Description | Agenda:
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 |