| 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 (Foreign Secretary); Francis Gotch; Dr. Sydney Frederic Harmer; 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 Treasurer, Alfred Bray Kempe, 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. Letter from the Keeper of the King's Privy Purse conveying Royal assent on the award of Royal Medals.
3. Meeting of the Finance Committee had been held and accounts approved.
4. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts, with balances on the General Purposes and Trust Fund accounts.
5. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 12 November 1906, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: no objection is offered to a full enquiry into the future development of work at the National Physical Laboratory and experience may inform some modification of the original guidelines; Murray relays some suggested terms of reference. Draft letter of reply, Secretaries of the Royal Society, 1 December 1906, to the Secretary of H.M. Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: suggesting two Fellows, Sir John Wolfe Barry and Sir Andrew Noble, to serve on the committee of investigation.
6. Draft letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 1 December 1906, to the Secretary, H.M.Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: on the annual expenditure at Eskdalemuir Observatory and the need to make provision in forthcoming estimates, giving a brief overview of the background to the removal of the magnetic observatory from Richmond Deer Park; Eskdalemuir will be ready for occupation next summer and will require working funds.
7. Letter from Ludwig Mond, 20 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, 13 November 1906, to A.B. Kempe, Treasurer, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: following Professor Larmor's letter and their meeting at the Royal Society, he offers a sum of £6,000 to the Royal Society, to be paid in three yearly instalments from 1907; Dr. Mond's offer accepted, with a special thanks from President and Council.
8. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to an indemnity to the Midland Railway Company fro a duplicate dividend warrant.
9. Draft of a statement to the Royal Commission on Vivisection, full text entered into the minutes.
10. Professor Ray Lankester moved a resolution that the Royal Society petition the Treasury to support work on the physical and biological investigation of the North Sea, by the International Bureau, for an additional five years: referred to the Sectional Committee for Zoology.
11. Letter of thanks from medallists were tabled. |