| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor R V Jones in the chair; Dr R A Buchanan; Dr M P Crosland; Mr K R Gilbert; Professor N Kurti; Mr F R Maddison; Dr J Needham; Dr C E Newman; Dr J R Ravetz
Matters discussed;
1. Minutes of meeting on 25 November 1969 [Paper NH/14(69)] confirmed
2. Chairman - Sir Harold HArtley ill in hospital
3. Membership
4. Harriot Papers
5. Education
6. XIII International Congress of the History of Science, Moscow 18 - 24 Auagust 1971
7. XIV International Congress of the History of Sciences
8. Copernicus Commission
9. Expenses of IUHPS Commission and Committee members
10. Parliamentary Grant
11. 'Handbook to the collections of scientific instruments in Great Britain' - report received by Dr Mary Holbrook [ NH/8 (70)]
12. Standing Joint Committee on Scientific Manuscripts
13. International Centre for the History of Oceanography - proposed action noted
14. Second Interantional Congress on the History of Oceanogrphy; Challenger Expedition Centenary, to be held in Edinburgh 12 - 20 September 1972 noted
15. List of History of Science Theses - List prepared by Dr W H Brock for the British Society for the History of Science received; noted second list in preparation
16. University College London - re continuation of the Department of the History of Science and of the Chair.
Recommendations to Council;
Minute 3 - that the representation of the British Socierty for the History of Science on the British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology be increased from one to three
Minute 9 - that as an interim measure a sum of up to £100 per annum for each of 1970/71 and 1971/72 be made available from the Parliamentary Grant in Aid (Travel grants) for the expenses of UK members of Commissions and Committees of the Division for the History of Science, IUHPS, to be allocated by the Chairman of the British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology on the understanding that proposals be submitted to the union for it to meet these commitments from its own funds in the future.
Minute 10 - that grants from the Parliamentary Grants in Aid (libraries assistance) for research in the history of science in the Royal Society's library be made as follows;
i. £200 to professor A R HAll, Imperial College, London for the transcription of manuscripts for the work 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg' in twelve volumes, seven of which have been published.
ii. Up to £50 to Mr M A Sutton, Oxford University, for expenses in connection with his study of the manuscripts of Sir John Herschel in the Royal Society's Library. |