| 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: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury; Dr. Henry Frederick Baker; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Sydney John Hickson; Sir William Huggins; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; Ernest Henry Starling; Sylvanus 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 Mr. T. Andrews, Sir W. Gairdner and Professor A.S. Herschel: Mr. Stead, Professor McKendrick and Professor Turner requested to write Obituary Notices.
3. Reports of the Committees appointed to consider candidates for the Mackinnon Studentships: Mr. W.G. Duffield awarded a second year to continue his researches on the effect of pressure on arc spectra, and Dr. H.M. Woodcock awarded to work out the life history of certain haematozoa of birds.
4. The Mackinnon Studentship Committee for Biology recommended that the research of Dr. F.H. Scott was continued by an award from the Gunning Fund, approved.
5. The Joule Studentship was open for award to a British student this year: resolved that this was advertised for applicants up to 31 July and that applications should be referred to a committee for adjudication.
6. The Secretaries reported writing to Professor Armstrong on Council's resolution regarding his Government Grant: a letter of explaination had been received by the Treasurer. with vouchers for the expenditure of the grant; Council accepted these and referred them to the Givernment Grant Committee.
7. Letter from Dr. J.S. Haldane proposing the names of Mr. R. Ogier Ward and W.D. Hutchinson of the University of Oxford for posts at the Col d'Olen Monte Rosa Laboratory, accepted, and the two nominated.
8. Applications for the Publication Grant Fund: £25 for the publication of Mr. Hewitt's monograph in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, and £50 to the Scottish Meteorological Society towards the completion of Ben Nevis Observations.
9. Letter from Lord Fitzmaurice, Foreign Office, 17 June 1907, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting that the Royal Society nominate a representative to the International Sleeping Sickness Conference, called to create common policy between respective governments; a medical sub-committee requires a representative and he suggests Dr. Rose Bradford. Letter from Archibald Geikie, 18 June 1907, to Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice, full text entered into the minutes: the President agreed to the appointment of Dr. Rose Bradford, but expressed surprise that a meeting has been called in London on this subject, without the Royal Society being informed; Council resolved to approve the action of the President. Dr, Rose Bradford reported on the proceedings of the Conference, with the report and correspondence referred to the Tropical Diseases Committee.
10. Report from Professor Schuster on the General Assembly of the International Association of Academies held in Vienna.
11. The Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratrory authorised to make occasional temporary overdrafts of up to £2,500, bearing the costs of the overdrafts.
12. The Society's available rooms placed at the disposal of the International Conference on Electric Units at the end of October.
13. Letter from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Camp, Sunningdale, 2 July 1907, to President and Council of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: thanking the Society for their deputation and the text of their address.
14. List of candidates for Royal Society Medals.
15. List of omissions to meeting dates.
16. Report received from the Deputy Warden of Standards on the Society's platinum metres, the Warden requested to forward the metres to the National Physical Laboratory for comparison with their standards.
17. Officers empowered to act on behlaf of Council over the summer recess.
18. The Treasurer empowered to pay bills during recess.
19. All books belonging ot the Library to be returned by 31 July and the Library closed for cleaning in August.
20. Leave of absence granted to the Assistant Secretary.
21. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
22. List of bills for payment, for printing, engraving, house liveries (H. Keen), and for other expenses. |