Description | Present at the meeting; professor Bonney n the chair; Sir J Wolfe Barry; Ssir W Crookes; ASSir Archibald Geikie; Professor J W Judd, Sir W J L Wharton and Professors W J Sollas and W W Watts, Secretaries
Matters duiscussed; 1. Minutes of last meeting read
2. Telegram from Professor Anderson Stuart read ' Down in main bore 698 feet not bottomes, then booilers failed, Health of party good. Returned Sydney'
3. Minute of Council of 9 December 1897 read, granting the £100 already promised from the Donatin Fund and a further £250 out of the £500 assigned by the Government Grant Committee for administration by the Council.
4. Report from Professor that the examination of the core brought home by Professor Sollas had already provided results bearing on 1) the organisms present 2) the mineral changes taking place at depths in the reef 3) chemical changes particularly in regard to dolomitizations, his proposal that Professor David's core should be similarly treated when it arrived, and that ' the results of all three parts of the investigation , under Professor Sollas, Professor David, and Mr Sweetrespectively, should be published together. He agreed to prepare a prelilminary report as soon as possible after the arrival of Professor David's core. '
5. Discussed the question of publication, with a preference fot Profesor Sollas to draw up a schme and submit it to the Committee, estimating what the probable size and expense of the volume would be. Professors Judd and Sollas to select the specialists to undertake the inbvestigation of particular points in conection with the core, the zoological and anthropological collections. |