| 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: George Albert Boulenger; John Rose Bradford; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Frank Watson Dyson; Harold Bailey Dixon; Sir Michael Foster; Percy Faraday Frankland; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; Ernest William Hobson; John Wesley Judd; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Adam Sedgwick; William Napier Shaw; Captain Thomas Henry Tizard; the President, Sir William Huggins, 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. Letter from Walter S. Prideaux, Clerk of the Goldsmith's Company, Golsmiths' Hall, London, 10 March 1904, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the company wish to give a grant of £1,000 for original research into radium if the Royal Society would accept the gift and submit a research scheme; resolved to accept the gift under the President and Chair of the Radium Committee.
3. Report of the Trypanosoma Committee, noting the need for a permanent research post and the possibility of this being at the Lister Institute.
4. Report of the Soiree Committee on arrangements and dates for the May and June events.
5. Professor E.W. Brown to represent the Society at jubilee celebrations of the University of Wisconsin.
6. Letter from the Presidents of Harvard and New York Universities requesting that the Royal Society nominate a representative from a list of New York residents to serve on the management board of the Marine Biological Station in Bermuda; resolved that more detailed knowledge of the duties would be required.
7. Draft letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, 24 March 1904, to the Secretary, H.M. Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: proposing to publish the International Astrographic Chart via HMSO and funding for the project.
8. Letter from Evan MacGregor, Admiralty, 9 March 1904; enclosing a letter from MacGregor to Captain Colbeck, S.S. Morning, Lyttleton, New Zealand, full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements for re-fitting an re-supplying Discovery.
9. On the reduction and publication of the National Antarctic Expedition's meteorological observations, the Secretary of the Meteorological Office proposing a conference.
10. Letter from the Secretary of the Syndicate examining Cambridge University studies and examinations, with a reply, Archibald Geikie, Royal Society, Burlington House, 18 March 1904, to W. Durnford, King's College, Cambridge, full text entered into the minutes: Council did not think it desirable to recommend a detailed scheme in its previous letter and individual Fellows would be willing to aid the Syndicate.
11. Letter from F.G. Ogilvie, Board of Education, South Kensington, 16 March 1904, to the Assistant Secretary, the Royal Society: with a letter, Henry Petty-Fizmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, Foreign Office, 12 March 1904, to Count Metternich, full text entered into the minutes: on a plan and organisation for an International Association of Seismological Enquiry.
12. Minutes of the Publications Committee containing seven recommendations, deferred to the next meeting of Council.
13. Committee meetings to be fixed and summoned two weeks in advance.
14. Treasurer in communication with the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerning the Report on the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries, which had been referred to the Ceylon Government; the Crown Agents instructed to pay £300.
15. Bodleian Pictures Committee request for funds to restore the portrait of Bishop Sprat and his son; the reply that the Society had no funds for that purpose.
16. Applications for copies of Philosophical Transactions from Sir John Eliot and Sir William White, granted.
17. Leave granted to various individuals to borrow illustrations and books.
18. Payment of bills for publication of the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries report. |