Council Agendas and Papers for a Council meeting on 15 June 1961 Agenda: 1) Minutes 2) Death of William Thomas Astbury 3) Arising from previous minutes a) USSR exchange agreement b) Delegation from Academia Sinica Peking to the UK c) USSR exchange agreement d) Invitation from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences e) Membership of Advisory Council on Scientific Policy f) Candidates for the Fellowship g) Preparation of memo of the Royal Society's views for the Robbins Committee on Higher Education h) Discussions on details of the procedure of the Henry Dale Research Professorship i) Nominations for Royal Society Visiting Professorship j) Scientific Research in Antarctica 4) Names for medals (Copley, Royal A and B, Davy, Sylvester, Hughes) 5) Fix dates of meetings in 1962 6) Applications for apparatus and staffing for Wolfson Research Professor (Dorothy Hodgkin) 7) Royal Society of South Africa letter about difficulties of attracting scientists for S. African universities 8) Invitation to Rutherford Jubilee International Conference 9) Nomination of representatives to Committee of the British Empire Cancer Campaign 10) Reports of Committees and Boards i) Government Grant Boards ii) Biological Expeditions Committee iii) Browne Research Fund Committee iv) Library Committee v) Mathematical Tables Committee vi) Soiree Committee vii) Paul Instrument Fund Committee viii) Scientific Research in Schools Committee ix) National Committee for Chemistry x) National Committee for Physiological Sciences 11) Items of agenda drawn up in the form of minutes a) Excess in funds given to International Crystallographic Congress b) Subsistence funding for Royal Society Visiting Professor c) Royal Society delegate to Pacific Science Congress d) USSR Exchange Agreement e) Royal Society delegate to Biological Sciences International Union Assembly f) Travelling expenses g) Contribution to Thomas Willis memorial h) Jaffe studentship (Dr MJ Wheelan) i) National Committee for Space Research 12) Bills for payment 13) Loan request of portrait of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins by Meredith Frampton for exhibition at Kildare House 15 June 1961