| 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; 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 Canon Tristram and Professor S.P. Langley: Canon Greenwell and Dr. W.E. Wilson to compose Obituary Notices.
3. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a letter of attorney to Roberts. Lubbock and Company for the sale of annuities as income for the Scientific Relief Fund.
4. Professor Larmor reported preparing an address for the Benjamin Franklin anniversary in Philadelphia, the address approved and sealed.
5. Sir Archibald Geikie appointed to represent the Royal Society at the ceremony of opening new schools for the quatercentenary of the Aberdeen University.
6. Report of the Ventilation Committee, noting that the substitution of electric lighting for gas lighting had harmed ventilation drafts and recommending the introduction of two extractor fans.
7. Letter from Richard T. Wright, University Press, Cambridge, to Joseph Larmor, St. John's College, full text entered into the minutes: making an offer on the publication of indexing for the Catalogue of Scientific Papers, referred to the Committee.
8. A committee formed to consider the mode and extent of classification to be used in the subject index of biological subjects.
9. Date of the Croonian Lecture changed to 24 May at the request of Professor Langley.
10. Notice of the meeting of Council of the International Association of Academies forwarded to Professor Schuster.
11. Mr. L. Sutton and Mr. L. Doncaster co-opted as members of the Evolution Committee.
12. Professor Lankester's notice of proposals for the new Institute of Applied Sciences at South Kensington, citing the lack of representation for zoology, botany and geology: a letter to be addressed to the President of the Board of Education, after amendments voted upon.
13. Professor Larmor noted that all publications of the Royal Society were now on sale to the public at reduced prices and that this would increase the costs of publication to the Society unless sales were increased: he gave notice to propose that arrangements with the Royal Astronomical Society to republish papers should be terminated and that the Royal Society should consider supplying journals to recognised learned societies at a reduced rate of subscription.
14. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 5 March 1906, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: noting that £10,000 would be provided by the Treasury for new buildings and equipment at the National Physical Laboratory; with a letter of reply fron the Secretaries of the Royal Society, March 1906, to H.M Treasury, expressing thanks for the additional grant of £5,000 on the amount originally suggested.
15. Letter from Harrison and Sons agreeing to proposed new terms for the sale of the Society's publications.
16. Report of the Soiree Committee fixing dates for the May and June events, with notes on the cost of refreshments and invitations at the disposal of committee members.
17. Leave granted for the reproduction of illustrations.
18. List of bills for payment, for printing, Library books, and for other expenses. |