| Description | Includes preliminary notice of the meeting, including list of members of Council, and a list of Fellows who 'have not hitherto served on the Council'. The notice is dated 14 September 1960 and signed DC Martin.
Papers signed by Assistant Secretary DC Martin.
Agenda for meeting 6 October 1960:
1) New Officers (Alexander Fleck and Howard Florey)
2) Minutes confirmed
3) Deaths (Otto Renner, William Lawrence Balls, Maurice le duc de Broglie, Nils Eberhard Svedelius, Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, William Henry Land, Frederick John Marrian Stratton, Reginald George Stapleton)
4) Arising from previous minutes:
a) USSR Exchange Agreement. Themes for lecturers from USSR, spheres of work for USSR researchers
b) Simonsen Bequest
c) Dr WR Thompson grant application
d) Academia Sinica Peking delegation to the UK
e) Royal Society (RS) Research Appointment Stipends salary range
f) History of Science International Union
g) Royal Society Visiting Professorship, R Couteaux
h) Proposal for Medals discussed 1960
i) Royal Academy exhibition, loan of portraits of Edmond Halley and John Allis
j) International Crystallography Union Assembly, report by Kathleen Lonsdale received
5) New council nominations 1960-1961
6) Sectional and Standing Committees proposals
7) Draft report of Council
8) British Commonwealth Space Research resolutions considered
9) Invitation to Indian Science Congress
10) RS representative to Hull University Court
11) RS representative to Uppingham School
12) RS representative to Parsons Memorial Lecture
13) Reports of Committees
i) Finance committee
ii) Gassiot Committee grants paid
iii) Tropical Diseases Committee, Research Fellow appointments
iv) Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee
v) Smithson Research Fund Committee
vi) National Committee for Astronomy, discussion regarding proposed observatories in the Southern hemisphere
vii) National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics grant
viii) National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics delegation
14) Sealing
15) Items of agenda drawn up as minutes
a) Biographical memoir, Dr HEK Jordan
b) Royal Society Visiting Professorship, Arnulf Schluter
c) International Geophysical Year Grant-in-Aid rent allowance payable
d) Physics International Union Assembly grant to CF Powell
e) Browne Research Fund grant to PS Dixon
f) Mackinnon student
g) Rutherford scholarship, WJ Darcy
h) International Geodesy Union Assembly grants
i) Newton Letters Committee, editorial appointments
j) RS Tercentenary Celebrations. Reports that the Queen attended opening ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall, presented silver handbell to the RS. Prince Philip attended Conversazione
k) Iron and Steel Institute presented medal to the RS
l) Societe d'Anthopologie de Paris congratulations on tercentenary
m) 'International Prize of Communications'. ACB Lovell nominated for 'space communications'
n) Sealing
16) Bills for payment
17) Other business |