The file contains the minutes of the General Assembly of 1990 and the draft minutes of the General Assembly of 1989, preparatory correspondence, list of participants and observers, agenda and working documents.

The working documents distributed at the meeting are: an activity report on ESF Scientific Networks, the annual reports of the Standing Committee for the European Medical Research Councils, the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the Standing Committee for the European Science Research Councils, a report on the European Research Conferences, the budget and financial reports, a report on nominations by the Electoral Commission, a proposed amendment to the ESF’s statutes, application papers by the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Agricultural Research Council of Norway and a report by the Executive Council on proposed scientific programmes.

Topics discussed are: earth science study centres, individual development, polar science, transport and communication networks, history of European expansion, biology, neuroscience, mental illness, crystallography, volcanology, mathematics, financial markets, demographic research, sociology, linguistics, developmental biology, geographical information systems, history of the modern state, Hebrew studies, housing policy research, music history, art history, computing, history of ancient Rome, chemistry, physics, environmental research, material sciences, marine science, radio astronomy, space science, nuclear physcis, hydrography, ground-based astronomy, human genome research.

English, French

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The report on the activities of the European Geotraverse Programme and the text of the presentation on "European Cooperation in Ocean and Polar Sciences" are missing or incomplete.