| Description | Signed DC Martin (assistant secretary)
Agenda:
1) Minutes confirmed
2) Arising from previous minutes
a) Availability of Burlington House to the Royal Society
b) Helen Amy Grant Bequest
c) British Council agrees extension of USSR and UK scientists exchange scheme
d) Report on conversazione to celebrate Darawin-Wallace papers
e) Jaffe Donation Studentships
3) Medals. Preliminary list of names suggest by members of Council will be drawn up
4) Meetings 1959, dates confirmed
5) Chelsea Physic Garden, financial assistance requested
6) Discussion meeting to be held on the likely developments in the field of space research
7) Representatives from the Society to the British Empire Cancer Campaign committee
8) Reports of Committees and Boards
i) Government Grant Boards
ii) Engineering Sciences Sectional Committee
iii) Gassiot Committee
iv) Library Committee
v) Medical Sciences Research Committee
vi) Publications in Chemistry Committee
vii) Soiree Committee
viii) Tercentenary Celebrations Committee
ix) Head Bequest Committee
x) Smithson Research Fund Committee
xi) Sorby Research Fund Committee
9) Sealing
10) Items of agenda drawn up in the form of minutes
a) Scientific Investigations Grant-in-Aid, grant supplement
b) Tottanfjella mountains named, '230 miles east of Royal Society Base, Halley Bay'
c) International Council of Scientific Unions grants for delegates
d) Amendment of statute 14
e) Commonwealth Bursaries Committee, amount increased
f) Pacific Science Council grant
10) Bills for payment
11) Other business |