THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE STATE 



at the Oxford University, and one Professorship at Cam- 

 bridge. The President is also ex-officio a trustee of the 

 British Museum, and of the Hunterian Museum, and a 

 Governor of the City and Guilds of London Institute. 

 The Society has a voice, through a representative Fellow 

 chosen by the Council, on the governing bodies of the 

 Imperial Institute, the Lister Institute of Preventive 

 Medicine, Sir John Sloane's Museum, Eton, Rugby, Harrow, 

 Winchester, and four other public schools, and the Advisory 

 Board for Military Education. The Council of the Society 

 are electors of four members of Lawes' Agricultural Trust, 

 and are nominators of the members of the Meteorological 

 Council. The Society is represented by the President 

 and six of the Visitors on the Board of the Greenwich 

 Observatory. One of the four sets of copies of the Stan- 

 dard Weights and Measures is held in custody by the 

 Society. There is also a Committee for systematic work 

 in Seismology. 



To the Royal Society is entrusted the responsible task 

 of administrating the annual Government Grant of 4000 

 for the purpose of scientific research, and a grant of 1000 

 in aid of the publication of scientific papers. 



In addition to these permanent responsibilities, which 

 are always with the Society, its advice and aid are sought 

 from time to time both by the Government and by Scientific 

 Institutions at home and abroad, in favour of independent 

 objects of a more or less temporary character, of which, 

 as examples, may be taken the recent action of the Society 



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