The file contains correspondence, the agenda and working documents, including financial reports.

Topics discussed include: the internationalisation of the peer review system, preparations for the General Assembly 1979, co-operation with the French Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, polymer sciences, taxonomy, synchrotron radiation, brain and behaviour research, the Standing Committee for the Humanities: foreign language acquisition, Chinese studies, Byzantine studies, archives, dictionary production, linguistics, ecclesiastical history, history of Italy, linguistics, biblical studies, the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, social science data banks, migration studies, technological development and social change, health economics, usage of personal data for research purposes, comparative law, the Standing Committee for the Space Sciences, Ariane, a European space telescope, space navigation, planetology and international co-operation in the space sciences.

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