| Description | Present at the meeting: Sir Joseph D Hooker in the chair; the President; the Treasurer; Professor M Foster; P@rofessor LAnkaster
In attendance: Mr Murray
Minutes of last meeteing read
Requested Mr Murray ' to prepare and send to the Committee a statement in writing giving an estimate, with details, of the probable cost of editing and seeing through the press, within a reasonable time the memiors of yet unpublished, as well as the Summary, odf completing the distribution of specimens and material; and generally of bringing the work of the Report to an end. ' which he agreed to do.
Secretary to address the Treasury with a letter based on Mr Murray's statement
1. Letter from Mr Murray to the Royal Society of 16 March 1889 concerning the winding up of the reports and publications, and estimates of the cost. [Transcript of letter in the minutes]
2. Letter from Profesor M Foster of the Royal Society to Sir Reginald Welby, KCB, of the TReasury, dated 18 April 1889 reporting ont he interview with Mr Murray and their conclusions. [Transcripot of letter in the minutes] |