Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: Thomas George Bonney; Captain Ettrick William Creak; Daniel John Cunningham; James Dewar; Michael Foster (Secretary);Sir Edward Frankland (Foreign Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Victor Horsley; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor; Nevil Storey Maskelyne; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); William James Russell; Arthur Schuster; Dukinfield Henry Scott; George Johnstone Stoney; Joseph John Thomson; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: 1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved. 2. Deaths of Sir William Roberts and Professor Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. 3. Letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty assenting to the request for accommodation aboard H.M.S. Research, for research on plankton in the Faroe Channel. 4. £50 from the Scientific Relief Fund placed with Mr. E. B. Knobel for the benefit of an applicant. 5. Dr. Copeman's researches into smallpox and vaccination to be supported by H.M. Treasury, with a grant of up to £400, upon certification by the President of the Royal Society. 6. List of candidates for Fellowship, to be recommended for election at the Annual Meeting. 7. Long-list of candidates for Foreign Membership, with a shortlist from which five names to be selected. 8. Bills for printing and other expenses. |