Conference on the Social Sciences Folder i contains minutes of a meeting of the Conference on the Social Sciences Committee held on 28 October 1937. Folder ii contains papers relating to the Fourth Conference on the Social Sciences which was organised by the Institute of Sociology and was due to take place between 29 September and 1 October 1939 but was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War. The subject of the conference was 'The Growth and Decay of Towns in Contemporary England'. The file contains flyers for the conference and papers prepared by the speakers before the cancellation. The papers are as follows: 'The Sociology of Growing and Declining Populations' by H. A. Mess 'A Town in Decay' by Mrs J. E. Alderson 'Planned Towns' by C. B. Purdom 'Migration to London from South Wales' by Miles Davies 'Effects of Urban growth on the Countryside' by A.W. Ashby 'Community Centres and Circles' by Ernest Barker 1937 - 1939