| 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; 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; 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:
1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. Deaths of Professor C.J. Joly, Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff and Dr. Sprengel: John Joly to write an Obituary Notice of C.J. Joly, Professor Silvanus Thompson to write an obituary of Sprengel.
3. Sir Hugh Bell and Thomas Tyrer appointed members of the General Board of the National Physical Laboratory; Mr. D. Howard appointed to the Executive Committee.
4. Professor Gotch to replace Lord Lister as representative to the Court of Liverpool University, in view of Lord Lister's ill-health.
5. Solicitor's agents drew attention to the property at Wharton Road where the Society owned ground rents; the Society would not dispose of these at present.
6. Professor John Milne to be invited to give the Bakerian Lecture, on seismology, with Professor J.N. Langley invited to give the Croonian Lecture.
7. Terms and conditions for the sale of the Society's publications, Professor Larmor giving notice of a discussion at the next meeting on the accumulation of stock, proposing to dispose of this.
8. Application for Publication Grant support from the Natural History Society of Northumberland, referred to the Zoology Sectional Committee; application from Sir Charles Eliot declined.
9. Letter from the Director of the British Museum (Natural History) requesting support to prepare for the publication of reports on the natural history collections from the National Antarctic Expedition, a sum of not more than £250 authorized.
10. Report of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee on observations of the 30 August 1905 eclipse: Captain Mostyn Field appointed to the Committee in place of Sir William Wharton; the Royal Society to review the arrangements for eclipse expeditions and reporting, and invites suggestions from the Committee.
11. Letter from Professor Schuster with requests for the International Association of Academies from the International Union for co-operation in Solar Research; these to be forwarded to the Association.
12. Letter of thanks from Herbert Rix for the donation voted to him.
13. Professor Dunstan added to the list of delegates to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry.
14. List of Government Grant Boards, with membership, Boards A-G.
15. Sir William Niven appointed to the Sectional Committee on Mathematics in place of C.J. Joly.
16. The final Annual Report of the Meteorological Council, with a history of its operation by Dr. Shaw tabled, and ordered to be forwarded to H.M. Treasury.
17. Letter of thanks from the Naval, Shipping, and Fisheries Exhibition for the loan of objects.
18. Photographs of stellar spectra by Frank McClean presented by Mrs. McClean.
19. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 13 December 1905, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: noting that a sum of £250 has been set aside for participation in the International Seismic Association, including for Professor Schuster's expenses.
20. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
21. List of bills for payment, for printing, binding, engraving and for other expenses. |