| 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: George Burrows; Heinrich Debus; Peter Martin Duncan; George Carey Foster; Francis Galton; John Peter Gassiot; Joseph Dalton Hooker; George Murray Humphry; John Gwyn Jeffreys; Sir John Lubbock; William Hallowes Miller; William Sharpey; Charles William Siemens; Henry John Stephen Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the Treasurer and Vice-President, William Spottiswoode, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. New Members of Council made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. The Library Committee was reappointed, with a list of members, with the power to order books to a value of £250 and to expend £150 on binding. Reappointment of the Government Grant Committee, with a list of members. Repeal of Chapter III Section 6 of the Statutes, with a draft of a new Statute, full text entered into the minutes: to be read at another meeting. Letter from Inigo Gell, Lewes, 9 September 1870, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting information on the land for which a fee-farm rent is paid by Lord Abergavenny and whether this can be redeemed; the Treasurer to enter into negotiation on redemption and to report to Council on terms. An account of the Government Grant appropriation to be published annually in Proceedings, with grants voted from the Donation Fund. Letter from T. Archer Hirst, General Secretary, British Association, 22 Albermarle Street, 10 December 1870, to William Sharpey, full text entered into the minutes: forwarding the text of a resolution relating to the buildings of Kew Observatory, which may be placed at the disposal of the Royal Society; to be considered at the next meeting. Letter from Mr. Chisholm, Warden of Standards, explaining why he had not yet returned the two platinum metres lent to the Standards Department. Letter from M. Plateau giving thanks for his election as a Foreign Member. A sum of £300 to be placed at the disposal of the Library Committee for expenses of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Copies of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers granted to the Royal College of Science in Dublin and the Science and Art Department, South Kensington. Dr. Royston-Pigott granted permission to have 500 extra copies of one of the lithographic plates from his paper in Philosophical Transactions. Application from Mr. J.W. Clark of Cambridge requesting two parts of the Philosophical Transactions allowed to his father, granted. |