| 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: Dr. Shelford Bidwell; George Albert Boulenger; Colonel David Bruce; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Frank Watson Dyson; Percy Faraday Frankland; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Francis Gotch; Ernest William Hobson; John Newport Langley; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Dr. John Edward Marr; Sir William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin junior; John Perry; Adam Sedgwick; Dr. William Napier Shaw; William Augustus Tilden; Sir William Wharton; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. New members of Council subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath.
2. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
3. Expression of loss on the death of Mr. Frank McClean.
4. Appointment of Vice-Presidents.
5. List of committees appointed for the year, with commitee members: Antarctic Magnetic Observations Committee; Antarctic Meteorological Observations Committee; Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee; Challenger Reports Committee; Evolution Committee; Finance Committee; Government Grant Review Committee; Indian Government Advisory Committee; International Association of Academies Committee; Joint Antarctic Committee; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee; Library Committee; Observatories Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; Seismology Committee; Soiree Committee; Tropical Diseases Committee. Sectional Committees: Mathematics Committee; Physics and Chemistry Committee; Geology Committee; Botany Committee; Zoology Committee; Physiology Committee.
6. List of Government Grant Boards, with Board members, Boards A-G.
7. Appointment of members of the Governing Board of the National Physical Laboratory.
8. Report of the Officers on steps taken on the future printing of Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings: tenders received from seven printers, Harrison and Sons re-appointed, with negotiations on a new contract to take place.
9. Selection of the Croonian Lecturer referred to the Sectional Committees on Physiology, Botany and Zoology.
10. Selection of the Bakerian Lecturer referred to the Sectional Committee on Physics and Chemistry.
11. Report of the Tropical Diseases Committee read, with letters. Two letter from C.P. Lucas, Downing Street, 5 November and 17 November 1904, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: formation of a Tropical Diseases Research Fund and an Advisory Board; less than £1,000 would be available this year for research topics germane to India and to British possessions in the tropics. With an enclosed scheme by Patrick Manson to fund positions at the London School of Tropical Medicine, the Society approving of a permanent research professorship.
12. Offer of the Hebdomadal Council of Oxford University to contribute half of the costs of printing the Oxford portion of the International Astrographic Chart in £100 instalments. 13. Letter from H.H. Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, 21 November 1904, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: reporting on the Solar Conference in St. Louis with an invitation to the Royal Society to form a standing committee on solar research, appointing a representative to an International Committee; the Solar Research Committee to be constituted as a standing committee and Professor Schuster to represent the Royal Society on the proposed international committee.
14. Report of the Seismic Committee of the International Association of Academies referred to the Seismology Committee.
15. Letter of congratulation sent to the University of Glasgow on installing Lord Kelvin as Chancellor.
16. Application from the daughters of a deceased Fellow for the Society's seal to be affixed to an application for a Civil List pension referred to the Scientific Relief Committee.
17. Report of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, noting steps to be taken in advance of the eclipse of 30 August 1905.
18. List of bills for payment for engraving and accountants' fee. |