| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor Judd in the chair; Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary fo the Royal Society; MR Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society; Mr Horace Darwin; Professor Milne; Professor Perry; Mr Clement Reid; Professor Schuster; and Mr Teall
1. Minutes of the previous meeting read and signed.
2. Apologies for absence form Professor George Darwin and Professor Turner
3. Resolved ' That Professor Schuster be co-opted a member of this Committee '
4. Resolutions of the Seismic Committee appointed by the International Association of Academies at its General Assembly on 10 and 11 October 1904 discussed, together with the Memorandum by Professor Schuster, Chairman of that Committee. [Resolutions listed, supporting uniformity if possible, but choice of instruments should be left to individual nations, and it is necessary that the changes to the terms of the Convention of July 1903 as they list should be introduced ]
5A. Committee emphasizes that its opinion reported to Council in minutes of 28 April last, that before Council recommends that HM Government shoudl join the International Seismic organisation, more adequate provision should be made for the proper conduct of the important earthquake work which for many years past has been carried on under the authority of the British Association - sum of £400 necessary, £100 from British Association and balnce to be secured provisionally for a period of four yers until it is seen how the arrangements of the International Seismic organisation can be carried on.
5B. Council, with provisos as in %A, be advised to recommend HM Government to intimate its willingness to take part in the International Organisation on four conditions [Listed] |