| 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: Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney; 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; John Gray McKendrick; 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. Death of Adolphus de Candolle. Selection of candidates for the Fellowship discussed and adjourned. Dr. Buchan and Sir Archibald Geikie to be re-appointed to the Government Grant Committee. Thanks from the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply for a copy of the Second report of the Water Research Committee. Thanks to Professor Weldon for the donation of a gold Lavoisier Medal. Leave granted for copying of papers and electrotypes. Bills for books, lighting, engraving and for the Bishop Horsley miniature from John Pinches. |