Year-Book of the Royal Society of London Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...to the several Boards to which it appears to relate. In such cases the Chairman of one of the Boards concerned shall, on the nomination of the President of the Royal Society, be requested to take charge of the application, to be responsible for its being laid before the Boards concerned, and to present the Report of those Boards on the application at the same time that he presents the usual Report of his own Board.. 13. It shall be in the power of any Board to initiate an inquiry and to recommend a Grant for the purpose, and such a recommendation having been reported to the Committee with the other recommendations of the Board, shall take its place among applications recommended to the Committee for acceptance, in spite of application not having been made in the ordinary way. 14. The Committee shall meet on the third Wednesday (or, if that fall in Whitsun Week, the fourth Wednesday) in May, at which meeting the Reports of the Boards shall be read, considered (the Chairman of each Board, or in his place some other Member of it, giving such explanations with regard to the decisions of the Board as may seem desirable), and voted upon. The voting shall be by show of hands, unless any Member demands a ballot, in which case it shall be by ballot. 15. In the case of applications which have been recommended by the appropriate Board, or recommendations initiated by any Board, the voting in Committee shall be by simple majority of those present, except in the case of. "extended" Grants coming under Clause 6, which Grants shall require the assent of two-thirds of those present. 16. Applications which have been rejected by the appropriate Board shall not be reconsidered in Committee except with the consent of two-thirds of those present, and any applications ...