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  <dc:title>Minutes of a meeting of the Yarrow Fund Management Committee</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Present at the meeting:  Sir Richard Glazebrook in the chair;  Sir William Bragg;  Professor H C H Carpenter;  Professor W E Dalby;  Mr J H Jeans;  Professor H Lamb;  Sir David Prain;  Sir Robet Robertson;  Sir Alfred Yarrow

Mattes discussed;
1.   Read and signed minutes of the previous meeting

2.   Mr Jeans reportred receipt fo a letter from Professor Niels Bohr declining the Committee's invitation to submit his name as a candidate for a Yarrow Professorship

3.   Discussion of inadequacy of Regulation No. 5 regarding part time appointments, and agreed desirable to amend it ' so as to provide that a Professor should be unable to accept any new appointment without the knowledge and consent of Council. '

4.   After submission of list of candidates and discussion, agreed to recommend to Council that Professorships be awarded to Professor A Fowler and Mr G I Taylor, subject to relevant regulations, and to 'satisfactory arrangements being made with regard to carrying out research at a place to be approved by the President and Council of the Royal Society as provided by Regulation 3. '
5.   Agreed the following grant applications;
5.1   C N Kemp - refer applicant to Fuel Research Board
5.2   Professor H E Armstrong - refer applicant to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
5.3   C G Schoneboom - refer applicant to Medical Research Council

5.   Chairman on behalf of Committee expressed to Sir Alfred Yarrow  ' their appreciation of his generosity which had enabled them to promote the advance of Science by the action taken at the Meeting. '</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 October 1923</dc:date>
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