The file contains the following documents:

-Preparatory correspondence, list of participants and agenda. Minutes of General Assembly meeting held in 1983. Accounting and budgetary reports.

- Working documents distributed during the meeting: lists of ESF members, accounting and budgetary reports, standing committees and study-groups, progress reports of committees (Standing Committee for the Humanities, Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, European Medical Research Councils (EMRC), European Science Research Councils (ESRC), Ad hoc Committee on Polymer Science and Space Science Committee).

- Topics discussed include: workshop on tropes, migration: cultural identity and the second generation and second language acquisition by adult immigrants, toxicology, data protection, brain and behaviour research, forest ecosystems, taxonomy, international ocean drilling program, synchrotron radiation and comparative law.

- Text of lecture "The ESF first twenty years!" held by Sir Brian Flowers on 20/11/1984.
Contains also "Resolution on European Networks of Scientific and Technical Co-operation" by 'Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Research' held on 17/09/1984 in Paris (Document by Council of Europe [MRS(84)2final] (17/09/1984).

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