Abstract
IN many fields of scientific work the Defence Services in Great Britain possess equipment, knowledge and personnel which, if available, might be used for helping scientific researches unconnected with any Service objective. In some cases facilities of this kind have been provided for several years. In 1948 the Defence Services Research Facilities Committee was set up by the Royal Society not, as some have supposed, to offer scientific help to the Services, but to enlist the help of the Services on behalf of scientific workers. The terms of reference of the Committee are : "To consider proposals for the use of Service facilities and personnel for assisting scientific research, and to make recommendations to the Council of the Royal Society, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Army Council, the Air Council and the Minister of Supply". To give an idea of the facilities which the Committee hoped would be available, the subjects dealt with by the five panels which were established to consider applications for help are as follows : (A) submarine gravity measurements, (B) surplus explosives, (C) magnetic survey, (D)aerial photography, (E) scientific expeditions.
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Defence Services Research Facilities Committee of the Royal Society. Nature 164, 1076–1077 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641076e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1641076e0