| Description | Papers including minutes, a number of agendas, reports and correspondence for the monthly meetings of the TRC Board. Discussions typically concern the administrative aspects of research activities, patent matters, and recommendations on policy as a basis for discussion by the Research Panel. Other concerns include the appointment and remuneration of staff, consideration of applications for employment, and consideration of expenditure on research. A new Chairman was elected annually, with positions held as follows; Mr T R G Bennett, 1942 (Wellcome Foundation Ltd); Dr T B Maxwell, 1943 (May & Baker Ltd); Mr H Jephcott, 1944 (Glaxo Laboratories Ltd); Lord Trent, 1945 (Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd); Dr F H Carr, 1946 (The British Drug Houses Ltd); Mr L Anderson, 1947 (Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd). A small number of minutes are missing from the sequence, particularly for 1945. |