Catalogue description Medical Research Council: Committees, Working Parties and Conferences, Registered Files (D Series)

Files of the Medical Research Council (MRC) containing papers concerning administrative and secretarial matters relating to the committees, working parties and conferences of the MRC, covering an extremely broad range of topics concerned with aspects of medical research.

The files contain details of terms of reference, membership and composition of committees and working parties; minutes, papers and agendas; circulated papers, related papers and notes; details of research sponsored by the MRC; research reports; details of research appointments, accommodation, funding and financial arrangements; evidence or information supplied to non-MRC committees or commissions of inquiry where there has been considerable substantial discussion within the MRC; reports and publications and notes of internal MRC discussions on research topics and responses to research questions and issues concerning medical research. Also included in this series are files concerning the organisation and subjects of MRC sponsored conferences and forums.