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THERE has recently been formed, with the approval of the Ministry of Transport, a British National Committee in connexion with the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses. The main objects of the Committee are to foster interest in the Association, to promote papers for presentation at the congresses (in particular for the next congress to be held in Lisbon in September 1949) and generally to act as the co-ordinator of British interests in this connexion. The membership of the Committee is as follows : Sir William Halcrow (chairman), Mr. M. G. J. McHaffie, Mr. W. P. Shepherd-Barron, Mr. R. D. Gwyther, Mr. A. L. Harvey, Mr. C. A. Wilson, Mr. L. Cleaver, Sir Gilmour Jenkins, Mr. L. Leighton, Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, Sir Arthur Whitaker and Mr. Maurice Nachshen. The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers will administer and provide secretarial facilities to the National Committee. The Committee, at the request of the Secretary-General of the Association, has agreed to distribute in Great Britain bulletins, etc., received in bulk from Brussels, and also to receive on behalf of the Association subscriptions from members resident in Britain for onward transmission in a bulk sum or sums. Correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary, British National Committee, Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, London, S.W.1.
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Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses. Nature 162, 606 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162606c0
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