Record

RefNoCMB/12/8
LevelFile
TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Seismological Committee
Date20 May 1914
DescriptionP[resent at the meeting: Sir Archibald Geikie in the chair; Professor Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; Mr C V Boys; Mr Horace Darwin; Dr J J H Teall; Mr G W Walker

Minutes of the previous meeting read and signed

The Committee considered the arrangements for the Seismological Conference to be held at St Petersburg this year and it was agreed to report to the Council as follows ' The Committee beg leave to recommend that Professor Schuster be requested to retain his membership of the Permanent Commission of the International Seismological Association until the termination of the present Convention in the beginning of 1916, and that Mr G W Walker and a representative of Eskdalemuir Observatory be nominated to attend the General Meeting of the Association next August as delegates of the Royal Society. '

Resolved:- To recommend to the Council that Mr R D Oldham be added to the Committee
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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