Record

RefNoCMO/43/6
LevelFile
TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Royal Society Council
Date17 May 1962
DescriptionSigned minutes of the Council of the Royal Society

Present: Sir Howard Florey, President; Mr F C Bawden; Sir Lindor Brown, Secretary; Mr E J H Corner; Lord Fleck, Treasurer; Sir Willliam Hodge, Secretary; Professor A F Huxley; Sir Christopher Ingold; Sir Patrick Linstead, Foreign Secretary; Professor W T J Morgan; Professor C F Powell; Professor O A Saunders; Dr C J Stubblefield; Sir Gordon Sutherland; Sir Graham Sutton; Dr H W Thompson; Professor C H Waddington; Professor A G Walker; Professor F C Williams
The Executive Secretary attended.

1. Minutes
Minutes of the meeting held on 12 April 1962 were confirmed

2. Death [Albert Marcel Germain Rene Portevin]

3. Down House

4. Payne Fund

5. Scientific Investigations Grant - in - aid

6. USSR Exchange Agreement

7. Royal Society visiting Professor

8. Geographers' Conference

9. Research Professors in the United kingdom

10. Deputy Executive Secretary [ Mr R W J Keay appointment]

11. Biographical Memoir

12. Jaffe Research Fellowship

13. Biophysics National Committee

14. Biafo - Gyang Expedition

15. British Chemical Education Committee

16. Emigration of British Scientists

17. Statute 12

18. Hooke Committee

19. Travelling Expenses

20. Theoretical Astronomy Institute

21. Fellow's Jubilee
Authority was given for the dispatch of a congrtulatory letter to Professor R C Punnett on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his election into t h Fellowship

22. Royal Society Fisiting Professorship

23. Wolfson Reserch Professor

24. Jaffe Research Fellow

25. Space Reserch

26. Anglo American Satellite

27. Biologuy Teaching Committee

28. Balzan Prizes

29. NATO Advanced Study ?Institute

30. EAst AFrican Academy of Science

31. British Council Committee and Panel

33. Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee

34. Fairchild Lecture

35. David Rivett Memorial

36. Sealing

37. Reports of Committees
i. Petavel Bequest Committee
ii. Physical Sciences Research Committee
iii. Rutherford Memorial Comjmittee
iv. Naples Zoological Station Committee
v. National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics
vi. Natinal Committee for Co-operation in Geophysics
vii. National Commimttee for the History of Science
viii. NAaional Committee for Mathematics
ix. National Committee for Space Research

38. Sealing.

39. Bills for payment

Signed by Fleck
14 June 1962
Extent16
FormatPrinted
AccessStatusOpen
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