Record

RefNoCAP/1961/2
LevelFile
TitleCouncil Agendas and Papers for a Council meeting on 9 February 1961
Date9 February 1961
DescriptionAgenda:

1) Minutes confirmed

2) Death

3) Arising from previous minutes

3 a) Huitfeldt Settlement
b) Consideration of a Jaffe Studentship application
c) Pacific Science Congress
d) Scientific Radio Union Assembly
e) Cambridge University Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics
f) Candidates for fellowship
g) Amendment of statues

4) Embossed Scientific Books Fund (books chosen to be put into braille, Royal National Institute for the Blind)

5) Scottish Marine Biological Association grant application

6) World Power Conference grant application

7) Trans-Antarctic Association

8) British Society for the Promotion of Vegetable Research

9) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (inviting Royal Society president to centennial convocation)

10) University of Hong Kong (invite to celebration of University's jubilee)

11) Reports of committees and boards

11i) Government Grant Boards
ii) Biological Expeditions Committee
iii) Biological Research Committee
iv) Scientific Relief Committee
v) Warren Research Fund Committee (appointment of Research Fellows; grants)
vi) National Committee for Astronomy
vii) National Committee for Physics

12) Sealing

13a) Scientific Investigations Grant-in-Aid (grants paid)
b) Biochemistry Union Assembly (grants paid)
c) Foulerton Gift Fellowship (grants paid)
d) Committees (nominations to National Committee for Biology)
f) Space Research National Committee (grants paid)
g) Donation to Tizard Memorial Fund
h) Sealing

Supplementary agenda:

15) Arising from a previous minute

15a) National Physical Laboratory

16) Wolfson fund; draft Trust Deed for the Wolfson Research Professorship of the Royal Society

17) Institut d'Egypte (invitation to celebrations of University's centenary)

18) Formation of Bolivian National Academy of Sciences

19) Formation of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

20) Rutherford Memorial Committee (attend celebrations of discovery of the nucleus by Rutherford, Manchester)

21) Sealing
Extent1 file
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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