As the list on p. 2 indicates, the Conference was extremely well attended, by some 70 members and guests (to the list, by the way, should be added the names of Professor Denis Brogan and of Mr. E.M. Hutchinson, Secretary of the National Institute of Adult Education). Nottingham proved to be an excellent location in several ways. It is central — a factor of added weight in a period of petrol rationing. It is perhaps the only British university that can claim to have a “campus”, from which one might gain the illusion of being at an American university. Like American universities, it is also comfortable; the Conference was admirably housed and fed in the Hugh Stewart Hall, within the proverbial stone's throw of the Faculty Club, with its pleasant bar and lounges. Members could recuperate from lectures and discussions by playing billiards and table-tennis, or by drinking at the bar, or by walking to Wollaton Park, or by going into the university's new Portland Building (whose interior fascinatingly belies its exterior) and looking at Sir Hugh Casson's décor, on the way to an excellent display of reproductions of American paintings, loaned for the occasion by the United States Information Service.

The London School of Economics has been very helpful by finding Dr. Crick a room large enough to accommodate a secretary, two extra desks, our filing cabinets and enough shelf space for the many card boxes, reference books and bibliographies we have been assembling (but this “free space” arrangement will not be possible next year).

Organisational problems of getting under way now seem over and the intensive field-work on the reporting of manuscripts has begun, as well as the processing of replies to letters and circulars sent out from the office. The speed with which the project can be satisfactorily complete now depends less on the number of field-workers available (for the situation there has improved greatly since the last report) than upon the uncertain amount of material that we will uncover in hitherto unexamined sources.