Papers for the meeting of the Science Research Council Directors' Committee on 3 October 1977, including a letter from V.C. Reddish, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to P. Casey, S.R.C., 29 September 1977, regarding the staffing of the R.O.E. Cosmos Facility; 'Manpower Estimates 1978/79' by the Director of Administration; 'Report of the Administration Group Central Review Board'; 'Report of the 1976 Science Group Review Central Review Board'; 'Management of the Science Group in 1978' by the Director of Administration; and memoranda by the Establishment Officer on membership of Review Groups B and C, Central Review Board.