| Description | Present at the meeting; Mr A B Kempe in the chair; Mr Horace T Brown; Professor H L Callendar; Professor J Dewar; Dr J Larmor; Mr J J H Teall
1. Minute of Council of 11 December 1902 appointing the Machinnon Bequest Committee was read
2. Read and signed minutes of previous meeting
3. Minute of Council of 11 July 1902 renewing Mr Macleod's scholarship was read [Minute cut out and pasted into minutes]
4. 'The Treasurer having reported that in consequence of the falling in of an annuity the annual income of the Fund wa now slightly over £300, the Committee resolved that the Council be recommended to adopt the following regulations for the administration of the Trust in place of those at present in force. ' The first was that there would be two Studentships, of the value of £150 per annum under the name of "The Mackinnon Research Studentship". [Printed list of regulations pasted into minutes]
5. Resolved that ' it be recommended that advertisements of the Studentships be issued at an early date, specifying the following subjects as included in the two main divisions of Science respectively, the advertisements to fix 1 June as the latest day for receiving applications.
A-side subjects; Physics, Chemistry, Astonomy, Geology, and Mineralogy
B-side subjects; Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, Botany, Palaeontology; Zoology
5. Memorandum of 23 January 1903 from Professor Turner of the University Observatory, Oxford, read to the Committee, querying whether a translation of a French work by Germain on Map projection would fall into the terms of reference of funding by the Mackinnon Studentship |