| 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; Sir Thomas Launder Brunton; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; John Bretland Farmer; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Francis Gotch; Dr. Sydney Frederic Harmer; Sir William Huggins; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Dr. John Edward Marr; George Ballard Mathews; Hugh Frank Newall; Sir William Davidson Niven; John Perry; Ernest Henry Starling; William Augustus Tilden; the President, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
[not numbered] New members of Council subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath.
1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. President announced Vice-Presidents appointed for the year.
3. List of committees appointed for the ensuing year, with membership: 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 Catalogue Committee; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee; Library Committee; Observations of Eros Committee; Observatories Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; Seismology Committee; Soiree Committee; Solar Research Committee; Tropical Diseases Committee. Sectional Committees: Mathematics Committee; Physics and Chemistry Committee; Geology Committee; Botany Committee; Zoology Committee; Physiology Committee.
4. Appointments to the General Board and Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory.
5. Selection of Croonian and Bakerian Lecturers considered and deferred.
6. Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society enclosing a resolution on the appointment of a committee on Lunar nomenclature; the Royal Society concurs with the resolution, a copy to be forwarded for the consideration of Council of the International Association of Academies.
7. Lord Lister to be invited to be the Royal Society's representative on the Court of the University of Liverpool.
8. Professors Meldola and Tilden and Dr. Ludwig Mond to represent the Society at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in Rome, 1906.
9. Attention called to the length and complexity of paper submissions to Proceedings, decisions to be taken on the correct journal in which to place them to be made by Council sitting as a Committee of Papers.
10. Sale price of Proceedings and Philosophical Transactions considered, with various pricings moved, but deferred to a subsequent meeting.
11. Treasurer reported the receipt of £500 from the Treasury, the second part of the Publication Grant.
12. Six volumes of photographs of the National Antarctic Expedition forwarded by its Joint Finance Committee.
13. Engraving of Chelsea Physic Garden presented by Mr. H.H. Batten of the City Parochial Charities.
14. Leave given to reproduce illustrations and one paper.
15. List of bills for payment for engraving and for other expenses. |