§ 100. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, if he will instruct the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to collate, with a view to publication, all scientific information obtained by Her Majesty's Government from the recent flights round the earth of the Russian satellite and its appendage.
§ Mr. H. NichollsIn consultation with the Royal Society a "World Data Centre" has, following on the International Geophysical Year, already been established at the Radio Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. One of the functions of the Centre will be to maintain a bibliography of scientific publications relating to observations on the Russian satellites and associated rockets. This is within the executive function of the Research Council of the D.S.I.R.