THE latest addition to the constituent bodies of the Parliamentary Science Committee is the British Institute of Radiology. For some time past the Committee has been engaged in investigating how the Patent Office Library could be brought up to date in such a manner as to serve the interests and convenience of the public who make use of that Library. The British Science Guild undertook a similar inquiry some years ago, and the Parliamentary Science Committee made its report the starting point for the investigation. A report has been completed, and the Parliamentary Science Committee has been in communication with the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents. Dr. Leslie Burgin, M.P. (Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade), has now consented to receive a deputation from the Parliamentary Science Committee on the subject on May 3. The deputation will be introduced by Sir Arnold Wilson, the chairman of the Committee, and it will include two or three members of parliament who are also members of the Committee.