| Description | Present at the meeting; Mr Symons in the chair; Sir Frederick Evans; Mr Judd; Mr Scott; Mr Lockyer; Professor Stokes; General Strachey
1. Minute of the Council appointing the Committee was read [full resolution cut from printed minutes pasted into minutes]
2. Mr Scott repored he had applied for, and received, courteous promises of assistance from the only two merchants, Dutch and German, who have extensive merchant shipping in the region
3. Printed draft suggestions for consideration presented by Mr Symons [Copy attached]
4. A letter for communication to the 'Times' and other journals to be prepared by the Chairman
5. A temporary assistant for the Chairman was authorised at a salary not exceeding that of the Secretary to the Transit of Venus Committee |