| 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; George Carey Foster; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Sir John Eldon Gorst; 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. Letter from Professor Armstrong relating to the duties of the Sectional Committee was considered. Motion by Armstrong on the preliminary selection of candidates for election to the Fellowship by Sectional Committees, amended by Professor W. M. Hicks, voted upon and carried.
3. Time of election of Fellows to be deferred, until Professor Armstrong's scheme is discussed.
4. Further action on amended statutes relating to privileged candidates deferred until next Council meeting.
5. Revison of the instructions on the back of candidates' certificates, full text entered into the minutes.
6. Foreign Secretary gave notice that he would, at the next meeting, move to impose a limit on the number of times a certificate might be suspended.
7. Application from Professor J. R. Bradford for a further grant to defray the costs of Tsetse Fly investigations and for preliminary work on the virus of Horse Sickness. £100 from the reserve fund of the Government Grant to be allocated to the Tsetse Fly Committee and Malaria Committee to continue reseraches.
8. Thirty tickets for the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's had been received: President and Council happy to attend if seats were reserved.
9. Consideration of Foreign Member elections deferred.
10. Adjudication of Royal Society medals, with lists of names of candidates for each award.
11. Report of the Calandruccio Committee, full text entered into the minutes. Extended discussion of the award of the Darwin Medal to Professor Grassi in 1896 and Calandruccio's subsequent protest. It concludes that no communication with Professor Grassi is necessary, but that a letter should be sent to Calandruccio, recognising the fact of his collaboration with Grassi on Leptocephali research, but not reconsidering the Darwin Medal award.
12. Officers noted their attendance at a meeting to formulate instructions to Commander Scott of the Antarctic Expedition: these were drafted to be signed by the President and despatched on the relief ship Morning.
13. All natural history specimens from the Antarctic Expedition to be sent to the British Museum (Natural History).
14. Letter from Richard Chapman enclosing a doctor's certificate stating that he was unfit to travel from New Zealand and resigning his post: a gratuity of £250 voted for his long service to the Royal Society.
15. Letter from the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, requesting the Society's help in ensuring good attendance from England, referred to a small committee.
16. Receipt of a report on the scientific work of the German South Polar Expedition.
17. Omissions of meetings, with dates of Council meetings for 1902-1903.
18. Application of the Rev. Robert Harley for copies of Philosophical Transactions, granted.
19. Leter of receipt from the Clerk of the Privy Council for the copy of the resolution relating to the British Academy.
20. Letters of acceptance from proposed delegates to the Niels Henrik Abel centenary commemoration, Professor Mittag-Leffler added to the list.
21. Leave granted for reproduction of illustrations, including to A. R. Wallace.
22. Scheme of decoration of Burlington House for the Coronation agreed between the learned societies, Royal Society to contribute £15.
23. Bills for binding, books, Hughes Medal dies and other expenses.
24. Next meeting of Council to be held on 11 July. |