FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (Hansard, 17 October 1950)

§ Mr. H. Morrison

The names of the senior scientific staff of the Science Department of the Festival of Britain Office, with their degrees, salaries, etc., are:

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Mr. Ian Cox, M.A. (Hons.) Cantab. £2,000 p.a. Geologist and anthropologist. Oxford University Hudson Straits Expedition. Research in Cambridge University (numerous scientific papers). Senior Science Producer B.B.C. 1936–39 and 1946. (Served in Royal Navy (Commander R.N.V.R.) 1939–46.) Editor "Science Survey." Member of Royal Society working party on dissemination of scientific information, 1946. Scientific correspondent London Press Service, 1947–48.

Colonel J. B. P. Angwin, M.B.E. £1,000—£1,200 p.a. Lately Deputy Surveyor-General of India.

Brigadier J. L. P. Macnair, p.a.c. £1,000—£1,200 p.a. Lately Chief Superintendent, Research Department, Woolwich, and a former Commandant. Military College of Science.

Mr. K. H. Chapman, M.A. (Hons.) Cantab. £850—£1,000 p.a. Previously Entomological Department of British Museum (Natural History); Lecturer in Zoology Manchester University and Rhodes University, South Africa.

Mr. P. B. Collins, B.Sc., A.R.C.S. £850—£ 1,000 p.a. Previously Editor of the British Agricultural Bulletin.

Mr. A. J. Garratt, B.Sc. (Hons.) £850—£1,000 p.a. Previously employed in the Ministry of Supply on research work in electronics, heavy and light engineering practice, etc.

Dr. J. P. Lawrie, Ph. D. Member of the British Association of Chemists. £850—£1,000 p.a. Founder and Editor of "Chemical Products"; Founder and ex-Editor of Journal of Royal Naval Scientific Service.

Mrs. S. M. Withers, B.A. (Hons.) Cantab. £550—£675 p.a. Lately Metallurgist to de Havilland Aircraft Company, and Nash and Thompson Ltd.

Mr. N. B. H. Clayton, B.Sc. (Hons.) £600 p.a. Lately Fisheries Department, Scottish Home Department.

This staff is guided in policy by the Festival Council for Science and Technology, and in technical matters by 16 Advisory Panels, each appropriate to one of the main branches of science. The members of the Council and of these panels are all acknowledged scientific or technological authorities.