Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: Sir Risdon Bennett; Thomas George Bonney; John Evans (Treasurer); Alexander John Ellis; Michael Foster; Sir John Hawkshaw; Thomas Archer Hirst; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; Joseph Lister; Daniel Oliver; Henry Enfield Roscoe; Warington Wilkinson Smyth; Henry Tibbats Stainton; George Gabriel Stokes; Edward James Stone; Alexander William Williamson; the President, William Spottiswoode, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson. Letter from the Science and Art Department enclosing a printed report from the Committee on Solar Physics, with their opinion that the eclipse observations proposed by Captain Abney and Mr. Lockyer at Thebes are novel and important: a £350 grant from the Donation Fund allocated to Abney and Lockyer. Letter from Warren de La Rue, Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, 24 February 1882, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: no notification of the transfer of the Observatory from the British Association to the Royal Society had been received by the Office of Works, noting the resolution recorded in the 1871 British Association report; De La Rue requests that Council takes steps to secure the holding of the Observatory for the use of the Kew Committee. £50 from the Scientific Relief Fund to be placed in the hands of Dr. Haughton for the benefit of an applicant. Letters from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy appointing delegates to the Government Grant Committee, with sub-committee appointments. Letter from the Swan Electric Light Company stating that sixty Swan lamps had been sent to the Royal Society as a gift. Permission given for electrotypes to be made from illustrations. £50 from the Donation Fund granted to the Linnean Society in aid of publication of Mr. Gosse's paper on the prehensores of male butterflies. The Treasurer presented the deed of conveyance for the Acton estate, to be sealed and signed by the President. Draft letter, George Gabriel Stokes, the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, 16 March 1882, to the Secretary of the Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: on the proposed scheme for a series of circumpolar observatories, recommending the establishment of a station in Canada, with the co-operation of the Hudson's Bay Company, at a cost of £3,000. List of bills for payment for printing. |