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RefNoCMP/9/55
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date21 May 1908
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: Dr. Henry Frederick Baker; Arthur James Balfour; John Rose Bradford (Foreign Secretary); Sir William Crookes; 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); Charles Algernon Parsons; 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:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. List of nominations for Foreign Membership of the Royal Society: Henri Becquerel, Shibasaburo Kitasato, Silas Weir Mitchell and Robert Helmert.
3. Report of the Finance Committee on the Treasurer's account of the present condition of the Fee Reduction Fund and its insufficient capital: any new arrangement would require negotiation with the Attorney General and an application to the High Court and therefore before this course was adopted, efforts should be made to find more capital for the Fund.
4. Letter from the Chairman of the Sectional Committee for Physiology, stating that the committee would be unsuitable to investigate Glassworkers' Cataracts, suggesting that the proper bodies might be the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians: subject deferred pending further enquiries.
5. Letter from Professor Mosso drawing attention to the Royal Society's powers to nominate two workers to the Monte Rosa Laboratory and Hostel, nominations to be sought through the Physiological and other societies.
6. Report of the Government Grant Committee, listing grants recommended by Boards A-G: in granting £75 to Professor Armstrong, attention should be drawn to strict conditions in regulations; £150 to be placed in the Reserve Fund for Council and £49 voted from the Reserve Fund to meet the General Fund deficit.
7. £50 granted from the Publication Fund to Professor Nuttall to aid in the publication of his monograph on ticks.
8. Letter from the Board of Trade on the availability of rooms for the International Conference on Electric Units and a letter from Dr. Glazebrook suggesting that the Royal Society might entertain the delegates: rooms and a Reception, on 15 October, to be made available.
9. Applicatons for Mackinnon Studentships to be received no later than 10 June and two committees, physical and biological, to assess the candidates on 18 June.
10. The Ladies' Soiree to be moved to 26 June, to avoid a clash with the soiree of the Royal Academy of Arts.
11. Report and accounts of the National Physical Laboratory received and copies order to be sent to the Treasury.
12. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
13. List of bills for payment for printing and books.
Extent7p.; pp.407-413
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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