Fráter Jánosné: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia állandó bizottságai 1854–1949 (A MTAK kiadványai 70. Budapest, 1974)
Preface
13 necessary to the work. Prom their budget, they also supported several journals. Until World War I, the committees were permitted to carry over their yearly budget savings to the following year. In the inter-war period, a remarkable change took place in the autonomy and in the planning of activities of the committees. Their scope of activities was first narrowed down by financial difficulties. Proposed by the Secretary-General, from the nineteentwenties, the Board of Directors decided on the budget of sections and committees. It was due to these restrictions that between 1914 and 1928, only one committee, the Hungarian National Committee of the International Intellectual Cooperation, was set up. In 1928, the Academy might reckon with a more adequate financial basis thanks to the "V 1gyázó-bequest". The General Assembly in that year adopted a resolution on the setting up of several new committees. But this did not involve any change in the autonomy of the committees. The new regulations went as far as prescribing that manuscripts might be sent to the printer through the Secretary-General's office only if the Board of Directors would be informed beforehand of the costs and size of the planned publications. No favourable change took place in the autonomy of the committees until 1945« After World War II, - at the 1946 General Assembly which discussed the reform of the Academy's statutes - , on behalf of Section I (Linguistics and Literary Studies) ,academician Dezső Pais proposed that "the autonomy of the Academy's sections and committees be restored". In this handbook, the committees are grouped according to the Academy's organizational structure. Committees belonging to the Presidium and the Board of Directors are discussed first, and this is followed by those working under the individual scientific sections, i.e. Section I (Linguistics, Literary Studies and Arts) 5 Section II (Philosophy, History and Social Science); Section III (Mathematics and Natural Sciences;. Committees, which could have not been grouped according to the above classification, are listed under the heading "Other committees". Within the individual groups, committees are listed in
