Correspondence and papers regarding meetings of the Panel on the Instrumentation of Large Optical Telescopes (P.I.L.O.T.) and the Large Telescope Users Panel:

A memorandum (PILOT-213), progress report No. 1, regarding the multi-channel spectrophotometer for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, 1972. Attached is PILOT-222, a broad outline of the design of the instrument, dated 19 May 1972.

A memorandum from D. McMullan on the construction and use of a Wampler Superscanner. Attached is a report by McMullan, dated 3 August 1972, on the possibility of constructing the instrument at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Correspondence and papers relating to a meeting of the P.I.L.O.T. on 21 November 1972. The correspondence starts with letters from J. Ring, Imperial College, to E.M. Burbidge in California suggesting her attendance at P.I.L.O.T. meetings, with a reply by G. Burbidge. It ends with a letter from E.M. Burbidge to J. Ring setting out when she would be able to attend P.I.L.O.T. meetings.

A letter from B.N. Watts of the Science Research Council, 1972, stating that a meeting of the P.I.L.O.T. arranged to take place at the R.G.O. would now be at State House, London.

Printed notice concerning a meeting of the P.I.L.O.T. on 21 November 1972.

Papers regarding a meeting of the P.I.L.O.T. on 21 November 1972, including extracts from J.F. Hosie's report on the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board Meeting (PILOT 239); extracts from the Anglo-Australian Telescope progress report, September 1972 (PILOT 241); an item on instrument facilities of the Isaac Newton Telescope (PILOT 242); the Astronomy Policy and Grants Committee report on instrumentation (PILOT 243); and the Astronomy Policy and Grants Committee report of the P.I.L.O.T. (PILOT 244).

Correspondence and papers regarding the joint meeting of the P.I.L.O.T. and the Large Telescope Users Panel in London on 1 February 1973. The papers include the agenda (PILOT 246); a preparation of the brief for the United Kingdom members of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board (PILOT 253); minutes of the 4th meeting of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board (APG 249); a note by J.F. Hosie on Anglo-Australian Telescope Management (APG 249); the Anglo-Australian Telescope progress report, December 1972 (PILOT 251); a memorandum from the Project Manager on costs; the preparation of a brief for Science Research Council members of the South African Astronomical Observatory Advisory Committee (PILOT 254); a report on a visit to South Africa (PILOT 254, App. 1); an item on the Board's agenda on the allocation of time (PILOT 254, App. 3); a letter to E.M. Burbidge from the Director of the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, on the annual costs of the 74-inch telescope (PILOT 254, App. 4); R.G.O. programmes in progress at the South African Astronomical Observatory (PILOT 254, App. 5); the Cape Inventory (PILOT 254, App. 6); an item on grant applications in optical and infra-red astronomy (PILOT 255), with attached photocopies of applications; minutes of the meeting of 1 February 1973, with E.M. Burbidge's handwritten notes (PILOT 256); and correspondence with the Science Research Council regarding the date of the next P.I.L.O.T.-Large Telescope Users Panel meeting.

Papers regarding the meeting of the P.I.L.O.T.-Large Telescopes Users Panel on 30 October 1973, regarding the agenda (PILOT 307); a closed circuit television system for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (PILOT 305); the Anglo-Australian Telescope computer (PILOT 306); the preparation of the brief for United Kingdom members of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board (PILOT 309); the Anglo-Australian Telescope status report, September 1973 (PILOT 309 App.1); and a suggested agenda for the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board meeting in November (PILOT 309 App. 2).