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: William Grylls Adams; Thomas Clifford Allbutt; Robert Bellamy Clifton; James Alfred Ewing; Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Sir Edward Frankland; William Holbrook Gaskell; Alfred George Greenhill; Charles Lapworth; Major Percy Alexander MacMahon; Raphael Meldola; William Ramsay; Arthur William Rucker; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. 1. Letter from the Keeper of the Queen's Privy Purse, conveying the Queen's approval of the award of Royal Medals. 2. Letters of thanks from medal award winners tabled. 3. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's acounts. 4. Treasurer's report on the bequest of Sir William Mackinnon, who bequeathed the whole of his residual estate to the Royal Society for the endowment of prizes or scholarships in sciences; legal advice to be obtained, and the bequest to be accepted, after votes on amendments. |