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THE Parliamentary Science Committee has now been re-formed on a new basis and will henceforward be known as the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Following a meeting on November 8, it was agreed to form an emergency committee forthwith and to invite all former officers and members of the executive committee to serve on it. A meeting of this emergency committee was held at the House of Commons on Wednesday, December 6. Following the resignation of Mr. S. F. Markham as chairman in view of his forthcoming service abroad, Captain L. F. Plugge, M.P., was elected to the chairmanship. Prof. B. W. Holman and Mr. Alan E. L. Chorlton, M.P., will remain as vice-chairman and deputy-chairman respectively, while the new secretary is Mr. Christopher Powell. It was reported at the meeting that promises of support had been received from a large number of the organizations which previously supported the Parliamentary Science Committee.
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The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. Nature 144, 1009 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441009c0
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