| Description | Present: W A Herdman, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society in the Chair; Professor A Dendy; Mr J Hartley Durrant; Dr J S Edkins; Mr J C F Fryer; Mr E S Goodrich; Mr W B Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; Professor R Newstead
Lists committee business, including reports on Newstead and Goodrich's research, and approval of their requests for grants; a resolution to recommend that Prof Dendy be authorised to transfer the balance of the grant made to him for apparatus towards the salary of an assistant; the Chairman's statement that the Council's report had been sent to various government boards but had as yet no response; a resolution to urge the importance of a trial on air-tight storage of wheat; reports from Dendy on the vitality and rate of increase of insect pests; a report from Newstead on the work of Dr Beattie; agreement that insect samples should be 'exchanged amongst the workers for the purpose of reference'. p31-2. |