| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the Chair; Professor Armstrong; Right Honourable J Bryce; Professor Forsyth; Sir Michael Foster, Secretary; Mr AB Kemp, Treasurer; Professor Ray Lankester; Sir Norman Lockyer; Professor Rucker, Secretary; Professor Tylor; Dr Thorpe, Foreign Secretary
Read minute of the Council of 18 January 1900 appointing the Committee and its terms of reference. [Printed copy pasted into the minutes]
Resolved, ' That the Committee of the Royal Society are prepared to entertain the expression of opinions in regard to the institution of a new Academy, not merely from Professor Sidgwick and other gentlemen originally consulted by the Council of the Society, but also from any others whom Professor Sidgwick, Lord Acton, and Professor Jebb acting on their own responsibility may choose to consult. '
Mr Bryce to communicate unofficially with Professor Sidgwick as to who to be consulted.
Resolved, ' That it be referred to the Treasurer and Mr Bryce to draw up and circulate among the Committee a report upon the limits imposed by the Charter as to the subjects with which the Society can deal.
It was further agereed that for the purposes of this report and for the information of the Committee a return be prepared showing the extent to which papers dealing with matters not belonging to Mathematics or to the Natural Sciences have been accepted by the Society, especially in the earlier years of its existence. ' |