| 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. Henry Frederick Baker; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Foreign Secretary); Sydney John Hickson; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Hugh Frank Newall; Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; William Johnson Sollas; Ernest Henry Starling; Silvanus Phillips Thompson; Augustus Desire Waller; 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. Death of C. O'Sullivan: Mr. H.T. Brown requested to write an Obituary Notice.
3. The President added his signature to a memorial to the Prime Minister, requesting the appointment of an Inspector, in accordance with the Ancient Monuments Act.
4. Treasurer reported that the Royal Society's printers had been threatened with legal action in the event of a paper passed by Council being printed in the Proceedings: the Assistant Secretary to communicate that the Society would indemnify the printers.
5. A committee created to formulate proposals for discussion at the forthcoming General Assembly of the International Association of Academies.
6. Profossor J.B. Farmer appointed Croonian Lecturer.
7. The selection of the Bakerian Lecturer postponed until the next meeting.
8. Letter from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 14 December 1906, to the Secretaries, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the inclusion of an estimate for expenditure on Eskdalemuir Observatory, the Treasury requesting information on the amount concerned and the projected occuptation of the Observatory, and agreeing to the Office of Works being responsible for the external maintenance of the site. Letter of reply, the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 24 January 1907, to the Secretary, H.M. Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: relaying estimates (present) for an annual endowment for Eskdalemuir contained in a report by the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory, and accepting responsibility for the internal site maintenance.
9. Applications to the Publications Grant Fund from the Linnean Society, for a report on Red Sea pearl fisheries, and from Mr. A.R. Wallace for publication of the scientific papers of the late Dr. Richard Spruce; further consideration to be gicen to the Linnean Society bid, £10 allocated to Mr. Wallace.
10. Invitation for the Royal Society to be represented at the Seventh International Zoological Congress in Boston, U.S.A., consideration postponed.
11. A congratulatory address to be sent to Sir Joseph Hooker on his 90th birthday, a committee formed to prepare it.
12. Letter from Professor Judd, resigning as Chairman of the Seismological Committee, no replacement to be appointed at present.
13. Letters read on taking action with other learned societies to secure favourable postal rates for publications: Council in sympathy with the movement and would support an application to the Postmaster-General.
14. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee, recommending sums to be placed for the benefit of applicants.
15. Leave granted for the examination of papers, photography of portraits and for the borrowing and copying of illustrations.
16. Bills for printing, engraving, paper and for other expenses. |