| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor E D Adrian in the chair; Sir Lawrence Bragg; Professor H J Fleure; Professor H Munro Fox; Professor C N Hinshelwood; Sir Harold Spencer Jones; Professor H D Kay; Sir Thomas Merton; Professor H H Plaskett; Professor J Proudman; Sir Richard Southwell; Dr H G Thornton; Professor J Z Young
1. Confirmed minutes of meeting of 30 January 1948
2. Matters arising from the minutes;
2a. Grant to A E Alexander - increased to £20
2b. Application from Mrs Holt and Dr Owen - application from Dr Owen withdrawn, and ' several other applictions to the Genetical Congress received. It was agreed to deal with these when considering the list of applications later in the meeting.'
2c. Grant to Professor A C Frazer - applications supported by Faraday Society, therefore resolved that ' it be a recommendation that a grant of £30 from the Yarrow Fund be made to Professor Frazer towards the cost of travelling expenses and subsistence in connexion with attendance at he joint meeting of the Faraday Society and the Societe de Chimie Physique held in Bordeaux in October 1947. '
2d. Application from Professor R G W Norrish - Ministry of Supply did not propose to assist him in the expenses of his visit to the USA, but it was possible that his expenses in America would be defrayed by the United States. Discussion deferred to later i the meeting
2e. Application from Dr T Godey - his application withdrawn as he had been appointed a British delegate to attend the International Congress of Zoology
3. General Polilcy of the Committee - to seek a directive from the Council on the use of the Scientific Congresses Grant in aid and the Yarrow Fund
4. Applications for 37 travelling grants - Resolved
(a) that applications received after 31 March 1948 should not be considerd at this meeting ;
(b) that grants from the Yarrow Fund be recommended to A W Bishop, £25 for 2nd conference on Soil Mechanics; F P Bowden, £120 for USA; H Munro Fox, £23 for Italy; A G Gaydon, £145 for Flame Comnbustion, and USA; H S Green, £21 for Holland; H Gruneberg, £50 Genetics Conference and Stockholm; H Harris, £50 Genetics Congress; D C Hodgkin, £50 Crystallography Union and USA; V C Martin, £50 Genetics Congress; P B Medawar, £20 Holland; H W Melvill, £120 Flame Combustion Symposium, and USA; G I Minkoff, £ 145 for Flame Combustions Symposium and USA; J W Mitchell, £22 for Gottingen/Liege; H M Powell, £60 for Crystallography Union and USA; E G Pringsheim, £35 for Sitzerland; G Seligman, £40 for Norway; F E Simon, £75 for Foreign Guests of Physical Society meeting at Oxford, 1948; T S Westoll, £25 for Paris; P L Willmore, £32 for Copenhagen; W D Wright, £25 for Paris; R G W Norrish, £120 for Flame Combustions Symposium
(c) that Miss Cartwrigth be informed of the Committee's support of her application for the necessary dollars to enable her to undertake her lecture tour in the USA
(d) that it be a recommendation that a grant of £100 be made through the Chairman of the National Commttee for Biology for allocation in consultation with the Genetical Society to individual geneticists attending the forthcoming International Congress of Genetics to be held in Stockholm, but that this action should not establish a precedent.
(e) that Professor Simon be asked to insure that there was no overlap between the Royal Society and British Council assistance to the guests of the Physical Society at their Oxford meeting
(f) that it be a recommendation to Council that Professor G R de Beer be appointed a delegate to the 10th International Congress of Limnology to be held at Zurich from 18 to 25 August 1948, in place of Captain W N McClean who was unable to go, and that the grant of £46 already allocated to the delegate be used to meet his expenses.
(g) Applications declined - M J Bird; E M Darmady; H Spurway Haldane; S Holt; W B Kadri; H Kalmus; A L Kiow; S D Lawlor; R Milani; U Mittwoch; N F Mott; C A B Smith; A C E Suloy
5. Date of next meeting to be in January 1949 to consider applications received by 31 December 1948
Summary of recommendations to Council
1. General Policy - that a directive be given of this Committee and the National Committees in recommending payment of expenses of scientists attending international congresses
2. Grants - £1373 from Yarrow Fund
3. that Professor de Beer be appointed delegate to the Internatinal Congress of Limnology in place of Captain McClean and that the grant of £46 already allocated by used for his bnefit. |