| 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 Rose Bradford (Foreign Secretary); Sir William Crookes; Francis Darwin; Sir George Darwin; James Cossar Ewart; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Charles Thomas Heycock; Sydney John Hickson; John Joly; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; Frederick Thomas Trouton; Augustus Desire Waller; William Whitaker; the President, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
New Members of Council subscribed to the Declaration in lieu of the oath.
1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. Appointment of Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year.
3. Death of Sir Leopold McClintock: Sir Clements Markham requested to write an Obituary Notice.
4. Appointment of committees for the following year, with lists of members: Antarctic Magnetic Observations Committee; Antarctic Meteorological Observations Committee; Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee; Challenger Reports Committee; Evolution Committee; Finance Committee; Indian Government Advisory Committee; International Catalogue Committee; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee; Library Committee; Observations of Eros Committee; Observatories Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; Seismology Committee; Soiree Committee; Solar Research Committee; Tropical Diseases Committee. Appointment of Sectional Committees with lists of members: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology and Physiology.
5. Appointment of Government Grant Boards with lists of members: Boards A-G.
6. Nominatons to the the General Board and Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory.
7. Selection of the Croonian Lecturer referred to the Sectional Committees for Botany, Physiology, and Zoology.
8. Selection of the Bakerian Lecurer deferred, the Sectional Committee for Physics and Chemistry to be consulted.
9. A grant of £100 awarded to Dr. Gamgee, from the Wolfe donation.
10. Letter from Arthur Schuster, Victoria Park, Manchester, 29 October 1907, to Sir George Herbert Murray, H.M. Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: report on his attendance at the meeting of the International Seismic Association.
11. Letter from Professor Schuster asking if the Royal Society would support the Societe Helvetique des Sciences Naturelle to be admitted to the International Association of Academies: Council would be willing if it can be ascertained that this was the National Academy of Sciences for Switzerland.
12. The Central Bureau for the Study of Sleeping Sickness was being established: the Foreign Office was informed that John Rose Bradford would represent the Royal Society on the Central Bureau, and that a committee room would be available to the Bureau, with a member of staff to take minutes and issue notices.
13. Letter from A. Godley, India Office, Whitehall, London, 9 November 1907, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: the Government of India wish that the joint committee for the invesigation of plague in India instituted in 1904 should continue, and suggests Sir A.E. Wright and Major G. Lamb as additional members: the India Office to be informed that although the current committe is judged adequate, no objection is raised.
14. Report from the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature on proceedings of the International Council, with text of a suggested notice for the publication, approved.
15. Letter from Mr. A.F. Sieveking requesting permission to publish manuscripts by John Evelyn, granted.
16. Leave granted to Dr. Bashford for reprinting of papers.
17. List of bills for payment, for engraving and paper. |