Minutes of meetings of the Council, including the following selected entries: agreement not to maintain the Policy Advisory Committee and instead to appoint ad hoc committees as required, 7 January 1975; a note that the British Council had agreed to guarantee the Royal Academy against loss on the proposed Soviet Exhibition, 18 February 1975; discussion of a meeting of the Sub-Committee on Saff Salaries, which had come to the general conclusion that staff were underpaid, 27 May 1975 and further report, including approval of the recommendation that Council should in future take due regard of relevant Civil Service rates of pay in reviewing salaries, 29 July 1975; and discussion of the report of the Secretary,
Sidney Hutchison, on negotiations with the organisers of the proposed Art and Archaeology from the cities of Vesuvius Exhibition, including the decision that Pompeii and Herculaneum should be substituted in the title, 29 July 1975.