| 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 Benjamin Baker; Isaac Bayley Balfour; William Thomas Blanford; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Archibald Geikie; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Frederick Ducane Godman; John Hopkinson; Joseph Norman Lockyer; William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury; Adam Sedgwick; William Augustus Tilden; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of the Rev. Professor Charles Pritchard and Professor Ernst Eduard Kummer. List of proposers and seconders for the award of Royal Society medals. Letter from the Treasury assenting to the changes in Government Grant regulations, £2,000 received from the Treasury on account of the Grant. Request from the Foreign Office that the Society should present recent publications to the Public Library at Alexandria. Application for £100 of Grant support from Mr. Irvine of the Marine Station, Granton, referred to the Chair of Government Grant Board D. £120 from the Donation Fund made to Sir William Flower to assist Mr. Lydekker in examining fossil remains in La Plata; £50 to Professor Fleming for research into temperature changes and electrical resistance in metals and alloys. Applications from Professor Cash and Mr. W. J. Sell considered and referred to the next meeting of the Government Grant Committee. Draft reply of a letter to the Royal College of Physicians on 'paid opinions' amended and entered in full into the minutes: Michael Foster, 20 June 1893, to Edward Liveing, Registar of the Royal College of Physicians. Officers empowered to draw up a congratulatory address on the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York. Letter from the Secretary of the Joint Eclipse Committee noting that expenses had exceeded expectations by £200, a grant of £100 assigned from the £500 residue of the Government Grant; a second letter requesting that letters of thanks be sent from the Society to third parties involved in the Eclipse Expedition, the Secretary to send letters of thanks to the observers. Annual report from the Meteorological Council presented. Omission of certain Council meetings approved. Request from the College of Surgeons for the loan of a portrait of John Hunter approved. Letter from Mr. H. Rickinson ofering the gift of a drawing of H.M.S. Resolution, accepted. Leave granted to Rev. H. B. Hyde to copy the election certificate of Rev. William Hyde. Members of the Museums' Association given leave to view the Society's rooms. Leave granted for electrotypes of illustrations. Letters of thanks from the British Institute of Preventive Medicine and the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain for the use of rooms. Bills for furniture, soirees and lithography. |