| 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; Dr. Ernest William Hobson; John Newport Langley; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Dr. John Edward Marr; Sir William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin junior; John Perry; Dr. William Napier Shaw; William Augustus Tilden; Sir William Wharton; the Treasurer, Alfred Bray Kempe, 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 Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell and Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney; Sir Andrew Noble and Sir William Wharton to write Obituary Notices.
3. Report of the Physics and Chemistry Sectional Committee recommending Sir William Ramsay to give the Bakerian Lecture, on inert gases; Mr. Horace Brown to lecture on light if Ramsay is unavailable.
4. Report of the Physics and Chemistry Sectional Committee on the Gunning Fund, recommending that the accrued interest be spent on the measurement of solar radiation by Professor Calendar, with a supervising committee.
5. Letter from C.P. Lucas, Downing Street, 14 December 1904, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, with the direction of research being left to the Royal Society, undertaking half-yearly reports on progress; Sir Archibald Geikie reported on the Foreign Office being willing to pledge £500 to send a zoologist to Uganda, to study the fly propagating Sleeping Sickness, Professor E.A. Minchin selected for the mission, with another £500 from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
6. Report of the Tropical Diseases Committee on the northward spread of Sleeping Sickness in Uganda, suggesting a conference with the Foreign Office and Colonial Office.
7. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 5 January 1905, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: suggesting that the University of Oxford pay an annual contribution of £150 to the cost of printing the International Astrographic Catalogue, not limiting their liability in the even of cost overruns.
8. Letter from Robert Chalmers, Treasury Chambers, 4 January 1905, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the grant for the costs of staff, buildings, plant and equipment of the National Physical Laboratory; with a memorandum in response to the letter from the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory, 17 January 1905, submitted to the Treasury with a draft letter, Joseph Larmor and Archibald Geikie, 19 January 1905, to the Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
9. Letter from the Director of the National Physical Laboratory drawing attention to the systematic imitation of the Kew verification mark on clinical thermometers exported to South America by some foreign manufacturers: draft letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, to the Secretary of the Board of Trade, asking for advice on the matter.
10. £20 allocated to Mrs. Maunder for the cost of making drawings of the solar corona from photographs taken during the 1901 eclipse, from the Government Grant Reserve Fund.
11. £20 allocated to Dr. Downing for a computer to calculate the perturbation of Bielid Meteors by Jupiter and Saturn, from the Government Grant Reserve Fund.
12. A Publication Fund grant of £50 made to the Geologists' Association for publishing Dr. Rowe's paper on white chalk of the English coast.
13. A Publication Fund grant of £50 offered to the Geological Magazine towards the cost of publishing an index, with conditions.
14. A Publication Fund Grant of £150 offered to Cambridge University Press towards the cost of Dr. A.W. Campbell's memoir on cerebral function.
15. Up to £150 from the Donation Fund as a subsidy towards the publishing expenses of Sir William Crookes' album of spectra.
16. Letters from the India Office and the Lister Institute relative to plague research.
17. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to the contract with Harrison and Son for the printing of the Society's journals for the ensuing five years.
18. Letter from Sir Michael Foster announcing that the term of the Royal Society as directing academy for the International Association of Academies had now ceased and passed over to the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna.
19. Professor Schuster appointed as the Royal Society's representative on the Council of International Associations in place of Sir Michael Foster.
20. Secrtaies noted the importance of the forthcoming International Conference for the revison of plans for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
21. Professor Perry re-appointed to the Joint Scholarships Board.
22. Appointment of a committee to consider the methods and funding of the reduction of international observations of the planet Eros.
23. Request from the Secetary of the Naval Exhibition at Earl's Court for the loan of objects, the Officers empowered to act.
24. Letters on the forthcoming celebration of Manuel Garcia's 100th birthday, an address to be presented.
25. An additional grant of £60 from the Royal Geographical Society for Antarctic meteorological observations: the Treasurer reported the sale of the vessel Discovery to the Hudson's Bay Company for £10,000.
26. Pay increase for certain staff of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers.
27. Salary advances for members of Royal Society staff.
28. Treasurer called attention to the proposed revision of Statutes, these to be recirculated: notice of alterations and motions, including by Joseph Larmor.
29. Sir Archibald Geikie noted the inadequate arangements for issuing and advertising the Society's publications.
30. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee, placing sums in the hands of various persons for the benefit of applicants.
31. Leave granted to various applicants for copies of illustrations.
32. List of bills for payment, for printing, binding and purchases of books. |