| 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:
1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. List of candidates for Fellowship recommended for election at the annual meeting, the Assistant Secretary authorised to communicate the list to the public press.
3. Authors' copies of papers to be limited to 100 on the motion of Professor Larmor, except in special cases.
4. Letters from Horace Walpole, India Office, Whitehall, 7 February 1906 and 20 February 1906, to the Secretaries, the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: on the terms and conditions of the appointment of a Director for an Indian Institute of Science supported by the late J.N. Tata, for which the Royal Society's assistance is sought in selecting a candidate; and noting that the Royal Society was not debarred from approaching individuals that they might wish to select, the final appointment being subject to the approval of the Secertary of State. A committee formed to select a Director and report to Council.
5. Moved that a Chairman for the Committee be selected, voted upon, but not carried.
6. Sir Archibald Geikie requested to act as co-ordinator of the scientific publications of the National Antarctic Committee, to ensure uniformity.
7. Professor Lankester gave notice that he intended to draw Council's attention to arrangements for the new Institute of Applied Science at South Kensington.
8. Payment ordered on a bill for engraving. |