| 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; Sir Michael Foster; 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. Reports on the deaths of Dr. G.J. Allman and Dr. A.W. Williamson; Benjamin Williamson and Dr. Divers requested to write Obituary Notices.
3. Report of the Government Grant Committee with lists of recommendations for grants from Boards A-G: £500 to be placed at Council's disposal, and the unallotted balance to be placed in the Reserve Fund, and a list of grantees not reporting on the expenditure of their grants.
4. Draft of the regulations for administering the Government Grant for Scientific Investigations with amendments considered and adopted, subject to Treasury approval.
5. Circular letter to authors of papers approved.
6. Report of the Geodetic Arc Committee on the subject of the African geodetic arc, indicating progress in Southern Africa and urging the measurement of an arc of meridian in Egypt, to be brought to the attention of the Marquess of Lanswowne, to make representations to the Earl of Cromer.
7. Application from Professor Judd for a grant of £40 from the Government Grant Reserve Fund, for seismological work conducted by Professor Milne, approved.
8. Report of the Seismology Committee considered and adopted.
9. Sir John Evans, Sir Michael Foster and Dr. Hugo Muller re-appointed to the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee.
10. Sir Arthur Rucker and Professor Milne nominated as additional delegates to the meeting of the International Association of Academies.
11. Agenda paper of the General Assembly of the International Association of Academies, Professor Schuster to vote on behalf of delegates.
12. Summary of proceedings from Commander Scott received, the question of publication left with the Presidents of the Royal and Royal Geographical Societies.
13. Note of communications with the Colonial Office, Admiralty and War Office on constituting a Commission of Enquiry on Mediterranean Fever, the Tropical Diseases Committee to draw up a scheme of enquiry.
14. Donald Arthur Smith, Baron Strathcona, recommended for election as a Fellows under Statute 13.
15. Letter from Professor Mossa noting that Dr. Mond had donated 10,000 lire to the cost of establishing a lower laboratory at Col d'Olen.
16. Extension for admission to the Fellowship granted to Mr. J.H. Holland.
17. Leave granted to Professor Halliburton to have electros from a paper in Philosophical Transactions.
18. List of bills for payment, for publication of the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries Report and for advertising weekly meetings. |