Strictly speaking, agreement was impossible since, as consortium members we were each functioning as representatives of different universities and could not agree to arrangements that would, in effect, have subsumed four of the universities themselves under a fifth! This could have been worked around by dissolving the Consortium as such and reforming the group in some other way. But how it was then formed would have been up to the newly recognized director, and it was unlikely that all five persons would be regarded as required for the newly conceived version of the project, which would have entailed bringing in others in their place or doing without them, which was not acceptable to all concerned.