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RefNoCMP/9/46
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date24 October 1907
DescriptionPrinted 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); Hugh Frank Newall; Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; William Johnson Sollas; 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. On the recomendation of the Committee of Papers, £260 voted from the Donation Fund to meet the cost of papers in Philosophical Tramsactions for 1906.
3. Deaths of Sir W. Broadbent, Professor Dupree, the Reverend Dr. Kerr, Sir W. Perkin and Professor Stewart: Dr. Hughlings Jackson, Dr. Thorpe, Professor A. Gray, Professor Meldola and Mr. Beddard requested to write Obituary Notices.
4. Report of the Tropical Diseases Committee, approving of the creation of a Permanent Central Bureau in London, to which the Royal Society should afford assistance.
5. Letter from the Foreign Office forwarding proceedings of the International Conference on Sleeping Sickness: the Royal Society agreed to nominate a representative to the proposed Permanent Central Bureau once it was constituted, and would consider the request for office accomodations and secretarial support.
6. Application in the name of the Royal Society had been made to the Board of Trade for Trade Marks for the National Physical Laboratory: the Board had asked for further partciculars and the application was still under consideration.
7. List of applicants for Publication Grant support, deferred until the next meeting.
8. Consideraion of new members of Council, with a list of members of Council retiring at the Anniversary Meeting: proposals deferred until the next meeting.
9. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: new proposals for the Buchanan and Royal Medals, decisions on the awards deferred until the next meeting.
10. The President informed Coucnil that at the request of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, an advisory committee had been formed to assist in nominations for two professorships.
11. Treasurer reported the receipt from the Treasury of £3,000 for salaries and expenses at the Natonal Physical Laboratory, £750 as grant-in-aid for salaries and expenses of the Magnetic Observatory at Eskdalemuir, £2,000 of the Government Grant for Scientific Investigation and £500 for the Publication Grant.
12. Confirmation of the nomination of Mr. T.H. Laby to the Joule Studentship for research 'On condensation in non-aqueous vapour'.
13. Letter from the Board of Trade confirming that the International Conference on Electric Units had been postponed until the end of 1908.
14. Letter from H.M. Treasury reporting the appointment of Professor Arthur Schuster as the U.K. representative to the Permanent Commission of the International Seismic Association: Professor Milne had declined to be appointed and the Treasury had been informed that the Royal Society did not propose a second delegate.
15. Dates for Council Meetings in the session 1907-1908.
16. A draft of the Annual Report of Council to the Fellowship was tabled and ordered to be circulated to Council Members.
17. Extension of time for admission to the Fellowship granted to Professor Benham and Professor Bragg.
18. Leave granted for copies of illustrations and reprinting of papers.
19. List of bills for payment for printing, paper, engraving and books.
Extent5p.; pp.360-364
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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