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RefNoCMO/86/3
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society
Date2 April 2009
DescriptionLists those present
In attendance - Mr Stephen Cox, Executive Secretary
Unable to attend - Sir John Kingman, Professor Carol Robinson, and Professor Fiona Watt

Matters discussed:
1. Minutes of meetings held on 12 February and 18 March 2009 confirmed

2. Council and Fellowship Business
2.1 Candidates for election to the Fellowship and Foreign Membership selected by ballot [names given]
2.2 Candidate for Election to Honorary Fellowship considered, none elected
2.3 Candidate for election as a Royal Fellow - considered and approved proposal to elect HRH Prince William of Wales as a Royal Fellow
2.4 Council Membership Category 1 - Physical Secretary
2.5 Council Membership 2009/2010 Categories II and III nominations listed
2.6 Deaths and Biographical Memoirs

3. Corporate Business
3.1 2010 Anniversary Programme Board
3.2 350th Anniversary fundraising campaign update
3.3 Board meeting held on 1 April 2009 - noted minutes relating to Unpaid subscriptions, SCORE, ACME, UK Budget and pre-election strategy, and responsive mode funding
3.4 Convocation of Fellows 30 June 2010
3.5 Committee Membership - to Award Committee of the Leverhulme - Royal Society Award, Royal Society Education Research Fellowships Committee, Library Committee and Royal Society/Academie des Sciences Microsoft Award Committee
3.6 Financial Descriptions 2009/10
3.7 Kavli Royal Society Centre progress report
3.8 Legacies, gifts and pledges received since the meeting in February 2009
3.9 Report on the Meeting with Professor Adrian Smith, the Director General, Science and Research at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
3.10 Parliamentary grant-in-aid
3.11 Parliamentary grant-in-aid out-turns 2008/09
3.12 Publishing performance 2008
3.13 Representatives to Sir John Soane's Museum Professor Uta Frith to replace Dr Tim Bliss as a Trusteed
3.14 Sealing

4. Sectional Business
A Centre for the History of Science
4.1 Donations - 62 volumes on natural history form Mrs Peggy Cooper of Ewell, Surrey on 9 MArch 2009; Professor Gustav Born's papers, first batch deposited 12 March 2009; and preparatory sketches for oil paintings of Lord Florey, Sir Harry Ricardo and Sir Bennet Melvill Jones, by Allan Gwynne-Jones, received from Mariann Ford in memory of Sir Brinsley Ford

B Education
4.2 Education Committee minutes of meeting on 26 February 2009 [C/49 (09)]

C Grants
4.3 International Grants
4.4 UK Grants

D Science Policy Centre
4.5 Food production study review group
4.6 Hidden wealth: the contribution of science to service sector innovation
4.7 IUSS inquiry - President's evidence
4.8 Towards a low carbon future
4.9 Update on Science Policy Centre international activities [C/45 (09)]
Extent12p
FormatPrinted
AccessStatusOpen
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