RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



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

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



i il Hoard and an Executive Committee. Under this scheme the 

 1 tonsils of the President, Treasurer, and Secretaries of the 

 . flu- Yice-Chairman of the Board, who is also Chairman of 



utive Committee, and is appointed by the President and Council 

 of the Koval 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 ln>titutioii of Civil 



Tin- Institution of Mechanical Engineers,, 



The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 



The Iron and Steel Institute, 



Tin- limitation of Naval Architects, 



Tlie Society of ( 'heniical Industry. 



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

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

 t lu- 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 Hoard of the six institutions above named. One-sixth of the mem- 

 ber- of the General Board and of the Executive Committee retire annually. 

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

 -entatives on the Executive Committee from the previously existing Kew 

 Observatorv Committee of the Royal Society. 



Dr. K. T. Gla/ebrook, 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, 15)00, II. M. Queen Victoria made a grant of Bushy House, 

 Tedding! on, 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 1*14,000, afterwards increased to ^19,000, was made by the 



towards the initial alterations, additional buildings, and equipment 



ddington. The basement and ground floor of Bushy House were utilized 



tor the I'hysics Laboratory ; for the Engineering Laboratory a building 80 feet 



by :>" feet wat erected. These alterations were completed in 1901, and the 



ormally opened by the King and Queen (then Prince and 



Prince^ of Wales) on March 1.9, 1902. 



The Laboratory at this date comprised two departments at Teddington, 

 for IMiy-sic^and Kngiiieering respectively. The Kew Observatory at Richmond 



