| 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; Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; David Ferrier; Sydney John Hickson; Sir William Huggins; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); 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. Deaths of Sir Benjamin Baker, Dr. Buchan, Sir Joseph Fayrer, and Dr. W.H. Ransom: Professor W.C. Unwin, Dr. W.N. Shaw Sir Launder Brunton and Dr. Gamgee to write Obituary Notices.
3. No action to be taken on the Council vacancy occasioned by the death of Sir Benjamin Baker.
4. Candidates for five vacancies in Foreign Membership to be filled: four candidates nominated, Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov, Edward Charles Pickering, Magnus Gustav Retzius and Augusto Righi, agreed by two-thirds majority to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting; no further nominations to be made this Council session.
5. Letter from Robert L. Morant, Whitehall, 8 May 1907, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: enclosing a draft copy of the charter of incorporation for the new Institution of Science and Technology at South Kensington, and inviting one representative of the Royal Society to sit on the Board: Sir Archibald Geikie nominated.
6. Letter from Professor A. Mossa, calling attention to the Society's right to nominate two workers to posts at the Monte Rosa Laboratory and Hostel, and inviting the Society to be represented at the opening ceremony, referred to the Sectional Committee for Physiology.
7. Professor Farmer nominated to the Committee of the Lawes Agricultural Trust, in place of the late Sir Michael Foster.
8. Professor Seward to represent the Royal Society at the celebrations of hte 300th anniversary of the death of Aldrovandi in Bologna.
9. Draft address on the 90th birthday of Sir Joseph Hooker, full text entered into the minutes: approved for sealing at the next Council meeting.
10. Letter from Lord Lister, 12 Park Crescent, 10 May 1907, to Lord Rayleigh, full text entered into the minutes: in thanks for many birthday congratulations letters.
11. Report of the Government Grant Committee, with lists of grants awarded by Boards A-F: £500 to be placed in the Council Reserve Fund of the Government Grant and £34 voted to meet the deficit in the General Fund, from the Reserve.
12. Resolution of Board C of the Government Grant Committee, referring to Professor Armstrong's responsibility for an unexpended £100, with no report being received on progress in his research, the subject of previous minutes: the Treasurer to speak with Professor Armstrong at the earliest opportunity.
13. Letter from the Foreign Office, enquiring of the Royal Society wished to be represented at a proposed Congress to be held in Brussels for the creation of an International Polar Commission: the Foreign Office to be informed that the Society did not wish to take part.
14. Letter from Professor Milne enclosing correspondence on the provision of a daily time signal from Greenwich to Milne's Seismic Laboratory at Shide. Draft letter, Joseph Larmor, Secretary, the Royal Society, 30 May 1907, to Professor H.H. Turner, advising on alternative, less expensive provisions, via the Royal Society Seismic Committee and the Government Grant.
15. Application to be made to the Board of Trade on behalf of the National Physical Laboratory, to register Trade Marks for instruments and goods tested by the Laboratory.
16. Treasurer drew attention to the Workmen's Compensation Act coming into force on 1 July, and was requested to make enquiries on necassary insurance provision for the Society.
17. Lease and assignments of the Westwood Estate to be sent to the Director of the Meteorological Office.
18. Extension of time for admission into the Fellowship granted to Professor G. Elliot Smith and Professor F.D. Adams.
19. Leave granted to the International Council for the Investigation of the North Sea to use the Society's rooms for committee meetings.
20. Leave granted to Dr. F.E. Fritsch for the return of the illustration for his paper on Julianiaceae, held in the archives.
21. Dr. A.D. Waller nominated to represent the Royal Society at the Federal Conference on Education held by the League of Empire in place of Sir Henry Roscoe, who was unable to attend.
22. Treasurer reported the receipt of £2,000 from the Treasury, the first part of the Government Grant for 1907-1908, with £500 for the Publications Grant.
23. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
24. List of bills for payment, for printing and for other expenses. |