20 members and 2 visitors were present
1. Report by President. The President said that the membership of the Society now numbered 111 and that 31 new members had joined since last October. The most important matter on hand was the Snow Survey of Great Britain. Mr. E. L. Hawke (Hon. Sec., Royal Meteorological Society) had agreed to undertake its management. He would have as assistants two other members of the Society and of the Royal Meteorological Society, Messrs. D. L. Champion and S. E. Ashmore. Volunteers were still needed to act as observers.
The President said that the Society’s new publication which was to be called the Journal of Glaciology was nearly ready for press. An Editorial Committee had been set up consisting of the Reverend Launcelot Fleming, Dr. Brian Roberts, Mr. Robert Moss and himself; it was most important for the Society to have a really good journal, and contributions for future numbers would soon be needed.
2. Financial Position of the Society. The President reported that the Royal Society had agreed to providea “Scientific Publications Grant-in-Aid” of £100 towards the cost of publication of the Journal, but it would still be necessary to increase the subscription rate next year and a detailed statement would be presented at the Annual General Meeting in November.
3. Future Papers. The President said that provisional permission had been given to Dr. Perutz by the Admiralty to read a paper on the “Bergship” on which he had done much research, and this, together with a paper by Dr. B. Cwilong on super-cooled water droplets, would be read at the next meeting in November. Early next year a joint meeting with the Royal Meteorological Society was being arranged with papers on various climatological aspects of snow and ice and snow-fields; later in the year it had been suggested that a joint meeting with Mountaineering and Skiing Clubs should be arranged.
4. The President asked whether members considered 5 o’clock a convenient time for meetings. The voting being more or less even in favour of 5.0 and 5.30, it was agreed that meetings should be held at 5.15.
5. The President then invited Mr. A. R. Glen to take the Chair. Mr. Glen called upon the Reverend W. L. S. Fleming to read his paper on the results of Professor F. Alton Wade’s glaciological researches during the U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition of 1939–41, which, together with the discussion, is reported below.
