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RefNoCAP/1948/10
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TitleCouncil Agenda and Papers for a meeting of the Council on 30 November 1948
Date30 November 1948
DescriptionAgenda

1. Minutes
Minutes of the meeting held on 4 November to be confirmed [Enclosure A]

2. Death

3. Arising from previous minutes
3a. Minute 18 (iv) of 15 January 1948 [Enclosure B]
3b. Minute 24 (iii) of 8 July 1948 [Enclosure C]
3c. Minute 6 of 4 November 1948
3d. Minute 12 of 4 November 1948
3e. Minute 26 (xi) of 4 November 1948

4. Directorship of National Physical Laboratory

5. International Committee for Bird Preservatins (British Section)

6. Auditors Report

7. Browne Research Fund Committee

8. Items of Agenda drawn up in the form of Minutes which will become minutes of the Council unless any object5ion as to form or principle is raised at the meeting.
8a. Polish Academy of Sciences
8b. Royal Medals
8c. Birth of the Prince
8d. Colloid and Biophysics Committee
8e. Newton's Principia
Permission was granted for the manuscript of Newton's Principia to be transferred temorarily from the Society's apartments to the Public Record Office for the purpose of rebinding.
8f. Rutherford Portrait
Permission was granted to the 'National Geographic Magazine' to photograph and reproduce the Society's oil painting fo Lord Rutherford by Oswald Birley, subject to the usual acknowledgements being made upon publication
8g. Purkyne Certificate
Permission was granted to Mr B Pollak to photgraph and reproduce the certificate of candidature of Johannes Evangelista Purkyne (FRS 1850), subject to the usual acknowledgements being made upon publication
8h. Notes and Records, Archives
Permission was granted to professor G R de Beer to utilize in a forthcoming book of essays his article on Rodolph Valltravers printed in 'Notes adn Records', Volume 4; and also to make use of a manuscript by Charles Kite, deposited in the Society's archives in 1794, in connexion with an article he was writing on the death of Edward Gibbon; subject to the usual acknowledgements being made upon publication in each case
8i. Professional Auditors
Extent4p
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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