| 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: William Bateson; William Thomas Blanford; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin; Harold Bailey Dixon; Michael Foster (Secretary); George Carey Foster; John Wesley Judd; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Henry Alexander Miers; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Thomas Henry Tizard; Herbert Hall Turner; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Upon reading the previous minutes, amendments were proposed, preventing their immediate signature.
2. Letter from E. A. Schafer, resigning from Council as a consequence of the procedure adopted at the Special Meeting.
3. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts.
4. The future development of the National Physical Laboratory was considered. With a letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 30 November 1903, to the Secretary of H. M. Treasury, full text entered into the minuutes: on the expiry of the Govenment Grant to the Laboratory and notifying the Treasury of the intention to put forward constructive proposals. |