| 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 James Allman; George Burrows; George Busk; Robert Bellamy Clifton; Heinrich Debus; Peter Martin Duncan; George Carey Foster; Francis Galton; Thomas Archer Hirst; Sir John Lubbock; William Hallowes Miller; Sir James Paget; Laurence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse; William Sharpey; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Isaac Todhunter; Sir Charles Wheatstone; the President, George Biddell Airy, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. The Earl of Rosse made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. The President gave notice that he would move resolutions on the competency of President and Council to make decisions on the necessity of maintaining meteorological observations at Kew Observatory, on transferring that responsibility to the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and transmitting the latter resolution to the Board of Trade. The President gave notice that he would move at the next meeting that President and Officers of the Royal Society be a standing sub-committee for temporary business of the Government Grant Committee, without the power to allocate grants. Selection of candidates for the Fellowship considered and adjourned. |