| 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; Frank Watson Dyson; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Francis Gotch; Dr. Ernest William Hobson; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); 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 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. H.B. Medlicott and Professor Tacchini: Dr. Blandford and Mr. Dyson requested to write Obituary Notices.
3. Professor Tacchini's death created a fifth vacancy on the Foreign Members list: agreed that four nominations would be made.
4. Nomination of Foreign Members to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting: Ludimar Herman, Hendrik Anton Lorentz, Henri Moissan and Hugo de Vries.
5. Professor Tilden to move at the next meeting that statements of support for Foreign Membership should be printed and circulated in advance.
6. Professor Larmor's proposal and Dr. Hobson's amendment to Statute 13 voted for and passed.
7. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 18 March 1905, to [the Secretaries of the Royal Society], full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements for the future control of the Meteorological Office, the Royal Society to nominate two members to provide scientific advice, with representatives nominated by the Admiralty and others; with a draft reply from George Howard Darwin, University of Cambridge, and Arthur Schuster, University of Manchester, 14 April 1905.
8. Sir Archibald Geikie reported on a conference held at the Colonial Office on Sleeping Sickness in Uganda, with a letter sent to Mr. Lyttleton setting out measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
9. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee, allocating sums for the benefit of applicants; with an application from Mr. Fryer for a research grant, referred to the Sectional Committee on Botany.
10. Special instruction given to the Soiree Committee to take precautions against the risk of fire from exhibits.
11. Application for a grant of £1,000 towards the cost of publishing the South Polar Times: Council approved £500 guaranteed by the Joint Antarctic Finance Committee.
12. Treasurer noted correspondence between Dr. Glazebrook and Mr. Bernacchi on the latter's employment at the Natonal Physical Laboratory in reducing magnetic observations from Antarctica. With a letter, A.B. Kempe, Royal Society, Burlington House, 21 March 1905, to R.T. Glazebrook, full text entered into the minutes: on Bernacchi's claims and the unreasonable claim for £250 for six months' work in undertaking the work.
13. Letter from the Treasury on printing the Oxford portion of the International Astrographic Catalogue: HMSO authorise to proceed with no more than £1,000 coming from public funds.
14. Letter from the India Office stating that the matter of the Trigonometrical Survey of India had been referred to the Government of India.
15. Letter from the Engineering Standards Committee expressing pleasure with the National Physical Laboratory temperature experiments on field coils of electrical machinery.
16. Letter of thanks from Manuel Garcia.
17. Application of E.J. Reed for copies of Philosophical Transactions, granted.
18. List of bills for payment for paper, books and other expenses. |