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; John Ball; 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; William Sharpey; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Sir Charles Wheatstone; the President, Sir George Biddell Airy, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended for election by Fellows at the Anniversary Meeting. Nomination of auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: the Copley Medal awarded to Professor Frederick Wohler; Royal Medals awarded to Thomas Anderson and Henry John Carter; the Rumford Medal awarded to Anders Jonas Angstrom. Stock of the Greenwich Observations to be transferred to the Royal Greenwich Observatory for distribution, the Society not to relinquish rights to present volumes to institutions or individuals. Application from the Royal Academy for the loan of the bust of Mary Somerville, granted. Letter from D.C. Richmond, Secretary, Endowed Schools Commission, 2 Victoria Street, 31 October 1872, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the draft scheme for endowed schools is about to be published, a copy enclosed and attention drawn to clause 10, the Royal Society to nominate to the governing body; consideration adjourned until the scheme had received Royal confirmation. Report of the committee on a proposal for a self-regulating tide-gauge at Heliogoland, full text entered into the minutes: resolved that the report be adopted and transmitted to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, noting in conclusion that the tides at Heliogoland were understood well enough for navigation, but that a more perfect scientific knowledge of tides might be gained if a tide-gauge was erected. Report of the Circumnavigation Committee was order to be circulated, to be considered at a meeting on 14 November. List of salaries and wages for payment to Officers and Staff. Bill for payment, for lithography. |