The bulk of this interim report consists of data on the anatomy of the British academic profession and its recent historical development and an intensive analysis of the results of a survey of a representative sample of British academicians. The data and discussion are organized into 8 broad chapters on: structure and growth of the British academic profession since 1900, material conditions, attitudes toward expansion, institutional determinants of teaching and research orientations, characteristics and correlates of teaching and research orientations, attitudes toward professorial status and power, the politics of British academic men, and types of academic orientations among university teachers. The appendices contain additional statistical tables and notes, questionnaires, and a chronology of research operations. (JS)