| Description | Present at the meeting ot the representatives of the Royal Society upon the Governing Bodies of the Public Schools; Professor Carey Foster in the Chair; Professor Armstrong (Christs's Hospital); Professor Bonney (Westminster); Professor Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society; Major MacMahon (Winchester); Dr Pye-Smith (Shrewsbury); Sir Arthur Rucker (Rugby)
1. Reference from Council of 11 December 1902 read - Letter of 4 December 1902 from Lord Avebury re neglect of science in schools
2. Appended letter from Professor Sherrington read
3. After discussion it was resolved that ' it is not desirable that the Council of the Royal Society should express any formal opinion as to the conditions under which degrees should be fiven at the Universities.
Agreed this resolution be embodied in the Report of the Committee to the Council and that it be referred to Professor Larmor to draft a preamble to the effect that this Committee though sympathising with the promotion of Science teaching in Schools do not consider it desirable that the Society should intervene formally in the matter.
Agreed that a conference of the representatives of the Royal Society on the Governing Bodies of Publis Schools be convened by Professor CArey Foster in the early part of next year. '
Appended - Letter by C S Sherrington, of School of Pysiology, Thompson Yates Laboratories, University College Liverpool |