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

Topics discussed include: preparations for the General Assembly 1980, co-operation with China, co-operation with the French Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, member organisations expenditures, the Standing Committee for the European Science Research Councils, biology, biomedical science, recombinant DNA, taxonomy, brain and behaviour research, mathematics, earth crust research, energy research, ecology, neutron research, the Standing Committee for the Space Sciences, Ariane, astronomy, a European space telescope, an international observatory on the Canary Islands , the Standing Committee for the Humanities, adult language acquisition, Byzantine studies, Chinese studies, dictionary production, history of science, art history and history of private life.

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