| Description | Agenda
1. Minutes
Minutes of the meeting held on 16 June 1949 to be confirmed [Enclosure A]
1.a Death
To report the death of George Hugh Henderson on 19 June 1949
2. Arising from previous Minutes
a. Minute 17 of 28 October 1937
b. Minute 21 (ii) of 16 May 1946
c. Minute 29 (v) of 9 October 1947
d. Minute 26 (xii) of 4 November 1948 (appendix G - paragraph 35) [Enclosure B]
e. Minute 3 of 3 March 1949 [Enclosure C]
f. Minute 22 (i) (c) of 7 Aapril 1949 {Enclosure D]
g. Minute 5 of 12 May 1949
h. Minute 3 of 16 Junhe 1949
i. Minute 11 of 16 June4 1949
j. Minute 13 of 16 June 1949
k. Minute 24 (ii) of 16 June 1949
3. Discussion Meetings
4. Special Lecturees
5. Travelling Expenses
6. Calculating Machines Advisory Committee [Enclosure E]
7. American Physiological Society Grant [Enclosure F]
8. Reports of Committees and Boards
i. Scientific Publications BNoard [Enclosure G, Enclosure H]
ii. Gassiot Committee
iii. Information Services Committee [Enclosure I]
iv. Library Committee [Enjhclosure J]
v. Mathematical Tables Committee [Enclosure L]
vi. Petavel Bequest Committee
vii. Scientific Societies Accommodation Committee [Enclosure M]
9. Items of Agenda drawn up in the form of Minutes which will become minutes of Council unless any objection as to form or principle is raised at the meeting.
i. Archives
a. Permisison was granted to Dr D Merriman to consult the archives of the Society for the years 1660 to 1882 in connexion with a biographical research on Sir Charles Wyvillt Thomson (FRS 1869), scientific leader of the Challenger expedition, subject to the usual acknowledgments being made upon publication.
b. Permisison was granted to the Newcomen Society to publish a complete catalogue of the drawings of John Smeaton (FRS 1753), contained in the Society's archives, subject to the usual acknowledgments being made upon publication.
c. Permision was graned to Professor W J Bell to reproduce certain manuscript letters in the Society's archives relating to American science and scientists of the eighteenth century for the purpose of a biography he was writing of John Morgan (FRS 1765), subject to the usual acknowledgments being made upon publication.
ii. Officers to act on behalf of Council
iii. Treasurer's business
10. Bills for payment
11. Other business |