| Description | Printed 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: Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Vernon Boys; Horace Tabberer Brown; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Lord Lister; William Carmichael McIntosh; Arnold William Reinold; James Emerson Reynolds; Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1A. Sir George Newnes to bear the cost of publishing meteorological and magnetic observations taken during Mr. C. E. Borchgrevink's Antarctic Expedition, in Philosophical Transactions.
2. Address to H.M. King Edward VII, full text entered into the minutes, on the death of Queen Victoria and Edward's accession to the throne.
3. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a contract with Messrs Harrison & Sons for printing the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
4. Letter from the Treasury noting its claim on a share of any surplus remaining at the conclusion of the Antarctic Expedition.
5. Report on the acceptance of Bushy House and grounds for the National Physical Laboratory.
6. Lord Lister and Sir W. H. Broadbent appointed delegates to the British Congress on Tuberculosis.
7. Report of the Geodetic Arc Committee presented, and referred to the Society's delegates to the International Association of Academies.
8. A meeting of the Society's delegates to the International Association of Academies to be held on 1 March.
9. Soiree Committee report, fixing dates and arangements for the events.
10. Lord Lister nominated to attend the 9th jubilee celebrations at the University of Glasgow.
11. President and Council to send a congratulatory letter to Professor Franz von Leydig on his 80th birthday.
12. Conduct of the Government Grant Committee not under the terms of the Review Committee, should be examined by the Officers, forming an Executive Committe with the relevant Chairman.
13-14. Government Grant Committee to meet on 15 May, with simultaneous meetings of Boards.
15. £10 from the Donation Fund to be allocated to Professor Karl Pearson for the purchase of head-spanners for schoolchildren.
16. Professor C. Lloyd Morgan to be invited to deliver the Croonian Lecture, on visual sensation, 21 March..
17. Informal reception of Fellows to be held on 21 March.
18. Professor Armstrong's motion on the undesirability of creating a British Academy proposed. An amendement moved to call a special meeting of Fellows to hear their views, with no vote taken, agreed; meeting to be held on 9 May.
19. Re-appointment of the Earl of Rosse and Professor A. Macalister as representatives on the Government Grant Committee.
20. Portrait of Sir John Evans returned by the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.
21. Portrait of Captain George Manby received from the heirs of Madame Barrot.
22. Gift of a medallion of Adam Smith by Wedgwood from a Tassie design donated by Mr. R. H. Inglis Palgrave.
23. Treasurer reported the purchase of a typewriter at a cost of £18 10s.
24. Letter from F. W. Dyson, Royal Astronomical Society, 14 February 1901, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes; thanking the Society for the concession in reproducing papers on astronomy.
25. Leave granted to reprint papers and to copy illustrations.
26. Bills for binding, engraving and other expenses. |