Papers regarding the Science Research Council Astronomy Policy and Grants Committee, including correspondence with J. Tuson of the Science Research Council concerning the European Southern Observatory; correspondence concerning applications for grants and other matters, including the development of a spectrometer for work on the line profiles in stellar spectra; letters from H.A. Brück of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, on the proposal for a Northern Hemisphere Observatory; correspondence regarding the Swann Report; minutes of meetings of the working group on the Southern Hemisphere Telescope; papers on the new French organisation for astronomy and astrophysics within the framework of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and papers on the XIV General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union at the University of Sussex, 1970.