| 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: John Couch Adams; Captain Frederick John Owen Evans; John Evans; Albert Gunther; Sir John Hawkshaw; Thomas Henry Huxley; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Robert Mallet; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Charles Watkins Merrifield; Edmund Alexander Parkes; Lyon Playfair; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; 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. R.H. Scott and Edward Walker appointed to the Kew Committee. 100 extra copies of Mr. Hennessey's chart of the spectrum and two copies of his paper granted to the Arctic Expedition. Letter from Charles N. Stronge, Treasury Chambers, 22 March 1875, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: giving news that £1,000 had been voted by Parliament towards expenses for scientific observations of the solar eclipse; the Treasurer reported that £1,000 had been lodged at the Society's bankers. Insurance policies had been completed and were now in the Treasurer's custody. Telegram from Singapore, 15 April 1875, full text entered into the minutes: reporting on eclipse observations made in Siam, eight good photographs of the corona were taken. Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter, University of London, Burlington Gardens, 14 April 1875, to Jospeh Dalton Hooker, full text entered into the minutes: the Admiralty has decided to send the Valorous, a man-of-war of considerable tonnage, to Disko Bay as a store-ship for the Arctic Expedition and Carpenter notes the opportunity for a temperature section across the North Atlantic on its return voyage; he recommends Gwyn Jones to make the scientific survey if the Royal Society would approach the Admiralty and apply £120 from the Donation Fund to this and to biological collecting; resolved that a letter should be sent to the Admiralty applying for accommodation and rations for Gwyn Jones and an assistant and that £120 be allocated from the Donation Fund. List of candidates for Fellowship to be recommended to the Society for election at the anual meeting in June. List of bills for payment, for furniture, books and lithography. |