| 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; William Bateson; William Thomas Blanford; Frederick Orpen Bower; Charles Vernon Boys; William Burnside; William Watson Cheyne; George Carey Foster; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Henry Alexander Miers; James Emerson Reynolds; Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Herbert Hall Turner; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Deaths of Dr. Maxwell Simpson and Sir Richard Temple. Dr. Debus to be asked to write an obituary of Maxwell Simpson.
3. Thanks of President and Council to be given to the Prince and Princess of Wales in the opening of the National Physical Laboratory.
4. Two cases of families of scientists requiring assistance to be recommended to the Scientific Relief Committee.
5. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a transfer of stock, to a congratulatory address to Owens College Manchester, and to letters of introduction for Dr. Gadow and Dr. W. H. R. Rivers for their expeditions to Mexico and Southern India respectively.
6. Letter from A. W. FitzRoy, Privy Council Office, 19 February 1902, full text entered into the minutes: on the petition from Lord Avebury and others in the creation of the British Academy, requesting the Society's observations. The Royal Society response, also entered into the minutes: noting the consideration already given to the British Academy, that it should be an independent body separate from the Royal Society, and that the Society should not be obliged to have changes imposed on its scientific mission from outside.
7. The Senior Secretary, with Sir J. Kirk and Dr. P. Manson had met with Lord Lansdowne to discuss an outbreak of sleeping sickness in Uganda: Lord Lansdowne prepared to be favourable towards Council's recommendation for a small commission to be sent to investigate, approved.
8. Long list of names of candidates for Foreign Membership considered and names added to the Suggestions Book.
9. Applications for grants from the Publication Fund: those from Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, Dr. Willey, the Editors of Biometrika and the Linnean Society approved, others deferred until July.
10. £200 from the Government Grant to be placed at the disposal of Council, for the Malaria Committee, to aids in the expenses of the Malaria Commission.
11. Re-appointment of Sir Archibald Geikie and Dr. Buchan to the Government Grant Committee.
12. Secretaries directed to prepare an address to their Majesties on the occasion of the Coronation.
13. Letter from the Earl Marshall, noting the Society's application to be represented at the Coronation, but arrangements are not yet advanced.
14. Report of the Soiree Committee on dates and arrangements for the events in May and June. In view of the Coronation, academic and court dress should be worn at the Ladies' soiree, and possibly at the May soiree, if the King announced his intention to attend.
15. Letter from John Perry, Royal College of Science, 20 February 1902, to Sir Michael Foster, full text entered into the minutes: a response to the circular on the nomination of women, concluding 'I feel sure that, as time goes on, there will be more and more pressing need for the invention of a method to enable women to become Members of the Royal Society'.
16. The President or one of the past-Presidents to attend the three hundreth annivarsary celebrations of the Bodleian Library.
17. Letter from Sir Clements Markham to the Treasurer, on actions to be taken with regard to reports and collections being sent home from the National Antarctic Expedition, the Royal Society recommending that reports should be obtained from official bodies or persons, with suggestions in each case.
18. Treasurer reported on receiving receipts for expenses of the National Antarctic Expedition.
19. Letter from Professor H. F. Pelham requesting funds for the British School in Rome, the reply that no funds were available.
20. Lieutenant-Colonel Crompton to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory in place of J. J. Thompson.
21. Applications from Mr. C. B. Clarke and from Dr. W. J. Russell for copies of the Philosophical Transactions, granted.
22. Leave granted to reproduce papers and copy illustrations.
23. Bills for paper, for a phonograph, for engraving, and other expenses. |