| 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; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Frank Watson Dyson; Harold Bailey Dixon; Percy Faraday Frankland; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Sir Robert Giffen; 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. Death of Sir C. Le Neve Foster reported, Professor Judd requested to write the Obituary Notice.
3. Treasurer reported the receipt of £1,000 from the Goldsmith's Company for radium research, a small committee formed to administer the grant.
4. Recommendations of the Publications Committee considered and voted upon, with consideration of two recommendations deferred.
5. List of delegates nominated to the General Assembly of the International Association of Academies, with a list of categories of guests for the associated dinner.
6. Seal of the Society affixed to a congratulatory address to the University of Wisconsin.
7. Report of the Seismology Committee presented and deferred.
8. Letter from Victor W. Cavendish, Treasury Chambers, 21 March 1904, to the Royal Society, with a draft reply, 28 April, full text entered into the minutes: on the future work and funding of the National Physical Laboratory at Bushy House.
9. Report of the Antarctic Observations Committee on the reduction of meteorological observations, recommending that the Meteorological Council undertake the reductions, which could be completed for £500 and the Hydrographic Department would view favourably publication by HMSO: this to be communicated to the Royal Geographical Society.
10. Sir Archibald Geikie reported attending a meeting convened by the British Association on increasing the endowment of universities by the State.
11. Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society, 4 May 1904, to the President of Harvard University and the Chancellor of New York University, full text entered into the minutes: nominating names to serve on the management board of the Bermuda Marine Biological Station.
12. Invitation to co-operate with the Fifth International Electrical Congress to be held at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis.
13. Letter from Evan MacGregor, Admiralty, 27 April 1904, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the expedition proposed by Stanley Gardiner appears to be too ambitious and would require a specially fitted-out vessel, but the Admiralty would allow for one H.M. surveying vessel to cruise for eight months accompanied by two naturalists, so long as all extra gear was provided and there were no extra expenses to the Admiralty; this offer to be accepted, if Stanley Gardiner consented.
14. Draft circular to Fellows on submissions of papers, full text entered into the minutes, the subject deferred.
15. Reply of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe to the Society's letter of congratulation on the jubilee anniversary of his doctorate.
16. Telegrams relating to the arrival of the vessels Discovery, Morning and Terranova in New Zealand, 1-5 April 1904, full text entered into the minutes.
17. Letter from C.P. Lucas, Downing Street, 30 March 1904, to the Treasurer, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the Governor of Ceylon agreed to cover the publication costs of the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries Report, so long as they do not exceed £500 and the Society should refund the proceeds of sales, with 100 copies to be forwarded to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
18. Letter from the Admiralty authorising the use of H.M.S. Seahorse for meteorological experiments with kites.
19. Leave granted for the reproduction of illustrations.
20 List of bills for payments for books, lighting, engraving and other expenses.
21. List of candidates for election to the Fellowship under Statute 13. |