| Description | Attendees: Lord [Joseph] Lister, President of the Royal Society, in the Chair; Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society; Dr W T [William Thomas] Blanford; Mr A [Alexander] Buchan; Captain [Ettrick William] Creak; Major L [Leonard] Darwin, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society; Captain Field; Sir Michael Foster, Royal Society Secretary; Sir Archibald Geikie; Sir Joseph Hooker; Sir Anthony Hoskins; Mr J F [John Francon] Hughes, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society; Mr A B [Alfred Bray] Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society; Vice-Admiral Markham; Sir Leopold McClintock; Sir John Murray; Sir George Nares; Professor A W [Arthur William] Rucker, Royal Society Secretary; Sir Richard Strachey; Sir William Wharton.
Items discussed:
1. Minutes of the previous meeting agreed.
2. Read the reports from the sub-committees.
3. Read the Resolution of the Berlin Congress, proposing a Commission to consider magnetic and meteorological research in the Antarctic.
4. Captain Creak and Professor Schuster appointed to the Commission for Magnetism. Buchan and R H [Robert Henry] Scott appointed to the Commission for Meteorology.
5. A resolution proposed by Sir Clements Markham was deferred.
6. Markham, Sir Michael Foster and Sir Anthony Hoskins to draw up the powers and duties of a proposed Executive Committee for the next meeting. |