Papers for the meeting of the Science Research Council Directors' Committee on 27 September 1976, including 'Composition of Central Review Boards 1976/77' by the Establishment Officer; reports of the Chairmen of Central Review Boards; 'Assessment and Review of Senior Staff, 1976', 'Staff Complements at 1.4.78' and 'Dispensations from the General Restrictions on Recruitment' by the Director of Administration; 'Recruitment of an SSO to the Cosmos Facility' by the Director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; 'Recruitment of a PSO in Theoretical Nuclear Physics' by A. Ashmore; 'Recruitment of Programmers at Rutherford Laboratory' by G.H. Stafford; and memoranda on draft estimates, 1977-1978, and estimates, 1977-1978.