Contains correspondence of W.E. Purnell and P.W. Woodhouse, (RACI Executive Secretaries); papers dealing with RACI representation in Canberra.

Contains papers from the National Chemistry Week 1981 and 1982, including planning committee details, financial reports and budgets; promotion of competitions and activities; correspondence.

Contains correspondence re National Chemistry Week 1984 Titration Competition and Cryptic Chemistry Crossword; National Organising Committee reports and correspondence, dealing with the organising competitions and promotional material.

Includes: correspondence of the Science Policy Committee, discussing issues of concern such as ARGS (Australian Research Grants Scheme) funding and government science policy, including responses to the Department of Science and Technology Publications and lobbying over funding; submissions and comments on the Review of the CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels, Inquiry into Commonwealth Laboratories, the Australian paper for the Conference on International Cooperation in Science and Technology, Tokyo (1983); reports from Science Policy Committee meetings.