Terms of Reference: To advise on all matters relating to research in comparative medicine; to receive and approve the Director's Annual Report to Council and the Statement of Accounts; and to advise on the appointment of research staff

Notes for the Estimates Committee on Miss Sladden who was given accommodation in the Reptile House to continue her research on stick insects in return for helping with the rearing of reptiles and amphibia

Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding medical and veterinary supplies such as microscopes and syringes. Also a letter from the Directorate of Medical Supplies at the Ministry of Supply regarding research into a vaccine for Scrub Typhus and a request for Ostrich Eggs.

Correspondence between Philip Manson-Bahr and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding research into zoology in relation to tropical medicine, a meeting of the Association of Bird Watchers and Wardens at the Zoological Society of London, and paintings of Birds of Paradise

Correspondence with and about King Khalid Wildlife Research Centre, reports, proposals and correspondence with the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development, Saudi Arabia

Correspondence with W P Heuschele, Veterinarian at San Diego Zoological Garden regarding the minutes of a meeting of the Research Council of the Biological Research Institute

Correspondence between R E Glover and George Soper Cansdale regarding the supply of West African monkeys for research work in England

Correspondence between Brian Vesey Fitzgerald and Geoffrey Marr Vevers on feeding bats for a research project on malaria in bats in Palestine

Correspondence between James Fisher and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding research into raven, crows, rooks and jackdaws