| Description | Meeting held at the apartments of the Royal Society
Present at the meeting: the President of the Royal Society; Sir W Ramsay; Dr Haliburton; Professor Rutherford; Professor Lireing
' Professer Lereing stated that he had written to the Secretary of the Vienna Akademie asking him to put the Committee in the way of obtaining a portion of the residue from the Imperial Uranium works. Also that he had written to the Manager of the Uranium and Rare Metal Company at Buffalo New York asking whether the Company would supply radium products, and if so what was the stage of concentration of the radium in such products and what would be the price?
Sir W Ramsay stated that a large quantity of clercite was in the market, produce of a mine in Norway, recently purchased by a Syndicate; and suggested that the Syndicate should be asked to send two tons to Messrs Tyror of the Stirling Chemical Works at Stratford, and the latter be asked to work it up. Also that the Royal Society should negotiate with them as to paying some part of the expense of working up and undertake to purchase the radium extract.
Sir W Ramsay undertook to write the letters.
The Committee was of opinion that the radium obtained should (as a general rule) be lent to experimenters and remain the property of the Royal Society.
The Committee then adjourned. |