| Description | Present: Sir George Porter, President; Professor R E D Bishop; Dr L M Brown; Professor E C Cocking; Professor A W Cuthbert; Sir Roger Elliott, Secretary; Professor M A Epstein, Foreigh Secretary; Professor B K Follett, Secretary; Professor J L Harper; Professor R W K Honeycombe, Treasurer; Professor T W B Kibble; Professor L G Macdonald; Professor K Murray; Sir Stanley Peart; Professor S V Perry; Professor F H Read; Professor F G A Stone
Sir Francis Graham-Smith attended by invitation
The Executive Secretary attended
1. Minutes of the meeting held on 14 July 1988 were confirmned, subject to the following amendment; 'Page 748, minute 62, third line. Delete 'as reported in Aggendix G''
Appointments and Nominatins
2. Deaths and Biographical Memoirs
3. Auditors (Honorary)
4. Committee membership
5. Council 1988-89
With reference to minute 4 of 14 July 1988, Council proceeded by ballot to nominate the Fellows to be recommended to the Society at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1988 for election as members of the Council for the ensuing year, and to nominate thos to be recommended for election to the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretaries and Foreign Secretary [names listed]
6. Representation on outside bodies
National Affairs
7. COPUS (Committee on the Public Understanding of Science)
8. Dangerous substances in water (Red List: submission
9. EPA Cepphalosporin Fund
10. Human Fetuses (review of guidelines) submission
11. Industrial Fellowship
12. Mr P H Sterling taken up his appointment again on 1 October 1988 after it had been held in suspense for a year owing to his ill health
13. National Curriculum
14. Parsons Memorial Lecture
14. Remote sensing and education
16. Research Fellows treavel grants
17. Royal Society Research Professors
18. Royal Society University Research Fellkowships (scheme established 1983)
19. Science curriculum (16-19) and its assessment
20. Senior Research Fellow Support Grant [to Dr C W Lloyd, Senior Research Fellow in the Biological Sciences]
21. Teacher Supply
22. Browne, Hill and Murray Committee
23. Engineering Education Joint Committee
24. Ordnance Survey Scientific Committee
25. Paul Instrument Fund Committee
Royal Society Domestic Affairs
26. Annual Report of Council 1988
27. Bills for payment
28. Publications: Policy ('Proceedings' and 'Philosophical Transactions')
29. Sealing
30. Small payments
31. Standing Order 13: amendments
32. Statute 60 amendment
33. Finance Committee
34. Soiree Committee
International Affairs
35. Australian Bicentennial: Sir Joseph Banks Memorial Lecture
36. Belgian Royal academy of MEdicine: 50th Anniversary
37. Florey Lecture
38. Guest Research Fellowship
39. Japan
40. Rutherford Scholars
41. Rutherford Memorial Committee
42. Antarctic Research National Committee
43. Data for Science and Technology National Committee
44. Geography National Committee
45. ICSU (International Council of Scientific UNions) National Committee
46. IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme) National Committee
47. Oceanic Research National Committee
48. Physiological Sciences Committee
49. Solar Terrestrial National Physics Committee
50. Space Research National Committee
51. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics National Committee
52. Panel A of the International Exchanges Committee
53. Resolved - That the action by the Foreign Secretary or acting on his behalf by the Executive Secretary on the Assistant Secretary (International Affairs) as reported in Appendix E, be confirmed
54. Resolved - That the action by the Foreign Secretary or acting on his behalf by the Executive Secretary on the Assistant Secretary (International Affairs) as reported in Appendix F, be confirmed
55. Resolved - That the action by the Foreign Secretary or acting on his behalf by the Executive Secretary on the Assistant Secretary (International Affairs) as reported in Appendix G, be confirmed
56. a. Noted the details of grants/exchanges, already approved by Council on 14 July 1988 (minute 62) as shown iin Appendix H to these minutes
b. Resolved - That the action by the Foreign Secretary or acting on his behalf by the Executive Secretary on the Assistant Secretary (International Affairs) as reported in Appendix I, be confirmed. |