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Agenda
1. Minutes [Enclosure A]
2. Deaths
To report the death of William Whitehead Watts on 30 July, of Reginald Innes Pocock on 9 August and of Clive Forster-Cooper on 23 August 1947.
3. Arising from Previous Minutes
3a Minute 10 of 7 March 1946
3b Minute 4 of 7 november 1946
3c Minute 10 of 10 July 1947
3d Minute 16 of 10 July 1947
3e Minute 17 of 10 July 1947
3f Minute 20 (x) of 10 July 1947
4. New Council
5. Sectional and Standing Committees
6. Report of Council [Enclosure B]
7. Loyal address
To consider a draft loyal address to His Majesty the King on the occasion of the marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, and to appoint a delegation to present the Address on the behalf of the Socirety.
The following draft by the Officers has been submitted to the Home Office;
" To the King's Most Excellent Majesty
May it please your Majesty
We, your loyal and dutiful subjects, the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Socity of London, humbly beg leave to offer yuor Majesty, the Patron of our Society, our respectful and most sincere congratulations upon the approaching marriage of yYour Majesty's Most Dearly Beloved Daughter Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N.
The Royal Society of London ever since it received its first Charter from His Majesty King Charles the Second has not only enjoyed the continuted patronage of the Throne but has been specially favoured in that many membres of The Royal House have become Fellows of the Society. it is with particular pride that, in offering our respectful and sincere congrtulations on this most ausicious occasion, we recall that Her Royal Highness was elected a Fellow of the Society and, having graciously signified her desire to visit our Roomsat Burlington House, she was duly admitted to the Fellowship on the third of July this year.
And we shall ever pray that your Majesty,with her Most Gracious Majesty the Queesn,may long live to witness the married happiness and prosperityof your Most Dearly Beloved Daughter and to continue to reign over your devoted and loyal subjects.
On behalf of the Council an Fellows of the Royal Society
Robert Robinson
President
November 1947."
8. University of Allahabad
9. TravellingExpenses
9a Dr Jde Graaff-Hunter, FRS
9b Dr K H Swainger, submitted through Professor G Temple
10. Seventh Congress of Applied Mechanics
11. Bequest
To report that Dr Alexander Scott has bequeather to the Scientific Relief Fund two-thirds of his residuary estate, subject to his widow's life interest.
12. Accommodation of Scientific Societies
13. Items of Agenda drawn up in the form of Minutes which will become Minutes of Council unless any objection as to form or principleis raised at the meeting.
i. Scientific Investigations Grant-in-Aid
ii Mass Spctrometers
iii British Institute of Philosophy
iv Archives
Permission was given to the Librarian of Rochester University, New York,, to have photostat copies made of extracts from the Letter Books, the Guard Books and the miscellaneous manuscripts in the archives of the Royal Society, between the years 1710 and 1734, subject to the usual acknowledgments being made in the event of publication.
v Supserannuation Policy
vi Sealing
vii Bills for payment
14. Reports of Committees
i. Gassiot Committee
ii Head Bequest Committee
iii Scientific Relief Committee
iv Soiree Committee [Enclosure J]
v Advisory Committee on Naval Research Facilities [Enclosure K]
vi Warren Research Fund Committee
vii British Committee for Co-opertion with UNESCO in the Natural Sciences |