| Description | Lists those present at the meeting
Mr Stephen Cox, Executive Secretary in attendance
Physical Secretary [Sir Martin Taylor] congratulated on award of a Knighthood and Sir Richard Friend on the award of the King Faisal International Prize for 2009 for Xcience (Physics) [co-winner with Professor Rashid Alievich Sunyaev]
Noted new councillors had received an induction pressentation covering their role as Trustees of the Society, the election process and the Society's plans for 2010 prior to this meeting
Matters discussed:
1. Minutes of meeting held 1 December 2008 confirmed
2. Council and Fellowship business
2.1 Anniversary meeting held on 1 December 2008
2.2 Honours, deaths and biographical memoirs
2.3 Physical Secretary - list of possible successor candidates, and invited all Councillors to select additional candidates
3. Corporate Business
3.1 Boad meetings held on 7 January and 11 February 2009 - noted minutes concerning unpaid subscriptions, Reserch Professors, IUSS inquiry, Involving the Fellows, SCORE and the Science Diploma, ACME, and Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid
3.2 Budget 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
3.3 Closure of minor investment accounts
3.4 Committee Membership - for Comittee on the Scientific Aspects of International Security, Arnourers and Brasiers Company Prize Committee, Interface Editorial Board and Summer Science Exhibitons Committee
3.5 The Society's plans for 2010: A Progress Report for Council
3.6 Convocation of the Fellowship
3.7 Developing the communications plan for the 350th Anniversary Celebrations
3.8 Kavli Royal Society International Centre for the Advancement of Science - concerning a) purchase, b) finance and c) proposed Main Contractor Procurement
3.9 Legacies, gifts and pledges received since the last meeting
3.10 Representatives
3.11 Sealing
4. Sectional Business
A Centre for the History of Science
4.1 Loan of the Society's portrait of Charles Darwin to the Schirn Hunsthalle, Frankfurt, for the exhibition "Darwin: art and the search for origins" approved
B Education
4.2 Partnership Grants Awards Panel
C Grants
4.3 International Grants - summary of awards to Short visits to the UK, short visits from teh UK, Joint projects, Conference Grants, Networks, Newton INternational Fellowships
4.4 UK Grants
D Science Communication
4.5 Hooke Committee proposals
4.6 Summer Science Exhibition
E Science Policy Centre
4.7 The Royal Society Science Policy Centre - including Strategic Plan 2009-2011, and Science Policy Centre Advisory Group meeting held on 8 December 2008
4.8 An integrated approach to infectious diseases in the UK
4.9 Emerging technologies and social innovation report [C/20 (09)]
4.10 Proposal for a new Joint Project funding scheme for UK - South Africa collabortions
4.11 The path to Copenhagen: Royal Socity engagement in cllimate change policy in 2009
4.12 Putting Putting Science and Engineering at the heart of Government Policy
4.13 Royal Society response to the IUSS committee enquiry on students and universities
4.14 Science and political change
4.15 Update on the study on service sector innovation |