| 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: William Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire; Captain Frederick John Owen Evans; John Evans; Albert Gunther; Thomas Henry Huxley; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Robert Mallet; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the President, Joseph Dalton Hooker, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. The Duke of Devonshire made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Deaths of John Edward Gray, Sir Charles Lyell, the Reverend Robert Willis and Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander. Letter from Robert Hall, Admiralty, 5 March 1875, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington Gardens, full text entered into the minutes: following a telegram sent to the Commander-in-Chief in China, ordering Charybdis to be used to ferry astronomers to Siam for the solar eclipse, he forwards a telegram received from Vice-Admiral Ryder, being offered and accepting a colonial steamer, since Charybdis has no accommodation. Letter from Robert M. Cumberbatch, H.B.M. Consulate, Smyrna, 24 February 1875, to the Earl of Derby, full text entered into the minutes: noting that a section of Mount Pagus had subsided, near the site of an ancient stadium. Confirmation of the list of nominees for Foreign Membership of the Royal Society. Dr. Ferrier appointed to deliver the Croonian Lecture. Minutes from 1853 relating to the bequest of Sir Clifford Winteringham were read and the Officers empowered to carry out the recommendations of the committee reporting at that time. Minutes of the Davy Medal Committee were read: Bruce Joy to be commissioned to produce a medal design. On the recommendation of the Polar Committee, the Society's astronomical clocks to be lent to the Admiralty for the use of the Polar Expedition. Minutes of the Broun Letter Committee were read and a letter to be sent to the Rajah of Travancore. Report of the Library and Catalogue Committee on progress with the Catalogue of Scientific Papers, rationalization of the Tracts collection, single papers publication and journals exchanges. Leave granted to E.W. Binney to have the loan of woodcuts from his paper on fossil plants. Mr. H. Jackson referred to Canon Moseley's family for a copy of Moseley's paper on liquid flow. List of bills for payment, for binding, engraving and photoheliography. |