| 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; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Frank Watson Dyson; Percy Faraday Frankland; 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; Adam Sedgwick; Dr. William Napier Shaw; William Augustus Tilden; 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 Sir Charles Wilson and Captain Hutton: Dr. A. Macalister and Professor Alfred Newton requested to write Obituary Notices; Mr. W.H. Kirkby requested to write an obituary of Mr. G.B. Buckton.
3. Report by the Chairman of Government Grant Board F on an application by Professor W.A. Haswell for funding to dredge in the Tasman Sea: a grant of £125 authorised from the Reserve Fund of the Government Grant.
4. List of President, Officers and Members of Council recommended to serve during the following year.
5. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: Copley Medal awarded to Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff for contributions to chemical and physical sciences; Royal Medals awarded to Professor John Henry Poynting and to Professor Charles Scott Sherrington; the Davy Medal awarded to Professor Albert Ladenburg; the Hughes Medals awarded to Professor Augusto Righi; the Assitant Secretary to communicate these to the public press after assent for the Royal Medals.
6. Appointment of auditors for the Treasurer's accounts.
7. Draft of revised Statutes considered and accepted, with the repeal of previous Statutes and revisions to Standing Orders required by those changes.
8. Letters on the publication and finances of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, full text of each entered into the minutes. Two letters from Henry Forster Morley, 34 & 35 Southampton Street, Strand, London, 1 November 1905, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society: letter from Harrison & Sons, 11 July 1905, to Dr. Henry Forster Morley, 34-35 Southampton Street, Strand; resolved that the Treasurer be empowered to renew the printing contract with Harrison & Sons and that he should make an advance of £1,000 for publishing, selling stock worth a further £1,000 if required.
9. Professor Larmor and Dr. Mond expressed a desire to retire from the Executive Committee of the International Catalogue; Professor H. McLeod and Dr. P.C. Mitchell nominated.
10. Report of Council to the Fellowship approved, with amendments and additions.
11. On matters referred by Government to the Royal Society, the Treasurer authorised to draw up to £300 annually from the Reserve Fund of the Government Grant.
12. Report of the Seismology Committee, including a letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 8 August 1905, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the report recommending that the Royal Society advise H.M. Government on taking part in the proposed International Seismological Organsation and recommending favourable consideration of a grant request by Professor Milne.
13. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 30 October 1905, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: on the Office of Works request for excess spending on buildings at the Eskdalemuir Observatory and a request to vest the buildings with the Royal Society, with responsibility for their upkeep; the matter to be referred to the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory.
14. Report of the Soiree Committee on arrangements for the Anniversary Dinner, approved.
15. Letter from the Secretary of the Society for Chemical Industries, asking of the Royal Society concurs with an invitation to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry to meet in London in 1909, resolved that the Society did concur.
16. On Professor Larmor's recommendation, the index slips inserted into Proceedings and Philosophical Transactions to be discontinued.
17. Treasurer authorised to sell a plot of land at Mablethorpe, following an application by Mr. Lee.
18. Report of the Chairman of Government Grant Board C on reports furnished by Professor Armstrong, the Treasurer requested to communicate with Armstrong. |