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control should be vested in the President and Council of the Royal Society. 

 Arrangement was made also for the formation of a Governing Body consisting 

 of a General Board and an Executive Committee. Under this scheme the 

 General Board consists of the President, Treasurer, and Secretaries of the 

 Royal Society, the Vice-Chairman of the Board, who is also Chairman of 

 the Executive Committee, and is appointed by the President and Council 

 of the Royal Society, the Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, and 

 thirty-six ordinary members. Of the ordinary members twenty-four are 

 appointed by the President and Council of the Royal Society, and two each 

 by the Councils of the following institutions : 



The Institution of Civil Engineers, 



The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 



The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 



The Iron and Steel Institute, 



The Institution of Naval Architects, 



The Society of Chemical Industry. 



The Executive Committee consists of the President, Treasurer, and one of 

 the Secretaries of the Royal Society, the Chairman of the Executive Committee, 

 the Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, and twelve ordinary members. 

 The twelve ordinary members are nominated by the President and Council of 

 the Royal Society, one-half being chosen from the representatives on the 

 General Board of the six institutions above named. One-sixth of the mem- 

 bers of the General Board and of the Executive Committee retire annually. 

 Special arrangements were also made initially for the appointment of repre- 

 sentatives on the Executive Committee from the previously existing Kew 

 Observatory Committee of the Royal Society. 



Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., was appointed in 1899 to be the first Director 

 of the Laboratory. 



Work was originally commenced at the Kew Observatory, but it was found 

 that the plan of extending the Observatory presented difficulties, and in 

 December, 1900, H.M. Queen Victoria made a grant of Bushy House, 

 Teddington, to the Commissioners of Works for the uses of the National 

 Physical Laboratory, conditions as to maintenance being agreed upon between 

 the Commissioners and the Royal Society. 



A grant of .14,000, afterwards increased to ,19,000, was made by the 

 Treasury towards the initial alterations, additional buildings, and equipment 

 at Teddington. The basement and ground floor of Bushy House were utilized 

 for the Physics Laboratory ; for the Engineering Laboratory a building 80 feet 

 by 50 feet was erected. These alterations were completed in 1901, and the 

 Laboratory was formally opened by the King and Queen (then Prince and 

 Princess of Wales) on March 19, 1902. 



The Laboratory at this date comprised two departments at Teddington, 

 for Physics and Engineering respectively. The Kew Observatory at Richmond 



