| Description | Papers signed by Assistant Secretary DC Martin.
Agenda:
1) Minutes confirmed
2) Deaths (John Henry Constantine Whitehead, John Davison Rockefeller Junior)
3) Arising from previous minutes
a) Royal Society Research Appointment Stipends. Salary scales for research appointments
b) History of Science Committee. International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
c) 'Atoms for Peace Awards' made to Szilard, Wigner, Zinn and Weinberg
d) Foulerton Research Professor, Professor AL Hodgkin
e) Representative of the Royal Society (RS) to the Jungfraujoch Research Station
f) Space Research. Funding secondment of MO Robins to National Aeonautics and Space Administration, Washington
g) RS to issue invitation to International Botanical Congress
h) Applicants for the Sophie Fricke Royal Society Research Fellowship
i) West Europe Space Research Co-operation discussions
j) Scientific Research in the United Kingdom memorandum considered
k) Wolfson Professorship. Dorothy Hodgkin accepted first appointment. Salary discussed
l) Royal Society Visiting Professorship nominations considered
4) Medal. Preliminary names suggested
5) Dates of meetings 1961
6) Application for grant, Dr P Paulian
7) International Union of Physiological Sciences subscription
8) Space Research. Discussion by Steering Group on Space Research following decision of government not to process further with development of the Bluye Streak defence rocket
9) Agricultural Research Council grants for apparatus
10) RS representative to the Biological Council's Co-ordinating Committee for Symposia on Drug Action
11) RS representatives to the British Empire Cancer Campaign
12) Faraday Society discontinuing Colloid and Biophysics Committee
13) RS representative to Lister Institute
14) RS representatives to Lister Medal Committee
15) Reports of Committees and Boards
i) Government Grant Boards
ii) Biological Expeditions Committee grant
iii) Gassiot Committee. Magnetic work at Valentia Observatory
iv) Medical Sciences Research Committee grants and Fellowships
v) Physical Sciences Research Committee studentship
vi) Rutherford Memorial Committee scholarship paid
vii) Scientific Relief Committee grant
viii) South Pacific Expedition Committee considering need for taxonomists
ix) Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth Bursaries Committee contributions
x) Warren Research Fund Committee Fellowship renewed, CR Burch
xi) National Committee for Chemistry invitation to Congress
xii) National Committee for Geography delegation, UK to host conference
16) Sealing
17) Items of agenda drawn up as form of minutes
a) Jaffe studentship, DA Magnusson
b) Scientific Investigations Grant-in-Aid purchase of spectrometer for RC Cookson
c) Rutherford Scholar DJ Tritton
d) International Geophysical Year grant to DR Harrison (Jodrell Bank Experimental Station)
e) International Geophysical Year sum to LW Barclay
f) Scientific Investigations Grant-in-Aid payment to GC Bond
g) Egerton gift of Tompion clock
h) Biographical memoir, CA Edwards
i) Biographical memoir, David Pye
j) Petavel Committee transfer of grant
k) Locke Fund accounts
l) Panetti prize, MJ Lighthill and Richard Southwell nominate
m) Library volumes removed for binding and repair
18) Bills for payment
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