Science and Engineering Research Council
SERC

    (SERC) Formerly the largest of the five research
   councils funded by the British Government through the Office
   of Science and Technology.  SERC funded higher education
   research in science and engineering, including computing and
   was responsible for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near
   Oxford; the Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington; the Royal
   Greenwich Observatory at Cambridge and the Royal Observatory,
   Edinburgh.

   In April 1994 SERC was split into the Engineering and Physical
   Sciences Research Council and the Particle Physics and
   Astronomy Research Council.  SERC's remote sensing efforts
   have been transferred to the Natural Environment RC and its
   biotechnology efforts merged with the Agriculture and Food RC
   to make the new Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC.  The
   two major SERC laboratories - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
   and Daresbury Laboratory are now independent.

   <http://unixfe.rl.ac.uk/serc/serc.html>.

   (1994-12-15)