| 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 Bateson; William Thomas Blanford; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin; Harold Bailey Dixon; Michael Foster (Secretary); George Carey Foster; John Wesley Judd; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Henry Alexander Miers; Edward Albert Schafer; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Thomas Henry Tizard; Herbert Hall Turner; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the previous meeting to be read and signed once the special business was concluded..
2. Special business on the nomination of officers, with correspondence of E. A. Schafer, Michael Foster and W. D. Halliburton: on Foster's cenure for giving the impression to Halliburton that he had been appointed as Secretary, when Archibald Geikie had been recommended.
3. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
4. Senior Secretary noting his duty to write to Professor Halliburton expressing his regrets, directed to add those of President and Council.
5. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to the address of welcome to the King of Italy.
6. The portrait of Lord Rayleigh wa sready to be presented to the Royal Society by its subscribers at the Anniversary Meeting.
7. Professor Love added to the Committee on Secondary Education. |