| 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); Harold Bailey Dixon; Frank Watson Dyson; 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. Death of Robert McLachlan, Mr. D. Sharp requested to write the Obituary Notice.
3. Report of the Soiree Sub-Committee on exhibits, noting referees of a paper for oral exposition thought the theoretical explanation unsatisfactory; the oral presentation to be replaced by an exhibit of the experiments.
4. Applications for the Mackinnon Studentships in Biology and Physics to be considered by two committees for report to the next meeting of Council.
5. Letter from A.B. Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society, 3 June 1904, to the Secretary, H.M. Treasury, with a reply from G.H. Murray, Treasury Chambers, 14 June 1904, full text entered into the minutes: on amended regulations for the administration of the Government Grant; with the full text of the new scheme arrangements entered into the minutes.
6. Report on the conference with the Treasury and the Colonial Office for the investigation of Mediterranean, or Malta Fever: the Royal Society to bear some costs, notably the expenses of scientific equipment to be taken from the Reserve Fund, not to exceed £200.
7. Letter from Professor Hales of the National Aacdemy of Sciences, requesting co-operation in Solar Physics research, with aid from the Carnegie Trust: a joint committee of the Royal Sociey and Royal Astronomical Society to be formed; Professor Turner to represent the Society in a conference relating to the scheme, to be held in St. Louis.
8. Application for a grant of £20 from the Reserve Fund from Professor Turner, for the reduction of Pogson's Madras [Chennai] observations of varaiable stars, granted.
9. Treasurer noted the receipt of £2,000, the first installment of the Government Grant.
10. Letter from Victor Cavendish, Treasury Chambers, 10 June 1904, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the Controller of the Stationary Office authorised to publish the Oxford University section of the International Astrographic Chart, costs not to exceed £2,000, with half the expenses to be covered by the University or other sources; the decision to be relayed to Professor Turner and the Clarendon Press.
11. Letter from the Russian Ambassador fowarding an invitation from the Russian Imperial Academy requesting a British delegate to attend the Fourth Congress on Aeronautics in St. Petersburg, referred to a committee for report back to Council.
12. Report by Sir Michael Foster on the meeting of the International Association of Academies, noting resolutions in subject areas, full text entered into the minutes.
13. Letter from Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society, 3 June 1904, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, full text entered into the minutes: the Society cannot advise the Government about the proposed international seismological organisation until a committee appointed by the International Association of Academies has reported.
14. Letter from Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society, 2 June 1904, to the Marquess of Lansdowne, full text entered into the minutes: on the desirability of continuing the work of the African geodetic arc in Egypt. With a second letter, Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society, 14 June 1904, to the Secretary, the Board of Education, South Kensington, full text entered into the minutes: on the Society's inability to advise the Government about the proposed international seismological organisation at present.
15. Letter from J. Lair, 8 Rue Bossuet, Paris, 9 June 1904, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: in thanks for the reception of the International Congress of Academies.
16. Letter from Mrs. C.P. Sladen, asking if the Royal Society would nominate a Trustee to a deed of Walter Percy Sladen, for promoting scientific objects.
17. Letter from Dr. Glazebrook inviting the Society to support a scheme to promote an optical convention by nominating a representative, Dr. W.N. Shaw appointed.
18. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: lists of candidates proposed and seconded for the Copley, Royal, Darwin, Rumford, Davy Sylvester and Hughes Medals.
19. Treasurer presented a draft amendment to Statutes, ordered to be circulated.
20. Invitation to the International Zoological Congress, Berne, tabled.
21. Omission of certain meetings for the forthcoming year.
22. Letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty, 10 June 1904, to the President of the Royal and Royal Geographical Societies, full text entered into the minutes: noting the departure of the vessels Discovery and Morning for England.
23. Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society stating satisfaction at the arrangements for publication of the meteorological observations of the National Antarctic Expedition.
24. Extension of time for admission to the Fellowship granted to Major S.G. Burrard and Mr. Gilbert Walker.
25. Leave granted to the Editor of the Chemical News to reproduce illustrations from a paper by Sir William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy.
26. List of bills for payment for printing, engraving and soirees. |