| Description | Correspondence relating to the payment of dividends from the Gassiot Fund, and from the Rosse Fund, by the Gassiot Committee, to the Air Ministry, and to the Government of Ireland, for magnetic observations at the Valentia Observatory.
Correspondents include S.R. Blackwell, P.J. Veafeld, F.H. Sanford and H.W. Walsh at the Air Ministry; W.B. Keen & Company; R. Winckworth, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society; G.H. Roberts; George Clark Simpson; Treasurer, Royal Society; A.H. Nagle, Director of the Meteorological Service, Department of Industry and Commerce, Government of Ireland and M. Doporto; D.C. Martin, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society; N.K. Johnson; W.A. Morgan; P.M. Austin Bourke, Assistant Director, Meteorological Service, Ireland.
Includes discussion of: cheques for Gassiot and Rosse Fund Dividends due to the Air Ministry; a deduction of £15 by the Royal Society owing to the decision of the President and Council to make an annual levy on certain trust funds to cover administrative costs; income tax; alteration to the holdings of the Gassiot and Rosse Funds, including the Air Ministry request for prompt forwarding of such information for their records; whether the correspondence between the Air Ministry and Royal Society, comprising of requests for dividends and replies, is 'unnecessary' and whether an automatic annual dividend payment would be preferable, and if so when this should be paid; summary of trust deed between Gassiot and the Royal Society, describing the purpose of the fund, the use of its income and what should happen if observations cease to be recorded by Kew, or a substitute observatory, for 12 months, 20 November 1934; the Valentia Observatory having been taken over by the Government of the Irish Free State on 1 April 1937, and so the income of the Rosse Fund will be paid directly to that Government; request that the Government of Ireland receive their annual payments in the same manner as the Air Ministry; maintenance of magnetic observations at Valentia Observatory, and a request from the Royal Society for an annual report from that observatory for the information of the Gassiot Committee; payment withheld from the Department of Industry and Commerce, Ireland pending their annual report; reports on magnetic observations at Valentia Observatory and payments, including letters from Martin to the Gassiot Committee asking whether the approve the 1948 and 1949 Valentia report and if the income of the Rosse Fund is to be paid; errors in a table of data accompanying the 1949 report; publication of magnetic observations at the Valentia Observatory in the Observatories Year Book of the Meteorological Office, London.
Also contains a copy of a memorandum by Lord Rosse written in 1897 and an administrative history of the fund; brief reports upon the magnetic observations at Valentia Observatory by A.H. Nagle for 1940-1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, and by Doporto for 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, and P M Austin Bourke for 1950, with the 1949 and 1950 reports including a table of data reflecting the 'actual values computed''. |