The second meeting of the Caribbean Research Council was held from May 27 to 30, 1949 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, under the chairmanship of H. J. Page, Chairman of the Council. The agenda included a review of the work of the research branch of the central secretariat of the Commission as well as proposals for future research work in the area. The Council highly commended the staff of the research branch of the secretariat and the acting deputy chairman of the Council for the imagination and resourcefulness shown in the development of the research program and for the volume of practical work accomplished since the last meeting of the Council. Forty recommendations, covering a wide range of area research, were submitted for the consideration of the Commission.