| Description | Present: Sir William Bragg, President in the Chair; Professor E D Adrian; Mr D L Chapman; Dr W H Eccles; Professor A S Eve; Professor L N G Filon; Dr J Gray; Sir Daniel Hall; Professor A V Hill [Secretary]; Dr S W Kemp; Sir Patrick Laidlaw; Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham; Sir Henry Lyons [Treasurer]; Dr G T Morgan; Professor R Robinson; Professor A C Seward [Foreign Secretary]; Dr B Smith; Sir Frank Smith [Secretary]; Professor W Stiles;
Mr W Trotter.
Matters discussed;
The Assistant Secretary attended.
1. The Minutes of the previous meeting (January 16) were read and signed by the President as Correct
2. Montserrat Expedition
3. Discussion Meeting [to be held on 'Theories of Fracture' or on 'Plasticity'.]
4. Patronage - Resolved that the President on behalf of the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society present the following loyal address to His Majesty the King; -
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty
The respectful Address of the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Promoting Natural Knowledge.
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN
We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Promoting Natural Knowledge, humbly desire to express out grief and our sense of great personal bereavement in the loss of Your universally beloved and revered Father, our late Sovereign King George the Fifth, a loss which is mourned by the whole world. To Your Majesty we offer our most heartfelt sympathy.
We are proud to remember that no less than forty-two years ago, His late Majesty was graciously pleased to enter the Fellowship of the Royal Society and later, on his accession to the Throne, to become our Patron. In the cultivation of the arts of peace, His Majesty was active and successful. He recognised that the development of Science during His own reign was of the greatest importance and that the Promotion of Natural Knowledge, for which the Royal Society was founded by His Majesty King Charles the Second, was an object ever worthy of His patronage and support.
We desire also to express our loyalty and our deep devotion to Your Majesty's Person, our pride in Your Fellowship fo the Royal Society, and our cordial congratulations upon Your accession to the Throne.
Your Majesty enters upon thed duties fo Your high station with a wider personal knowledge of the Empire and its various Peoples than has ben possessed by any previous Sovereign of tis Country. The interest which Your Majesty has always shown in the progress fo science and invention assures us that these elements of national greatness will continue to receive your Majesty's favour and protection. We venture to express the hope that Your Majesty will graciously conssent to become our Patron and thus maintain between the Crown and the Society the bond whihc has existed since 1662.
We trust that Your Majusty's reign may be long and happy, and that You may ever rule in the hearts as well as over the persons of a loving, dutiful and grateful people.
On befalf of Your Majesty's loyal and durtiful Subjects
Teh President, Council and Fellows of the
Royal Society of London
W H Bragg
President.
Resolved further - That, in accordance witrh the acknowledged right of direct access to the Sovereign, His Majesty be petitioned to receive a deputation from the Society, composed of the President, Officers and Vice Presidents.
5. Deaths
6. Committees
7. Soirees
8. Research Appointments [and MesseFund]
9. Candidates
10. Proceedings 'C'
11. Heidelberg University
12. Titicaca Expedition
13. Civil Service Examinatins
14. EastMalling Reseawrch Sttion
15. Liverpool University
16. Increase in Grants-in-Aid
17. Council Urgency Fund
18. Joule Fund
19. Handley Fund
20. Redemption Warrant
21. Smithson Fellowship
22. Smithson Fellowship
23. Lawes Trust Committee
24. Library
Permission was given to the Librarian of Leiden University to borrow from the Royal Society's Library a rare pamphlet by Denis Papin entitled 'Nouvelles Experimees du vuide aved la description des machines qui servent a les faires. ' printed in Paris in 1674, subject to its being kept in safe custody whilst abroad and returned to the Society as soon as poissible.
25. Scientific Relief Committee |