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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date1 November 1900
DescriptionPrinted minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.

Commencing with a list of Council members present: Horace Tabberer Brown: James Bryce; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Sir Andrew Noble; Arnold William Reinold; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); George Johnstone Stoney; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Edward Burdett Tylor; Sir Samuel Wilks; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. List of President, Officers and Council to serve from Anniversary Day, the list to be communicated to the public papers.
3-8. Adjudication on the award of Royal Society medals: Professor Marcellin Bertholet (Copley Medal); Professor Antoine Henri Becquerel (Rumford Medal); Major Percy Alexander MacMahon (Royal Medal); Professor Alfred Newton (Royal Medal); Professor Guglielmo Koerner (Davy Medal); Professor Ernst Haeckel (Darwin Medal).
9. Nomination of auditors for the Treasurer's accounts.
10. Letter from Francis Mowatt, Treasury Chambers, 30 October 1900, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: offering Bushy House as a site for the National Physical Laboratory. With a draft reply accepting the offer, noting an additional £2,000 capital grant.
11. Report of the British Academy Committee circulated and consideration of it deferred.
12. Letter from Professor Bonney requesting that maps and sections for the Funafuti report be completed in Sydney at a cost of £215 for 1,000 copies, agreed.
13. Application for £125 from the Publication Fund to enable the printing of A. M. W. Downing's revision of Taylor's Madras Star Catalogue, to be matched by £150 from the India Office.
14. Application from Mr. P. E. Shaw for £30 for the construction of an electric micrometer referred to the Government Grant Committee, not considered as urgent.
15. Letter from the Colonial Office inviting observations on reports on Ceylon Pearl Fisheries, referred to Professor Herdman.
16. Mr. J. H. H. Teall appointed a member of the Joint Antarctic Committee in place of Sir John Murray.
17. Application for use of the Society's meeting room for a meeting of science masters in secondary schools, refused.
18. Report of the Junior Secretary on a meeting of Council of the International Association of Academies, full text entered into the minutes.
19. Draft of Council's Annual Report to the Fellowship tabled for amendments, the report to be circulated to the Fellows after any changes.
20. Council Meeting dates for the next annual session.
21. Income from the Gassiot Trust Fund to be paid to the National Physical Laboratory.
22. Report of the Meteorological Coucnil tabled and ordered to be forwarded to the Treasury.
23. Bills for printing and other expenses.
Extent8p.; pp.157-164
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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