Record

RefNoCAP/1948/6
LevelFile
TitleCouncil Agendas and Papers for a meeting of Council on 10 June 1948
Date10 June 1948
DescriptionCouncil will sit first as a Committee of Papers

Agenda
1. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 6 May to be confirmed [Enclosure A]

2. Arising from previous minutes
2a Minute 15 of 14 June 1945
2b Minute 17 (vi) of 4 March 1948
2c Minute 17 (vii) of 4 March 1948
2d Minute 8 of 8 April 1948
2e Minute 4 of 6 May 1948
2f Minute 30 (ii) of 6 May 1948 [Enclosure B]

3. Medals - Copley, Rumford, Royal (2), Davy, Darwin, Hughes [Enclosure C]

4. Meeting 1949 [Enclosure D]

5. East Malling Research Station

6. Honorary Librarian

7. Physical Secretaryship

8. Reports of Committees and Boards
i. Government Grant Boards [Enclosure E]
ii. Biological Expeditions Committee
iii Finance Committee
1v Publications Committee
v. Rutherford Memorial committee [Enclosure G]
vi. Soiree Committee [Enclosure H]
vii. Advisory Committee on Airborne Research Facilities [Enclosure I]
viii. Paul Instument Fund Committee [Enclo9sure J]
ix. Symbols Committee [Enclosure K]
x. National Committee for Astronomy [Enclosure L]
xi. National Committee for Physics [Enclosure M]
xii National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [Enclosure N]
xiii. British Committee for Co-opertion with UNESCO in the Natural Sciences [Enclosure O]
xiv. Scientific Information Committee

9. Sealing

10. Items of Agenda drawn up in the form of minutes which will become minutes of Council unless any objectin as to form or principle is raised at the meeting.
i. Charter Book
ii. National Committee for Astronomy
iii. Parsons Memorial Lecture
iv. Sheffield University
v. Portraits
Permisison was grnated to the National Geographic Magazine to ?photgraph and reproduce the Society's oil paintings of Rober Boyle by F Kerseboom, Sir Humphry Davy by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Michael Faraday by A Blaikley and James Prescott Joule by John Collier, subject tot eh usual acknowledgmentws being made upong publication.
vi. Gift
Reported a gift by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd of a brass plaque bearing an impression of the Society's arms which had been cut by explosive (the Munro effect).
vii. Bills for payment

11. Other business
Extent6p
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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