| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor E D Adrian in the chair; Sir Lawrence Bragg; Sir Alfred Egerton; Professor H J Fleure; Sir Harold Spencer Jones; Professor H D Kay; Sir Thomas Merton; Professor H H Plaskett; Professor J Proudman; Sir Richard Southwell; Dr H G Thornton; Professor J Z Young
1. Confirmed minutes fo the meeting of 20 May 1947
2. Matters arising from the minutes
2a. From minute 3b, received reports form Dr J F Allen and Dr R C Evans which had been circulated as papers T/1(48) and T/2 (48)
2b. From minute 5, after additional information from Professor Peierls, Council had allocated him a grant of up to £120 from the Yarrow Fund to meet the expense of delegates attending the Birmingham Conference on Quantum Theory in July 1947. £95.19.7 of this amount claimed by Professor Peierls in October.
3. Consideration of 15 applications for grants totalling £1108.12.0d Paper T/3 (48). REcommendation to accept;
3a. From the Scientific Congress Grants-in-aid - Professor E N da C Andrade, £9.11.3d expenses between Paris and Strasbourg; Dr S Lilley, £20.1.0 for expenses to Lausanne to attend the Fifth International Congress of the History of Science; Dr C Singer, £20 expenses to Lausanne to attend the fifth International Congress of the History of Science
3b. From the Yarrow Fund - Dr A E Alexander, £146 expenses to USA; Mr R C Faust, £60 expenses to Gottingen; Dr A Fletcher, £19.16.9 expenses to Dublin; Professor H Jonres, £177 expenses to USA; Professor R E Peierls, £34 expenses to Copenhagen; Dr I N Sneddon, £18.19.0d expenses to Dublin
Also agreed as follows;
a. that the Chairman should have discretion to recommend a further grant of £20 for Dr Alexander should the amount applied for prove insufficient for his purpose
b. that Professor Fisher be asked for further information and in particular for any special reason why Mrs Holt and Mr Owen should be given a grant to attend the Internatinal Genetical Congress at Stockholm, and that consideration of these two applicatins be deferred until the next meeting of the Committee
c. that considertion of the application submitted by Professor A C Fraser be deferred until the next meeting and that enquiry be made of the Faraday Society as to whether they wish to support the application
d. that the application from Professor Norish be considered at the next meeting of the Committee and that he be asked to find out whether the Ministry of Supply would assist with the cost of his visit
e. That a consideration of the application of Dr T Goodey be deferred until the next meeting of the Committee in view of the possibility of his being appointed a British delegate to the International Congress of Zoology
4. Application for grant from Professor Munro Fox to enable Miss B M Walshe of Bedford College, London, to visit the Freshwater Biological Laboratory of the University of Copenhagen from July to September 1948 - resolved, that it be a recommendation to Council tht the sum of £55.16.0 from the Yarrow Fund be made to Miss Walshe for this purpose
5. Heligoland Discussion Meeting - Resolved that it be a recommendation to Council that the sum of £55.16.0 incurred in travelling expenses and subsistence for foreign scientists invited to take part in the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the results of the Helugoalnd Explosions (on 20 November 1947) be charged to the Yarrow Fund
6. Rowett Research Institute - resolved ' that it be a recommendation to Council that the travelling expenses of th Royal Society representative on the Governing Body of the Rowett REsearch Institute be paid frm the Yarrow Travelling Expenses Reserve.'
7. Next meeting - Friday 23 April 1949
Recommendations to Council
1. That grants totalling £49.11.3 as listed in minute 3a be made from the Scientific Congresses Grant in aid.
2. That grants totalling £636.11.8 as listed in minute 3b and minute 4 be made from the Yaroow Fund
3. That £58.16.0 incurred in travelling expenses and susbsistence for foreign scientists who took part in the Royal Society discussion meeting on 20 November 1947 be charged to the Yarrow Fund.
4. That the travelling expenses of the Royal Society representative on the Governing Bodfy of the Rowett REsearch Institute be paid from the Yarrow Travelling Expenses Reserve. |