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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date30 November 1904
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: George Albert Boulenger; John Rose Bradford; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Frank Watson Dyson; Percy Faraday Frankland; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; Ernest William Hobson; John Wesley Judd; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Adam Sedgwick; William Napier Shaw; Captain Thomas Henry Tizard; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.

Among matters discussed or noted:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. Deaths of Mr. F. McClean and the Earl of Northbrook: Mr. H.F. Newall asked to write the Obituary Notice of Mr. McClean.
3. The Secretaries read the reply fowarded to the Treasury on the subject of the Meteorological Office, approved.
4. Letter from the Meteorological Office stating that the estimate for expenditure of the Meteorological Council would be prepared on the usual basis unless any communication to the contrary was made.
5. The Hughes Medal had been declined by the proposed recipient: after voting the present year's award would be to Sir Joseph Wilson Swan for work on the incandescent lamp and other inventions.
6. Letter from the Keeper of the Privy Purse expressing the King's approval of the award of Royal Medals.
7. President's nomination of Colonel David Bruce to represent the Society on the Tropical Diseases Advisory Board, in the absence abroad of Sir Michael Foster.
8. Report of the Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts.
9. Treasurer reported a donation of £1,000 equally divided between the Catalogue of Scientific Papers and the National Physical Laboratory accounts.
10. Letter from the Solicitors to the Executors of Mr. F. McClean, stating a donation of £2,000 for General Purposes.
11. Application from Dr. T.H. Laby of Sydney, New South Wales, for a grant of £150 for the purchase of apparatus to investigate the change of weight in chemical transformation: Professor Larmor noted that apparatus for a similar study by Professor Poynting could be placed at Laby's disposal at the University of Birmingham; Council accepted responsibility for expenses of up to £150, certified by Professor Poynting, to be drawn from the Reserve Fund.
12. Letter from Sir Robert Ball, applying for a grant of £50 for a reduction of observations of the asteroid Eros to obtain solar parallax and the mass of the Moon: granted from the Reserve Fund.
13. Agreement with the Treasurer not to sell stock to cover the loan of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, but to apply half of the McClean bequest for the purpose, at interest.
14. Leave granted to Mr. E.T. Dixon to borrow for copying his memoir on the Theory of Order, read to the Society last June.
Extent3p.; pp.114-116
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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