| Description | Present at the meeting: Sir Archibald Geikie, President, in the chair; Mr A B Kempe, Treasurer; Sir Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society; Professor J Rose Bradford, Secretary of the Royal Society; Dr C Chree FRS; Mr WH Dines FRS; Dr R T Glazebrook FRS; Professor J H Poynting FRS; Professor A Schuster FRS; Dr W N Shaw FRS; Mr C T R Wilson FRS
1. Minute of Council and letter from Treasury were read - Resolved, ' That the following be appointed the Gassiot Committee, in accordnce with the scheme for the co-operation of the Royal Society and Meteorological Ofice, adopted by Council on December 9, 1909 - Dr C Chree, Sir George Darwin, Mr W H Dines, Dr R T Glazebrook, Captain H G Lyons, Professor J H Poynting, Sir Arthur Rucker, Professor A Schuster, Dr W N Shaw, Mr C T R Wilson, with Mr G W Walker (Superintendent of Eskdalemuir Observatory, together with the Officers of the Society.
" Treasury Chambers, February 26, 1910
Gentlemen, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge receipt of Sir J Larmor's letter of the 18th inst. respecting the transfer from the National Physical Laboratory to the Meteorological Committee of the Meteorological and Magnetic work carried on a Kew and Eskdalemuir Observatories.
My Lords note that the President and Council of the Royal Society are prepared to carry through , as a temporary arrangement, the proposal for the division ... ' [Remainder of this meeting to be found in the next volume] |