuffs, and Dr Norman (‘Bill’) Pirie’s work on leaf protein.