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RefNoCMO/74/6
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TitleMinues of a meeting of Council
Date9 February 1989
DescriptionPresent: Sir George Porter, President; Dr Brigitte A Askonas; Dr L M Brown; Professor J F Davidson; Professor C Eaborn; Professor M A Epstein, Foreign Secretary; Professor B K Follett, Secretary; Sir Francis-Graham Smith, Secretary; Professor J L Harper; Professor R Hide; Professor R W K Honeycombe, Treasurer; Dr A T James; Professor T W T Kibble; Sir Aaron Klug; Professor R A Laskey; Professor K Murray; Sir Philip Randle; Professor F H Read; Professor L Weiskrantz; Professor E C Zeeman

Professor Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, Council Correspondent for India, attended by invitation

The Executive Secretary attended

Matters discussed:
1. Declaration of new members of Council they had signed the Declaration in lieu of Oath prescribed by the Charter
2. Minutes of the meeting held on 12 January 1989 were confirmed
3. Deaths and biographical memoirs
4. Candidates for the Fellowship
5. Committee membership
6. Council Correspondent for India
7. National Committees: restructuring
8. Representation on ourside bodies

National Affairs
9. Alan Johnston, Lawrence and Moseley Research Fellowship
10. British Association
11. British Physics Olympiad
12. Broadcasdting: response to White Paper
13. COPUS (Committee on the PUblic U:nderstanding of Science) grants
14. Industrial Fellowship
15. National Curriculum
16. Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid 1988-89: virements
17. Research Fellowsd: travel grants
18. Royal Society Research Grants Scheme
19. Royal Society Research Professors
20. Royal Society University Research Fellows (scheme established 1983)
21. Science curriculum 16-19 and its assessment: conference
22. Browne, hill and Murray Committee

Royal Society Domestic Affairs
23. Lectures 1989 [Croonian, Bakerian, Ferrier, Leeuwenhoek, Bernal, Clifford Paterson, Philips]
24. Sealikng
25. Small payments
26. Statutes and Standing Orders: amendments
27. Hooke Committee

International Affairs
28. Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA): UK membership
29. European Science Foundation (ESF): subscription 1989
30. Hydrology: merger of committees
31. International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU): subscription 1989
32. International Seismological Centre (ISC)
33. International Union of Biological Sciences(IUBS); subscription
34. Internatinal Union of Pharmacy (IUP): subscription 1989
35. Japan: relations with the European Community
36. Overseas Field Research
37. Royal Society K C Wongh Fellowships
38. Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR): subscription 1989
39. Travelling Expenses Committee
40. Grants/Exchanges (Panel B)
41. Grants/Exchanges (Panel C)
42. Grants/Exchanges (Panel D)
43. Grants/Excchanges (Panel E)

Listed at end;
Appendix A - National Curricululm for Science: Text of a letter dated 26 January 1989 from Professor B K Follett, Biological Secretary, to Mr Kenneth Baker, Secretary of Stte for Education and Science
Appendix B - Interim Report of the National Curriculum Design and Technology Working Group
Appendix C - Alteration to the Pension and Life Assurance Scheme of the Royal Society
Appendix D - to consider propossal by Council for altering Statutes
Appendix E - Travelling Expenses Committee Recommendations
Appendix F - Grants/Exchanges recommended by Panel B of the International Exchanges Committee
Appendix G - Grants/Exchanges recommended by Panel C of the International Exchanges Committee
Appendix H - Grants/Exchanges recommended by Panel H of the International Exchanges Committee
Appendix I - Grants/Exchanges recommended by Panel E of the International Exchanges Committee
Extent47 -
FormatPrinted
AccessStatusOpen
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