Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society 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: William Bateson; William Thomas Blanford; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin; Harold Bailey Dixon; Michael Foster (Secretary); George Carey Foster; John Wesley Judd; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Henry Alexander Miers; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Thomas Henry Tizard; Herbert Hall Turner; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended. Among matters discussed or noted: 1. Upon reading the previous minutes, amendments were proposed, preventing their immediate signature. 2. Letter from E. A. Schafer, resigning from Council as a consequence of the procedure adopted at the Special Meeting. 3. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. 4. The future development of the National Physical Laboratory was considered. With a letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 30 November 1903, to the Secretary of H. M. Treasury, full text entered into the minuutes: on the expiry of the Govenment Grant to the Laboratory and notifying the Treasury of the intention to put forward constructive proposals. 30 November 1903