The file contains correspondence, press cuttings among others on the United Nations conference on the Law of the Sea (United Nation Environment Programme, 1977) and on Marine Technology, brief paper on the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, notes on the marine research activities in the Framework of the European Communities, on the Food and Agriculture Organization UN, on the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, on the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
It also includes the minutes of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd meeting of the ESRC Study Group on Basic Marine Science (The Hague 26/04/1977, Dublin, 7/9/1977, and Bonn, 4/07/1978).

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