| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor E D Adreean in the chair; Sir Edward Bailey; Professor G R de Beer; Professor H J Fleure; Professor H m Fox; Sir Harold Spencer Jones; Sir Thomas Merton; Professor N F Mott; Professor R A Peters; Professor J Proudman; Sir Edward Salisbury; Dr H C Thornton
1. Terms of reference , as listed in the resolution of Council at a meeting on 6 March 1947, read.
2. Classification of Eligible Categories of Applications - memorandum presented by the Treasurer on the funds available (Appendix A) and agreed the applications should be applicable in five categories {listed in minutes]
3. Consideration of applications - Resolved that of the 21 applications, it be recommended to Council;
3a. That grants from the Scientific Congresses Grant-in-aid be given to Professor P A Buxton £10 for travelling expenses to Holland; Mr R P Bell, £39.3.0d for travelling expenses and subsistence in Sweden and Denmark; Professor J W Macleod, £35 for travelling expenses and subsistence in Denmark; Professor F J M Stratton, £54 for subsistence of 6 delegates to the Executive Committee of the International Council of Scientific Union in Paris for 4 days; Miss P Barclay-Smith, £40.18.0d for travelling expenses and subsistence in Denmark; Mr N D Riley, £30 for travelling expenses and subsistence in Denmark
3b. That grants be made from the Yarrow Fund to Mr P H Tuft, £30.15.4 for travelling expenses to Denmark; Professor J Sayers, £100 for travelling expenses to USA; Mr L C Beadle, £46 for travelling expenses and susbsistence to Denmark; Mr P A Sheppard, for travelling expenses and subsistence in the USA; Dr R C Evans, £205 for travelling expenses and subsistence to the USA; Professor H S W Massey, £375 towards the travelling expenses and subsistence of delegates to a Conference on Emission Spectra of the Night Sky to be held in London in July; Dr F J W Roughton, £40 for travelling expenses and subsistence between Baltimore and Bermuda; Dr T S Westoll, £15 for travelling expenses and subsistence in Paris; Dr J F Allen, £250 for travelling expenses and susbsistence in the USA
3c. Applications from Professor H Hartridge for travelling expenses to Dundee; Mr N D Riley for travelling expenses to Switzerland; Professor A G Ogilvie for trvelling expenses to Switzerland to be declined
4. Applications for the Yarrow Fund from Miss C H Brown to enable her to read a paper at the International Congress of Experimental Cytology, and Dr S Smith for travelling expenses to the USA for the purpose of studying early development in sea urchin eggs - chairman to request statement from Professor J Gray FRS who signed the applications as to whether any special reason for supporting these applications.
5. Application from Professor R E Peierls for 'the expenses of foreign delegates to an informal conference on fundamental problems in quantum theory at Birmingham in July.' Comittee gave general approval for this from the Yarrow Fund, and asked Professor Peierls to submit a more detailed and definite applications. [Appendix B]
6. Supporting statements in future applications - Fellows supporting applications to travelling expenses on behalf of others should be asked for a brief statement for the guidance of the Committee on the scientific attainments of the candidate and any special reasons for the award of such grants.
Summary of Recmmendations
i. That grants totalling £299.1.0 from the Scientific Congresses Grant-in-aid and £1,101.15.4 from the Yarrow Fund be made as recommended in Minute 3a and 3b, and that the applications in minute 3c be declined
ii The Chairman recommends that
a. the application of Miss Brown be declilned
b. the application of Dr S SMith for £116 from the Yarrow Fund be granted |